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23 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
2 cases of voter fraud in 2020: let’s make it harder to vote

38,000 gun deaths a year in US: let’s make it easier to buy guns
It should be easier to vote than it is to buy an assault weapon
In wake of two mass shootings in a week, Georgia Republicans are literally trying to loosen gun restrictions & pass many more voting restrictions ajc.com/politics/polit… Image
In Texas you can vote with a concealed gun license but not a state university issued ID

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25 Mar
Breaking: Georgia House passes 95 page GOP voter suppression bill allowing GOP takeover of state/county election boards, unlimited challenges to voter eligibility, restricting drop boxes & making it crime to give voters food & water in line
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"What I'm worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is” Biden says about GOP voter suppression efforts. “It's sick. It's sick”

He calls out “not giving water to people when they’re in line to vote” referring to Georgia House bill passed today
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24 Mar
Senate holding first hearing today on For the People Act, most important democracy reform bill since Voting Rights Act

S1 + John Lewis VRA would stop GOP voter suppression

"This is once-in-a-century moment to protect right to vote" says @amyklobuchar motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Dems can abolish filibuster to pass For the People Act & John Lewis Voting Rights Act or they can allow GOP to undermine democracy for next decade

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If Dems don't end filibuster to pass S1 & John Lewis Voting Rights Act minority rule will get much worse

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18 Mar
Arizona Republicans introduced more voter suppression bills than any state except Georgia

But @SenatorSinema wants to keep Jim Crow filibuster instead of stopping new wave of Jim Crow 2.0

AZ activists say it's "matter of life or death for democracy" motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
AZ Republicans have introduced 40 bills to undermine democracy & 22 to make it harder to vote

Voting rights activists have message for Sinema: abolish filibuster to pass HR1 & John Lewis Voting Rights Act or watch GOP eviscerate fair elections
AZ Republicans moving bills to purge 200,000 voters from vote by mail list, throw out ballots if not postmarked by Thursday before election even if arrive by Election Day & require access to copier or printer to vote by mail. “It’s legislating by conspiracy theory”
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17 Mar
38,000 gun deaths a year in US: who needs gun control?

2 cases of voter fraud in 2020: let’s pass 253 new voter suppression laws
One day after mass shooting Georgia Republicans introduce 93-page bill to make it harder to vote, released just one hour before hearing on it
In Texas you can vote with a gun permit but not a student ID
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15 Mar
56 years ago today LBJ introduced Voting Rights Act before joint session of Congress & said, "It is wrong — deadly wrong — to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote." It was known as "We Shall Overcome" speech, one of greatest ever by US president
After gutting Voting Rights Act to unleash wave of new voter suppression in states like GA & TX, GOP now trying to kill what's left of law & pass 253 new voting restrictions

This is why Dems need to pass HR1 & John Lewis Voting Rights Act motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
John Lewis & MLK watched LBJ's speech introducing VRA in Selma, where Lewis brutally beaten 8 days earlier on Bloody Sunday. First time he'd ever seen MLK cry

"To hear Lyndon Johnson say, ‘And we shall overcome,’ it was beautiful" Lewis told me when I wrote Give Us the Ballot
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10 Mar
New: @staceyabrams tells me Senate Dems should exempt bills protecting voting rights from filibuster in order to pass HR1 & John Lewis Voting Rights Act

“the right to protect democracy should not be thwarted by minority imposition" she says

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Wave of GOP voter suppression bills in states like Georgia makes it all the more urgent for Dems to pass HR1 & John Lewis Voting Rights Act

“if we do not protect the participation of voters in our election system, we will find ourselves losing our democracy” says @staceyabrams
Here’s what @staceyabrams had to say to Dems like Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema who want to keep filibuster

"we have to make certain that a minority of people cannot be in power in the Senate, and therefore deny the basic principles of citizenship to millions of Americans"
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