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31 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Breaking: Virginia Governor Ralph Northam just signed state-level Voting Rights Act. First Southern state to do so after SCOTUS gutted VRA in 2013. Big contrast to GOP voter suppression in Georgia & other states
“At a time when voting rights are under attack across our country, Virginia is expanding access to the ballot box, not restricting it," says @RalphNortham, who calls Voting Rights Act of Virginia a "model for how states can strengthen democracy" governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/all-r…
"The Voting Rights Act of Virginia prohibits discrimination in elections administration, requires local election officials to get feedback or pre-approval for voting changes, and allows individuals to sue in cases of voter suppression"
"Democrats have to be as aggressive in expanding voting rights as Republicans are in suppressing voting rights" I told @ThePlumLineGS washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Quick clarification: Northam didn’t actually sign Voting Rights Act of Virginia today but signaled approval & made small technical changes so legislature will need to re-pass it April 7 & then he will sign richmond.com/news/state-and…

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25 Mar
This is insane: Georgia Dem rep @Cannonfor58 was arrested for trying to watch Brian Kemp sign new voter suppression bill. Look at how she is treated by police. This is straight out of Jim Crow
H/t @stphnfwlr for posting this. Full video via @hannahjoyTV instagram.com/tv/CM2-GWCHTIz/
Dem state Rep Erica Thomas to Georgia capitol police: "You arrested a sitting state representative for nothing! She didn’t do anything but knock on the governor’s door. I’m so done. Protect and serve who?”
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25 Mar
Mitch McConnell yesterday: "states are not engaging in efforts to suppress voters whatsoever"

Georgia House today: passes 95 page voter suppression bill
Georgia Senate is now taking up House passed voter suppression bill #sb202 & Brian Kemp could sign it as soon as tomorrow. This is how desperate they are to suppress votes
One of most dangerous parts of GA voter suppression bill allows state legislature to appoint majority of state election board & take over county election boards in order to challenge election results

"It will make what we all lived through in 2020 child’s play" says @gwlauren
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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
Georgia House voter suppression bill includes massively undemocratic power grab giving GOP legislature control of state election board, allowing them to take over county election boards & stripping power from GOP sec of state after he stood up to Trump motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
"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

"With so much at stake, we need to not just protect & defend voting rights, we need to grow them" says @SenAlexPadilla
41 GOP senators representing 21% of US can block bills like S1 supported by 68% of Americans that would expand voting access for tens of millions

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

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23 Mar
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
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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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