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3 Apr, 4 tweets, 3 min read
REMINDER: @ATT has donated $574,500 over the last three years to the Texas officials pushing voter suppression legislation and now CEO John Stankey says that election laws are too "complicated" for the company to take a clear position

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@ATT If you work for @ATT and have thoughts or information about your company's position on Texas' legislation to restrict voting, please contact me

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Why is @ATT desperately trying to a avoid taking a clear position while other companies make strong statements in support of voting rights?

Look who is in charge of @ATT's "legislative strategy": Former RNC chairman @EdWGillespie

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5 Apr
1. BREAKING

@Facebook pledged to suspend political donations for the first 90 days of 2021, then donated $50,000 to @RSLC, a Republican group pushing voter suppression laws

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@Facebook @RSLC 2. The primary goal of the @RSLC is to elect Republicans to state legislatures and other state-level offices across the country.

In 2021, Republican state legislators introduced 361 bills to restrict voting in 47 states.

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@Facebook @RSLC 3. @Facebook routed the donation through a fundraising vehicle that the RSLC set up in Virginia, a state with lax campaign finance laws that allows unlimited direct corporate contributions.

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4 Apr
1. I think this approach to the Georgia's new law is deeply flawed.

It focuses on the hypothetical effect of the law while skipping over the motivation and the impact on individual voters.

Follow along if interested.
2. First, we don't know the effect of this law in the future. Nate admits the shortened runoff period could impact "turnout in exactly the kind of close, low-turnout race where it could easily be decisive"

Well, a close runoff election just determined control of the Senate!
3. So I don't think running these changes through an algorithm is the right approach. We need to look at the intent. And this bill is sponsored by the people who falsely claimed the election was stolen from Trump. The intent of the bill is to validate Trump's claims.
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1 Apr
1. Kemp seems really committed to this blatantly misleading talking point.

So it's worth understanding the facts.

Follow along if interested.
2. Prior to Georgia's new law, there were four potential weekend early voting days and only one was mandatory and three were optional.

The new law makes two mandatory and two optional.

BUT major urban and suburban counties like Fulton County already used all four.
3. So if you like in Fulton or similar counties, where you'll find most of Georgia's Democrats and people of color, this second mandatory day does not expand access AT ALL.

It only expands access in rural Republican counties.

I'm sure that's a coincidence.
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1 Apr
1. A week after Georgia's voter suppression bill was signed into law, major corporations are finally issuing strong statement opposing the law.

But especially at this point, talk is cheap.

What are these companies will to DO.

I decided to ask!

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2. Yesterday, @Delta CEO Ed Bastian released a memo calling Georgia's new law to restrict voting "unacceptable," counter to Delta's values, and "based on a lie."

So will Delta continue to donate to the politicians that promoted the legislation?

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@Delta 3. @Delta did not rule out future donations to the sponsors of voter suppression legislation in Georgia. Instead it send me this statement, which doesn't commit the company to any particular course of action.

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31 Mar
I’ll be talking about voter suppression legislation and corporate power — in Texas, Georgia, and across the country — tonight at 8:30 PM EDT on @joinClubhouse.

My guests will be @BlackVotersMtr’s @cliff_notes and @BrennanCenter’s @swerenbecker

Join us! joinclubhouse.com/event/M4r0dE4W
@joinClubhouse @BlackVotersMtr @cliff_notes @BrennanCenter @swerenbecker Cliff is in Texas right now and was on the ground in Georgia during the legislative battle. He's been on the front lines.

Eliza is is the Voting Rights & Elections Counsel at Brennan Center, which is producing invaluable research. She's the preeminent expert on these bills.
We'll also be joined by Popular Information's researcher extraordinaire @tesszeeks, who has been neck deep in Excel to bring you the facts on:

Georgia: popular.info/p/georgia

Texas: popular.info/p/texas-voter-…

Arizona: popular.info/p/major-corpor…

Florida: popular.info/p/corporate-ba…
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31 Mar
1. One of the biggest donors to Gov Abbott, Lt Gov Patrick and the sponsors of bills to restrict voting is @ATT

@ATT has donated $574,500 to this group since 2018

But @ATT publicly embraces voting rights

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@ATT 2. For example, @ATT posted a four-minute video to its corporate website documenting a trip that employees took to Selma, Alabama to honor John Lewis and others that fought for the right to vote

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@ATT 3. In a corporate blog post last summer, AT&T acknowledged the role that corporations play in achieving justice, again citing the work of John Lewis as an example

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