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12 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
.@CapehartJ is right. We need to stop acting as if the Republican Party just got messed up with Trump. What we see now the @GOP has been building for over 50 years, and they know in America hate has a history of working.
And racism is not just in Republicanism. Just a few weeks ago, 8 white Democratic senators voted against a living wage bill that would have lifted over 40% of Black working poor people out of poverty.
Democrat Joe Manchin is swearing to maintain the filibuster even though doing so will give Republicans power to block voting rights laws and restoration of the Voting Rights Act and much more.
We have to challenge this and call it out, and progressives must push the Democratic Party to hold onto a bold agenda that will bring more people into the electorate, especially poor and low-income people.

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If we want corporations to step up, every civil rights organization that has received donations from corporations must now ask the same corporations, "Are you supporting the U.S. Senators who have blocked restoration of the Voting Rights Act for over 7 years and 9 months?
Have you given to ALEC, the group that is promoting voter suppression bills in state houses across the U.S.?”

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If corporations speak out against voting laws and give social contributions to civil rights organizations but still invest in the Senators who are blocking the restoration of federal voting rights protections, then their public statements are just image management.
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The Amazon workers who voted for a union in Bessemer are already winners. This is just the first round. Amazon did things to intimidate & suppress the vote. The workers are filing complaints, & they will continue to stand up.
They have set a fresh trend in the South, and the echoes of their bold action will reverberate for years.
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If they have to, Democrats must call Sinema & Manchin's bluff. Even if they go over & join Republicans, Democrats have the House & the WH. Their coalition can’t get anything passed. Let them be fully exposed. Force them out in the open for betraying the people who elected them.
And then use their exposure to push for everyone to vote in 2022 to get enough Senate seats to break the filibuster & immediately pass living wages, massive infrastructure bill, addressing poverty, healthcare, & fill all vacancies.
Don’t let Manchin & Sinema stop voting rights & living wages. These are not just "Black issues." We shouldn't be talking about the fight to expand voting rights as only a Black racial issue. Dr. King & the marchers from Selma-to-Montgomery didn’t then & we shouldn’t now.
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We need more than a narrow exception to the filibuster. We need a Senate that functions. The filibuster is not an original part of the Constitution. It is a tool created by an all-white male Senate that cared more about pats on the back than people.
The filibuster has been used against civil rights & economic justice & labor rights, impacting poor & low-wealth Black, brown, native, white & Asian people.
Democrats who claim they want to protect “minority rights” in the Senate must be asked why they insist on catering to the extremist minority that has taken over the Republican Party.
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I am going to Atlanta this weekend to preach at the church where MLK pastored when he called for a “revolution of values.” Georgia is showing the nation how desperately this message is needed.
Since King’s assassination, Republicans have used the language of “biblical values” to pit white Christians against non-white neighbors, betting that they could hold onto power by building a white voting bloc.
But demographics & expanded voting rights changed the balance of power. Lies that were told to white Christians are exploding in violence like we saw in the young white man’s attack against Asian women this week. But the same extremism drives voter suppression in GA statehouse.
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