New AFP-NH ad, grassroots campaign urges Hassan to ‘keep her word’ on filibuster wmur.com/article/nh-pri… Americans for Prosperity is targeting New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan to oppose changing the #filibuster rule (1 of 4 )
Americans for Prosperity this week is unveiling a six-figure social media and radio ad campaign – coupled with a grassroots effort – urging “select senators” to oppose the push by Democratic Senate leaders to do away with the 60-vote #filibuster rule. #KochNetwork (2 of 4)
The ads link to a web page urging visitors to sign a letter that says: “Dear Senator Hassan: Do not end the #filibuster." Reform is a “partisan tactic to make it easier to ram through one-sided legislation” and “increase partisanship and division …”(3of4) americansforprosperity.ivolunteers.com/ContactOfficia…
The other senators targeted in the AFP effort are expected to be announced later this week. #KochNetwork#filibuster (4 of 4)
Americans for Prosperity launches campaign targeting six Democrats to oppose ending filibuster thehill.com/business-a-lob… AFP expects to spend roughly $500,000 on this initiative, deemed “Don’t Bust The Filibuster.” #KochNetwork#filibuster
The targeted Democratic lawmakers include Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), Chris Coons (Del.), Jon Tester (Mont.), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Maggie Hassan (N.H.), and Joe Manchin (WVa.).
While media focus has been on #Manchin, a quiet, country-wide “Don’t Bust the #Filibuster” AFP campaign is underway to undermine Democrats’ efforts
AFP-NH Hosts “Save the Filibuster, Save America” with AFP President Tim Phillips granitegrok.com/blog/2021/05/a… Pressuring Democratic U..S. Sen. Maggie Hassan to support keeping in place the 60-vote Senate filibuster rule #KochNetwork#FILIBUSTER
#Koch-funded AFP using grassroots events in key states to pressure moderate Senate Dems to oppose push to scrap filibuster, the group’s "Save the #Filibuster, Save America" campaign
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Top ALEC Official Is Behind Conspiracy Theory-Fueled Arizona Ballot Audit truthout.org/articles/top-a… by @duboo via @truthout Republican Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann also serves as the second-highest ranking board member of #ALEC
in the summer of 2019, ALEC secretly launched a “Process Working Group” that is tasked with elections and redistricting. Fann is part of that group, which is chaired by fellow Arizona State Rep. Shawnna Bolick (R) as well as disgraced attorney and Trump advisor Cleta Mitchell.
Cleta Mitchell, Gold Circle Member of the Council for National Policy #CNP worked with #ALEC exploring additional ways to invalidate a potential Trump loss #ShadowNetwork
1/ Neoliberalism Has Always Been a Threat to Democracy jacobinmag.com/2021/06/neolib… Neoliberalism has survived by altering the very foundations of our democratic institutions and organizations.
2/ Understand that neoliberals’ age-old fear of the tyranny of the propertyless majority and the possibility that their democratic ambitions might impinge on economic liberty.
James Buchanan explained this neatly in his famous coauthored book, Democracy in Deficit.
3/ Buchanan's focus was not on free competition, proper market operations, or even on criticizing state intervention. It was on “the political institutions through which economic policy must be implemented.”
1/ Think tank policy and the 67th Montana Legislature montanafreepress.org/2021/06/04/ale… GQP legislators this session tackled issues that #ALEC, the Heritage Foundation and Americans for Prosperity pushed nationwide with model bills. Many are now law in Montana and dozens of other states.
2/ ALEC appears to have taken notice of the state’s embrace of its agenda from transgender rights to the environment, as evidenced by a recent announcement that #ALEC staff will be traveling to Montana this summer to “discuss the issues that matter to you and your communities.”
3/ Montana HB218 aimed to eliminate so-called free speech zones on university campuses. HB349 prohibited universities from limiting a student group’s access to funding and campus facilities. These were based on #ALEC’s 'Forming Open and Robust University Minds Act' model policy.
American democracy is in even worse shape than you think washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… We have four huge problems. I don’t see solutions to any of them...-->
(1) The Republicans are laying the groundwork to refuse to certify a 2024 Democratic presidential victory should the GOP hold a House majority.
“We need to grapple with what that should mean for our expectations going forward and start thinking about real worst-case scenarios.”
(2) Expect to see Republicans gerrymander legislative districts, making it virtually impossible for Democrats to win a majority in either house of additional state legislatures. And all indications are that the six GOP appointees on SCOTUS aren’t going to do much to halt it.
Divided Republicans reunite to mount defense of filibuster theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m… While Democrats have struggled to unite members of their Senate caucus, especially their centrist holdouts, to get rid of the #filibuster, Republicans have been lockstep in opposing changes (1/5)
Conservative outside groups have been organizing overtly and covertly to counter Democratic pressure to gut the #filibuster. Heritage Action is targeting “constituencies of Democratic senators in which we have a very large footprint– Arizona, Georgia, West Virginia” (2/5)
Americans for Prosperity, another outside group, funded by Charles #Koch, has launched a six-figure ad campaign focused on Manchin and Sinema (3/5)
Reporter warns far-right Republicans may be close to achieving a 'radical rewrite' of the Constitution rawstory.com/reporter-warns… Since 2014 the Convention of States Project and other groups including #ALEC have helped lawmakers in 15 states call for a new constitutional convention
The Convention of States Project is led by a prominent right-wing activist ― former Tea Party Patriots founder Mark Meckler, who is also the current acting CEO of Parler, and a member of the #CNP Council of National Policy's Gold Circle #ShadowNetwork
According to The Center for Media and Democracy, lawmakers proposed 42 Convention of States resolutions in at least 24 new states this year. Article V of the US Constitution states that a constitutional convention could be convened if 2/3 of the states - 34 states call for it.