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10 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The big Catalist report on the 2020 electorate is out. catalist.us/wh-national/
I suspect this will be one of the more talked about and debated findings in the Catalist report - with much higher turnout, Latino support for Biden was 63%, down from 71% support for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
But even in a big turnout year, Latino turnout still lagged other ethnic groups.
And this from the Catalist analysis giving a sense of how important non-college educated whites have become to the Republican Party.

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29 Mar
This is one of those things that seems easier than it is. Some of the issues in this thread 🧵 1/
First, to get a Georgia ID you have to bring in your birth certificate (you can also bring in a passport, but most of the folks currently without IDs won’t have one of those). For people born out of state, that means contacting your birth state and paying a fee. 2/
That’s fairly easy to do if you are tech savvy enough to be online and have a credit card to pay the fee. Fees vary but in Michigan, it’s $34 and in Massachusetts, $32. Folks without IDs will need help with all these things. 3/
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18 Mar
I think the thing people need to understand about anti-Asian racism (with its roots in the ‘Yellow Peril’) is that it is and always has been closely linked to xenophobia. This was the case in the 19th century, during the rise of Japan in the 70s & 80s, and today. 1/
That makes it related to other forms of racism but also different - just as leukemia and colon cancer are both cancers and bad things that should be rooted out but also very distinct from one another. 2/
And the link between anti-Asian racism and xenophobia is why it probably isn’t going away any time soon - and may even get with worse in the near term. The emergence of China is something deeply threatening to the American psyche, just as the rise of Japan was. 3/
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17 Mar
Re-upping this thread 🧵on the *long* history of discrimination and violence toward Asian Americans in the United States based on the sense that we are too foreign, too ‘other,’ too perpetually alien. It is important that people know this history.
And related to all of this is the notion of the ‘Yellow Peril’ - the idea that Asians and Chinese in particular are conniving threats to the America - an idea which plays out in things like this
And lest you say, that kind of anti-Asianness is about people who are foreign nationals, not about American citizens, I’m here to tell you that a great many Americans have a very hard time telling the difference. To wit below, a very common variant of a Twitter response I get.
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5 Mar
A thread 🧵 on the redistricting provisions of H.R. 1 - which many people shorthand describe as banning partisan gerrymandering and/or requiring independent commissions for drawing congressional districts - but which really are a *lot* more. #ForThePeople #HR1 #fairmaps 1/
First, let’s talk about the partisan gerrymandering ban. Unlike the partisan gerrymandering cases litigated in state and federal court, H.R. 1’s partisan gerrymandering covers not just intent but also *effects.* #ForThePeople #HR1 #fairmaps 2/
This is crucial because, as we saw last decade, maps can be wildly skewed (think the 12-4 in OH or 13-5 in PA) but evidence of intent is often carefully hidden & lawmakers offer any number of pretexts, requiring complex, time consuming litigation. #ForThePeople #HR1 #fairmaps 3/
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21 Jan
Thursday’s NYT front page
And the front page of Thursday’s Washington Post
More Thursday front pages from around the nation
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20 Jan
It goes without saying that the 1776 Commission doesn’t deal honestly or in depth about the causes of the American Revolution (see below).

But my view is most liberals don’t either. The genesis of the Revolution is mostly glossed over by both left and right.
Maybe at most you get something about taxes or the lack of representation in Parliament, but then you swiftly move on to ‘we’re now independent and drafting a constitution.’ But the Revolution’s roots bear looking at - because they can be pretty dark.
And for that darkness, you need look no further than the litany of complaints in the Declaration of Independence itself. To wit:
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