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11 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
I haven't seen this previously: Greene County GOP is urging No vote on PA Ballot Question 3, claiming (inaccurately) that it seeks to give new rights to "illegal aliens". Is this framing being heard elsewhere in the state? facebook.com/GreeneCoGOP/
For more info on this ballot question see 👇 from @SpotlightPA . @sarahanne_news you wrote that you could not identify any opponents to adding anti-discrimination protections to the PA constitution... I think we just found some opponents for you?
👇 interesting...
Seems like not everyone is on board w/ the Commonwealth Foundation's effort to use Ballot Question 3 to co-brand the GOP-supported, anti-Wolf Questions 1 & 2 as a matter of "equality for all"... (Read here👇fr @StephenJ_Caruso) penncapital-star.com/government-pol…

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10 May
Re-posting bc I just read yet another piece in whch a green-circle insider assures green-circle readers that the reason former Dems in purple circle don't vote for green-circle leaders is those pesky kids in the pink going on about trans rights & truly my head is going to explode
Like the twin decline of the Dem Party+labor movmnt as organizational presences in rural+rustbelt America; the Dem-side failure to compete as RW model honed in talk radio moved into natl then local news: these happened on someone's watch right? & those someones are older than 25?
The lack of meaningful bridges between green & purple—channels that would cultivate & amplify voices of party members from beyond cosmopolitan metros, & give Dems trusted interlocutors to do last-mile comms into a wider breadth of communities—is real & damaging.
Own that.
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2 May
The Big Lie is still in place because the trusted communication infrastructure that supported & cemented the Big Lie is still in place. If your plans/advice to Dems re future elections aren't grappling w/this ongoing reality, *you're* the one living in a fantasy version of the US
Like this👇 should not be an evergreen tweet. yet here we are
As a Cardcarrying Historian™ I've been thinking a lot about what sources future historians will have to work with in reconstructing this moment: & am struck by how radically different your understanding of just what happened in 2020—& what people thought about—will be, depending
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30 Apr
Today I learned that a new anti-racist civic group in an upscale suburb near me, that grew out of a local #BlackLivesMatter protest on June 11, 2020, at the height of George Floyd vigils & solidarity protests nationwide... Image
... & then carried energy into a campaign to change a derogatory park name over the summer... triblive.com/local/valley-n…
... not only continues to exist but is now hosted events like zoom forums, for community to meet & question local candidates in the upcoming primary. Huh!

I don't think anyone has a clear sense of how widespread this kind of civic consequence of the last spring's protest wave is Image
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27 Apr
(Attenborough voice) the Green Lantern theory of political messaging is rarely spotted in such pure form in the wild— Image
This keeps happening, so I made you all a helpful chart Image
... because here we are again👇
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23 Apr
Oh my gosh people this dashboard is just...🤯 A map of the universe the size of the universe. Possibly I may never do anything else ever again?
Like, how did the partisan breakdown of college-educated white voters evolve in Lycoming County over the past 3 elections? Yeah, sure, I have that for you no problem 😳😳 !!!! targetearly.targetsmart.com/historic.html?… Image
Yes, the number of Hispanic voters in Berks county did fall, not just in relative but in absolute terms, from 2016 to 2020 targetearly.targetsmart.com/historic.html?… Image
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17 Apr
So reverse coattails are up for debate again, & I do actually have some thoughts. But I am afraid they are going to frustrate all parties in this debate equally! You're better off just muting this thread right now tbh [1/17,000]
Here's the NYTimes piece folks are responding to today, which reports on the results of a study funded by RunForSomething nytimes.com/2021/04/16/us/…
Here is the public write-up of the study in question itself👇. If there is a more detailed write-up out there, I'd love to be pointed to it? Bc as it stands the structure of the comparative analysis here leaves me very confused (on which, more below...) runforsomething.net/wp-content/upl…
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