Leaked footage from a Heritage Foundation donor conference reveals a coordinated, nationwide assault on voting rights.
The right-wing group is running a $24 million, 2-year voter suppression plan across 8 states.
Details in the thread below.
The Heritage Foundation has been working directly with top GOP state election officials for years. They’ve held private briefings with Republican secretaries of state, governors, attorneys general, and lawmakers on their voter suppression plan.
The group is targeting 8 states: Georgia, Florida, Nevada, Wisconsin, Texas, Arizona, Iowa, and Michigan. Why?
“If maybe two, maybe three of these 8 states went a different way in November, we’d be having a different conversation here today.”
Heritage has successfully gotten legislation passed and signed into law in Iowa, Georgia, Arizona, and Florida. They first tested their strategy in Iowa, where their efforts flew under the radar.
Heritage says it also helped draft Georgia’s voter suppression legislation, which passed earlier this year. They say they spent $1 million on CNBC ad buys to counter corporate backlash against the bill.
The next stage of their campaign is aimed at selling the bills to the American public. Heritage officials say that the most important part will be re-motivating the conspiratorial Trump base to return to the polls by 2022.
Blocking the #ForThePeopleAct is crucial to Heritage’s voter suppression plot.
They warn the bill would void every voter ID law in the country and implement same-day and automatic voter registration.
It would essentially erase all of the group’s efforts.
Heritage explains that it is building a broad coalition to block filibuster reform and stop the #ForThePeopleAct from passing.
“[The filibuster] is the gauge that won’t allow the larger progressive wishlist to be enacted.”
This leaked footage was obtained by @ItsDocumented and published with @MotherJones. Check out the full story ⬇️
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