In leaked video Heritage Action brags to donors about writing voter suppression laws for GOP state legislators in GA TX etc
“we actually draft them for them or we give them the model legislation so it has that grassroots, from-the-bottom-up type of vibe” motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Heritage Action told secret donors they “had a bit of fun” with Joe Manchin & held rally in WV pressuring him to oppose HR1 & keep filibuster
Connection between dark money & voter suppression exactly what For the People Act intended to stop motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Ethics complaints have been filed against Heritage Action & Heritage Foundation in IA & TX for claiming to write voter suppression bills but not registering as lobbyists & ethics investigation underway in Iowa by state watchdog group motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Watch leaked video where Heritage brags to donors about writing "eight key provisions" of Georgia voter suppression law, "nineteen provisions" of Texas law, "three provisions" of Iowa law & creating right-wing "echo chamber" to pass them
“Heritage is spending $24 million to make it harder to vote in 8 states and block HR1, which would make it easier to vote. You have dark money funding and organizing voter suppression. That’s exact thing the For the People Act would stop”
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I cannot get over the fact that Joe Manchin says voting rights legislation must have “bipartisan” supermajority when Republicans brazenly changing the rules in the states to prevent Dems from ever winning another fair election. Total unilateral disarmament
Republicans are engaged in greatest roll back of voting rights since Reconstruction but we’re supposed to believe 10 GOP senators will support new Voting Rights Act? C’mon Joe Manchin
I don't recall Republicans asking for bipartisan support before they introduced 400 voter suppression bills & enacted 22 new voter suppression laws in 14 states so far this year
Memo to @SenatorSinema: in 1890s states like Mississippi rushed to disenfranchise Black voters, House passed bill to stop it but Senate filibustered legislation protecting voting rights & we got Jim Crow. Now history will repeat itself if Dems don’t act motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
"The same pattern that existed during Reconstruction—the enfranchisement of Black voters, followed by the manipulation of election laws to throw out Black votes, culminating in laws passed to legally disenfranchise Black voters—is repeating itself today"
In 1890 Mississippi rewrote constitution to disenfranchise Black voters
That year House passed bill to protect voting rights but killed by Senate filibuster
By 1907 every Southern state had changed constitution to keep Blacks from voting & Black turnout fell from 61% to 2%
New cover story @motherjones: GOP enacting greatest assault on voting rights since end of Reconstruction and if Congress doesn’t pass federal legislation to stop new wave of Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression laws Second Reconstruction will end like the first motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
“The same pattern that existed during Reconstruction—the enfranchisement of Black voters, followed by the manipulation of election laws to throw out Black votes, culminating in laws passed to legally disenfranchise Black voters—is repeating itself today”
"the vicious white backlash that has followed Biden's victory—an attempt to overturn the election, an insurrection at the US Capitol, a record number of bills to restrict voting rights—has all the makings of a concerted attempt to end the second Reconstruction"
If Texas House Democrats can walk off the floor to kill voter suppression bill, then Senate Dems can kill filibuster to pass HR1 & John Lewis Voting Rights Act
"This is a now-or-never moment in American democracy," said @JoaquinCastrotx. "If we don’t act now, then our democracy is not going to look the same either in 2022 or 2024" washingtonpost.com/politics/texas…
Texas Dem Rep @TMFtx: "Breaking quorum is about the equivalent of crawling on our knees begging the president and the United States Congress to give us the For the People Act and give us the John Lewis Voting Rights Act" washingtonpost.com/politics/texas…
Texas Senate started debate on voter suppression bill #SB7 making it harder to vote & easier to overturn elections at 12:30 am last night and passed it at 6:08 am this morning. Democracy quite literally dying in the dark
New: Iowa House Democrats have filed ethics complaints against Heritage Action & Heritage Foundation for boasting to donors about writing voter suppression laws in leaked video reported by @MotherJones but failing to register as lobbyists in state motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
"We did it quickly & we did it quietly," Heritage bragged about Iowa voter suppression bill. "Honestly, nobody even noticed. My team looked at each other & we’re like, ‘It can’t be that easy.'"
But legislative Rs say group lying & didn't register as lobbyists as required by law
Heritage claimed to write "three provisions" in Iowa voter suppression bill, including one that has put nearly 300,000 voters at risk of being purged
Iowa watchdog agency also beginning investigation into whether group lobbied Gov Reynolds & didn’t disclose it