NEW: We reviewed the 7 most far-reaching Republican voter suppression laws enacted this year.
Passing the #ForThePeopleAct would invalidate roughly 2/3 of their attacks on voting access.
The only way to save democracy is for Democrats to act. This is what's at stake:
Georgia’s infamous SB 202 remakes almost every element of the state’s election laws to make it harder for people of color to vote.
The For The People Act would end its onerous voter ID requirements, restore ballot drop boxes, and block partisan poll watchers, among other fixes.
In Florida, the #ForThePeopleAct would overturn much of Gov. Ron DeSantis and the GOP's assault on voters.
It would prevent the destruction of the state's mail-in voting list, stop extreme voter ID requirements, and end the criminalization of ballot delivery.
Iowa was the first state to pass an extreme voter suppression law this year.
The For The People Act would overturn Iowa’s new limitations on drop boxes, ban on ballot delivery, and harsh limits on sending absentee ballots.
Arizona — home of the conspiracy theorist-run “audit” — has also passed a number of voter suppression laws.
Republicans voted to end the state’s ultra-popular permanent vote-by-mail list and to make it harder to correct a ballot.
Both these laws would be overturned.
It got even more difficult to vote in Arkansas this year due to stringent new voter ID requirements, absentee ballot limitations, and a signature matching program.
In Montana, after a clean Republican sweep, the GOP legislature decided to further restrict ballot access.
The state ended same-day voter registration and now requires *two* forms of ID to vote in many cases. Both would be blocked by S 1.
In Kansas, a Republican supermajority overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto to enact a slew of new voter limitations and make a major legislative power grab.
The For The People Act would stop this election rigging in its tracks.
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Private equity and the military-industrial complex are chomping at the bit to make money from Trump’s war in Iran.
This is how the super-rich expect to profit. Thread:
In an analysis obtained by @LeverNews, Pitchbook said the most important part of this conflict isn’t politics, it’s all about finding opportunities in weapons consumption, inventory depth, and industrial capacity.
A prolonged conflict means the U.S. will either supplement or extend existing military contracts. That means more money for contractors, their supplies, and their investors. documentcloud.org/documents/2780…
@LeverNews The document provides a table detailing which military-grade weapons used in Iran have certain “investable attributes.”
The systems that provide the weapons, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and RTX—defense companies whose stocks saw incredible growth since Trump attacked Iran.
People across the country have put public pressure on warehouse owners to halt the sale of their facilities to ICE – and, in multiple states, it's working.
THREAD
OBBB gave the ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative $38 billion to meet private prison investor demands to increase capacity. The Department of Homeland Security identified 24 warehouses for potential sale and detention conversions.
Majestic Realty Co. was contacted about “potential sale” of its Hutchins, Texas, warehouse that could hold up to 10,000 detainees. Hutchins has a population of 6,000.
Majestic Realty Co. says it “has not and will not enter into any agreement for the purchase or lease of any building to the Department of Homeland Security for use as a detention facility."
THREAD: Alabama has generated over $250 million since 2000 by exploiting prison labor.
For years, inmates protested the barbaric prison system that uses and abuses them.
The Free Alabama Movement is calling for a protest on Feb. 8 to halt the flow of money that enables abuse.
Since 2022, the Free Alabama Movement has demanded:
-The abolition of forced prison labor
-Rescinding the Habitual Felony Offender Act that doles out life sentences “far beyond any rehabilitative purpose.”
-Protecting family programs and increasing access to familial communications, visitations, and overnight stays.
-Resentence all eligible prior convictions under harsher sentencing statutes and apply modern laws so inmates can receive “fair and consistent treatment as those sentenced today.”
Alabama became one of the first states to enact a total ban on slavery without exceptions in 2022, but the abuse continued.
During a work stop strike in 2022, Alabama prisons reduced meals and axed family visitation rights for inmates. The same starve-out tactics was used in the 2024 work strikes. In 2025, Alabama dismissed a 2023 class action lawsuit filed by inmates against ADOC for using prisoners for its modern-day slavery machine.
The number of people currently in ICE custody is now over 73,000, the most in history.
DHS is planning 23 new detention centers that would more than double the number of people in ICE custody, detaining an additional 76,500 people, according to Bloomberg. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
ICE is buying massive warehouses with the intention of converting them into immigration jails in nearly two dozen communities.
ICE is the most well-funded law enforcement agency in the country, and its budget is set to triple this year.
ICE is using that cash to arm itself with a high-tech arsenal to track immigrants and citizens alike.
THREAD.
So far, seven people have reported ICE recording them and uploading their data into a facial recognition app without their permission. ICE uses Mobile Fortify and a ClearviewAI facial recognition app to track undocumented immigrants and citizens opposing ICE’s presence.
These apps are used alongside Palantir’s database of government and commercial data to find a person’s location in real time. ICE uses those databases to build a dossier on anyone with a social media profile, filling it out with public info from places like Venmo and Instagram and data brokers.
Who is the “inflation hawk,” Kevin Warsh, Trump’s new appointee to lead the Federal Reserve in May?
He’s another Wall Street broker in Trump’s pocket, calling for a “regime change” at the Fed.
THREAD:
Warsh served as governor of the Fed from 2006 to 2011 after serving as an economic aide for George W. Bush’s administration.
During the 2008 recession, Warsh wanted to keep high interest rates even as the economy teetered toward collapse. Warsh opposed interest rate cuts, and when the Fed issued them, inflation didn’t rise.
After the U.S. lost over 530k jobs in 2009, Warsh was “more worried about upside risks to inflation than downside risks.” The unemployment rate was an astonishing 8.9%, with core inflation at 1.2%.
Five months later, he said the Fed should kill support for the economy before it has “substantially returned to normal,” fearing inflation. But core inflation was less than before.