1. Thank you @JoeNBC for providing the CRITICAL CONTEXT that the GOP majorities in PA, WI, and MI refused to allow the SAME early count of absentee ballots used in FL, where the GOP created vote-by-mail.

They did that to help Trump set up his Big Lie. They hoped the margins
2. would be close enough in those states that they could then gum up those hostage ballots, challenge them, perhaps win another Bush v Gore style court challenge.

This was INTENTIONAL strategic planning involving a host of Republican leaders, pols, party figures, & Trump.
3. I should also add, this is why millions of Trump voters tout the lie of "Trump was winning those states and all the sudden hundreds of thousands of ballots show up?" Those ballots had been held hostage for weeks. People need to stop burying their heads in the sand about GOP
This is @rp_griffin & @DemocracyFund's study on this topic by the talented @leedrutman

voterstudygroup.org/publication/th…
From @leedrutman

"46 percent of Republicans believe it was appropriate for legislators in states won by Joe Biden to try to assign their state’s electoral votes to Trump."

You see that @Sen_JoeManchin ???

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18 Jun
This is Hammie's preferred drive through position.
The rest of the series
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1 Jun
1. Yes- as @WillieGeist just explained, when we were kids there was NO MENTION of the Tulsa massacre but there WAS a whole chapter on John Brown's "raid" on Harper's Ferry.

In fact, I had no idea about Tulsa until Juneteenth became popularized which was the result of media
2. diversification. Also from efforts across America to remove the "Lost Cause" narrative that proliferated K-12 curriculum for decades across the South. In fact, even my modern college students in the South (across 3 institutions) showed up w a "Lost Cause" spin to American
3. American history, often pushing back at the notion that the Civil War was about slavery & not "state's rights." State's rights being a whitewashed, spin euphemism to allow for a "politically correct" dog whistle for "maintaining slavery" and later, "maintaining segregation."
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26 May
1. The 1st of SIX Benghazi Committees was convened in the House in May of 2014-nearly TWO YRs after the event which occurred 9/11 of 2012.

It wasn't convened to find truth bc that was already known. It was convened to target the D Party's likely 2016 p nominee @HillaryClinton
2. However, in pursuit of the "norm of objectivity" & there never-ending effort to dispel the Right's narrative of media bias, the media covered each of these 6 committees as legit "fact-finding" missions, even after McCarthy publicly admitted its purpose (to political damage
3. Clinton) in 2015. As I demonstrated in my book on the 2016 election, they were facing the probability of running against a VERY popular former S of S. Even 2 years out from Benghazi, Clinton polled well.

Something had to be done!
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25 May
I have to say that I like @davidshor & we are friendly bc we agree on a lot, ESP that you don't win via policy extremism.

But the idea Ds don't already do ⬇️ AND lose winnable races is just WRONG.

It isn't innovation- it's status quo.

And it's nowhere close to enough
The Cult of Rachel

If you ain't winning, you're losing.
I'll add that "talking about popular stuff" won't help you if you don't put it into a threat/stakes context. That is "me" not "we" framed. And don't make the case that the GOP is the thing keeping the voter from having it.
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18 May
1. Its not an accident that its the MS law. BC believe it or not, ELECTIVE abortion after 15 wks polls terribly

BUT upholding that here (which requires overturning CASEY) would then set them up for the overturning Roe in one of the 6wk bans like GA's.

Later, as in after '22
2. That said, its a mistake for Ds to hyper-focus on this issue and their own efforts need to include a sustained campaign to make people FEAR losing abortion access. Yes, access (*w some regulations) polls good, but the Right's "Abortion on Demand" branding campaign has been
3. VERY effective in whittling away support for elective abortions, and their machine is perfectly geared to wage that messaging war against the Left's own, wonky, policy-oriented messaging techniques. The GOP will go pure emotion- you must too to combat it.
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2 May
1. Just as the 2022 Midterms will begin Nov. 3rd, in the dust of VA's 2021 cycle & the GOP's shameless, tax-payer subsidized witch hunt of @GavinNewsom.

As I tell @StrikePac donor's- the narrative for the cycle gets set then & there.

Hold VA's trifecta & demolish the recall
2. & the media narrative will be that mb, just MB, Ds can beat the "midterm effect" in '22. But, lose a ton of seats in VA's House or the majority, &/or barely eek out a recall defeat- the narrative favors the GOP.

Why does this matter, you ask? As I told @harrisonjaime
3. win '21 & Ds can recruit quality cand's to challenge Rs for the House seats they backdoored in 2020 & force the Rs to spend on defense. Those "lost" districts are all what I call my "2nd tier" districts in my model: educated but not as robustly as other
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