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3 Oct, 6 tweets, 5 min read
"However horrifying the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol appeared in the moment, we know now that it was far worse."

#Jan6
#Jan6th
nytimes.com/2021/10/02/opi…
"The country was hours away from a full-blown constitutional crisis — not primarily because of the violence and mayhem inflicted by hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters but because of the actions of Trump himself."
"the country faces a renewed risk of electoral subversion by Trump and his supporters —

only next time they will have learned from their mistakes."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
#DemocracyInDanger
nytimes.com/2021/10/02/opi…
"That leaves all Americans who care about preserving this Republic with a clear task:

Reform the federal election law at the heart of Eastman’s twisted ploy, and make it as hard as possible for anyone to pull a stunt like that again."

#EastmanMemo
nytimes.com/2021/10/02/opi…
"Republican leaders in Congress and the states have shown less interest in preventing election sabotage than in protecting and, in some cases, even venerating the saboteurs."

#Jan6
#EastmanMemo
#DemocracyInDanger
nytimes.com/2021/10/02/opi…
"Trump may never stop trying to undermine American democracy. Those who value that democracy should never stop using every measure at their disposal to protect it."

#Jan6
#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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1 Oct
"What if it’s the ideologues who are able to get things done, & it’s the centrists who stand in the way of solving problems while they knuckle under to special interests who don’t have the welfare of the country at heart?"
~@paulwaldman1

#BuildBackBetter
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"Joe Biden wasn’t [the progressives'] preferred candidate in 2020, but they worked tirelessly to get him elected, and now they’re laboring to pass his agenda.

The centrists... might want to see the bills pass, but for them, failure is an option."

#BBB
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"That’s because from where centrists sit, the status quo is not so bad...

That’s why progressives haven’t been able to get the centrists, especially Sens. Joe Manchin III and Kyrsten Sinema, to say specifically what they want"

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1 Oct
"In a normal world, the “Eastman memo” would be infamous by now, the way “Access Hollywood” became the popular shorthand in 2016 for the damning recording of Donald Trump’s bragging about groping women."
~@Sulliview

#EastmanMemo
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
"But it’s a good bet that most people have never even heard of the #EastmanMemo.

That says something troubling about how blasé the mainstream press has become about the attempted coup in the aftermath of the 2020 election — and how easily a coup could succeed next time." Image
"In other words, how to run a coup in six easy steps.

Pretty huge stuff, right? You’d think so, but the mainstream press has largely looked the other way."

#EastmanMemo
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30 Sep
"this ugly saga will ... separate Democrats who take their role as public servant seriously from those who are operating with such epic levels of bad faith that they are essentially insulting the intelligence of their own constituents."
~@ThePlumLineGS

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"Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) just delivered a sharp dressing down to @SenatorSinema (D-Ariz.) that ... captures something essential about what we’re seeing from Sinema, and by extension, about the crossroads that Democrats now face."
~@ThePlumLineGS

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Sinema and Manchin refuse to explain:

"Which of those provisions designed to provide a lift to millions, secure a more habitable planet, and make the tax code fairer to working people and less prone to elite chicanery — which would they throw out?"

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30 Sep
"Right-wing donor interests have spent hundreds of millions of $$ to stack the Court w/ anti-abortion justices...

Now, the Court is delivering for those donors, & appears poised to strike at the heart of reproductive freedom"
~@SenWhitehouse

#DarkMoney
senwhitehouse.medium.com/senators-unvei…
"the dark-money forces behind S.B.8 engineered an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court — to do things the American people won’t abide from elected branches of government"
~@SenWhitehouse

#DarkMoney
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“This report shines a bright light on how Republicans and well-funded groups are using our judicial system to take away the freedom of women to make their own health care decisions.”
~@SenStabenow

#DarkMoney
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24 Sep
"Meanwhile, the amateurish “stop the steal” efforts of 2020 have given way to an organized nationwide campaign to ensure that Trump & his supporters will have the control over state and local election officials that they lacked in 2020"

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Those recalcitrant Republican state officials who effectively saved the country from calamity by refusing to falsely declare fraud or to “find” more votes for Trump are being systematically removed or hounded from office."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Today’s arguments over the filibuster will seem quaint in three years if the American political system enters a crisis for which the Constitution offers no remedy."

@SenateDems
#EndTheFilibuster Pass the #FreedomToVoteAct
Protect American democracy
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24 Sep
"some Republicans will not use the audit news to affirm that confidence in our election system has been restored. Instead, they’ll use it to continue undermining that confidence, for the express purpose of justifying further anti-democratic tactics."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"But, now that this audit “confirmed” Biden’s win, it is still telling us that we should doubt our electoral outcomes, and that more voting restrictions are necessary to allay those doubts.

Why, it’s almost as if that was the real point all along!"

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"Treating this audit as if it somehow “confirmed” [Biden's win] suggests it was about empirical verification of the results, and as such, risks normalizing such practices.

But it wasn’t about that, and it absolutely cannot be normalized."
~@ThePlumLineGS
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