In A HANDMAID'S TALE, the slide into paternal Biblical autocracy was in small steps. Just like in Texas.
Then America split in two, creating Gilead, where women were stripped of power altogether, and severely punished for resisting.
Then America split in two, creating Gilead, where women were stripped of power altogether, and severely punished for resisting.
23 states stand at the ready to join Texas in banning abortion without exception, restrict the telling of true history in America, stripping away gay and trans rights, and forcing Christian laws and prayer into the schools.
Those same states are passing laws to overturn the popular vote, to install lawmakers that conform to their Biblical expectations. That will happen in 2022 if Federal protections are not put in place.
Hence the immediacy of carving out the filibuster
Hence the immediacy of carving out the filibuster
for voting and women's rights legislation currently being considered. @SenatorSinema @Sen_JoeManchin promised McConnell they would not touch the filibuster - that all legislation had to be bipartisan. Well, Manchin tried with voting rights and failed to gain even one GOP vote.
And Sinema is refusing to weaken the filibuster at all, even though she is a sponsor of the women's rights bill. She could convince moderate GOP women to join a carve out for it, if she truly cares. Manchin is pro life.
So, we sit at an impasse. 60% of Americans and 90% of Dems want Roe to stay the law of the land. Will Sinema just sit on the sidelines and let women lose their right to choose in half the nation?
Will Manchin's impossible dream of bipartisanship stand in the way of voting
Will Manchin's impossible dream of bipartisanship stand in the way of voting
protections for all Americans, and let Dark Money take over our democracy?
Breaking the filibuster for voting and women's rights is the only way to avoid a full throated attack on our civil rights unseen in 60 years.
We common folk can only use civil disobedience
Breaking the filibuster for voting and women's rights is the only way to avoid a full throated attack on our civil rights unseen in 60 years.
We common folk can only use civil disobedience
to demand that DC listens to the will of the majority. The SC has failed to protect our rights - it has actually eroded them - chipping away at the VRA over the years and allowing dark money to infiltrate our elections. Now this arcane Texas law being allowed to stay.
Manchin and Sinema need to feel the thundering of a 200 million peoples shoes upon their doorstep, and feel no peace in their daily lives, until they conform to the will of the people.
We have to relentlessly press them into action. No breaks, no quarter. #EndTheFilibusterNow
We have to relentlessly press them into action. No breaks, no quarter. #EndTheFilibusterNow
...thundering of 200 million
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