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2 Nov, 9 tweets, 5 min read
1. Glenn Youngkin could win today but just in case his campaign is claiming that, if he does lose, it's because of election fraud.

Trump is reinforcing these messages.

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2. State Senator Amanda Chase (R) has emerged as a key surrogate for Youngkin. She's campaigned alongside him and held other events solo.

"I know how Democrats are cheating," Chase said in a 10/27 interview.

She repeated those claims on Facebook.

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3. Youngkin and his campaign linked arms with Chase knowing exactly what she was about.

After the 2020 election, Chase encouraged Trump to declare martial law.

She was censured by the Virginia Senate for calling the Jan 6 riots "patriots"

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4. After being censured, Chase participated in a "cyber symposium" with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. The event was dedicated to claiming that voting machines in 2020 were rigged against Trump.

Chase has made similar claims about the 2021 election in VA.

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5. It's not just Chase.

On October 27, Youngkin appeared at a rally in Blacksburg, Virginia with country singer John Rich.

During his performance, Rich told the crowd that Stacey Abrams was visiting Virginia to rig the election

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6. Yesterday, Trump released TWO statements claiming the 2020 Virginia elections were rife with fraud.

Youngkin has slyly stoked all these efforts.

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7. Regardless of what happens today, this strategy will be deployed in HUNDREDS of midterm campaigns starting tomorrow.

Every election is an opportunity to undermine confidence in the democratic process

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8. Throughout the primary campaign, Youngkin refused to say whether Biden was legitimately elected

Once he secured the nomination, Youngkin said he was, but then last month refused to say whether he would have vote to certify

Then he backtracked on that

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9. In an October 5 speech Youngkin called for auditing voting machines

When he was criticized for stoking conspiracy theories, his campaign said he was just referring to the existing audits in VA

Youngkin is walking a fine line, but his intent is clear

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2 Nov
1. Regardless of the outcome in VA today, everyone should familiarize themselves about hyper-politicization of school boards and the dark money groups behind it

This playbook will be repeated in hundreds of races across the country in 2022

Follow along if interested.
2. There are parents genuinely upset about schools.

But they are being organized/incited/misinformed by a constellation of dark money advocacy groups

Many of the groups were founded this year and there is no information about their funding

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3. Although we don't know the precise funding of these dark money groups (that's by design) we do know their leaders

And many of them have longstanding ties to organizations funded by the Koch network

It mirrors the Koch effort to finance the Tea Party

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31 Oct
1. I just talked to the woman whose presentation is featured in Youngkin's closing ad

She says the ad misrepresents one slide to invent "a conversation that never happened"

"I was not advocating for teachers to teach Critical Race Theory to students"

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2. Youngkin's ad claims to contain "newly unearthed documents" which it presents as proof that McAuliffe's administration "actively pushed" K-12 students to be taught CRT

It turns out that is a lie

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3. The "documents" are a 2015 presentation by Brenda Walker, a professor at University of South Florida

It was given as part of an institute about STUDENT DISCIPLINE. The purpose of the program was "to provide alternatives to out-of-school suspensions"

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29 Oct
1. Absolutely puzzled by people who think the infrastructure bill is a key issue in the Virginia gubernatorial election.

Seems like these folks haven't been paying attention to the Virginia election.

It's become all about EDUCATION
2. And when I say education, I don't mean education POLICY.

I mean demagoguing about Critical Race Theory, mask mandates, "pornography," and book banning.

This effort is backed by a constellation of newly-formed dark money groups

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3. McAuliffe has not been adequately prepared for this attack. When confronted with an issue of "pornography" in school libraries, he accepted the false premise that the issue was related to a bill he had vetoed.

It was not.

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28 Oct
This tweet says absolutely nothing and explicitly opens the door to Sinema demanding future cuts.

This statement itself illustrates that she is not involved in “good faith” negotiations, which involves actually making commitments
I'm honestly perplexed at this entire situation. The entire focus for weeks would be to establish a framework that Sinema and Manchin would agree to. Now we have a framework announced and Sinema and Manchin have not agreed. What's going on?
You've either agreed to a framework, or you haven't. They have not.
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28 Oct
1. Two students were sexually assaulted in a Loudoun County high schools.

The facts are more than enough to justify outrage.

Instead, the reality of the case has been manipulated and exploited for political purposes.

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2. The right-wing media and Republican politicians have claimed the assaults demonstrate the danger of trans-inclusive bathroom policies.

But they've grossly misrepresented the facts of the case.

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3. Here are the facts:

The boy who committed the sexual assault in a restroom was not trans

The sexual assault occurred months before Loudoun County had a trans-inclusive bathroom policy

The boy did not "sneak into" the bathroom.

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27 Oct
1. The wealth of around 700 billionaires in the United States increased by more than $2 TRILLION since the start of the pandemic.

Now there is a push to close a loophole that allows billionaires to avoid paying taxes

And the billionaires are angry

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2. Increase in wealth (March 2020 to October 2021)

MUSK: $24 BILLION ➡️ $209 BILLION

BEZOS: 113B ➡️ 192B

GATES: 98B ➡️ 132B

ELLISON: 59B ➡️ 124B

PAGE: 50B ➡️ 120B

ZUCKERBERG: 54B ➡️ 117B

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3. How do these billionaires accumulate so much wealth, live lavish lifestyles and pay little to no taxes?

They borrow against unrealized capital gains, which are untaxed

Musk, for example, has pledged 92 million Tesla shares to secure debts

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