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12 Jan, 5 tweets, 4 min read
Our action partner, @BlackVotersMtr, has boycotted Biden’s speech in #Georgia on the #VotingRights bills, refusing to act as a photo op prop. Understand the frustration: we’ve been screaming about Georgia as #JimCrow central for 8 years...
Laws alone won’t help: we need the Justice Department to stomp on the new "voter fraud vigilante" challenge system we uncovered. We need enforcement of the laws we have, Joe. gregpalast.com/georgias-origi…
And CNN and MSNBC should stop referring to #Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger as a "hero" just because he wouldn’t go to jail for Trump.
gregpalast.com/stealing-georg…
#BradRaffensperger just attacked the #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct as a "federal elections takeover" (the dog whistle long used by segregationists), claiming it would "undermine the integrity of our elections." Raffensperger means, undermine the whiteness of Georgia elections.
For more on this, listen to my conversation with @burn_stick on @KPFARadio's @FlashPointsNews kpfa.org/episode/flashp…

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