Thread by @cliff_notes

We all need to be clear: the Electoral Count Act is NOT a substitute for #VotingRights!! Any discussion of this as a replacement for #FreedomToVoteAct is unacceptable! If @SenateDems go along with this, you can say goodbye to ‘22 AND ‘24 (and much more). @SenSchumer.

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1482904096621441025

And @POTUS needs to send a clear message to @SenateDems that if they send this Trojan Horse legislation to him without #FreedomToVoteAct, he will veto it. It’s insulting that this is even being floated by GOP or *anyone else* on #MLKDay.

Some pundits, like @chucktodd will talk of need for bipartisan. As Senator Warnock reminded us a few weeks ago: slavery was bipartisan. We will not sacrifice our #VotingRights to the golden calf of bipartisanship.

But, w/ that said, #FreedomToVoteAct is *already* bipartisan…

65-75% of the country support the provisions in #FreedomToVoteAct, including voters in states like WV and AZ. The vast majority of WV would LOVE to see Election Day as a holiday, or to have more days of early voting…

But if Manchin, Sinema & others are defining bipartisan based on GOP Senate that refused to even support investigating Jan 6, that’s not only a foolish standard, but a dangerous one.

There are 5-6 GOP senators who aren’t seeking re-election & even THEY refuse to speak truth…

@Sen_JoeManchin was given time to find 10 reasonable GOP senators. He failed b/c they don’t exist.

Now, he & Sinema must agree to modify the filibuster. If not, they are not only choosing the same side of history as George Wallace, but of the slow motion insurrection as well.

To make this happen, we who believe in freedom cannot rest. That is the pledge we must make this #MLKDay. We must not grow weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we #FaintNot.

NOW is that season.