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Jan 24, 2022 • 9 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
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1. In May, Texas Republicans enacted a draconian abortion ban and a system of vigilante justice to enforce it.

In response, numerous large corporations wrote these Texas Republicans substantial checks.

Follow along if interested.

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2. @ATT CEO John Stankey said one of the company's "core values" is "gender equity and the empowerment of women."

On 11/20/21, @ATT donated 50K from its corporate treasury to the Texas Senate Republicans who unanimously approved the abortion ban

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@ATT 3. On 12/14/21, @ATT's corporate PAC donated 30K to @DadePhelan, the Texas House Speaker who marshaled the abortion ban through the House.

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@ATT @DadePhelan 4. @ATT told popular.info that it "has never taken a position on abortion" and "did not endorse nor support passage of Senate Bill 8."

The 50K check to the Texas Senate Republicans, @ATT insists, "may not be used for political purposes."

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@ATT @DadePhelan 5. @pepsi publicly touts its commitment to "empowering women in the workplace, marketplace and community."

On 8/5/21, @pepsi donated 15K to the @TexasGOP

Pepsi did not respond to a request for comment.

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@ATT @DadePhelan @pepsi @TexasGOP 6. @Walmart touts its "efforts to advance women associates and empower women."

In December, @Walmart donated 5K to Texas House Speaker @DadePhelan and 5K to Lt. Gov @DanPatrick, who also serves as president of the Texas Senate.

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7. If you are interested in this thread, you'll be very interested in my newsletter, Popular Information.

It's dedicated to accountability journalism.

You'll learn the information you won't find anywhere else.

And it's free to sign up.

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8. Other companies that made substantial donations to Texas Republicans after the passage of the state's abortion ban:

@zillow
@Allstate
@Ford
@Exelon
@KochIndustries
@UPS
@USAA
@UnitedHealthGrp

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@zillow @Allstate @Ford @Exelon @KochIndustries @UPS @USAA @UnitedHealthGrp 9. One more thing: The head of @ATT's legislative strategy is @EdWGillespie, the former chair of the @RNC. When Gillespie ran for Governor of Virginia in 2017 he said he "would like to see abortion be banned.”

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Jul 24
1. Arkansas has the LOWEST voter registration rate in the country, just 63%

Now, Republicans in the state are pushing a new rule to make it MORE DIFFICULT TO REGISTER TO VOTE

The move would thwart the efforts of a grassroots group that has successfully registered hundred of young voters

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2. @GetLoudArkansas successfully registered hundreds of people -- most young and Black -- using an online form with an electronic signature.

They were told by Secretary of State John Thurston, a Republican, that electronic signatures were acceptable

popular.info/p/arkansas-has…
3. Then, on February 26, the Arkansas Times-Democrat reported that Get Loud had successfully registered 358 people to vote across the state.

Following the publication of the article, Thurston flipped on his decision to accept electronic signatures and advised county clerks like the one in Camden County to refuse to accept any registrations that didn’t come with a physical, “wet” signature.

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Jul 23
1. Eugene Ramirez, the lead anchor of @WeAreSinclair's national evening news broadcast, resigned this year over concerns about the accuracy and right-wing bias of the content he was required to present on air, three sources told Popular Information.

Follow along for details

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2. The sources, one current and two former Sinclair employees, said one of the primary issues that prompted Ramirez's resignation was the mandate to include 3 stories produced by Sinclair's Rapid Response Team each night.

One current Sinclair employee described the RRT as "the right-wing propaganda arm of the national digital operation."
3. Through July 4, 2024, the RRT has produced 147 stories this year that portray Democrats in a negative light and just 7 stories that portray Democrats positively.

Over the same time period, the RRT has produced 57 stories that portray Republicans positively and 22 that portray Republicans negatively.Image
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Jul 22
1. Minutes after Biden dropped out, the attacks on Harris began

One of the most common: Harris "helped raise money for a far-left organization that bailed a rioter who shot at police out of jail."

As it turns out, this one is complete BS

Follow along for the facts

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2. Here are the things that are true:

In 2020, Harris encouraged people to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF), an organization that helps people who need assistance with cash bail.

The MFF did pay $75,000 to get Jaleel Stallings out of jail.

Stallings was "charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting at police during protests on May 30" 2020

But that's not where the story ends.
3. Stallings is an army veteran with a gun permit.

While he was protesting the George Floyd murder, he was shot in the chest with rubber bullets from an unmarked van

Stallings returned fire to protect himself.

The police officers in the van then "beat and kicked Stallings repeatedly while he lay prone on the ground, resulting in facial fractures."
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Jul 17
1. For months, @elonmusk's account has been the social media equivalent of 2000 Mules

Musk has bashed mail-in voting as "insane," "too risky," and a recipe for "large-scale fraud"

Now, Musk is donating $180 MILLION to a pro-Trump Super PAC focused on getting Trump supporters to vote by mail

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2. On January 8, Musk wrote that it was "insane" that you can "mail in your ballot" in the United States. The same day, he said the government should require "in-person voting" on a single day, with few exceptions, "like other countries do."

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3. On February 2, Musk asserted that the Biden campaign was involved in a scheme to submit a massive number of fake absentee ballots.

On February 5, Musk said that absentee ballots are used for widespread fraud because the nature of absentee ballots made "fraud traceability impossible."

On May 9, Musk falsely claimed that "widespread voting by mail" was "not allowed before the scamdemic" and now "proving fraud [is] almost impossible."
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Jul 16
1. Trump's aides & allies are blaming Democratic rhetoric — such as calling Trump a threat to democracy — for inciting the attempted assassination

Meanwhile, the GOP convention features many speakers who use violent & extreme rhetoric

Follow this thread for details

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2. Senate candidate Kari Lake (R-AZ) suggested she and millions of other Republicans would fight Trump's criminal conviction with firearms

“If you want to get to President Trump, you’re gonna have to go through me and you’re gonna have to go through 75 million Americans just like me, and I’m going to tell you … most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA.”

She is a featured speakers at the GOP Convention
3. North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) promoted the murder of his perceived enemies. “Some folks need killing,” Robinson said. “It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity.”

Robinson is a featured speaker at the GOP convention.
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Jul 11
1. Trump has COMPLETELY PLAYED the media on abortion

The GOP position to ban abortion nationwide, a possibility with the repeal of ROE, is deeply unpopular

80% of Americans — including 66% of GOP voters — oppose a national abortion ban

So Trump wants to convince people that's no longer the GOP's position
2. The 2016 GOP platform, which was ratified again in 2020 says that abortion was prohibited by the Constitution's 14th Amendment and called for legislation and a Constitutional amendment to make that "clear"

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3. The Trump campaign strategy for the 2024 GOP platform is to say much less about everything, including abortion. The previous GOP platform was 66 pages. The new GOP platform is 16 pages.
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