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Apr 27 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
📣📣 THREAD: Dems are facing strong headwinds in 2022, but DON'T accept defeat as inevitable.

In 2020 we saved democracy. In 2022 we need to do it again. Money isn't everything, but it's still an important tool.

Here's links to multiple fed/state races to support: 1/
1. First, we desperately need to keep the #HouseBlueIn22! I know it’s a long shot but if the GOP takes control you’ll have racist lunatics like MTG, Matt Gaetz & Lauren Boebert in charge.

This page includes races in Alabama - Minnesota; donate today! secure.actblue.com/donate/housebl…
2. This page includes races in Mississippi - Wyoming; donate today! secure.actblue.com/donate/housebl…
3. It's vitally important to not only keep the #SenateBlueIn22 to retain control of judicial appointments, but to *pad* the majority to prevent a handful of wayward Dems from continuing to throw sand in the gears of the Democratic agenda. Donate today! secure.actblue.com/donate/senateb…
4. While control of the federal government is vital, the pandemic has also underscored how much power individual states have when it comes to public health policy and so much more. Help make #GovsBlueIn22 by donating to these races today!
secure.actblue.com/donate/govblue…
5. Secretary of State has always been an important job, but the GOP's endless attempts to overturn the 2020 election and *especially* their aggressive moves to nullify U.S. democracy NOW add a new urgency to making sure it's #SOSBlueIn22. Donate today! secure.actblue.com/donate/sosblue…
6. Besides helping decide whether democracy is saved, if the Supreme Court strikes down or guts Roe vs. Wade as expected, AGs across the country will play a critical role in the fate of women who choose to control their own bodies. Donate today: secure.actblue.com/donate/agsblue…
7. REMEMBER: It's STATE LEGISLATURES which have the most control over the fate of U.S. democracy. We MUST flip control of as many state Senates / Houses as possible...& in MICHIGAN, we have a shot at both!

You can help flip the #MIHouseBlueIn22 here... secure.actblue.com/donate/bluemi2…
8. ...and you can help flip the #MISenateBlueIn22 here: secure.actblue.com/donate/misenat…
9. Here’s another page where you can help flip the PENNSYLVANIA legislature blue as well! Help make #PABlueIn22 by donating today: secure.actblue.com/donate/pablue22
More state & organization pages coming soon; watch this thread!

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Charles Gaba 🇺🇦 Profile picture
May 6
I'm sure others have written about this, but it occurs to me that Godfather Part II came out just a year after the Roe v. Wade decision.

I didn't watch GF2 until I was an adult in the '90s, but I'm assuming this scene was even more powerful at the time?
It's not just that she tells him she had an abortion (he thought it was a miscarriage); she literally describes abortion as being "unholy & evil" and rubs his nose in it by specifying that "it was your son and I had it killed." And of course Michael is Catholic to boot.
Of course Kay wasn't doing it to be cruel--she knew it was the only way he'd ever let her leave (a calculated risk...there was a good chance he would've had her killed instead of letting her divorce him).

I'm just wondering how much this impacted public opinion at the time.
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May 5
⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: W/the impending repeal of #RoevWade and the GOP licking their chops at the thought of criminalizing abortion, possibly preventing pregnant women from crossing state lines & w/out exceptions for rape, incest or the health of the mother, it's time once again...
...to go down memory lane with 50 actual statements/actions by Republican elected officials & high-profile GOP members on opining on the topics of rape & abortion.

Sources & links for each of these can be found at goprapeadvisorychart.com. 2/
1988: Republican State Representative Stephen Freind of Pennsylvania. 3/
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Charles Gaba 🇺🇦 Profile picture
May 5
📣 UPDATE: Actually, make that over 37.2 million Americans covered *directly* by the #ACA.
acasignups.net/22/05/05/updat…
Last week @CMSGov issued new reports putting total *direct* #ACA healthcare coverage at "over 35 million." I noted that it was actually over 36 million if you used the most recent data.

In fact, it turns out that it's actually well over *37 million* as of today.
Besides the Medicaid expansion numbers cited in the CMS report being 6 months out of date, they didn't even include two states at all (Idaho and Virginia)!

Adding those, along w/updating over a dozen other states, brings total Medicaid expansion up to at least 22.5M people.
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May 4
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This.
Is.
Reality.
Now.
#GOPHandmaidsTale
🚨 Help stop Michigan from criminalising abortion. #MISenateBlueIn22
secure.actblue.com/donate/misenat…
🚨 Help stop Michigan from criminalising abortion. #MIHouseBlueIn22 secure.actblue.com/donate/bluemi2…
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May 4
⚠️ While it was actually broken some time ago, the U.S. has now officially broken 1 million COVID-19 deaths.

As a reminder, there’s been a pretty clear pattern in the year since vaccines became widely available.

acasignups.net/22/04/25/month…
FWIW, I’ve switched from weekly to monthly updates on these graphs because a) they take a ton of time to compile and b) I think I’ve driven the point home about as clearly as possible by now.
⚠️ Meanwhile, the red/blue county vaccination rate gap CONTINUES to inch upwards every week and is now at its steepest slope and highest correlation since the vaccines first become available. acasignups.net/22/04/25/month…
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May 3
In some states rapists get parental rights, so if a guy wants to have a kid he’ll now be able to pick a woman, rape & impregnate her, she’ll be forced to give birth and he gets to have custody. Alternately, if she aborts his brother can sue her for $10,000 & split it with him.
In fact the ONLY potential downside for the rapist in this horrific scenario is that there’s a SMALL chance they MIGHT be convicted of the rape. But that’s a really, REALLY tiny chance, especially in some jurisdictions.
FWIW, here’s what the laws on this look like in every state: mylifetime.com/movies/you-can…
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