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May 16, 2022 • 8 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Democracy is at stake in the midterms. The media must convey that.

We journalists have to try harder and find new ways to convey to voters how badly things could turn out

Good article about journalistic responsibility by @Sulliview

washingtonpost.com/media/2022/05/…
"thanks to a paranoid, delusional and potentially violent new strain in our nation’s politics, Americans may not be able to count on future elections being conducted fairly — or the results of fair elections being accepted."

#DemocracyInDanger
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"most of the Republican Party publicly touts the LIE that Donald Trump won the 2020 election but that the vote was rigged and victory stolen from him.

The Republican elected officials who won’t back Trump are being driven out of office by his faithful."

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"Secretary of state elections across the country may prove even more consequential because those officials oversee elections, control the machinery and vastly influence public opinion with their pronouncements about the integrity of the vote."

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"But do American citizens get it?

Do they fully recognize that our precious democracy may soon fall into history’s sea?"

@Sulliview asks if journalists are doing enough to inform US citizens about GOP efforts to overthrow American democracy.

washingtonpost.com/media/2022/05/…
"newsroom leaders [need to] take the time to ask themselves and their teams a basic question:

“Does our audience understand what the stakes of this election are?”"

#journalism
#journalists
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News orgs need "to make the threats to democracy a central part of media coverage, not a sidelight; to stop treating campaigns like so many horse races; to have coverage reflect a sharp focus on government rather than politics"
~@Sulliview

#journalism
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"The midterm elections may be the most consequential ones in American history.

They are less than six months away, and many Americans don’t understand how high the stakes really are.

There’s not much time to fix that."
~@Sulliview

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@ZhiZhu@newsie.social🌻 Profile picture
Oct 6, 2022
"A majority of Republican nominees on the ballot this November for the House, Senate and key statewide offices — 299 in all — have denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election"

#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10…
"most of the election deniers nominated are likely to win: Of the nearly 300 on the ballot, 173 are running for safely Republican seats. Another 52 will appear on the ballot in tightly contested races."

#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
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Here are the election deniers running in Texas 2022:
Greg Abbott for Governor
Dan Patrick for Lt Gov
and the twice-indicted Ken Paxton for Attorney General.

To support democracy, vote for:
Gov @BetoORourke
Lt Gov @CollierForTexas
AG @RochelleMGarza

#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
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Oct 4, 2022
"Donald Trump on Friday issued what can only be described as a threat against Mitch McConnell, declaring that the Senate minority leader’s support for bipartisan bills amounts to a “DEATH WISH.”"

News orgs fail to ask GOP pols about this threat by Trump.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"Alas, there is little sign that mainstream outlets have dropped their addiction to false equivalence and willful, moral blindness."
~@JRubinBlogger

#Journalism
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"What should reporters be doing?

Let’s start with 5 basic rules.

First, they cannot leave these exchanges for the end of an interview, when the guest can filibuster until the commercial break. Do it upfront, and don’t allow them to move on"

#journalism
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Oct 4, 2022
"During his 4 years in office, Trump never strictly followed the rules & customs for handling sensitive government documents...

Documents that would ordinarily be kept under lock & key mingled with piles of newspaper articles in Trump’s living quarters"

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
"Aides also found other ways to circumvent Trump’s “sticky fingers,” as one put it."

Donald "sticky fingers" Trump

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"In the absence of higher authority backing them up, personnel in the staff secretary’s office could not be expected to remove documents from the president’s possession...

“They would have gotten their heads cut off by the president if they tried to take things from him.” Image
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Aug 21, 2022
"Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatyev spent more than a month fighting in Ukraine after his poorly equipped unit was ordered to march from its base in Crimea for what commanders called a routine exercise."

#RussianArmy
#RussiaInvadedUkraine
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"Filatyev was evacuated after being wounded.

Over the next 5 weeks, deeply troubled by the devastation caused by ... Putin’s bloody invasion, he wrote down his recollections in hopes that telling his country the truth about the war could help stop it."

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"His damning 141-page journal... describes an army in disarray: commanders clueless & terrified, equipment old & rusty, troops pillaging occupied areas in search of food because of a lack of provisions, morale plummeting as the campaign stalled."

#Россия
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Aug 20, 2022
"The searing takeaway was not [KKK klansman David] Duke himself, but nearly 700,000 Louisianans who, knowing what he stood for, voted for him anyway."

#Racism #USA
#elections
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"On Election Day 2016, nearly 63 million Americans voted for Trump, giving him more than 300 electoral votes and the White House.
The takeaway?
They, too, knew where he stood and voted for him anyway."

#Racism #USA
#elections
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"Four years later, the impeached, scandal-scarred president went before the American people once again.

By then, Trump was known all too well.

In his losing bid for reelection, Trump attracted 74.2 million votes."
[HE STILL LOST.]

#Racism #USA
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Jul 29, 2022
SCOTUS "agreement to hear Moore v. Harper... isn’t just bad news for efforts to control gerrymandering.

The Court’s right-wing supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers overturn voters’ choice in presidential elections."

#SCOTUSIsCorrupt
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"Trump then tried and failed, lawlessly, to muscle the GOP state legislators into discarding Biden’s victory and appointing Trump electors instead.

The Moore case... could give Republicans legal cover in 2024 to do as Trump demanded in 2020."

#ISLtheory
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"That is a genuinely radical proposition...

The idea that legislatures stand unbound by any limit from their own founding documents is a fringe debating point invented for Republican political advantage."

#ISLtheory
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