I tweeted a thread about pregnancy complications going untreated after SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade. The response shows that this is a powerfully motivating issue for women. One tweet has already been retweeted almost 500 times. Keep spreading the word.
Next, we need to convert outrage into action. Please use your anger as motivation to vote, register new voters, support Democratic candidates, and get out the vote. The solution is keeping the House in Democratic hands & adding at least two more Democrats in the Senate.
The outlook for the Senate is promising. That will allow us to set aside the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade.
But it won’t matter if Republicans gain the majority in the House. We must control both houses of Congress to save women’s lives & preserve women’s rights.
Do you remember the sick feeling you had on Election Day 2016? Don’t let that happen again in 2022. Women’s rights and our democracy depend upon winning big this year. As inspiring as the Million Women’s March was, I’d rather control the levers of power in DC than protest.
Talk to your friends & neighbors. Help those people who aren’t active in politics understand the stakes. Stories like the ones in my thread & the ten year old rape victim are going to become more & more common. Spread the outrage to women who don’t follow politics. WIN!
“Biden is polling worse than Trump was in July 2020, when thousands of people were dying each week of covid, a situation much worse than the real and serious problem of high inflation in the Biden era.
“You can’t credibly argue that Trump, with his constant inflammatory statements and incompetent management, was a better president than Biden. These poll numbers reflect something gone wrong.
From the article @SawyerSteve referred to earlier:
“Afghanistan was an important turning point in media coverage for two reasons. One, it provided journalists the big anti-Biden story that I think many of them were desperate to find.
“And it drove down Biden’s popularity with the public, giving the media justification for even more coverage that cast the president as struggling.”
Our media coverage is driven by narratives. These are agreed upon frameworks that seem to be adopted by the range of media voices. Once a narrative has coalesced, media rarely revisit the underlying premise.
“Trump revealed the ECA’s vulnerabilities by pressuring his vice president and congressional Republicans to invalidate electors appointed for Joe Biden in several states, as part of a plot to get them to appoint new electors for Trump. …
“ECA reform’s highest-profile elements would address those vulnerabilities. This would include clarifying the vice president’s role as purely ceremonial, expressly stating that the position has no power to invalidate electors or delay their count.
“It’s time we throw some scoundrels out,” the lieutenant governor contender says of the November election. dallasnews.com/news/politics/…
“‘Dan Patrick wants you to hate your fellow Texan,’ Collier said. ‘Dan Patrick wants you to turn your back on your … neighbor, instead of having their back. Dan Patrick says what’s wrong with Texas is you.’
“Collier focused on energy policy, as many in the crowd waved signs reading ‘fix the damn grid.’
“I came back from Europe just a little bit before July 4, just after the Supreme Court ruling on Roe vs Wade, the efforts to deal with gun violence, and against the backdrop of all of the Jan. 6 hearings. Those three things were being paid very close attention to.
“I don’t think we fully process here how much the rest of the world feels that the United States is undercut by the manifestations of polarization and partisan infighting.
“Rochelle Garza made her case for why she could be the first Latina and the first Democrat in over 30 years to hold the office of Texas attorney general. Garza, speaking Friday during the Texas Democratic Convention in Dallas, touted her record defending abortion rights.”
“The former ACLU attorney from Brownsville sued the Trump Administration in 2017 on behalf of a teenage immigrant held in federal custody who was denied an abortion.
“Her side ultimately prevailed in the case that drew national attention when. Garza has cited her newborn daughter as motivation to run.