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Oct 6 11 tweets 7 min read
"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
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"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
"the insistence on such [election-denier] claims, despite the lack of evidence, reflects a willingness among election-denying candidates to undermine democratic institutions when it benefits their side."

#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
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"the movement arising from Trump’s thwarted plot to overturn the 2020 election is, in many respects, even stronger two years later.

Far from repudiating candidates who embrace Trump’s false fraud claims, GOP primary voters have empowered them."

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"election deniers in the GOP bears alarming similarities to authoritarian movements in other countries, which often begin with efforts to delegitimize elections.

Many of those promoting the stolen-election narrative... know that it is false and are using it to gain power."
“This is no longer about Donald Trump.

This is about the entire electoral system and what constitutes legitimate elections.

All of that is now up in the air.”

#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
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"Some of the election deniers are themselves in line to oversee elections.

Diego Morales, the nominee for Indiana secretary of state...

In Indiana, the secretary of state certifies results."

#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10…
"Among 419 Republican nominees for the U.S. House, 235, or 56 percent, are election deniers.

And the vast majority of those, 148, are running in safely Republican districts, with another 28 in competitive races"

#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
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"There are already scores of election deniers in the House; 139 of them voted against the electoral college count after the violence of Jan. 6, 2021...

that number will almost certainly rise after November."

#DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
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"Just two states — Rhode Island and North Dakota — did not nominate an election denier for any of the offices The Post examined."

#DemocracyNotAutocracy
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Oct 4
"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
"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
"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
washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/…
"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
"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
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"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
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"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
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
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"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
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"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
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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Jul 29
"The OIG Joseph V. Cuffari did not press the dept leadership at that time to explain why they did not preserve these records...

Cuffari also failed to alert Congress to the potential destruction of government records."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07…
"In a nearly identical scenario to that of the DHS leaders’ texts, the Secret Service alerted Cuffari’s office seven months ago, in December 2021, that the agency had deleted thousands of agents’ and employees’ text messages."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07…
"In the weeks before the attack on the Capitol, Trump had been pressuring both men to help him claim the 2020 election results were rigged and even to seize voting machines in key swing states to try to “re-run” the election."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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