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JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 Profile picture
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Jan 17, 2024 • 19 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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In 2019, an investigation found 700 victims (many of them children) of alleged sex abuse by leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest evangelical denomination. The Christian Right deflected by smearing public (secular) schools as “groomers.” 1/
Here’s the complete PBS video. As shown in part 1, it includes an interview of journalist @RobertDownen_ who spearheaded the investigation, which was conducted by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. 2/
@RobertDownen_ 3/ And here’s the report. Not enough Americans are aware of the horrific sex abuse scandal that has tainted the Southern Baptist Convention. houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga…
@RobertDownen_ 4/ There was also a report in 2007 about sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention.
@RobertDownen_ 5/
6/ Also the Southern Baptist Convention - 6/14/23 nytimes.com/2023/06/14/us/…
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9/ Ken Paxton attends a Southern Baptist megachurch. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/the-passion-…
10/ Ted Cruz is a Southern Baptist too. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
11/ So is House Speaker Mike Johnson. nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/…
12/ Ditto former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Image
13/ Yep. Mitch McConnell too. baptistpress.com/resource-libra…
14/ Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, the immediate past president of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a secretive and powerful Christian Right umbrella organization, is a Southern Baptist pastor bc of course he is. Image
15/ Thread. Of course he did…
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18/ Then, Christian activist Michael O’Fallon & his minion, James Lindsay, encouraged the SBC to focus not on cleaning up the SBC’s horrific sexual abuse problem, but rather on the supposed scourge of CRT & “grooming” in public (secular) schools. Thread.
19/ Another Southern Baptist: Rick Scarborough.

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Feb 22
Here’s the complaint in the lawsuit still pending against DOGE & SSA: “Never before has a group of unelected, unappointed, & unvetted individuals—misleadingly & conflictingly described as White House employees, employees of agencies (multiple & many), & undefined ‘advisors’—-sought or gained access to such sensitive
information from agencies across the Executive Branch.” 1/Image
2/ Link: courtlistener.com/docket/6966431…
3/ It’s in this case that the Trump administration recently made the following admission (contradicting initial denials) about DOGE’s mishandling of SSA’s data. x.com/jennycohn1/sta… x.com/jennycohn1/sta…
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Feb 22
The SAVE America Act wld compel every state to submit their voter rolls to the DHS for purposes of running this data through DHS’s “SAVE” voter purge program, which was created in “partnership” w/ the SSA—whose data was mishandled by DOGE, as the DOJ now admits. #NoOnSAVE 1/ Image
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2/ Link to the bill. See page 15: congress.gov/119/bills/s138…Image
3/ Link: afscme.org/blog/trump-adm…Image
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Feb 17
BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/Image
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3/ You can read the bill for yourself here. congress.gov/119/bills/s138…
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Feb 17
The DOJ has asked states to agree to sign a secret agreement “in connection w/ handing over their full voter files.” The agreement says that “the DOJ will ‘test, analyze, & assess states’ [voter rolls]’ & send each participating state a list of voters who must be removed within 45 days.” 2/5/26 1/Image
2/ Link: brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…
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Feb 16
Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/Image
2/ Link to the latest version of the Save America Act.
3/ The SAVE system had at least a 14% error rate in one Texas county, as reported here. texastribune.org/2026/02/13/sav…
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I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/ Image
You can read the Trump-backed “Save America Act” for yourself here. This bill expands upon the original so-called “SAVE Act”. 2/ congress.gov/119/bills/hr72…
3/ Here’s a link to the Brennan Center’s July 2025 report warning about the problems with both the SAVE System and the Social Security Number database when used to purge voters from the voter rolls, as would occur under the “Save America Act”. Everyone should read it. brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
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