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OH Ballot Update: Ohio’s Trickle-Up Lunacy

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How do you lose in court? First, you listen to bad lawyers over good lawyers.

Even worse, that bad lawyer says something as dumb as this to justify violating core Constitutional rights.

WATCH, RT and..

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Then, when a good lawyer (of your own party) tries to warn you that you are about to invite a losing lawsuit, you simply ignore him.

As happened here:

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Last week, by listening to that bad lawyer over that good lawyer, the Ohio House GOP, Ohio Senate and Governor may very well have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory (in their effort to gut ballot initiatives) by making Ohio the first state in America to…

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single out and bar permanent and legal residents and green card holders from participating in political activities in Ohio in which they are allowed to participate in all other states, at all levels.

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And the defense of the state’s case in court will be greatly hampered by the deeply flawed logic and imbecilic formal statements of the bad lawyer in that first video above.

This isn’t a surprise, because he’s the same guy who championed Issue 1 last year, which went down…

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Now, it’s no surprise that this guy keeps pushing bad ideas and bad law.

After all, he’s the same guy who pushed last year’s Issue 1, which went down in flames last August.

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But what still surprises is that the rest of the state still listens to this guy.

Oh well.

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But for some reason, the rest of the Ohio’s GOP just keeps going along.

Oh well.

For the full update on what happened in Ohio, and what we do next, go here: open.substack.com/pub/davidpeppe…
in flames.

But what is a surprise is that the rest of the GOP keeps going along with it all.

Oh well.

For the full update, go here: open.substack.com/pub/davidpeppe…

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May 28
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BREAKING!

The DNC & @harrisonjaime just called the OH Senate & Gov DeWine’s bluff by moving up Biden’s nomination so no extension is needed to make the OH ballot.

This will expose that DeWjne and the Senate’s goal was never about Biden at all!

WATCH/RT/TAKE ACTION

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Just like last year, it was a cynical effort to change the rules to knee-cap ballot initiatives—including our effort to end gerrymandering this year

Currently, they are STILL moving forward on their poison pills EVEN though Biden will be nominated in time for OH’s deadline

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Which gives their game away.

But you can help 🛑 them.

Ohio House Republicans have held the line before last week.

Call them to encourage them to keep holding the line to protect citizens’ right to organize ballot initiatives.

No more attacks on our democracy!

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May 27
📖 note:

Reading a great biography of Jesse James, by @TJStiles_Author

Fascinating, once placed in the post Civil War context of violent politics involving former confederates still fighting (successfully) Reconstruction and equality.

James and his posse were seen as…

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…heroes because they represented the side still resisting the “North” years after the Civil War.

In one train robbery, they wore the white hoods of the KKK. They robbed and killed many over the years.

But post-confederate, friendly papers framed all of it as heroic….

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But here’s one moment in particular that may feel familiar.

At one point, as authorities were closing in on James, supportive politicians in the Missouri legislature, egged on by that media, proposed on amnesty bill for the James gang.

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May 24
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The Poison Pills to Democracy and Freedom DeWine Wants Ohio to Swallow

A 🧵 that might make you ill

QUESTION: Why is the behind-the-scenes leader of last August’s Issue 1 effort to kill Ohio’s direct democracy, who also led the effort to stop Ohio’s Reproductive…

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Freedom Amendment last November—suddenly so excited with Governor Mike DeWine?

And why is JD Vance taking a break from Trump’s trial to suddenly chime in with praise for DeWine (who the far right often calls a RINO)?

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And remember this guy, the official author of last August’s Issue 1?

Why is he so pleased with DeWine all of a sudden?

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May 23
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Louisiana’s statehouse voted to make abortion pills controlled dangerous substances!?

In 2024, how jn the world does a modern democracy do this?

Therein lies the problem.

Louisana’s statehouse democracy is cancelled. Literally.

Just look at its 2023 elections:

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And again…

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So those were the general elections.

Surely, you’re thinking, if most of the general elections were cancelled, the primaries must have been 🔥

Nah. A whole lot of them were canceled too.

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May 22
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NEW WHITEBOARD 💥 🎉

Running in EVERY District in Florida!!

Every. Single. One.

Have I got some great news for you on this Tuesday. And a way you can make it even better.

WATCH, RT and…

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But first, let me share a history & democracy lesson w you. And a math lesson.

A number.

537.

That’s how many votes Gore trailed Bush by in Florida when the Supreme Court stopped the counting in the 2000 election.

537 votes.

A margin that forever changed America:

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And do you know what else changed America?

The fact that on that same ballot that year—just in Florida—Democrats failed to compete in seven of 23 US House seats, 8 out of 20 state senate seats, and 30 out of 120 house seats.

45 total seats!

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May 8
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Citizens United + Gerrymandering a Lethal Combination (for more than just Dems)

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The recent election cycle has been intense, downright fiery at times.

Millions upon millions of dollars invested.

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Usually in the form of aggressive television attack ads against incumbents. Accusations of betrayal and left-wing conspiracies.

And under this onslaught, many of those targeted incumbents lost.

Some long-time figures absolutely shellacked by newcomers.

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Poor Democrats,” I’m sure many of you are thinking—the targets of so much dark money vitriol.

But not so fast…

What I’m describing above are primaries.

Republican primaries, which played out in an especially heated (and telling) way in Texas and Ohio.

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