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Oct 1 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
1. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen has removed HUNDREDS of eligible US citizens from the voter rolls in a botched effort to legtimize Trump's conspiracy theory that large numbers of undocumented immigrants are illegally voting in US elections.

Now the RNC and the Trump campaign are suing other states to force them to follow Alabama's lead

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2. One of the central narratives that former President Donald Trump and his allies are pushing is that Democrats are planning to steal the election by using undocumented immigrants to pad their vote totals. It is an absurd claim rooted in a white nationalist conspiracy theory.

It is illegal for undocumented immigrants to vote, and data shows it almost never happens. A database maintained by the right-wing Heritage Foundation found "fewer than 100 examples of non-citizens voting between 2002 and 2022, amid more than 1 billion lawfully cast ballots."
3. On August 13, 2024, Allen announced he had "identified 3,251 individuals registered to vote in Alabama" that he suspected were non-citizens and immediately inactivated their registrations.

That was a mistake.

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4. According to a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice on September 27, at least "717 of the 3,251 individuals" targeted by Allen were U.S. citizens eligible to vote. The total number could be far higher.
5. The 717 people who have had their voting rights restored in Alabama submitted "paperwork that includes confirmation of U.S. citizenship."

Oops.

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6. How did Allen get things so wrong? He inactivated voter registrations based on a list of people who had received a driver's license or ID Card from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency as a foreign national. But these cards are valid for up to 8 years. And Alabama does not require newly naturalized citizens to get a new driver's license or ID until their old card expires. So, Allen falsely categorized people who had been US citizens for years as non-citizens.
7. Allen sent all the people who whose registrations were inactivated a letter and hundreds have responded with proof of citizenship. But as of September 18, 2,428 individuals targeted by Allen had not responded at all. So the actual number of citizens impacted could be much higher.
8. Nevertheless, in an effort to substantiate false claims of rampant voter fraud by undocumented immigrants, Republicans around the country are suing elected officials in key states like Nevada, Wisconsin and North Carolina -- seeking last-minute voter purges based on motor vehicle records and other flawed data sources.
9. Want to share the facts about Trump-supporting election officials invalidating the voter registrations of US citizens? It's all right here with links to primary sources:

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Sep 30
1. Over the weekend, JD Vance appeared at a conference hosted by a preacher who says Harris is possessed by the devil who is using her "to bring in the destruction of this country." Image
2. At the conference, known as the Courage Tour, radical preacher Lance Wallnau suggested America was faced with a choice between anarchy, a Satanic agenda channeled through Democrats, and embracing Christianity under Trump's leadership. Image
3. Three years ago, Wallnau described his plan to use Jesus to restore Trump to power.

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Sep 25
Topics Florida sex ed teachers can no longer cover:

1. Contraception
2. Consent
3. Abuse
4. "Different kinds of sex"
5. Domestic violence
6. Fluids
7. Gender identity

This is all due to a new law pushed by DeSantis to "emphasize abstinence"

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2. A Florida Department of Education spokesperson defended the new restrictions: “A state government should not be emphasizing or encouraging sexual activity among children or minors and is therefore right to emphasize abstinence.”

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3. In May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed a law, HB 1069, that requires schools to “teach abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage as the expected standard for all school-age students.” The law requires that “all materials used to teach reproductive health” be approved by the Florida Department of Education, or for schools to use textbooks that are pre-approved by the state.
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Sep 24
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign is still being hacked

Email communications from individuals associated with the Trump campaign have been hacked by malign actors within the last ten days, Popular Information has confirmed.

Follow this thread for details.

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2. On September 18, I was sent a message from "Robert," which contained the cover page of a dossier on JD Vance

Robert refused to identify himself except to suggest he was the same person who sent stolen Trump campaign materials to other outlets

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3. Robert eventually sent me the full 271-page dossiers on Vance, a 382-page dossier on Gov. Doug Burgum, and a 550-page dossier on Sen. Marco Rubio.

Robert boasted that he had "a lot" of other Trump campaign materials.
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Sep 23
1. Major corporations — including @doordash, @google, @walmart, @cvs, and @microsoft — have bankrolled an ongoing multi-million dollar effort to elect @markrobinsonNC the next governor of North Carolina

Follow this thread for details

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2. Even before securing the Republican nomination for Governor of North Carolina in March, @MarkRobinsonNC had a long and well-documented record of promoting conspiracy theories, maligning LGBTQ people, using anti-Semitic tropes, and demeaning women. Image
3. None of this prevented the Republican Governors Association (@GOPGovs) from throwing its support behind Robinson.

In a post on X on March 5, the day Robinson won the Republican nomination, RGA chairman Governor Bill Lee (R-TN) congratulated Robinson and said the organization "look[s] forward to supporting him in the general election."Image
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Sep 19
1. A new IPSOS poll asked voters if they “support the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.”

The results may tell us more about the failure of the media and others to educate citizens on what Trump’s plan for mass deportation would entail.

Let's talk FACTS

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2. The scale required to orchestrate Trump’s proposed policy, deporting 11 million+ people, is way beyond the capacity of ICE.

Trump’s solution is to use local law enforcement.

That means local police would be doing little else, making communities less safe and causing migrants, fearing deportation, to be less willing "to report crimes or cooperate with police.”
3. ICE deported 142,580 non-citizens from the U.S. in 2023. Its budget for removals and transportation last year was over $420 million, meaning that it cost nearly $3,000 to remove each person from the country.

If Trump deported the 11 million non-citizens currently in the U.S., it would cost $33 billion just to transport people out of the U.S. — more than triple ICE’s total budget in 2023.

But the cost of actually moving a person off U.S. soil is only one part of the equation. It also costs ICE money to track people down and keep them in custody before their deportation. NBC reported that ICE currently has about 40,000 beds in detention centers which each cost $57,378 a year to maintain. If Trump enacted his mass deportation plan of 11 million people, ICE would need to expand its detention capacity drastically.
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Sep 19
1. A little-noticed report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released this month reveals why, for many Americans, the economy is broken.

Follow this thread for details.

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2. The report focuses on the American economy from 2019 to 2021.

That period included a massive economic disruption due to the pandemic and a recovery as the economy reopened.

The report reveals that the economic impact of the pandemic was concentrated among the bottom 20% of earners.

That group saw a significant decrease in labor income in 2020, which did not rebound as the economy reopened in 2021.
3. The middle 60% of earners largely treaded water between 2019 and 2021 with little change to labor income or realized capital gains (which is the income generated from the sale of stock or other investments).

Over the same three years, however, the top 20% of earners saw increased labor income and a dramatic increase in realized capital gains.Image
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