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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey
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With your support, we’ve mailed over 100,000 petitions to Florida voters. The initiative is VERY close to having enough signatures to put restoring voting rights to 1.6 million people on the ballot. Here’s what’s needed now: (1/x)
florida.ourstates.org
FLORIDA RESIDENTS: print out, sign, and mail this petition to the address on the bottom right corner of the petition. You need to do this ASAP to make sure it gets in in time. Get your family and friends to sign petitions, too. florida.ourstates.org/pdf/petition.p…
NOT LIVING IN FLORIDA? Email, DM, or text this petition to everyone you know who’s registered to vote in Florida and urge them to print, sign, and mail it in ASAP: florida.ourstates.org/pdf/petition.p…
IF YOU LIVE IN BROWARD OR PALM BEACH COUNTY and you want to help out, DM me immediately. This could all come down to a few thousand petitions in your county. We need your help.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PHONE BANKING or have another suggestion/offer of assistance, DM me or email: sam@thisisthemovement.org. (/fin)
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This isn’t hard to understand. A huge proportion of Americans who identify *ethnically* as Latino also identify *racially* as white and white people tend to vote Republican.
Here’s an example of how race structures the politics of Latinx voters. Lighter-skinned Latinx voters are much less likely to vote Democrat. Moving from darkest to lightest skin, the likelihood a Latinx voter voted Obama in 2012 drops from 97% to 43%. rubenson.org/wp-content/upl…
In that study, 78% of the lightest skinned Latinx voters identified *racially* as white compared to 31% of darker skinned Latinx. So the group of Latinx voters most likely to vote Republican is the group that overwhelmingly self-identities as white. But there’s more...
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Let’s talk about how the blackest state in the country has been under white Republican rule for so many years.(1/x)
First some context: Mississippi is 37% black - the largest proportion of black residents of any US state. Given that black voters tend to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, why do Republicans comfortably win so many statewide elections in MS? (2/x)
Like other Southern states, white Mississippians vote solidly Republican. In 2018, white Mississippi voters voted Republican at roughly the same rate black voters voted Democrat. And since whites are 58% of MS population, Republicans usually win. The *why* is deeper...
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40% of all black men in the state of Florida just became eligible to vote *today.* Think about that.
Here’s how the 40% figure is determined. Estimates of the black population in Florida who have already completed their sentence range from 18%-28%. The Sentencing Project has 18%: sentencingproject.org/wp-content/upl…

New research shows a higher 28%: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
But the vast majority of those disenfranchised in Florida are men. Men are 93% of those currently incarcerated in Florida. So 18-28% of black people overall is more like 35-45% of black men in particular who were disenfranchised just a few hours ago and are now eligible to vote.
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This is the woman who is trying to steal #Florida. Call your Senate and congressman at 202-224-3121 and demand this crook in Browafd County is stopped!

We need full pressure!

Call 202-224-3121

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Seriously people! Call. It will take 5 minutes!
#StopTheSteal is the hashtag.

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Wexton running hot in #VA10. That's the district we door-knocked in 2016, so it'd be good to see Comstock lose, even if two years late.
Sweet. MSNBC calls #VA10.
Sherrod Brown isn't a surprise, but it's a lovely moment anyway.
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There are lot of considerations when evaluating the amendments on Florida's ballot this year. The League of Women Voters did some research and these are their recommendations.
#FlaPol
#Vote
Short thread.
Amendment 1 ❎

Oppose. The League has a position that “no tax sources or revenue should be specified, limited, exempted, or prohibited in the Constitution.”
lwvfl.org/amendments/ame…
Amendment 2 ❎
The league opposes 2 for the same reason as 1.

lwvfl.org/amendments/ame…
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Florida Has Been Stealing Votes From Black People Since the Civil War. That Could Change in November. theintercept.com/2018/09/06/flo…
Felons In #Florida Want Their Voting Rights Back Without A Hassle : NPR npr.org/2018/07/05/625…
Voting Rights Restoration Efforts in #Florida | Brennan Center for Justice brennancenter.org/analysis/votin…
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SCANDAL #8
⚡️In 2014, 75% of Floridians voted OVERWHELMINGLY to pass Amendment 1, AKA the FL Water & Land Conservation Initiative, a state constitutional amendment to allot a projected $21 billion over the 20 years of the measure to buy & preserve land. They approved this:
▶️75% of the voters is 4.2 million people.
▶️When 75% of #Florida voters voted to approve Amendment 1 to the Florida Constitution, they approved "the largest land conservation measure ever approved in a single state."
ℹ️The exact amount of money is “projected” because—according to the amendment that was passed—it was to come from 33% of Florida’s existing excise tax. An Excise tax is a “documentary stamp tax” paid when real estate is sold, typically 70 cents per $100 paid for the property.
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PRUITT CHOSE TO RESIGN, Trump said on the record on AF1.

“No final straw.”

“He came to me and he said look I have such great confidence in the administration I don’t want to be a distraction and I think Scott felt that he was a distraction.”

“It was very much up to him.”
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“You can ask President Obama—he was very close to going to war. And you would’ve lost 50 million people plus.”

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