The North Carolina Supreme Court dropped 3 partisan decisions in a severe attack on our democracy.

Here’s what you need to know 🧵 In 2022, @CommonCauseNC won in Harper v. Hall to protect voters from partisan gerrymandering. The unconstitutional maps made by extremist lawmakers were redrawn.

Upset they didn’t get their gerrymandered maps, the lawmakers appealed to SCOTUS in #MooreVHarper.

#OTD in 1920, the #19thAmendment was ratified, granting white women the right to vote. A thread 🧵. Black women and women of color would not be granted equal access to the vote until the passage of the #VotingRightsAct in 1965.

1965 was really * not * that long ago.

Prison gerrymandering is the practice of state and local governments counting incarcerated persons as residents of the prison instead of their home districts. That may sound like a harmless bureaucratic decision, but it has serious consequences for our democracy. [ a thread 🧵] Prison gerrymandering artificially inflates the vote strength of rural places with prisons while deflating areas without prisons — because most people in prison can’t vote*.

*48 states prohibit people with felony convictions from voting while they are incarcerated.

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This week marks the one year anniversary of the U.S. House passing #HR1 - the #ForThePeople Act. This landmark legislation is the biggest political reform package proposed in Congress since Watergate and would improve our democracy for ALL Americans. The #ForThePeople Act deals with ethics, campaign finance, voting rights, and gerrymandering.

While Mitch McConnell & the @SenateGOP have refused to even bring the bill up for a hearing or vote, states across the country are already implementing many of the reforms in #HR1.

The House already approved $600 million to update and secure our elections—now we need the Senate to take action and #SecureOurVote.

Here's why (THREAD): Russia targeted election systems in all 50 states in 2016. Evidence suggests that no votes or registration data were changed—but that hackers were in position to do so.

We cannot afford to take that chance again.

Source: nytimes.com/2019/07/25/us/…

Last month, the US House passed #HR1, the #ForThePeople Act, which is the boldest piece of democracy reform legislation in decades.

Several key parts of the bill have already been tried and tested at the state & local level. Here is a look at 10 of them: commoncause.org/resource/the-f… Citizen-funded elections have been passed across the country at both a statewide and municipal level. These laws have been proven to break down barriers for who can run for office and ensure candidates spend more time with everyday voters rather than raising money from big donors

Mick Mulvaney's comments show the corruption and problem of pay-to-play politics, but voters already understand this problem. Americans feel it every day when we know our needs are not being prioritized like lobbyists' wants.

Voters need proven solutions, so here are a few:

/1 We need to improve our disclosure laws to ensure everyone knows who is spending money to influence our elected officials. There should be no such thing as a "secret money" or "dark money" group. We have a right to see all money being raised & spent in elections.

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This is a lie. Legal scholars from across the political spectrum have warned about the dangers of an Article V convention and said that there is no constitutional rules to limit it or prevent a runaway convention.

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