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Nov 12, 2020 10 tweets 4 min read
1/10 There are only a small number of ballots left to count, the people have spoken, and the majority of voters have chosen Joe Biden to be the next President of the United States. standuprepublic.com/10-facts-about… 2/10 Voting by mail has been a feature of every election since the Civil War; however, more voters cast ballots by mail this year due to the pandemic. standuprepublic.com/10-facts-about…
Oct 29, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
Four years is a long time. It's more than enough time for a President to prove who they are. And every day, Donald Trump proved himself a danger to our Republic. And every scandal, every battle, we were there to fight back. As America votes, we recall those biggest fights here: Modern candidates prove their commitment to honesty and transparency by releasing their taxes. Even now, Trump works like a dog to hide his checkered financial history from us. So much for the swamp.
May 28, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
What's the state of democracy in America? Well, the top three news stories of the morning tell a bleak tale about Trump's authoritarian decline. 1. Trump prepares another EO to try to control social media companies because Twitter pushed back on one of his favorite lies.
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Dec 10, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
How do we know that our elections are imperiled by Trump's lawlessness? He's told us himself. More than once. #ArticlesOfImpeachment First:
#ArticlesOfImpeachment
Jul 24, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
#MuellerTestimony #MuellerTestimony
Jul 16, 2019 45 tweets 7 min read
Trump's history of racism, a timeline: October 17, 1973 from the @nytimes: "Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color.’ [and] had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.”
Jun 14, 2019 14 tweets 4 min read
Trump loves dictators and wants to be like them, Exhibit O: thehill.com/opinion/white-… Trump loves dictators and wants to be like them, Exhibit P:
May 3, 2019 8 tweets 3 min read
Is this rebuffing, @realDonaldTrump? What about this, @realDonaldTrump?
Apr 10, 2019 16 tweets 9 min read
Trump calls the Mueller investigation "a treasonous coup" but publicly known facts reveal a coordinated Kremlin assault on our democracy, encouraged and assisted by @realDonaldTrump and his cronies. Here's what we know so far. It would be un-American NOT to investigate. Oleg Deripaska is a Russian oligarch and former business associate of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. Manafort invested millions with him, amassing millions of dollars in debt. Emails show that Manafort tried to pass info to Deripaska, seeking to "get whole."
Jan 10, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
With Trump’s government shutdown approaching the longest in U.S. history, it’s compromising American security and stability. Here's how: TSA employees, working for free, are struggling, creating weaknesses in America’s front line in stopping terrorists from coming to our shores. businessinsider.com/government-shu…