We all need to be clear: the Electoral Count Act is NOT a substitute for #VotingRights!! Any discussion of this as a replacement for #FreedomToVoteAct is unacceptable! If @SenateDems go along with this, you can say goodbye to ‘22 AND ‘24 (and much more). @SenSchumer.

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1482904096621441025

And @POTUS needs to send a clear message to @SenateDems that if they send this Trojan Horse legislation to him without #FreedomToVoteAct, he will veto it. It’s insulting that this is even being floated by GOP or *anyone else* on #MLKDay.

10 years ago, I wrote an article titled “Note to Progressives on Hostage Taking: Don't Knock It 'til You Try It” which was about the (racist) Tea Party’s use of its voting block to risk default on debt and other mayhem. Some lessons for current battle…1/x cliffnotesfromthesouth.blogspot.com/2011/08/note-t… In article, I discussed the Tea Party’s willingness to cause GOP loses in elections actually strengthened their position: “Although many observers took these losses & widespread criticisms as a sign that the TP would decline in strength, the truth has been quite the opposite.”

The TX special session is literally a smorgasbord of hate: everything from voter suppression, #CRT and anti-immigration to transphobia and anti-abortion. They even seem to be privatizing foster-care 😳! We may need to call this the #GOPHatesEverybody special session. What say U?

https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/1412775999046098948

A buffet of white supremacy w/ a dash of patriarchy & transphobia. Noticeably missing: anything to solve energy crisis which has folks rotating from freezing to burning. @BlackVotersMtr @OrganizeTexas @MOVE_texas @NextGenAction @unitehere23 @TXCivilRights @fixsapd @rolandsmartin

Ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to introduce you to... white privilege.

There’s SO much wrong with this @nytopinion article, it’s hard to know where to start. But to begin, Cohn could have tried speaking w/ people who actually specialize in voter turnout.

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1378393921529786369

If he had, he might understand the point below, which is from a longer thread that I recommend. Just looking at turnout data w/ no understanding of the forces that shape that data leads to dangerous conclusions 👇🏾

https://twitter.com/hill_charlotte/status/1378411353728159747?s=21

https://twitter.com/hill_charlotte/status/1378411353728159747

Soooo, let’s talk about “canceling”. The GA law “literally” cancels TWO weeks of early voting during the runoff. Please note the text of the law 👇🏾. In lines 1490/1491 they literally *cross out* the 3 weeks of early voting!

https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1378377733642797057

Lines 1495/1496 establish ONE week of early voting for runoff, and DOES NOT include weekend. STOP allowing him to say he has expanded early. Some media, local and national (@washingtonpost), is *failing* on this point.

If you’re someone who cares about #VoterSuppression in Georgia, but you’re not sure if we have power to stop it, let me introduce you to Hancock County, where activists just struck a major blow against one of the leading voter suppressors! @rolandsmartin 13wmaz.com/mobile/article… GOP State Rep. Barry Fleming has been intimidating and suppressing Black voters for YEARS! In addition, he has served as the attorney for the county and from that position he defended the county sending armed polices to homes of almost 200 Black voters.

Allow me to introduce you to Donalsonville, GA. Population 61% Black, where 2 candidates are running for mayor: 1 Black, 1 White. Thread 1/ White candidate, Mitzy Moye, allegedly created a fake facebook page of a fake Black person named “Shanice Williams”... 2/

After tonight, there will be a lot of talk about KY & VA, and rightfully so. But let me tell you bout a place called Plymouth, NC. 1/ Plymouth: population just <4,000
At least 63% Black, but has never had a Black mayor. Nor has its city council ever been majority Black. 2/