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Author: Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America https://t.co/q5tNcCdQjy Writer: @motherjones Speaking: [email protected]

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Voting Rights Act under all-out assault from reactionary Trump judges. I discussed vital history of VRA & how GOP-appointed judges trying to nullify country’s most important civil rights law on Fresh Air today. Please listen npr.org/2023/11/30/121…

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North Carolina Republicans passed bill today stripping Dem governor of majorities on state/local election boards & giving gerrymandered legislature huge new power to overturn elections & limit early voting in Dem areas. Scary stuff motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

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If you care about the future of Democracy, you should be following what's happening in Wisconsin. This latest episode of Slate's What Next with Mary E. Harris and Ari Berman is a good overview of the history and the stakes of what's ahead.

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Ari Berman has been one of the essential chroniclers of Wisconsin’s descent into authoritarianism—and the fight back. Don’t miss this writeup.

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Breaking: Wisconsin Senate votes to oust state’s top election official, caving to election deniers

This + threat to impeach state supreme court justice shows extreme tactics GOP using to subvert fair elections & maintain anti-democratic grip on power

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Wisconsin senate voting today to oust state’s top election official & GOP assembly threatening to impeach newly elected state Supreme Court justice to keep gerrymandered maps. Incredibly dangerous attempts to maintain GOP’s anti-democratic grip on power motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

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Huge vote in Ohio today will decide whether GOP enshrines permanent minority rule or if democracy survives & the people can protect abortion rights, end gerrymandering & hold rigged legislature accountable motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

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“If we saw it in another country, we’d say that’s not a democracy,” Pepper says. “But that country is Ohio.”

Really good summary of what’s happening and what’s at stake in ⁦Mother Jones⁩ , by ⁦Ari Berman⁩ motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

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Ohio Republicans want to kill direct democracy to block abortion rights & protect gerrymandering

They’re funded by dark money groups who bankrolled Jan 6 & election denial

This stealth plan to end majority rule should be getting way more attention

motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

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In other big democracy news, voting rights groups filed new lawsuit challenging gerrymandered maps in Wisconsin today after Janet Protasiewicz sworn in

In 2022 Tony Evers won 51% of vote but Republicans retained 67% of seats in senate & 65% in assembly

motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

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Since 2020 election, 29 states have passed 73 new laws undermining fair elections, enshrining Trump's Big Lie

Yesterday Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock introduced Preventing Election Subversion Act to stop it

“Protecting our democracy is job one” he told me

motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

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One very significant ramification of Moore v. Harper decision rejecting independent state legislature theory is that new liberal majority on Wisconsin Supreme Court has power to strike down congressional and state legislative maps once Janet Protasiewicz seated in August

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Breaking: Supreme Court rejects fringe 'independent state legislature' theory pushed by NC GOP & Leonard Leo. Hugely significant decision for voting rights supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf…

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10 years ago today SCOTUS gutted Voting Rights Act

“Thing have changed dramatically” wrote John Roberts

But his decision laid groundwork for widespread voter suppression, racial gerrymandering & wiped away decades of progress for voters of color

motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

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