'The war on Black history is proof of systemic racism. It needs to stop.' By Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Paul Williams
richmond.com/news/local/edu… via @rtdnews

Very excited to see this in print at JOP with Tatishe Nteta and Doug Rice:
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71…

The President and the Supreme Court: Going Public on Judicial Decisions from Washington to Trump by Paul Collins and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha selected as an Exemplary Legal Writing Honoree by The Green Bag an annual collection of the year's best legal writing.👏👏🥳

Nils Lofgren pulls music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young: 'We encourage all musicians, artists and music lovers everywhere, to stand with us all, and cut ties with Spotify' rol.st/32J3MID

Thank you Joni Mitchell #DeleteSpotify #StandWithNeilYoung End the misinformation campaign that is stressing our health care workers.

45% of Black voters in Georgia think it will be somewhat or very difficult to vote -- only 7% in thought the same of the 2020 elections. This is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night.

poll.qu.edu/poll-release?r…

Our note on voting from prison is out in Journal of Politics @[email protected]... little thread on context coming up!

Hey, look, it's my research! Thanks FiveThirtyEight

fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-m…

25% of Americans believe racial problems are rare & isolated. @JesseRhodesPolsci, Ray La Raja, Tatishe Nteta & Alex Theodoridis find a striking relationship between white racism & the Jan 6th attacks using UMass Poll data.

Read their analysis on @monkeycageblog: wapo.st/3AmOXYH

Brian & I updated our analysis from last year for Data for Progress on words Americans use to describe the Capitol stormers.

Biden voters said:
1) terrorists
2) traitors
3) criminals

Trump voters said:
1) stupid
2) patriots
3) idiots

Here you go: dataforprogress.org/blog/2022/1/18…

I'm honored to RT this. So many ppl have supported this work (thx below!), & my gratitude to the team Politics, Groups, & Identities for fostering such an important space in PoliSci for work that is otherwise often marginalized.

Structures for inclusion matter, a 🧵. UMass Public Policy UMass Amherst Department of History

Important, clarifying piece by Thomas Zimmer on the real stakes around today's vote and the broader lack of a sufficient response to the radicalism of today's GOP. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

One year later, how are Americans thinking about the Capitol insurrectionists? (Mia Costa Brian Schaffner) Details: opiniontoday.com/2022/01/18/one…

Excited my research with Hans Noel 'Trump and the Shifting Meaning of `Conservative'' has been published in American Political Science Review

Here's a thread on it: x.com/dhopkins1776/s…

Here are reactions from one of my US Senators, Pat Toomey (US Sen. ret.):

inquirer.com/politics/penns…

#polisciresearch

Nice Thomas Edsall The New York Times piece on #BigLie belief w/ me, star Department of Political Science at UMass Amherst PhD student Lane Cuthbert, UMass Poll colleagues @JesseRhodesPolsci, Ray La Raja, & Tatishe Nteta, + Paul Begala, Mike McCurry, Sarah Binder, Jake M. Grumbach, Charles Stewart III, Frances Lee & others.

nytimes.com/2022/01/19/opi…

Great The New York Times op Ed by Thomas Edsall with info from me (@JesseHRhodes) Alex Theodoridis Tatishe Nteta Ray La Raja Lane Cuthbert and many others
nytimes.com/2022/01/19/opi…

competing understandings of American nationhood were effectively mobilized by 2016 candidates from the two parties. over 20 years, nationalism has become sorted by party, with Republicans & Democrats defining America in exclusionary vs inclusive terms
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

Excellent piece by Anjali Dayal 🦒🦒🦒 Alex Stark Megan A. Stewart arguing why debate of civil war in the US is the wrong question (obscuring political violence already visited against swaths of the population) and forwarding a narrative of political choice.
warontherocks.com/2022/01/warnin…

'The question for Republicans is: why not make voting easier for your voters and everyone else’s?'

'Do their explanations hold up under scrutiny?'

Jay Rosen urges the media to stop treating GOP restrictions on voting rights as beyond examination:

pressthink.org/2022/01/the-sa…

I wrote a @monkeycageblog post discussing a key finding from my forthcoming article in PS with Rick Lau about the 1/6 GOP electoral objections. That article is going to be my first journal article and I’m the first author. So celebrating lots of firsts
wapo.st/3nDziPl