🚨🚨🚨when bad values and bad policy converge…. At the expense of our kids.

She went from being the center of attention on basketball courts to the center of a global power struggle. Two years after she was first detained in Russia, Brittney Griner sat down with amna and shared new details about her time held captive.
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Georgia, we're not exclusively having a primary this month. This is also a GENERAL ELECTION for all three levels of the judiciary (as well as other offices) — these important races will be decided this month, not in November.

Be informed + be heard!

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Early voting has begun in Georgia! This isn't a primary alone — a nonpartisan general election w/judicial races at all levels of the state's court system, including our state Supreme Court are on the ballot. Help us GOTV!

Tue, 5/7 • 6pm ET
Register: faircount.co/phbank24

NEW: House Rules Committee has voted to advance a bill to add a citizenship question to the #2030Census & exclude U.S. residents who are not U.S. citizens from a count that the 14th Amendment says must include the 'whole number of persons in each state”
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Photo ID is required to vote in Georgia.

Today, 30,000 registered voters in our state do not have photo ID to cast their ballots. We NEED YOUR HELP to close this gap.

🎉 VoteRiders Virtual Letter Writing Party

🗓️ Wed, May 8 • 7p ET

📳 Register: faircount.co/ltrs

CLAY Co — The Only Doctor, set in southwest Georgia's Clay County, one of the state's unhealthiest, sheds light on the challenges of finding quality, affordable health care in rural communities.

More w/the film director: bit.ly/4aW0PlA
Film: bit.ly/44toRC9

We have updated data at GeorgiaPathways.org, including this easily shareable graphic. While Georgia projected 100,000 enrollees by July of this year, they only had 4,392 by the end of March. With 290,000 people in the Coverage Gap, we know that this is ineffective.

Fun sharing a byline with my Brennan Center colleague #MichyaCooper on bringing an end date to gerrymandering. And thanks to Ms. Magazine for offering the space to write it. msmagazine.com/2024/05/01/ger…

NEW: The Census Bureau is planning to release this fall a proposed code list for organizing racial and ethnic categories in the #2030Census , according to a slide deck set to be presented at the May 2 meeting of the bureau's National Advisory Committee:
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Conservative lawmakers in Congress are renewing efforts to exclude millions of 'non-citizens' from census data, an unprecedented maneuver that would impact House seats and Electoral College votes by dramatically altering election maps.

Full story: n.pr/3w7fs6L

🌟 The SPLC’s Advocacy Institute in Mississippi offers hands-on policy and advocacy training to provide participants with the skills needed to create positive change throughout our communities. Sign up here: bit.ly/37xM4di

Southern Center for Human Rights’s Bridge project is honored to stand with the faculty, students and others arrested at Emory University yesterday.

“I literally felt that I was in a war zone.”

Emory University professor Emil' Keme describes being arrested while defending student antiwar protesters in what is an unprecedented expansion of campus suppression to include faculty arrests.

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

In #Louisiana , Girl Scout Troop 40174 took their voices to the State Capitol, advocating for House Bill 310, aiming to provide free menstrual products in schools statewide. #periodpoverty #healthequity #sanitaryproducts #unumoutlook #housebill310

Georgia’s Medicaid rolls grew to cover 2.8 million people, providing health insurance for low income children and some adults — now the state is one of 10 that saw the largest share of recipients who lost coverage because of 'missing paperwork'.

More: bit.ly/3Js163K

NEW: The Census Bureau's director has appointed NALEO Educational Fund CEO @ArturoNALEO as chair and retired bureau survey statistician Nancy Bates as vice chair of the #2030Census Advisory Committee
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I don't know how to raise my daughter in a country where the Supreme Court is debating how many organs are ok for women to lose before providing healthcare