Tag: Voter Suppression

How does the Republican Party perpetuate the Confederacy and racist beliefs and norms?

Confederate Descendants Spread Racism, Infect the Supreme Court, and Roll Back Civil Rights


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John Roberts is just the latest generation of white supremacists dedicated to promoting the Confederacy, pro-slavery norms, and anti-democratic beliefs. There is a long sad history here traced by Rachel Maddow on Deja News and a study on geographical culture.

A Quickie: The Nightmare Elections that Republicans Long Feared


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That’s the boogeyman that Republican mothers and fathers have been scaring their children with by telling them that it is lurking under their beds and inside their closets and will take them away if they aren’t good and give all their money to the very very rich millionaires and billionaires who feel like they don’t have enough and deserve even more.

How has the reaction of America's CEOs paralleled the reaction of the American people to the dismantling of our democracy

How Big Business Got Woke and Dumped Trump — But Maybe It’s Not True Anymore?


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Time recently published an article outlining out Jeffrey Sonnenfeld marshalled America’s CEOs to oppose the Republican authoritarian power grab from the Big Lie to the 6 January Insurrection to voter suppression and nullification laws, but their enthusiasm for that opposition has fractured and grown confused just like our electorate’s has.

Election 2022: The Argument for Optimism


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How likely is it that the Dems are going to hold on to the majorities in Congress? There are lots of reasons to be optimistic that the 2022 election will defy history and leave the Democratic party in charge of Congress, the most prominent one being that Trump isn’t running but he’ll be trying to help the GQP campaigns.

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Get Your Vote On VOTE411 The League of Women Voters

Get Your vote On, 2020, With VOTE411


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Two minutes to find out how to get your vote on in 2020 and make sure the GOP doesn’t disenfranchise you and take away your right to vote. You know they are going to try and you are going to need all the help you can get. The League of Women Voters is putting on their super-heroine cap and swooping in for the rescue. Check-out their website, VOTE411

Meme: The Authoritarian Party


A republic, if you can keep it. As it turns out old Ben Franklin was right. We aren’t able to keep our republic. We are increasingly authoritarian. A segment of the electorate likes and another is indifferent leaving us vulnerable to the Russians hacking our elections.

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