"We had these fights in Virginia already. We've been through it. We're on the other side of it now," Virginia state Rep. Danica Roem says. "Constituent service is not just optional for legislators, it is required. And equality is constituent service." https://t.co/dFurKJTYcD
It's Transgender Day of Remembrance and we will be holding an online vigil today to remember the names of the transgender people whose lives have been lost to anti-transgender violence this year.
#TDOR thread. 🕯️
Folks in Alabama, California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Wyoming: make sure you're registered and have a plan to vote. Info in this thread. #VoteReady
NEW: The Department of Education's civil rights division has a new Diversity and Inclusion committee. Leaders appointed a longtime anti-LGBTQ activist to head it.
Employees say it makes the committee farcical
https://t.co/fYjy62iqKv
📅 TODAY is #SCOTUS National Call-In Day!
🏛️ WHAT: Call your Senators and tell them #NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration.
☎️ HOW: Call 855-977-0032 and you'll be connected with your Senators' offices.
📢 Help stop Trump's dangerous Supreme Court nominee!
#BlockBarrett#OurCourt
If you are an #LGBTQ Floridian, your voter registration has been extended until TONIGHT at 7 p.m. ET. If you need assistance registering or checking to make sure you are already registered, please visit our #VoteWithPride page at https://t.co/u8UQweAaxe
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
After the Florida voter registration website crashed last night, hours before the deadline, the online deadline has been extended to 7 PM ET TONIGHT 📣
Spread the word.
“Inconsistently”?? You only sent out a statement when it concerned Trump. Not for the countless women, people of color, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, gender non conforming people, & EVERYONE ELSE that get threats daily on your platform. So yes, we are holding you accountable
Have you filled out the #2020Census? Ensure you and your family #GetCounted and help your community get the vital resources it needs for the next decade. Visit https://t.co/iQ7eyu350Q.
Our community is facing an epidemic of violent murders that has alarmingly increased in recent months. Now we passed a grim milestone. In just the first 7 months of 2020, at least 28 trans people were murdered. That is more than the known trans people murdered in all of 2019. 1/3
There are 88 days to go to Election Day.
Voter ID laws are confusing. They are different EVERYWHERE, so make sure you know the laws in your state. Visit https://t.co/d6jp7nlnBJ and click "See Your State ID Laws" to learn what you need.
Rep. John Lewis in 2019: "When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation ... to do something. Our children and their children will ask us, 'what did you do?' …. We have a mission and a mandate to be on the right side of history."
Oh... great for them. They stopped giving to a rabidly anti-LGBTQ organization that has been listed as a hate group for YEARS- since 2011. I’m glad they came to their senses in *checks notes*...2020. 🙄
That’s years of Amazon money going to strip me & my community of our rights.