Melissa Rothrock

[Colin Allred @ColinAllredTX]

As a parent, I worry about sending my little ones off to school. But it doesn't have to be this way. Our public places don't have to become memorials.

This keeps happening because of policy choices, including Ted Cruz blocking common sense reforms in the U.S. Senate.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Don't let these paid stooges of the NRA escape scrutiny and wash the blood of innocents from their hands. SHAME THEM.

No more empty thoughts and prayers.

RT TO SPREAD THEIR SHAME.

[Shawn Reynolds @ShawnReynolds_]

"It wasn't mental health that killed these people, it was an automatic rifle with bullets... I'm a former police officer, a former Army officer. These M4s, AR-15s, they've got to get off the streets or this is going to keep happening" - Allen, TX mall shooting witness Steven Spainhouer tells @CapehartJ on @weekendcapehart

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

Want to help prevent mass shootings? Stop voting for people like this.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

You can’t go to work, to the MALL, to the grocery store, to your church, to the movies or the bank.
You can’t attend a concert, go to a dance class or go to see your doctor. You can’t ring a doorbell, use a leaf blower, hop in a car, pull down a driveway, bounce a ball, or ask the neighbor to keep it down.
You can’t check out a farmer’s market or mail something at the post office or go to a parade, and you certainly can’t send your kids to school without worrying that someone will get shot.
That someone you LOVE will get shot.
Or that YOU will get shot.
This is where we are now.
This is not normal.
And this is not fucking ok.
It’s NOT fucking ok.

[John Ray Clemmons @JRClemmons]

The TN House has officially adjourned…too soon. Without doing a damn thing to address the gun violence epidemic plaguing our state and threatening our children. It’s a sad night in Tennessee. We utterly failed our people. #GunSenseNow

[Rep. Gloria Johnson @VoteGloriaJ]

These are questions Tennesseans want answered! How many taxpayer $$ were used to relocate a victim of sexual harassment by a GOP representative. Please include any cash payment.

[John Ray Clemmons @JRClemmons]

It’s truly unfortunate that we’re rushing to adjourn our state legislature on only the 27th legislative day of the session when we’re allowed 90 legislative days per session and have not taken up a single gun safety bill. This failure is a complete breach of our legislative duty.

[Jeff Yarbro @yarbro]

"We should be ashamed as a society that we live in a place and time when part of the grieving process for these moms is to come here and ask us to do what we're elected to do," said Sen. Jeff Yarbro, D-Nashville.
https://t.co/g4Yr5MDKbJ

[LIZZO @lizzo]

You have my heart Knoxville

Thank you for sharing a safe space with me 💖

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

When a GOP Tennessee state representative started sexting a 19-year-old intern against her will, instead of removing the representative, Tennessee Speaker Cameron Sexton used taxpayer dollars to force the girl to move back home.

He protected the predator and vanished the victim.

[Tommasina Says Democracy Matters 🦅💙🐈‍⬛ @TommasinaResist]

Best news I've heard today! Democrat Adam Frisch, political newcomer who almost unseated Boebert, R-Colo., in 2022, is raising far more money than her campaign in his bid to unseat her in 2024
Send her home, Colorado! 🌊💙
#Fresh
#ProudBlue
#DemVoice1 https://t.co/gOYO8hfkyz

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

“I’m weary. There’s only so many times you can walk in the room and tell someone they’re not coming home tomorrow…I would simply ask you to do something. Because doing nothing, which is what we have been doing, is not working.”

– Louisville, Kentucky Dr. Jason Smith

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Let’s get it done.

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

Tennessee Republicans killed bills to tell eligible high school students how to register to vote and to study the use of college IDs to vote.

What’s worse is they did it with secret voice votes and moved TV cameras away from lawmakers so the public couldn’t see how they voted.

[Rep. Gloria Johnson @VoteGloriaJ]

So this is a thing. I’m so happy we had the opportunity to talk about the gun violence problem on a national stage. We must act now. These young people (and their parents) want us to act now to save lives!

[Rep. Gloria Johnson @VoteGloriaJ]

I love this young man!

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

For those keeping score at home...

Things that WILL NOT get you expelled from the TN state legislature:
- child molestation
- domestic violence
- federal investigation
- peeing on your colleague's chair

Things that will:
- fighting to protect kids from gun violence

[Doug Jones @DougJones]

What is happening in Tennessee today is truly frightening. Where are Tennessee’s business leaders? Where are the GOP leaders and voters who believe in the right to dissent and in our democracy? Where are the veteran’s groups who put their lives on the line to protect democratic ideals? You have the power to stop this madness. Step up before it is too late.