Mamie Locke

Protecting the Senate Democratic Majority as Chair of @VASenateDems. Representing SD-23 in Hampton Roads. Teaching Political Science at @_HamptonU.

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.⁦@GovernorVA⁩ said his #1 goal was to flip the Senate. Not tonight, Glenn. Not tonight.

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@Jaaavis @BradKutner So, a prominent VT, first generation graduate and engineer who serves on the VT board is not capable of being Rector? Why? Because he has made his stellar career working for Dominion Energy? Is that the only reason? Please help me understand.

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@SWells679 Very

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If they are shooting their venom at you, you know you’re doing something right. Why? Because that’s all they’ve got.

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@PolitiBunny You do not know me well enough to address me by my first name.

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@RudySchulz1 1.6 million votes and voices; not silenced, but empowered.

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We will remember in November.

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While teaching a unit on the civil rights movement one time, I reminded students that the Freedom Riders, those sitting in at lunch counters, those participating in SNCC, and coming down to Mississippi for Freedom Summer were their age. Because of them and so many others, we got the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. I then asked: could you have done what they did? In 2026, that is not a rhetorical question as Trump, Congress, and SCOTUS strip away those very rights so valiantly fought for by people who chose valor and courage to secure those rights. Well, it’s time to take it to the streets again. “Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ‘round” as the freedom song goes. Resist and Persist!

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@jmain369 My grandmother’s name and I have not. Always been told that excuses are the tools of the incompetent.

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So Jen Kiggans has referred to Congressman Jeffries as a “cotton picker”? Hoods are really off now, huh?

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@BradKutner @teevirus Pot and kettle wouldn’t you say

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From Alice Walker’s poem “Once”: “Dick Gregory said that if the South muses again there is a secret plan..But I say if the South rises again, it will not do so in my presence “(1968). Written in same period of Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, same volatile climate as Nixon preparing his Southern strategy. Backlash and Project 2025. Not in my presence

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@WOliveira_uva @JenKiggans Does not negate Kiggans’ remarks. And as for power grabs, go listen to your president on YouTube. He’s crystal clear.

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Those who are gloating now should not get comfortable with the Supreme Court undermining the will of Virginia voters. Virginia voters will once again prevail in November. One battle lost, more to be won!

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Roger Taney/John Roberts
Is there any ideological distinction despite nearly 170 year difference in serving as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

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@BobbyScott Thank you, Congressman Scott. Spot on.

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Not our first rodeo with a Supreme Court determined to strip away the rights of black people: Dred Scott v Sanford, Plessy v Ferguson, Louisiana v Callais. This, too, shall pass.

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The Supreme Court just finalized eradication of voting rights protections by decimating the Voting Rights Act. In this second post Reconstruction era of backlash against civil and human rights, voter suppression is only the beginning. But hear this all who believe we live in a post racial world, this decision, the SAVE Act, Project 2025, and the debacle and sham being played out on the national stage clearly show that we do not. The fear of equality, justice and inclusion is real. I not only dissent, I will not accept these attacks on democracy without a fight.

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@LisaForCongress Wow. Power grab. Now there’s a thought.
https://t.co/CFbOqgRdNC via YouTube

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So the lying , cheating flyers didn’t work!!!