Hundreds of thousands of DC residents had to endure a coup in their backyard today, go into curfew at 6pm, and fear for their personal safety. None of them have any representation in Congress.
No matter which way Georgia goes, it's in play because of @staceyabrams.
As a college journalist in 2015, back when she was House Minority Leader, I interviewed her for a story about gun violence. One of the last things I asked her was: Are you optimistic about Georgia? Why?
Voter suppression should never be measured in the aggregate. That’s typically an indication of autocracy. 21st cen. voter suppression targets certain communities to disenfranchise while obfuscating intent. More simply put: more people in the water doesn’t mean fewer sharks.
The deeper injustice of overturning Roe is abortion will always be available to rich women, well-connected women, and women who get pregnant by married Republican senators.
Last night, the Supreme Court essentially said it’s more important that we have a result on election night than making sure every vote is counted...in an uncontrolled pandemic exacerbated by inactions of one candidate who has also slowed a main method of turning in a ballot.
But no matter what happens after she joins the bench, we will always be committed to working *together* to make abortion accessible.
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And we’ve already seen more people traveling to the DC area for abortion care because of increased restrictions in their state (many are already living in a post-Roe world), and we only expect the demand to grow, especially with Barrett on the Supreme Court.
The entire point of the Supreme Court is to have a nonpartisan body to check the two political ones. A 6-3 Court, rigged through illegitimate partisan schemes, is a broken Court. Adding seats isn’t packing it. It’s rebalancing and restoring its essential purpose in our democracy.
If you're anti-Trump but volunteering for Biden doesn't feel right for you, there are many options! You can be a poll worker, do voter protection work, help your friends register to vote, and so many other things.
Your vote (if you the right to it) just isn't enough this year.
She carried too much weight, and for too long. We should live in an America where we only need to send condolences to everyone who knew and loved Justice Ginsburg, and not to the nation and democracy as a whole. I wish that we could simply mourn her. Alas. https://t.co/vuy6BsIyQO