Trump and the GOP know they can't win on the merits.
So they're emasculating the Voting Rights Act, changing the maps, and trying to take representation and power away from Black Americans to hang onto their majority.
That's what this is all about. It's Jim Crow redistricting. We're going to fight it.
MEMPHIS councilwoman @Jerri_M_Green (candidate for governor): “Trump, @GovBillLee & @MarshaBlackburn want to drag us backwards… an attempt to silence voters in one of the largest Black communities in the South because they don’t like how we vote.”
Republicans may try to steal your voice, but they cannot steal your power unless you surrender it. We will never surrender.
Sign our petition to tell Governor Lee and the Tennessee Legislature to keep their hands off our maps and protect Memphians' voices: https://t.co/Hml0p3SlgN.
DEFEND DISTRICT 9 — TAKE ACTION NOW!
District 9! Trump just said that he and Bill Lee want to eliminate our representation in Congress. District 9 is the ONLY Democratic and ONLY Black-majority congressional district in Tennessee.
Autism: I need a predictable job.
ADHD: I need a stimulating job.
AuDHD: I need a predictable job that is actually also stimulating and structured but creative and stable but surprising in the good way only
ADHD can seem fun and quirky until you’re too ashamed to reconnect with people because you haven’t had the mental space to reply for 5 weeks, and now the guilt and fear of being judged is too much.
ADHD is not “I forgot to reply.” It’s “I saw it, composed three responses in my head, got overwhelmed, I told myself I’d do it later, and then it disappeared