Ari Berman
@AriBerman
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Author: Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America https://t.co/q5tNcCdQjy Writer: @motherjones Speaking: annette@speakersforall.com
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Joined August 2008
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After long week sharing some good news: I’m writing new book! It's story of anti-democratic efforts to entrench white minority rule but also movements to resist it. Here’s news from Publisher’s Marketplace. It builds off Give Us the Ballot & thrilled to work w/ @fsgbooks again https://t.co/xWNsLPnLqW
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Daunte Wright was murdered by police for hanging an air freshener from his rearview mirror while white domestic terrorists violently stormed US Capitol with impunity
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The real court packing was when Mitch McConnell blocked Merrick Garland 8 months before election but confirmed Amy Coney Barrett 8 days before election when 65 million had already voted
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In Texas you can vote with a concealed handgun license but not a state university ID https://t.co/EFDm5gVe7y
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Phony populist Josh Hawley is now claiming "woke" corporations are victimizing people like him for merely defending "election integrity" in Georgia. Yes, the leader of the effort to subvert Biden's electors really said that. I unloaded a rant in response:
https://t.co/0TvaCon1ik
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5 of 6 conservative Supreme Court justices were appointed by GOP presidents who initially lost popular vote & confirmed by senators representing minority of Americans
This is why we need to expand/reform the courts
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Wisconsin Supreme Court rules against GOP effort to purge 70,000 voters ahead of 2022 election https://t.co/8gXzLghApV
BREAKING:
Wisconsin Supreme Court in 5-2 ruling sides with Democrats, says voters flagged as possibly having moved should not be removed from voter registration database
That job is up to local officials, not @WI_Elections, court rules
Justice Hagedorn wrote the majority
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Hours after I tweeted this US had its 134th mass shooting this year, in Bryan TX
How are Texas Republicans responding to gun violence?
By making it harder to vote & requiring sports teams to play national anthem
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National Review, which earlier in week said fewer people should be voting, now ludicrously claims Stacey Abrams is responsible for Jim Crow 2.0
Preserving 3 weeks of early voting is entirely different from passing 16 different voter suppression measures to reduce Black vote https://t.co/JHThgLN6q0
By some of the Left's reasoning, Georgia’s long descent toward a new Jim Crow hellscape began ten years ago with legislation strongly supported by none other than . . . Stacey Abrams. | by @richlowry https://t.co/aOpr30lrvT
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Tennessee requires voter ID to cast a ballot but no background check to buy a gun https://t.co/AK0JdKeguG
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee governor signs bill allowing most adults 21 and older to carry handguns without a background check or training.
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Ari Berman Retweeted
This week in conservatism -- proper education is needed to cast a vote, but not to carry a gun. https://t.co/nBxDAEzQLy
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee governor signs bill allowing most adults 21 and older to carry handguns without a background check or training.
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Ari Berman Retweeted
Okay, both Dade Phelan and Dan Patrick invited us to point to places in #HB6/#SB7 where there is voter suppression.
So here's a thread of me doing that in SB7.
First, the restriction on 24-hour voting: https://t.co/HcFL4aw5WD
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Joe Manchin thinks that an insurrection driven by lies & attempting to throw out millions of votes is the same as legislation that would expand voting access for millions of Americans. Absolutely absurd false equivalence https://t.co/eY76EAfcfj
@ArthurDelaneyHP Manchin is essentially saying that the people who stormed the Capitol had legitimate grievances about voting, and Congress has to honor those when passing voting rights legislation https://t.co/fmgPUEsnzs
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Ari Berman Retweeted
“The cumulative impact of these changes will make it harder for voters to cast a ballot, harder for organizations to mobilize voters, and harder for election officials to run smooth elections.” @AriBerman #PoorPeoplesCampaign #Georgia #JamesCrowEsquire https://t.co/x20CFTzRKd
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Are you willing to get rid of the filibuster to pass it? Because that’s all that matters https://t.co/o1mBE9Vwv7
Voting rights are fundamental to our democracy.
That’s why we cosponsored the For the People Act, legislation protecting Americans’ voting rights and the integrity of our elections. https://t.co/7Qnk6v7N76
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Ari Berman Retweeted
Thread on that asinine @Sen_JoeManchin op-ed concerning his unwillingness to budge an inch on the filibuster. Tagged him in hopes that he and his people read this. https://t.co/dGbJs20Rw4
Joe Manchin represents a state that is 1/22 the population of California & 92% white yet he can singlehandedly block policies supported by 70-80% of Americans. This is why the US Senate is so broken
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"Only way to reverse minority rule is through big structural reforms like abolishing Electoral College, eliminating filibuster, ending partisan gerrymandering, passing HR1/John Lewis Voting Rights Act and giving statehood to Washington DC & Puerto Rico" https://t.co/CJol4P47Np
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I'm sure Brian Kemp did 14 interviews with Fox News since bill passed, as @ThePlumLineGS notes, to show how much he cares about Black people voting https://t.co/R2Mhba9qZa
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Because Trump couldn’t “find” 11,000 votes to overturn Biden’s victory, Georgia legislature is trying to make it easier for Republicans to find them in future elections. This is what law is all about & no amount of revisionist history can disguise that https://t.co/qYBI01eXn9
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