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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/

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Ari Berman

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· Dec 15

800,000 dead Americans: who needs a mask or vaccine? 16 instances of alleged voter fraud in 2020: let’s pass 500 new voter suppression laws

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The Media and the Ballot Box: Confronting 21st Century Voter Suppression | Nieman Reports

In the fall of 2020, voters across the country waited in long lines to cast their ballots in a pivotal election, with press on hand to cover the action. One Georgia TV reporter talked to an upbeat...

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This is what the filibuster is blocking: -voting rights -abortion rights -gun control -equality act -immigration reform -criminal justice reform -raising minimum wage -combatting climate change

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Ari Berman

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Dec 16

Republicans making it harder to vote on simple majority, party-line votes but Sinema & Manchin say bipartisan supermajority required to protect voting rights. Total asymmetric warfare

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Ari Berman

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Dec 15

All of the restrictions on voting that Sinema warns GOP would enact if Dems get rid of filibuster are already happening at state level, including in Arizona. But by supporting the filibuster she’s making it impossible for Dems to reverse them

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Burgess Everett

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· Dec 15

NEWS: As Dems plot filibuster reform to pass voting rights, Sinema says via spokesman she still supports keeping 60-vote threshold "to protect the country from repeated radical reversals in federal policy" politico.com/news/2021/12/1

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Ari Berman

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Dec 15

800,000 dead Americans: who needs a mask or vaccine? 16 instances of alleged voter fraud in 2020: let’s pass 500 new voter suppression laws

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Ari Berman

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Dec 14

If the Senate can raise the debt ceiling with a simple majority vote, it can save American democracy by passing voting rights legislation with a simple majority vote

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Dec 14

Warnock: "Slavery was bipartisan. Jim Crow was bipartisan. The refusal of women's suffrage was bipartisan. 3/5 compromise was bipartisan. When colleagues talk to me about bipartisanship, I ask: at whose expense? Who is being asked to foot the bill? Is liberty itself the cost?"

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· Dec 14

Once we handle the debt ceiling, the Senate must prioritize passing federal voting rights legislation. TUNE IN NOW as I press upon my Senate colleagues why protecting our sacred right to vote is the *most* important issue we face this Congress. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1

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Warnock calls for filibuster change for voting rights: "The judgment of history is upon us. Future generations will ask, 'when the democracy was in a 911 state of emergency, what did you do to put the fire out?' Did we rise to the moment? Or did we hide behind procedural rules?"

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Dec 14

Every significant case of voter fraud in 2020 was committed by Republicans

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Julia Davis

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· Dec 14

Trump-Supporting Republican Residents of The Villages Arrested for Casting Multiple 2020 Votes. thedailybeast.com/jay-ketcik-joa via @thedailybeast

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Ari Berman

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Dec 13

In Texas you can carry a gun without a permit but you can’t get abortion after 6 weeks or register to vote online That’s because of extreme GOP gerrymandering I explain in new video for

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What the %$*& is happening in Texas? Republicans are upholding white electoral power is what's happening.

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makes his TikTok debut to explain how the Texas GOP is gerrymandering people of color out of the process:

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I once again ask the difficult questions

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Peloton blames shocking 'Sex and the City' death on 'extravagant lifestyle'

The fitness company has what may be an unwelcome cameo in HBO Max's 'Sex and the City' reboot. But a spokeswoman cited the character's bad habits.

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At this point, the filibuster is blocking: *Curbs on election subversion and voter suppression *Beefed up oversight of WH manipulation of DOJ *Reform of ECA to prevent future coup The window for a generational set of reforms is closing fast. My latest:

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Opinion | The damage done by Joe Manchin is likely to get much worse

We're in another post-Watergate moment. But unlike last time, we may not act.

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If Mitch McConnell had not killed filibuster to steal two Supreme Court seats for Trump, the entire Texas abortion ban would’ve been struck down

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"Revising an antiquated law that could lead directly to a stolen election should be the bare minimum of what Congress does." Good

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piece on how the 1/6 committee will recommend reforming the Electoral Count Act and why Congress should do it:

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The January 6 committee has a plan to prevent another attempt to steal an election

It’s time to revise the Electoral Count Act.

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Ari Berman

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Dec 9

County boards that certify elections in Georgia are purging black Democrats & replacing them with “Stop the Steal” Republicans. Another part of GA voter suppression law allows unlimited challenges to voter eligibility that goes before same election boards. Recipe for disaster

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Jonathan Landay

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· Dec 9

Georgia Republicans purge Black Democrats from county election boards reuters.com/world/us/georg

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Ari Berman

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Dec 9

Bob Dole led bipartisan effort to reauthorize Voting Rights Act in 1982 & fought Reagan/John Roberts who tried to weaken law "Our job now is to demonstrate concern to blacks and others who doubt our sincerity" Dole said A relic of another era [p155 Give Us the Ballot]

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