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1/ The Nightmare Scenario SCOTUS is Plotting For the 2024 Election Takeover:

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1/ Dear Republicans: We Tried Your Way and It Does Not Work (a thread):

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I’m getting so tired of this lie which I’ve heard at least seven times just this morning. Heard it on NPR this morning, just again on CNN. “America is a 50-50 country.” Not even remotely true. Only the Senate is 50-50, & that’s because California only has two senators & DC none.

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This press conference with Texas officials about the latest mass shooting is amazing. They are all acting like it’s a natural disaster. Thoughts and prayers. Nothing else. No one has said the word “gun” or “we will do something“ at all…

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This picture is all over rightwing Facebook, and nobody seems to realize it’s Charles Manson… Or are they loving it because they do know who it is?

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Hamas apparently knew how to get around Israel’s Iron Dome defenses. They probably learned this from Iran. Iran almost certainly got the information from Russia. And who gave it to Russia? Sure looks like it was Donald Trump, at the request of Putin:

Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador

The president was boasting of the “great intel” he receives when he discussed intelligence provided by a U.S. partner.

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Every time some reporter sticks a microphone in front of a Democrat and asks about the debt ceiling the response should be: “Yes, we have to pay the bills that Donald Trump ran up.”

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1/ It turns out that Donald Trump was right: the election was rigged. He would know, of course, because he and Lewis DeJoy were the ones who rigged it.

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Newsweek reports that the documents Trump stole include payroll records for US spies. Exactly the kind of thing for which Putin or Saudi Arabia would pay the Trump family billions. Was there a bidding war the Saudis won with their $2 billion to Jared?

Exclusive: Trump Raid Documents Could Reveal Informants on U.S. Payroll

The FBI sought to retrieve above-Top-Secret documents dealing with "sources and methods"—which Donald Trump does not have the authority to declassify.

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1/ What Will You Do When the GOP Comes For Your Wife, Daughter, or Sister? (a thread)

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Anybody else notice how we're no longer talking about how Trump is broke and millions in debt to foreign oligarchs? Why can't the American news media hold two thoughts at the same time?

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7/31/2019 Trump meets w/ Putin. 8/3/2019, just 3 days later, Trump requests a list of US spies. By 2021 the CIA reports a high number of their agents are being captured and/or murdered. An FBI search at Mar A Lago finds more documents w/ lists of our spies on them. Treason?

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In 1982 Ronald Reagan legalized a stock scam that FDR and Joe Kennedy made a crime in 1934. Since then, corrupt CEOs took trillions of dollars from our economy to buy megayachts and Swiss chalets while screwing workers. It’s time to end stock buybacks!

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Trump’s Treasury Secretary, “Foreclosure King” Steve Mnuchin, seized the assets of 30,000 American families when he repossessed their homes and threw them out on the street. But Trump backers complain that seizing his assets is somehow anti-capitalist?

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1/ Republicans have had a problem with women for a long time. (A thread)

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2/ Six Republicans on the Supreme Court just announced — a story that has largely flown under the nation’s political radar — that they’ll consider pre-rigging the presidential election of 2024.

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Trump secretly colluded with Russia to become president: Bill Barr knew it, and helped cover it up. Putin and Barr’s corruption of the Justice Department and the FBI is the scandal of the century (so far) and must be exposed.

"Ghostbuster" Bill Barr was the “Who Ya Gonna Call?” Guy for Three Treasonous GOP Presidents

Now we learn Barr apparently went so far as to cover up Trump’s involvement with Putin, providing opportunities for Trump to extort Ukraine and pass classified documents along to Russian Intelligence

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Orbán arrests people for dissing him on Facebook. And he’s Trump’s hero. Let that sink in…

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Trump honors Viktor Orban for being an autocrat: “There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orban. He says, ‘This is the way it’s gonna be,’ and that’s the end of it. He’s the boss.”

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1/ Let’s put the House Ways and Means Committee releasing Trump’s tax returns in context. While Spiro Agnew was Richard Nixon’s vice president, he was taking bribes in the White House. Literally. People came to the White House with briefcases full of money for him.

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This is how Italian legislators deal with asshole senators who refuse to wear masks during a pandemic. And this guy hadn't even tested positive.

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Absolute scenes at the Senate (Italian parliament) in Rome today! #Sgarbi

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The most corrupt Attorney General in American history, who helped Bush and Reagan cover up Iran Contra and helped Trump cover up Russia and other crimes, wasn’t corrupt enough for Donald Trump. Amazing.

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Why isn't the media treating Brett Favre the same way they did Michael Vick? What's different? Isn't stealing over a million dollars from hungry human children worse than mistreating animals? What am I missing here?

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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the federal government to spy on Russians. So, of course, Donald Trump demanded today that Moscow Mike and friends in the House kill it. And they did. Putin is running the American House of Representatives!

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This should be the biggest story in America. Putin put Trump in the White House to help him take out Ukraine…

The Untold Story of ‘Russiagate’ and the Road to War in Ukraine (Published 2022)

Russia’s meddling in Trump-era politics was more directly connected to the current war than previously understood.

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18/ Instead of a more general prosperity, we’ve now ended up with the greatest wealth and income inequality in the world, as over $50 trillion was transferred over 40 years from the bottom 90% to the top 1%, where it remains to this day.

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America is rapidly becoming two nations because Red states are able to mooch off Blue states, using stolen tax money to reinvent the old Confederacy, “own the libs,” and wage “war on woke.” How do we end Red State welfare?

Why Are We Letting the Red State Welfare Oligarchs Mooch Off Blue States?

Red states are mooching off the Blue states, using that essentially stolen tax money to reinvent the old Confederacy, “own the libs,” and wage “war on woke...”

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17/ Six Republicans on the Supreme Court just announced that one of the first cases they’ll decide next year could include whether that very scenario is constitutional or not. And it almost certainly is.

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When are we going to wake the hell up?

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“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” ― Thomas Paine

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60/ We’re over it, Republicans. A new America is being birthed from the ashes of the Reagan Revolution and you can’t stop it much longer.

Dear Republicans: We Tried Your Way and It Does Not Work

Their "Reaganism" sales pitch was effective, and we’ve now had 42 years of the so-called Reagan Revolution: It’s time to say out loud that it hasn’t worked

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13/ Just as happened when Pinochet’s militias shot into crowds as he took over Chile, when Mussolini’s volunteer militia the Blackshirts killed civilians as he took over Italy, and Hitler’s Brownshirts did in Germany, their allies among the police and Army refuse to intervene.

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19/ The middle class has gone from over 60% of us to fewer than half of us. It now takes 2 full-time wage earners to sustain the same lifestyle one could in 1980.

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Why hasn’t a single reporter or media commentator in the last week asked a single Republican politician, “Why are you opposing free community college and giving seniors vision and dental?” Why are they only asking Democrats?

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12/ Wolf Blitzer announces that DeSantis has won the election, and millions of people pour into the streets to protest. They’re met with a hail of bullets as Republican-affiliated militias have been rehearsing for this exact moment.

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16/ It’s time to simply say out loud that it hasn’t worked:

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How many of these are being sold to Saudi Arabia and Russia to pay for Trump‘s fines for committing fraud and rape?

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BREAKING - Trump moved docs from Mar-a-Lago to Bedminster in 2022, according to another Trump employee who confirms what has long been reported - including this video from spring 2022:

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15/ After he’s sworn in on January 20th, President DeSantis points to the ongoing demonstrations, declares a permanent state of emergency, and suspends future elections, just as Trump had repeatedly told the world he planned for 2020.

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5/ But the popular vote isn’t enough: George W. Bush lost to Al Gore by a half-million votes and Donald Trump lost to Hillary Clinton by 3 million votes but both ended up in the White House. What matters is the Electoral College vote, and that looks good for Biden, too.

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8/ Until the announcement comes out of Georgia. Although Biden won the popular vote in Georgia, their legislature decided it can overrule the popular vote and just awarded the state’s 16 electoral votes to DeSantis instead of Biden.

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6/ Democrat Franklin Roosevelt and Republican Dwight Eisenhower renewed America with modern, state-of-the-art public labs, schools, and public hospitals across the nation; nearly free college, trade school, and research support; healthy small and family businesses;

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9/ Now that we finally have those returns, we know that the IRS itself had been corrupted by Trump. That requires legislative action to tighten IRS oversight, and will probably also require a criminal investigation of Trump and his IRS Commissioner.

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3/ Here’s how one aspect of it could work out, if they go along with the GOP’s arguments that will be before the Court this October:

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8/ When we handed America over to Ronald Reagan in 1981 it was a brand, gleaming new country with a prosperous and thriving middle class.

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27/ Instead, we’ve raised two generations of Americans that can’t even name the three branches of government, much less understand the meaning of the Constitution’s reference to the “General Welfare.”

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I’m yelling at my TV: Why hasn’t a single reporter or media commentator in the last week asked a single Republican politician, “Why are you opposing free community college, stopping climate change, and giving seniors vision and dental?” Why are they only asking Sinema/Manchin?

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4/ It’s November, 2024, and the presidential race between Biden and DeSantis has been tabulated by the states and called by the networks. Biden won 84,355,740 votes to DeSantis’ 77,366,412, clearly carrying the popular vote.

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In 1981, Ronald Reagan turned America’s economy over to the billionaires. Now they’ve devastated the middle-class, moved our jobs overseas, and bought off the entire GOP, including those on the Supreme Court. How do we recover from this?

Can America & the World Survive the Davos "Billionaire’s Woodstock"?

America fought back America’s oligarchs twice; will we succeed this third time with an actual oligarch (Trump) running for president as a neofascist populist?

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17/ Republicans told us if we just cut the top tax rate on the morbidly rich from the 74% it was at in 1980 down to 27% it would “trickle down” benefits to everybody else as, they said, the “job creators” would be unleashed on our economy.

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23/ Instead of a “polite” society or politicians who listened better to their constituents, we ended up with school shootings and a daily rate of gun carnage unmatched anywhere else in the developed world.

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4/ Prior to that, the nation had hummed along for 40 years on a top income tax bracket of 91% and a corporate income tax that topped out around 50%.

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31/ or beginning families. While students are underwater, banksters who donate to Republican politicians are making billions in profits every single week of the year from these bizarrely non-negotiable loans.

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30/ Instead of happy students, since we cut that 80% government support down to around 20% (with the 80% now covered by student’s tuition), our nation is groaning under a $2 trillion dollar student debt burden, preventing young people from buying homes, starting businesses,

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9/ An hour later we hear from five other states with Republican-controlled legislatures where Biden won the majority of the vote, just like he had in 2020: North Carolina (15 electoral votes), Wisconsin (10), Michigan (16), Pennsylvania (20) and Arizona (11).

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14/ They included radical tax cuts, pollution deregulation, destroying unions, and slashing the support services the New Deal and Great Society once offered people (because, Republicans said, feeding, educating, or providing healthcare to people made them dependent).

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7/ unions protecting a third of America’s workers so two-thirds had a living wage and benefits; and an interstate highway system, rail system, and network of new airports that transformed the nation’s commerce.

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Gas prices have dropped very day for the past 25 days. How can I get one of those pump stickers with Joe Biden and "I did this" on them? ;) (Not to mention: 372,000 new jobs; Unemployment at 3.6%, a fifty-year low; Hourly wages up 5.1% as unionization sweeps the country.)

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11/ They then moved on to infiltrate our universities, seize our media, pack our courts, integrate themselves into a large religious movement to add millions of votes, and turn upside down our tax, labor, and gun laws.

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14/ After a few thousand people lay dead in the streets of two dozen cities, the police begin to round up the surviving “instigators,” who are charged with seditious conspiracy for resisting the Republican legislatures of their states.

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7/ It’s 306 to 232 in the Electoral College, a 74-vote Electoral College lead for Biden, at least as calculated by CNN and the rest of the media. Biden is heading to the White House for another 4 years.

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25/ Instead of helping young Americans, we’ve ended up with epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and — now that abortion is illegal in state after state — a return to deadly back-alley abortions.

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18/ Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution lays out the process clearly, and it doesn’t even once mention the popular vote or the will of the people:

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6/ As CNN is reporting, the outcome is a virtual clone of the 2020 election: Biden carries the same states he did that year and DeSantis gets all the Trump states.

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Donald Trump wants Jack Smith to throw him in jail. Like Hitler in the 1920s, it will make him a major martyr and gain him support. This is why he’s trying to provoke Smith and the judge. He can easily do 20 or 30 days in jail, He’ll have his Secret Service and plenty of…

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This is the biggest bribery scandal in American history!

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🚨 HISTORY OF ETHICAL LAPSES INVOLVING HARLAN CROW, LEONARD LEO🚨 For years, Harlan Crow & Leonard Leo have gained private access to SCOTUS justices for themselves and friends. Private planes, luxury resorts, lavish gifts… it’s damning. And why we’re investigating. THREAD ⬇️

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10/ Each has followed Georgia’s lead and their legislatures have awarded their Electoral College votes — even though Biden won the popular vote in each state — to DeSantis.

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So, Trump-humping federal judges have ruled that: 1. You can go to jail for giving water or pizza to somebody standing in line for 7 hours to vote. (GA) 2. You can't stop masked men with guns from harassing and photographing people dropping off ballots. (TX) WTF?

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20/ Republicans told us if we just deregulated guns and let anybody buy and carry as many as they wanted wherever they wanted it would clean up our crime problem and put the fear of God into our politicians.

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5/ Business leaders ran their companies, which were growing faster than at any time in the history of America, and avoided participating in politics.

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21/ “An armed society is a polite society” was the bumper sticker back during Reagan’s time, the NRA relentlessly promoting the lie that the Founders and Framers put the 2nd Amendment into the Constitution so “patriots” could kill politicians.

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10/ It became a blueprint for the morbidly rich and big corporations to take over the weakened remnants of Nixon’s Republican Party and then America.

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15/ Their sales pitch was effective, and we’ve now had 42 years of the so-called Reagan Revolution.

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9/ Women: Republicans just aren’t that into you.

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11/ Thus, a total of 88 Electoral College votes from those six states move from Biden to DeSantis, who’s declared the winner and will be sworn in on January 20, 2025.

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10/ The final big question is whether Trump, like Nixon and Agnew, was behaving corruptly while in office. It’s probably going to take weeks or even months to figure that out: stay tuned.

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22/ Five Republicans on the Supreme Court even got into the act by twisting the law and lying about history to make guns more widely available.

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19/ “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...

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25/ “The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will consider what would be a radical change in the way federal elections are conducted, giving state legislatures sole authority…

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9/ The seeds of today’s American crisis were planted just ten years earlier, in 1971, when Lewis Powell, then a lawyer for the tobacco industry, wrote his infamous “Powell Memo.”

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51/ We damn well better be planning for this, because it’s likely coming our way in just a bit more than two short years.

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28/ It literally gives state legislatures the power to pre-rig or simply hand elections to the candidate of their choice.

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16/ Sound far fetched?

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26/ Republicans told us that if we just killed off Civics and History classes in our schools, we’d “liberate” our young people to focus instead on science and math.

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24/ Republicans told us that if we just ended sex education in our schools and outlawed abortion, we’d return to “the good old days” when, they argued, every child was wanted and every marriage was happy.

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28/ Republicans told us that if we cut state and federal aid to higher education — which in 1980 paid for about 80% of a student’s tuition — so that students would have what they told us was “skin in the game,”

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2/ The 1970s were a pivotal decade, and not just because it saw the end of the Vietnam War, the resignation of Nixon, and the death of both the psychedelic hippie movement and the very political (and sometimes violent) SDS.

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30/ “The independent state legislature theory was first invoked by three conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices in the celebrated Bush v. Gore case that handed the 2000 election victory to George W. Bush.

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To drive my own car, I must have a drivers license (which made me prove proficiency), a title/registration, & liability insurance, in case I accidentally kill somebody. If we require these simple things of cars, & there’s no national objection to it, why not apply them to guns?

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3/ Most consequentially, the 1970s were when the modern-day Republican Party was birthed.

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26/ to set the rules for contests even if their actions violated state constitutions and resulted in extreme partisan gerrymandering for congressional seats.”

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27/ While the main issue being debated in Moore v Harper, scheduled for a hearing this October, is a gerrymander that conflicts with North Carolina’s constitution, the issue at the core of the debate is what’s called the “Independent State Legislature Doctrine.”

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20/ “The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons … which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.

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12/ That effort burst onto the American scene with the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan.

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23/ Neither mentions the will of the people, although the Electoral Count Act requires each state’s governor to certify the vote before passing it along to Washington, DC. And half of those states have Democratic governors.

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4/ What would you do if that was your daughter, wife, mother, or sister who was forced to bleed out for ten long days so a Republican politician could crow about being “pro-life”? They’d have to physically restrain me.

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1/ The GOP is no longer a legitimate political party: it’s a cult. It’s becoming increasingly clear to Americans that the Republican Party only stands for one thing: the privilege and power of wealthy white men.

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21/ “The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President…”

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31/ “In that case, the three cited it to support the selection of a Republican slate of presidential electors.”

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