If you think it should be harder to take away your vote than your gun, double-check your voter registration (especially if you live in a Red state) and show up this fall!
Republicans know they can't win on policy, so they purge likely Dems, all the while gaslighting the public that they are 'protecting election integrity'.
Kemp should be sued in a class action if he hasn't been yet.
I've read that similar schemes are going on in other states,also targeting young people, women and minorities.
Spread the word: check your state's ID laws & keep checking your registration right up until Nov 5!
Once again my frustration and pure RAGE engendered by one of your essays is off the charts. How DARE these fucking fascists wipe clean voter registrations! I hope to god Marc Elias grabs them by the throat and sucks out their eyeballs! No playing nice.
The devil didn't come down to Georgia, he was born there. Brian Kemp just opened the door very wide for every voter in his state to have their identity stolen along with their voter's registration. He is a thief who helps thieves.
What makes me wonder is why he and his associates are so damn sure someone from the opposition will not do the same. It could happen.
I think the only strategy at this stage is for everyone in that state to re-register on paper as a nuisance type of protest. He wants chaos---give him some. Accompany each registration with a stick-on that states the new registry is necessary because of the breach.
Unbelievable! They will stop at nothing. I still can’t believe you can’t offer water to someone standing in line. Inhumane! (Btw, a typo in the number you site after Raffensperger).
More and more, we are seeing an attempt to return the United States back to when only white, wealthy land owners could vote and be elected to public office. Attempts to turn the country into a white, Christian Nationalist oligarchy. The only way to stop this is as Thom Hartmann talked about a few days ago, is national strikes and mass protests. But, be prepared to fight against the militarized police and maybe the local national guard. People will die.
At this point we can sweep the rest of the swing states. Biden won by 7 million. FT 6 has identified 9 million unregistered folk who trend heavily Democratic. Register Democrats, get them to the polls and we make elections fair.
It might help to register voters if they knew what they were voting for rather than just voting against Trump. Let me know if you know how to contact the Harris campaign and ask her if she intends to support single-payer healthcare or convince her to make a public statement about why she no longer supports Medicare for All. Good job registering voters. Poll watchers are important to identify who gets turned away and why.
All I know is that you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. A vote for any Republican will be a vote against Medicare for all as well as Obamacare, Medicaid, SSI, VA disability etc.
I haven't had anyone contact me about my Amish project. I am not an agent of the DNC or the Harris campaign. Just a volunteer. I'm retired, so I spend a lot of time on this.
Most of the people we reach through FT6 are happy to hear from us. In many cases they had been arbitrarily cut from the rolls. Despite what you see on MSNBC et all virtually all minority folks are happy that we pay attention to them.
I have a particular interest in veterans. I was on a call this morning with candidates and with activists, donors etc. Everyone is optimistic. We flip a lot of 2 x Trump voters using the magic words "not suckers or losers." I have 3 more calls this afternoon. I gave a conflict with the FT 6 Florida phone bank at 2 pm. I you want to get the lay of the landscape call it and see for yourself. https://www.mobilize.us/schedule/29cb0e70-7787-4db1-921d-df019063834e/?participation_id=26208571
I'm a texting fool. Many different types. I've done thousands myself. Today FT 6 BYOP. Textarcade. Later, I'm in a Movement Labs call, donors calls.
I won't vote for a Republican or for President. I will vote for the few Democrats on my ballot. Why was she supportive of single-payer and changed her mind? At least explain that it wasn't because a big donor turned her head. This is a life-and-death issue and must be addressed. I wish to be enthusiastic and work for her, but I can't do that in good conscience.
To the fascist Second Amendment fanatics: if you take away our votes but not our guns, what do you expect might happen? Not good at thinking through unintended consequences, are you?
The enemies of America, including a lot of Americans, will celebrate as Americans shoot each other. Because the Trump cult are mentally ill (egotistical and delusional in my humble opinion) the village idiots and lunatics are being used, because the cult are not capable of thinking for themselves.
Fromm: "Escape From Freedom." The tricky distinction is that "idiots and lunatics" doesn't necessarily apply. Some bright people are constitutional authoritarians. Some are evil, cynical opportunists: flaming examples brother Vance and Josh Hawley. Some are slaves of peer pressure (religion, domestic abuse). Many are addicts: that dopamine "hit" vicariously every time Trump is nasty. I think we can go with "idiot" with MTG, and "lunatic" with the guy I have called "Crazy Cousin Louie" for years. Yep. I'll go with those two. I think we need a special category for Cancun Cruz. "Number Two Sleaze," second only to Trump himself? Oh, wait, we need another special niche for John ("Just think of me as Grampa Will Rogers") Kennedy. ("Ah tott them fancy Oxford fellers haw to hitch up thar britches....") Well! That was fun!
I wonder if anyone has considered collecting the data on Kemp, every official he appointed, every judge he nominated, every Republican in the state legislature, every GOP official in every county and city of note, and their major contributors, and then requested that they be disenfranchised? (Maybe add their families too, if one has the time and spite for that.) Just asking, not saying to do it....None of this would change many election outcomes, but it certainly would give all of them a surprise.
If Georgia is doing this, you can bet other Red states are or will be doing this or something similar. They share diabolical legislative schemes like friends share cooking recipes.
And of course to distract us from this they will claim Democrats have opened the borders to allow illegal immigrants to vote.
Thanks for another great report about "swing state" voter suppression.
On the related front, there is the looming second coup attempt, this next one via refusal to certify results in November by MAGA denialists occupying positions in counties. I am so grateful to Rachel Maddow for blowing the lid off this on Tuesday:
As a tech geek, I have just started thinking deeply about American Doom saying what they were able to discover was just the tip of the iceberg. I don't know much about "crowd source" investigation and research, but I am going to find out all I can NOW. -It seems to me we need at least one person in EVERY COUNTY in the US looking locally into who is in charge of the election, and a database of ALL 3200+ COUNTIES, beginning with the "swing states".
In other words, we need to crowd source an effort just like what American Doom did, but much, much broader and complete.
If I conclude this really is practical, I will start this myself, unless someone beats me to it.
My inspiration is Sedition Hunters (seditionhunters.org), the group many of us have heard about that crowdsourced the effort to identify the many January 6 attackers.
I refuse to use Twitter and Facebook, for reasons obvious to progressives. So, if any of you can tolerate those platforms, I would appreciate your spreading the word there. This is not about me. It is about my attempt to turn the warnings by Rachel Maddow, Rolling Stone, and American Doom into action, like Sedition Hunters did with the warnings after Jan 6.
“In the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, Rolling Stone and American Doom identified at least 70 pro-Trump election conspiracists currently working as county election officials who have questioned the validity of elections or delayed or refused to certify results. At least 22 of these county election officials have refused or delayed certification in recent years.”
Since 2020, Republicans have refused to certify the results in 25 elections.
Democratic elections lawyer Marc Elias told the magazine that he expects to see “mass refusals” to certify the election results this November, saying “everything we are seeing about this election is that the other side is more organized, more ruthless, and more prepared.”
When Donald and his accomplices started trying to rewrite the history of both the 2020 election and the January 6th insurrection, it became obvious that they weren’t simply trying to whitewash their part in it; they were planning the ways in which they were going to try again.
The actions of Kemp and many others are precisely why Trump will be the next President. Removing 1.4M (mostly Afro-American ) voters from the rolls is a clear violation the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If we had a functioning Federal Government Kemp and his ilk would be convicted felons.... not that it stops anyone from running for or holding office. "the South will rise again" they said. And it has.
This plus the "one county can stop a State verification" plan might explain Trump's utter trolling of the Black Journalists interview. He's just gloating on his victory run.
That Repubs do not believe in democracy is self-evident by their inaction against the vote because it offers them an excuse to take advantage of their unpopular views. Any Christian who thinks fear is a valid way of acting simple does not understand the Bible whose clear and simple message is to not fear as its most numerous statement. Fox News a fear based lair based organization simply cannot be tolerated by any God loving Christian. At some point the separation they are creating will because spiritually you cannot see who you despise for whatever reason you do so. Hate separates society. It does not unite society as Jesus demands his apostles act. The leaders of the Church are failing their God and man.
Reading this literally turned my stomach.
Republicans know they can't win on policy, so they purge likely Dems, all the while gaslighting the public that they are 'protecting election integrity'.
Kemp should be sued in a class action if he hasn't been yet.
I've read that similar schemes are going on in other states,also targeting young people, women and minorities.
Spread the word: check your state's ID laws & keep checking your registration right up until Nov 5!
If all this disenfranchisement stopped tomorrow, the numbers of GOP vote winners would be decimated.
Dems: we MUST vote for Kamala!!
Repubs: we MUST prevent the Dems from voting for Kamala!
When will we be notified that our personal identification was compromised by Georgia? This is a serious breach!
If a regulatory agency is responsible for that, don't count on being notified because the Republicans have probably gutted the budget.
Once again my frustration and pure RAGE engendered by one of your essays is off the charts. How DARE these fucking fascists wipe clean voter registrations! I hope to god Marc Elias grabs them by the throat and sucks out their eyeballs! No playing nice.
The devil didn't come down to Georgia, he was born there. Brian Kemp just opened the door very wide for every voter in his state to have their identity stolen along with their voter's registration. He is a thief who helps thieves.
What makes me wonder is why he and his associates are so damn sure someone from the opposition will not do the same. It could happen.
I think the only strategy at this stage is for everyone in that state to re-register on paper as a nuisance type of protest. He wants chaos---give him some. Accompany each registration with a stick-on that states the new registry is necessary because of the breach.
Unbelievable! They will stop at nothing. I still can’t believe you can’t offer water to someone standing in line. Inhumane! (Btw, a typo in the number you site after Raffensperger).
I’m trying to find a reference to this, but I believe the restriction about giving water to parched voters was stopped by a judge.
Gosh, I hope so. So ridiculous what they try to get away with.
So, tell me again how the Dems are cheating?
Asking for a country doing its damnedest to stay a democracy where every eligible person can vote & every vote can be counted.
More and more, we are seeing an attempt to return the United States back to when only white, wealthy land owners could vote and be elected to public office. Attempts to turn the country into a white, Christian Nationalist oligarchy. The only way to stop this is as Thom Hartmann talked about a few days ago, is national strikes and mass protests. But, be prepared to fight against the militarized police and maybe the local national guard. People will die.
We can't wait until after the elections. Need to start now, let them know we are watching!
I agree. I am willing to support any plan that doesn't involve loss of life.
At this point we can sweep the rest of the swing states. Biden won by 7 million. FT 6 has identified 9 million unregistered folk who trend heavily Democratic. Register Democrats, get them to the polls and we make elections fair.
https://www.fieldteam6.org/
It might help to register voters if they knew what they were voting for rather than just voting against Trump. Let me know if you know how to contact the Harris campaign and ask her if she intends to support single-payer healthcare or convince her to make a public statement about why she no longer supports Medicare for All. Good job registering voters. Poll watchers are important to identify who gets turned away and why.
All I know is that you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. A vote for any Republican will be a vote against Medicare for all as well as Obamacare, Medicaid, SSI, VA disability etc.
I haven't had anyone contact me about my Amish project. I am not an agent of the DNC or the Harris campaign. Just a volunteer. I'm retired, so I spend a lot of time on this.
Most of the people we reach through FT6 are happy to hear from us. In many cases they had been arbitrarily cut from the rolls. Despite what you see on MSNBC et all virtually all minority folks are happy that we pay attention to them.
I have a particular interest in veterans. I was on a call this morning with candidates and with activists, donors etc. Everyone is optimistic. We flip a lot of 2 x Trump voters using the magic words "not suckers or losers." I have 3 more calls this afternoon. I gave a conflict with the FT 6 Florida phone bank at 2 pm. I you want to get the lay of the landscape call it and see for yourself. https://www.mobilize.us/schedule/29cb0e70-7787-4db1-921d-df019063834e/?participation_id=26208571
I'm a texting fool. Many different types. I've done thousands myself. Today FT 6 BYOP. Textarcade. Later, I'm in a Movement Labs call, donors calls.
Tomorrow I'm on a call with Forgotten Democrats at noon. Simon Rosenberg will be the guest of FP Wellman, who was on our veterans call this morning. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEscOCopjsqG9JzrFKgkbSrklap79NQnBeJ#/registration
I won't vote for a Republican or for President. I will vote for the few Democrats on my ballot. Why was she supportive of single-payer and changed her mind? At least explain that it wasn't because a big donor turned her head. This is a life-and-death issue and must be addressed. I wish to be enthusiastic and work for her, but I can't do that in good conscience.
You know what, darlin'? Voting against Trump and the excrement of Henry Comstock is good enough for me!
Couldn't the DOJ investigate Brian Kemp & Co. for criminal negligence with their "oops" release of voter information?
To the fascist Second Amendment fanatics: if you take away our votes but not our guns, what do you expect might happen? Not good at thinking through unintended consequences, are you?
The enemies of America, including a lot of Americans, will celebrate as Americans shoot each other. Because the Trump cult are mentally ill (egotistical and delusional in my humble opinion) the village idiots and lunatics are being used, because the cult are not capable of thinking for themselves.
Fromm: "Escape From Freedom." The tricky distinction is that "idiots and lunatics" doesn't necessarily apply. Some bright people are constitutional authoritarians. Some are evil, cynical opportunists: flaming examples brother Vance and Josh Hawley. Some are slaves of peer pressure (religion, domestic abuse). Many are addicts: that dopamine "hit" vicariously every time Trump is nasty. I think we can go with "idiot" with MTG, and "lunatic" with the guy I have called "Crazy Cousin Louie" for years. Yep. I'll go with those two. I think we need a special category for Cancun Cruz. "Number Two Sleaze," second only to Trump himself? Oh, wait, we need another special niche for John ("Just think of me as Grampa Will Rogers") Kennedy. ("Ah tott them fancy Oxford fellers haw to hitch up thar britches....") Well! That was fun!
I wonder if anyone has considered collecting the data on Kemp, every official he appointed, every judge he nominated, every Republican in the state legislature, every GOP official in every county and city of note, and their major contributors, and then requested that they be disenfranchised? (Maybe add their families too, if one has the time and spite for that.) Just asking, not saying to do it....None of this would change many election outcomes, but it certainly would give all of them a surprise.
And tell 'em, "Hey, YOU provided us this website!"
Jail kemp!
If Georgia is doing this, you can bet other Red states are or will be doing this or something similar. They share diabolical legislative schemes like friends share cooking recipes.
And of course to distract us from this they will claim Democrats have opened the borders to allow illegal immigrants to vote.
Thanks for another great report about "swing state" voter suppression.
On the related front, there is the looming second coup attempt, this next one via refusal to certify results in November by MAGA denialists occupying positions in counties. I am so grateful to Rachel Maddow for blowing the lid off this on Tuesday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9OP_a6MNg
(This Rolling Stone reporting informed her:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/
And, American Doom created the reporting that Rolling Stone helped spread:
https://www.american-doom.com/p/exclusive-pro-trump-swing-state-election )
As a tech geek, I have just started thinking deeply about American Doom saying what they were able to discover was just the tip of the iceberg. I don't know much about "crowd source" investigation and research, but I am going to find out all I can NOW. -It seems to me we need at least one person in EVERY COUNTY in the US looking locally into who is in charge of the election, and a database of ALL 3200+ COUNTIES, beginning with the "swing states".
In other words, we need to crowd source an effort just like what American Doom did, but much, much broader and complete.
If I conclude this really is practical, I will start this myself, unless someone beats me to it.
My inspiration is Sedition Hunters (seditionhunters.org), the group many of us have heard about that crowdsourced the effort to identify the many January 6 attackers.
Well... I did it. Make this go viral, so we can find and then shed light on ALL the election officials ready to interrupt the November 5th election:
Expose Them All:
https://exposethemall.substack.com/
I refuse to use Twitter and Facebook, for reasons obvious to progressives. So, if any of you can tolerate those platforms, I would appreciate your spreading the word there. This is not about me. It is about my attempt to turn the warnings by Rachel Maddow, Rolling Stone, and American Doom into action, like Sedition Hunters did with the warnings after Jan 6.
As Rolling Stone magazine reported:
“In the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, Rolling Stone and American Doom identified at least 70 pro-Trump election conspiracists currently working as county election officials who have questioned the validity of elections or delayed or refused to certify results. At least 22 of these county election officials have refused or delayed certification in recent years.”
Since 2020, Republicans have refused to certify the results in 25 elections.
Democratic elections lawyer Marc Elias told the magazine that he expects to see “mass refusals” to certify the election results this November, saying “everything we are seeing about this election is that the other side is more organized, more ruthless, and more prepared.”
When Donald and his accomplices started trying to rewrite the history of both the 2020 election and the January 6th insurrection, it became obvious that they weren’t simply trying to whitewash their part in it; they were planning the ways in which they were going to try again.
The actions of Kemp and many others are precisely why Trump will be the next President. Removing 1.4M (mostly Afro-American ) voters from the rolls is a clear violation the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If we had a functioning Federal Government Kemp and his ilk would be convicted felons.... not that it stops anyone from running for or holding office. "the South will rise again" they said. And it has.
This plus the "one county can stop a State verification" plan might explain Trump's utter trolling of the Black Journalists interview. He's just gloating on his victory run.
That Repubs do not believe in democracy is self-evident by their inaction against the vote because it offers them an excuse to take advantage of their unpopular views. Any Christian who thinks fear is a valid way of acting simple does not understand the Bible whose clear and simple message is to not fear as its most numerous statement. Fox News a fear based lair based organization simply cannot be tolerated by any God loving Christian. At some point the separation they are creating will because spiritually you cannot see who you despise for whatever reason you do so. Hate separates society. It does not unite society as Jesus demands his apostles act. The leaders of the Church are failing their God and man.
How do they prevent a purge of registered republicans?