Nearly every elected Repugnican in DC shares responsibility for this wanton assault on democracy. A unified, vocal, persistent opposition party attaching this predation to every NAMED Repugnican could be really useful about now.
We’re both old enough to recall that Mitch McConnell wasn’t exactly ineffectual as a minority leader. Democrats might well embrace his example, albeit for considerably more democratic reasons. Complying in advance hasn’t worked.
Thnanks Daniel,but I think you would agree,there is real disappointment that only 8 million showed up for the " NO KINGs " across the country n 3200 locations.This is a about the same as October 2025. The message,a very large # of Americans believe having a " Nazi" gov't is OK. It also reveals that of the 75 Million Dems and Independents who voted for Harris ,only 8 million are willing to get engaged.The 67 million have decided their life is good enough,they will not expend any effort to get out there.
Divide and conquer bullshit. Not when "your" side is the gift of the enemy.
We need honest and uncorrupted leaders with backbones, Not fearful ones on the take from PAC's.
If Hakeem was not on the take ffrom AIPAC, Met Life,Black Rock, maybe
Glack Rock, founded and CEO Larry Fink, is one of the institutions that have onwership in the media, defense, pharma, petroleum and every segment of America.
You can serve two masters Daniel.
Chuckie didn't hold the ground,k voted for the OBBB and now Good and Ptetti are dead, and thousands of families disrupted, and some even sent to Nigeria.
Divide what? I want leadership.
Maybe you are satisfied with our descent into fascism because of corrupt or cowadly leaders.I am not
A "Police State" is what happens when a majority of the majority race ignorantly breaks for an obviously unfit Russian operative just because he hates Blacks and Browns.
It's a horror, yet and still, ICE and Border Patrol will have to "Good and Pretti" about 35 innocent voters as they stand in line to vote, to cower enough of the masses.
We'll have to be video recording their homicidal mania, remaining cool, and not be shattered by Trump's goons' Hegsethian "lethality," then we have to call the local authorities [who should be monitoring the goons with rooftop snipers,] who get paid to protect us.
America is fast becoming - The People’s Republic of Equatoria from the TV series: "Mission Impossible."
Vote . . .also:
#Send Too Tall Boron (sp = deliberate) and his idiot brother Eric to - The Bab el‑Mandeb Strait
Nixon cracked down on blacks and "hippies", purportedly to crack down on drugs, but in actuality to punish those who protested during the 1960's and crush the voter activism of the Left. Now it's the same idea, different rationale (immigration, but linked to crime), and different tactic (ICE, not DEA).
The answer to this, if the states don't want to interfere with the feds, is to take down the ICE sentries standing at the entrances to the polling places and zip tie and gag them. Leave them in plain site where everyone entering the polling place can see them. Maybe even put a sign up telling people that they don't have to be intimidated anymore. Then, when the voting is closed. they can be let go to run back their bosses to whine and cry that they were picked on.
Now, we all know that is not likely to happen but the states can treat them like the rest of the vendors who show up to hand out flyers. They would have to maintain a certain distance from the entrance. In Virginia, where I used to work as a poll worker, it's twenty feet out and wide of the main entranceway. Maybe they should be shadowed by local law enforcement to make sure they don't do anything to illegal to registered voters?
The states have to figure out ways to stand up to these federal paramilitary forces. Voting is a state run function and the feds have little jurisdiction, if any. If they don't, we're going to have chaos next November.
Democrats need a counter to the SAVE Act. I propose The Right to Vote and have your Vote Counted Act. Any voter who has any issue to vote should have the right to vote by provisional ballot. We have that right now but I would make one very specific change. Now all the burden is on the voter to cure their issue or the vote is throw out. I would put the burden on the government to prove that the voter committed voter fraud to throw out the vote. The Government already has all the data to prove citizenship or eligibility. The election officials should not have authority to throw out any vote but can only refer them for a criminal investigation. Voter fraud is a crime so it should require a serious investigation. This would target voter fraud instead of the SAVE Act objective of voter suppression. Once and for all we would have clear information on how rare is voter fraud. This should deter Trump and his supporters from making false claims of mass voter fraud.
In 2019, Democrats in the 116th Congress introduced and passed two major pieces of legislation aimed at expanding voting rights and reforming elections. While both passed the House of Representatives, they were not brought to a vote in the then Republican-controlled Senate.
Wikipedia
H.R. 1: For the People Act of 2019
Introduced in January 2019, this was a massive, 800-page "democracy reform" package. It passed the House on March 8, 2019.
Voting Access: Required states to offer automatic voter registration, at least 15 consecutive days of early voting, and same-day registration.
Gerrymandering: Mandated the use of independent redistricting commissions to draw congressional districts, aiming to end partisan gerrymandering.
Election Security: Promoted the use of voter-verified paper ballots and increased federal support for voting system security.
Ethics & Finance: Overhauled campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of "dark money" and established new ethics rules for all three branches of government.
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (.gov)
H.R. 4: Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019
Later renamed the John Lewis Voting Rights Act following his death in 2020, this bill passed the House on December 6, 2019.
New Democrat Coalition (.gov)
VRA Restoration: Aimed to restore the preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which had been struck down by the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder (2013).
Discrimination Formula: Established a new, modern formula to identify states and localities with a pattern of voting discrimination.
Federal Oversight: Required jurisdictions with a history of violations to get Department of Justice approval before changing their voting laws.
Nearly every elected Repugnican in DC shares responsibility for this wanton assault on democracy. A unified, vocal, persistent opposition party attaching this predation to every NAMED Repugnican could be really useful about now.
I guess you slept through on Saturday. https://blueprint.democrats.org/
Led by Hakeem and Chuck? Yeh sure. Fuck blueprints, action is what counts.
Alligator muths, humming bird asses.
Good and Pretti and thousands of people victims of Chuck's leadership.
We’re both old enough to recall that Mitch McConnell wasn’t exactly ineffectual as a minority leader. Democrats might well embrace his example, albeit for considerably more democratic reasons. Complying in advance hasn’t worked.
Herding Democrats is like herding cats. Unlike the Republicans, we are bottoms up.
You guys are good examples. Refuse to support the party. You really have no clue how it works -- or doesn't - in Congress.
BTW, now that McConnell is no longer maj leader, Thune has trouble with 5-6 Republican votes.....
Thnanks Daniel,but I think you would agree,there is real disappointment that only 8 million showed up for the " NO KINGs " across the country n 3200 locations.This is a about the same as October 2025. The message,a very large # of Americans believe having a " Nazi" gov't is OK. It also reveals that of the 75 Million Dems and Independents who voted for Harris ,only 8 million are willing to get engaged.The 67 million have decided their life is good enough,they will not expend any effort to get out there.
Good and Pretti, thank Schumer.
Divide and conquer? You don't know the first thing about it.
Divide and conquer bullshit. Not when "your" side is the gift of the enemy.
We need honest and uncorrupted leaders with backbones, Not fearful ones on the take from PAC's.
If Hakeem was not on the take ffrom AIPAC, Met Life,Black Rock, maybe
Glack Rock, founded and CEO Larry Fink, is one of the institutions that have onwership in the media, defense, pharma, petroleum and every segment of America.
You can serve two masters Daniel.
Chuckie didn't hold the ground,k voted for the OBBB and now Good and Ptetti are dead, and thousands of families disrupted, and some even sent to Nigeria.
Divide what? I want leadership.
Maybe you are satisfied with our descent into fascism because of corrupt or cowadly leaders.I am not
You get a choice of 2. MAGA Mike and Jeffries. Who do you choose?
BTW Jeffries voting record, his support is Dem.
False assumptions. Not an election.
Dem politicians were working the crowd for support.
Like I said yesterday, if it were up to me, the protests would be at the homes of Congressional Republicans.
Most MAGATS are OK with war, with ICE murders and Gestapo tactic, with restricting votes, but not OK with being identified with preverts.
4 levels of culpability: 1. perps 2. pimps 3. those who did business with criminals 4. those who obstruct.
A "Police State" is what happens when a majority of the majority race ignorantly breaks for an obviously unfit Russian operative just because he hates Blacks and Browns.
It's a horror, yet and still, ICE and Border Patrol will have to "Good and Pretti" about 35 innocent voters as they stand in line to vote, to cower enough of the masses.
We'll have to be video recording their homicidal mania, remaining cool, and not be shattered by Trump's goons' Hegsethian "lethality," then we have to call the local authorities [who should be monitoring the goons with rooftop snipers,] who get paid to protect us.
America is fast becoming - The People’s Republic of Equatoria from the TV series: "Mission Impossible."
Vote . . .also:
#Send Too Tall Boron (sp = deliberate) and his idiot brother Eric to - The Bab el‑Mandeb Strait
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We need to use our phones to photograph anyone intimidating voters at the polls.
Glad that you are making us aware of these things Thom. May justice and right prevail!
Nixon cracked down on blacks and "hippies", purportedly to crack down on drugs, but in actuality to punish those who protested during the 1960's and crush the voter activism of the Left. Now it's the same idea, different rationale (immigration, but linked to crime), and different tactic (ICE, not DEA).
The answer to this, if the states don't want to interfere with the feds, is to take down the ICE sentries standing at the entrances to the polling places and zip tie and gag them. Leave them in plain site where everyone entering the polling place can see them. Maybe even put a sign up telling people that they don't have to be intimidated anymore. Then, when the voting is closed. they can be let go to run back their bosses to whine and cry that they were picked on.
Now, we all know that is not likely to happen but the states can treat them like the rest of the vendors who show up to hand out flyers. They would have to maintain a certain distance from the entrance. In Virginia, where I used to work as a poll worker, it's twenty feet out and wide of the main entranceway. Maybe they should be shadowed by local law enforcement to make sure they don't do anything to illegal to registered voters?
The states have to figure out ways to stand up to these federal paramilitary forces. Voting is a state run function and the feds have little jurisdiction, if any. If they don't, we're going to have chaos next November.
The Right to Vote & have it Counted
Democrats need a counter to the SAVE Act. I propose The Right to Vote and have your Vote Counted Act. Any voter who has any issue to vote should have the right to vote by provisional ballot. We have that right now but I would make one very specific change. Now all the burden is on the voter to cure their issue or the vote is throw out. I would put the burden on the government to prove that the voter committed voter fraud to throw out the vote. The Government already has all the data to prove citizenship or eligibility. The election officials should not have authority to throw out any vote but can only refer them for a criminal investigation. Voter fraud is a crime so it should require a serious investigation. This would target voter fraud instead of the SAVE Act objective of voter suppression. Once and for all we would have clear information on how rare is voter fraud. This should deter Trump and his supporters from making false claims of mass voter fraud.
In 2019, Democrats in the 116th Congress introduced and passed two major pieces of legislation aimed at expanding voting rights and reforming elections. While both passed the House of Representatives, they were not brought to a vote in the then Republican-controlled Senate.
Wikipedia
H.R. 1: For the People Act of 2019
Introduced in January 2019, this was a massive, 800-page "democracy reform" package. It passed the House on March 8, 2019.
Congress.gov
Voting Access: Required states to offer automatic voter registration, at least 15 consecutive days of early voting, and same-day registration.
Gerrymandering: Mandated the use of independent redistricting commissions to draw congressional districts, aiming to end partisan gerrymandering.
Election Security: Promoted the use of voter-verified paper ballots and increased federal support for voting system security.
Ethics & Finance: Overhauled campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of "dark money" and established new ethics rules for all three branches of government.
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (.gov)
H.R. 4: Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019
Later renamed the John Lewis Voting Rights Act following his death in 2020, this bill passed the House on December 6, 2019.
New Democrat Coalition (.gov)
VRA Restoration: Aimed to restore the preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which had been struck down by the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder (2013).
Discrimination Formula: Established a new, modern formula to identify states and localities with a pattern of voting discrimination.
Federal Oversight: Required jurisdictions with a history of violations to get Department of Justice approval before changing their voting laws.