Beautiful day to cast my ballot for so many friends and great leaders

61 years ago, state troopers attacked unarmed, peaceful protestors in Selma with clubs & tear gas. Images & videos of Bloody Sunday shocked the nation & eventually led to the passage of the VRA – which SCOTUS just destroyed Our fight is not over. Today we march again for equality & justice

We cross this bridge yet again In 1965, civil rights leaders marched from Selma to Montgomery to demand equal voting rights Now civil rights leaders are back to fight for the very VRA freedoms SCOTUS just dismantled. We will not stay silent – this is the time to act!

These are Robert's Court press releases. Not "Supreme Court decisions"

Happy Mother's Day! here's what awaits the special mom in my life 1. Breakfast 2. The mother of all civil rights actions! Giving my wife tickets to Montgomery, Alabama, where next weekend we march. Please join us 👉https://blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

Virginia was a setback But the math still points to a pro-democracy pickup The South is rising up — protests in Tennessee Alabama & beyond And a national mobilization in Montgomery is set for May 16 The movement is growing and here's how to join on my Publisher's note on @contrariannews.org -TN

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This is a mother's day for organizing. Today I'm busy getting out the word about the march on Montgomery, Alabama next Saturday while also supporting local organizing against confederate special sessions happening to gut black political power across the South. Mothers let's make it happen.

Black voter participation soared right after the VRA passed in 1965. But not until 1992, after Congress strengthened the VRA to require majority-minority districts, did we start getting closer to proportional Black representation in Congress. Because Black votes finally counted more in the South.

The DOJ violates the Epstein Files Transparency Act on the daily. So I'm suing Todd Blanche. As a journalist, I cannot report accurately on the Epstein Files if I cannot even read them. I am represented by @brendanballou.bsky.social & we seek to hold the DOJ accountable for its noncompliance.

BIPARTISAN FORMER WHITE HOUSE ETHICS OFFICIALS CONDEMN RETALIATORY PROSECUTION OF SPLC @democracydefendersfund.org statement 👇🏼

1. The central claim in the indictment of SPLC is a lie. The DOJ/FBI accuse SPLC of lying to donors about seeking to “dismantle” extremist groups while secretly funding them. But the funds were used to infiltrate & help law enforcement dismantle these groups. Kash Patel knows this is the truth…

“For my friends everything; for my enemies the law.” DOJ has become an instrument of authoritarianism. No more laments for what it was; or talk of “abuses”; or wishful thinking about how they can’t get away with it. They can, if not confronted across the board. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-l...

BREAKING: A coalition of 1,000+ stars & film pros just jumped into the fight to support state AG's investigating the Paramount-Warners merger Not a done deal! We @democracydefendersfund.org @filmcoalition.bsky.social @1acommittee.bsky.social & other GREAT partners r proud to help #BlockTheMerger

Sadly, this is about the next election. He’s laying the groundwork to declare his election “emergency” to change rules and argue to courts they can’t question his national security judgment in war time. And if the Court does, he’s preparing to say that’s beyond their constitutional powers.

First with Venezuela & now with Iran Trump has commingled allegations of election interference with illegal war Could he use that as part of the pretext for an elections emergency executive order taking over the midterms? As I explain @contrariannews.org, if he tries we will shut him down in court

The next Big Lie is to taking shape right in front of us. Donald Trump will try to use this to assert illegal and unconstitutional powers over the 2026 elections.

What a gift such a clearly unconstitutional executive order would be! Though divorced from legal and factual reality, it would enable the courts to invalidate this power grab well in advance of the election, and confirm the clear limits to fed'l interference in elections. wapo.st/3N5cpEn

Fulton County voters will not be silenced

At the US Senate today supporting my Fulton County Commission Mo Ivory who is about to testify about our incredible Fulton County elections and push back on the maga lies and power grabs.

State of the Union speeches aren’t about policy – they’re about setting the narrative. If you hear about the 2020 election tonight, it’s not about the past. It’s about creating doubt that could be used to challenge the 2026 election. 🧵⬇️

1. The FBI affidavit used to seize ballots and other materials from the 2020 election in Fulton County relies on debunked conspiracy theories. For example, it isn’t true that Fulton first “reported” 511,343 ballots and then “reported” 527,925. I’ll explain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just amazing that this affidavit got a federal magistrate judge to approve an unprecedented federal seizure of ballots in Fulton County. The time to prep for similar shenanigans from the feds in 2026---before ballots are fully tabulated and any recounts/contests done---is now.

GOP Strategist Reminds Legislators There’s No Bad Ideas For Suppressing Black Vote https://theonion.com/gop-strategist-reminds-legislators-there-s-no-bad-ideas-1846449362/

NEW: The unsealing of the FBI’s search warrant affidavit for its raid of a Fulton County, Georgia, election facility prompted swift condemnation from voting rights advocates, election experts and former federal officials. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

The affidavit drew a rebuke from Georgia State University law professor Clark Cunningham, who reviewed it for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He said he’s surprised a judge issued a search warrant based on the evidence. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The Trump DOJ is recycling the same election conspiracy theories GA officials already debunked. Now those claims—pushed by the same network who fueled misleading 2020 claims that led to an insurrection—are getting dressed up & passed off as new "evidence." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

It's a bunch of rehashed nonsense. Trump, MAGA and the EIN folks just looking to create reasons and pretenses to block votes and voters this fall.

Some thoughts on the FBI’s raid of the Fulton County, GA election offices, seizing reams of sensitive voting records from 2020. We don’t yet know the justification, but there’s ample reason to be skeptical. There’s also ample reason to be alarmed; this escalation is dangerous. /1

They lose. They lie. They lash out. And they know they're losing.

Its so transparently predictable. The Admin is reeling over Epstein, cost of living and now ICE chaos and needs to change the subject. So they seize 2020 ballots and are gonna claim some bananas new "evidence" that Venezuela or China or Bhutan hacked voting systems to steal 2020. Just wait for it.

The Trump regime has blood on their hands- ICE shooting citizens dead on the street, using children as bait and trampling our constitutional rights. So what's the FBI up to today? Harassing the elections workers of Fulton county to take 2020 elections documents, www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Dems should introduce lots of such legislation, demand hearings and debate, make a huge fuss, use paid media to call out GOP members who are blocking their consideration--and make clear this GOP Congress is enabling the madness.

Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.

"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval." www.ms.now/opinion/minn...

"The man is the first to die in ICE custody in Georgia this year, and the fifth person to die in ICE custody in the U.S. so far this year." This year = 15 days. One husband, wife, mother, father, sister, brother, human being... every 3 days. www.wabe.org/man-dies-in-...

These guys are exactly who we think they are.

This from @booker.senate.gov

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Tyler Perry wasn’t being dramatic. He was being accurate. Black history is being censored, sanitized, and stripped from public memory. The Blackout Report tracks the tactics behind this erasure and the impact it has on our culture, safety, and political power.

Under Trump, 591 books by Black authors have been banned from Pentagon-run schools and libraries, according to Onyx Impact. @delanomassey.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/11/29/f...

Wonderful to run into my congresswoman this morning! So grateful for her work for our district and for fighting the good fight on DC. 💙 @repnikema.bsky.social

What a wonderful evening with @fairfightaction.bsky.social colleagues learning from @joycevance.bsky.social at her Atlanta book tour stop. Buy her book and read her substack; grateful for her no BS, clear analysis coming with the insights from her career fighting for justice in the South.

So to not be a terrorist now, you have to be PRO fascist? Am I getting it right?

1️⃣ Calling This Court “Supreme” Is Obeying in Advance When will legal and media elites stop passing off tyranny in robes as the rule of law? Why “Supreme Court Poised to Weaken Voting Rights Act,” when it should be “Republican Justices Appear Poised to Entrench Republican House Control"?

You go @jeffmerkley.bsky.social! The senator has been speaking on the floor since 6:24 last night denouncing Trump's authoritarian attacks on democracy Let's be loud--the American people are listening. Trump is down to historically Low 37% approval in recent polls www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt...

“The right to fair representation – the promise of government by the people – survives only when we refuse to surrender it.” @laurengw.bsky.social reports on the Voting Rights Act, as Trump pressures states to redraw electoral maps to favor Republicans. Read the article: zeteo.com/p/the-suprem...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings