Our totally kickass RA Arlyss Herzig just published a big SOLO piece on the effects of prison gerrymandering in the US. Check it out, and share it widely! www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

I've been thinking about this speech all day. Specifically: "Never forget that this is not a political battle. This is a spiritual battle. It is about us, the people of Christ and the people of God, against those evil liars in Washington, DC, and all over the great cities of the world." ...

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This is important work! Read it!

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!

Roger Stone: Just a Really Normal Dude

Our totally kickass RA Arlyss Herzig just published a big SOLO piece on the effects of prison gerrymandering in the US. Check it out, and share it widely! www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

As I've spent way, way too much time listening to Fuentes and Jones and company in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021, I'm consistently surprised by how ANGRY they are at the Republican establishment and folks like Tucker Carlson. The seeds of the revolt in the Republican party are right there

L O L (Alex Jones before the Jan 6 Committee)

I read this when it was published & just re-read it. Highly recommend. Builds on decades of research to put this moment into context, explain how we got here, & why it's SO HARD to fix this with elections.

Important for us as election scientists to be more careful about how we talk about critical states during the midterms. When we use "swing states" to refer to places like NY and CA (states with many swing districts and where state election admin could be targeted) people have no clue what we mean

The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.

With Trump once again blaming Black cities for "voter fraud," it's worth revisiting our piece about why this is a playbook as old as the nation --- and how it makes these accusations more believable to Whites: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hard to overstate how unusual and dangerous it is that they are laying this groundwork so far ahead of the midterms. www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon...

My spouse got scammed by a shitty dentist who A) refused to submit an insurance claim for months, B) then gave us patient notes explaining that it was a certain code not covered by her insurance, then C) changed the code when we told them the original code really was covered. Anything we can do?

Something to keep your eye on: the Republicans are trying to attach the SAVE Act, the "show your papers to register to vote" bill that'd disenfranchise millions, to the funding deal

This piece about the Fulton County raid earlier this week from @rickhasen.bsky.social is worth your time:

Playing around with some CMPS data from 2020, and this is interesting (if unsurprising): White respondents' views on the VRA were more strongly linked with belief in fraud in 2020 than PID or ideology (after accounting for whether they supported Trump)

Calling this a "long-held, but unproven belief" is like calling flat-eartherism "unproven." Yes, we have not proved that the earth is flat, BECAUSE WE'VE PROVED THE OPPOSITE

FBI agents execute search warrant at Fulton County elections office near Atlanta | AP News share.google/Nel1jYf7lQdS...

Being a grown up means getting to buy yourself the BIG bag of knock-off Fruit Loops on a snow day

The federal government is executing American citizens in the middle of the street for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech. This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.

My friends, we are in a serious constitutional crisis. The government is racially profiling, suppessing free speech, killing our own people in the streets— and lying about every fact along the way. If we don’t use our natural talents and voices to say “no,” then what’s the point of law at all?

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

This is one of the times you remember patriotism isn’t about flags on the Fourth

If DuBois could be patriotic, you can be too

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

Look if you keep talking about non-voters and you're not mentioning voter suppression in the same breath, you're not serious about addressing the problem of people not voting www.brennancenter.org/topics/votin...

if you can afford to spend 30 seconds chatting and trying to look nonchalant as you fumble with a gas canister, perhaps you are not in a scenario where chemical weapons are warranted

Charlie Kirk didn't want to tell the J6 committee his age or his affiliation, but boy was he proud to represent Arizona

Like many of the other Americans who turn 16 today, Citizens United proves to be a giant pain in the ass.

Sunday funday coming up here in NYC

I will say that watching Fuentes definitely develop Covid in the days after J6 is extremely funny

I've spent the past 3 hours listening to Nick Fuentes episodes and, man, I think I need a shower after that.

I've been thinking this week about the dismay among Reconstruction advocates when SCOTUS ruled that the 14A and KKK Acts only protected against state violations, not individual ones. It was rightly understand as devastating. But stopping state actors from violating federal rights is v important!!

I argued that communities targeted by ICE should be granted citizenship immediately. This is both a matter of justice and an imperative if we're going to crush fascism. Fascism thrives where there are groups that lack full rights. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/for-immigr...

Will this be the final knife in the back of the Second Reconstruction? John Roberts appears ready to go for broke, the great @ariberman.bsky.social tells me. Find out why he expects the Republicans on the Supreme Court to kill off what's left of the Voting Rights Act any day now,

Good vibes out there today

I am re-reading the January 6th report and, specifically, David Remnick's intro to it. It's remarkable to be reminded of real-time accounts of how differently this could have gone. I recommend revisiting it: www.newyorker.com/news/america...

Phew. The VRA lives to see another day.

No Callais

really appreciated this from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social on the importance of voluntary associations, even if for no purpose greater than making life livable in a time of increasing nightmares and a shrinking public square www.unpopularfront.news/p/living-in-...

Can anyone explain why we all think a major SCOTUS opinion is coming Friday? Or is it all just vibes?

Here's an interesting little fact: According to the 2020 CES, 98% of people who voted (are voter validated) voted in their district's House election. But according to CVR data, only *88%* of people who cast a ballot voted in their Congressional contest.

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

Five years ago.

My most cherished undergrad prof just shared this poem with me this evening. A really lovely sentiment to carry into this year (And yes, if you went to Boston College during a certain era, you'll recognize the Mark O'Connor-ness of this)

Man. Trump v USA. What a bad decision 🌲🌲🌲