Chaos Muppet, Order Rising. Managing Director, ResearchCollaborative.org. Young(ish) Leader, Munich Security Conference + Friends of Europe. Former CEO of GlobalZero.org. Radicalized by basic decency. Made in #Iowa with parts from #Iran. he/him 🇦🇲
Derek Johnson
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Now seems like a good time to remind everyone that the only way to destroy an entire civilization overnight is with nuclear weapons, and Donald Trump has the absolute power as President to follow through on that threat. It could take as little as 5 minutes.
Here's how it would go down:
The Roberts Court majority may be pretending they don't know the Voting Rights Act is what ended Jim Crow and their decision to gut it is license to take us back ("again") to stealing power from Black voters, but Americans do:
Happening now in a packed room at @netrootsnation.bsky.social: “Wins Are Replicable: From Mamdani to Minnesota to Middle America” with @anatosaurus.bsky.social, @jlemonsk.bsky.social, @heyansa.bsky.social and Gabriella Zutrau
The ballot box still matters. But the ballot box alone won’t save us.
Happening now at #NN26: @anatosaurus.bsky.social, @tarabuss.bsky.social, Fenika Miller and Scot Nakagawa on elections under authoritarianism and what it takes to defend our freedoms as MAGA rewrites the rules to hold onto power.
This conversation is worth a re-watch in light of the Callais decision.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
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.
MAGA justices on the Supreme Court are doing everything in their power to help bring back Jim Crow. And many, many Americans understand that's exactly what the Callais does. www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court’s MAGA Justices just green-lit discrimination against Black voters.
By taking away key protections from the Voting Rights Act, the white supremacist faction is imposing Jim Crow 2.0 so they can control our elections and seize more power.
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