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. @realDonaldTrump & @GOP candidates aren't running against @JoeBiden or Dems. They're running against Democracy & free elections.
For @TexasGOP, nothing new. @GregAbbott_TX & @TexasGOP have spent years undermining fair elections.
Here's a list of 10 & it could be way longer:
For @TexasGOP, nothing new. @GregAbbott_TX & @TexasGOP have spent years undermining fair elections.
Here's a list of 10 & it could be way longer:
1. Way back in 2006, @GregAbbott_TX diverted federal funds to create a phony voter fraud unit that harassed & falsely prosecuted Black & Latino Sr. citizens to stop them from voting.
https://lonestarproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/txagcrime51806.pdf
https://lonestarproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/Some_say_voting_law_being_used_to_scare_mino.PDF
https://lonestarproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/LSP-LSP-Report-Gloria-Meeks-Statement.pdf
https://lonestarproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/txagcrime51806.pdf
https://lonestarproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/Some_say_voting_law_being_used_to_scare_mino.PDF
https://lonestarproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/LSP-LSP-Report-Gloria-Meeks-Statement.pdf
2. In 2011, @GregAbbott_TX AG office designed the strategy & drove the decade-long legal fight to configure & defend congressional, St House & St Senate maps that federal courts ruled intentionally discriminate against Black & Latino Texans.
https://lonestarproject.net/2013/06/14/texas-gop-leaders-have-forfeited-trust-on-redistricting/
https://lonestarproject.net/2013/06/14/texas-gop-leaders-have-forfeited-trust-on-redistricting/
3. Abbott worked with @texasgop leaders in the St House & Senate to construct & adopt the most restrictive Voter ID law in the nation & was ruled intentionally discriminatory.
https://lonestarproject.net/2017/04/10/breaking-judge-rules-voter-id-law-is-intentionally-discriminatory/
https://lonestarproject.net/2017/04/10/breaking-judge-rules-voter-id-law-is-intentionally-discriminatory/
4. @texasgop, led by @GregAbbott_TX, used taxpayer funds arguing in the Shelby Co v Holder SCOTUS case to dismantle crucial pre-clearance requirements in the VRA. Within minutes of the decision, they imposed discriminatory voting laws on Texans. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/effects-shelby-county-v-holder
5. @GregAbbott_TX w/ @texasgop statewide & legislative leaders have constructed barriers to voter registration that block eligibility at every level. Registration laws in TX are among the most restrictive in the nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/texass-voter-registration-laws-are-straight-out-of-the-jim-crow-playbook/
6. @GregAbbott_TX was essentially a "friendly defendant" in the Evenwel SCOTUS case - a legal effort to force redistricting to be done using voting-age population & not actual population, an obvious play to avoid representing/serving Texans of color. https://www.vox.com/2016/4/4/11360944/evenwel-abbott-one-person-vote
7. This election cycle, @GregAbbott_TX conspired w/ @KenPaxtonTX & GOP @TXsecofstate to purge tens of thousands of Latino voters from the voting rolls. And, Abbott lied about his complicity in the scheme.
https://lonestarproject.net/2019/02/27/federal-judge-slaps-down-abbott-paxton-texas-voter-purge/
https://lonestarproject.net/2019/01/31/beware-texas-gop-leaders-planning-a-voter-purge/
https://lonestarproject.net/2019/02/08/abbott-and-whitley-stories-dont-jibe/
https://lonestarproject.net/2019/02/27/federal-judge-slaps-down-abbott-paxton-texas-voter-purge/
https://lonestarproject.net/2019/01/31/beware-texas-gop-leaders-planning-a-voter-purge/
https://lonestarproject.net/2019/02/08/abbott-and-whitley-stories-dont-jibe/
8. @GregAbbott_TX, @DanPatrick & @TexasGOP have refused to invest in assuring a complete and/or accurate 2020 Census - forfeiting $billions in revenue & seats in Congress to block a full count of TX minority residents. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/us/census-california-texas-undercount.html
9. Right now, @KenPaxtonTX, on behalf of @GregAbbott_TX & @texasgop is in state & federal court arguing against expanded mail ballot voting in TX. They are the lead cheerleaders in @realDonaldTrump 's attack on voting in 2020.
https://lonestarproject.net/2020/04/10/new-gop-voter-suppression-strategy-hurts-all-texas-voters/
https://lonestarproject.net/2020/04/10/new-gop-voter-suppression-strategy-hurts-all-texas-voters/
10. All along, @GregAbbott_TX has distorted facts & lied about intentions to frame @texasgop 's hostility to people of color, fair elections, & civil/voting rights as somehow appropriate.
See Abbott op-ed factually rebutted after nearly every paragraph: https://lonestarproject.net/2013/08/01/abbotts-dishonest-op-ed/
See Abbott op-ed factually rebutted after nearly every paragraph: https://lonestarproject.net/2013/08/01/abbotts-dishonest-op-ed/
