#Democracy

ProgressivesYou all saw me promoting Warren day-in and day-out. Biden is trying to compromise between moderates and progressives. I think it is good to keep pushing left.But we are on
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"Every case of police brutality against a Negro follows the same pattern. They put their club upside your head, and then accuse you of attacking them."Malcolm X, 1963 "They attack
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A thread on American democracy and elections. The primary win of Laura Loomer is an excellent case to illustrate some structural problems. FL-21 was redrawn as a safe/solid D district
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I think today is a good day to have this conversation. There are myriad reasons why what happened yesterday happened, it's a compounding effect. But one I would like to
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It blows my fucking mind that eyewitness testimony and expert forensic witnesses were paraded out like sheep to the slaughter and we still have no resolution to the epic voter
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People Guilty of Promoting Far Right Propaganda:Nigel FarageDominic CummingsDarren GrimesArron BanksBoris JohnsonMichael GovePriti PatelMatthew ElliotDouglas CarswellRichard TiceYou WILL be brought to justice for the Murder of Jo Cox.http:/
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Too much democracy, a thread. In the head of the Hindu RW, political change still happens through the medium of executive legislating like a monarchy and who better to demonstrate
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From outrage, sadness to action: 10 things you can do to help revitalize democracy (1/10) Subscribe and listen to the “How to Citizen” podcast by the incredible @baratunde -https://baratunde.com/howtocitizen  (2/10)
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Georgia purchased Its touchscreen voting machines—which failed miserably today—from “Dominion, whose lobbyist, Jared Thomas, was Governor Brian Kemp’s chief of staff and press secretary from 2012 to 2015 when Kemp
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A thread: I'll be discussing this with my Comparative Politics students, but wanted to share on here as well. Statements like "we look like a third world country" or "this
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Apropos discussion of how well the ‘guardrails’ have held up in the face of a vicious frontal assault: my perspective is ‘pretty well.’ Notwithstanding McConnell’s maniacally obsessed “court packing,” the
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THREAD (I’ll build this one as I go.) my daughter gave me a copy of “The Death of Democracy”, by @BenjaminHett. This excellent book explores the fall of the Weimar
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Another example of why the bipartisan neoliberal establishment which Biden embodies must be displaced from power. We do not in fact need a Republican Party. It is a fascist party,
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Let me tell you a story. (1/x)https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1340866796786741250 Timothy Pickering had a resume that any modern politician would envy – war hero, postmaster general, secretary of war, secretary of state –
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WE'RE ABOUT TO START! Welcome to our first event of 2021. This event is based on our Special Issue on Democracy without Shortcuts. You can read the SI here: https://delibdemjournal.org/32/volume/16/issue/2/
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Like a lot of people on the left, I have spent much of my adult life being lectured by Republicans about how they and ONLY they really care about democracy
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