#Gerrymandering

Barry Burden

bcburden

A thread on the #ElectoralCollege as voting gets underway. This is day that 538 privileged people out of 239 million eligible voters actually get to vote for president and vice

Doctora Malka Older

m_older

The past four years have shown us how precarious our democracy-adjacent system is. It's time to make the U.S. more democratic. My latest for @ForeignPolicy https://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/1333493537112027138 Democracy hasn'

Margaret Owen, Temporary Hermit

what_eats_owls

The most American thing I can think of is that 57 people voted to convict and 43 voted to acquit, and the 43 people won We can teach kids that

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

HC_Richardson

The problem is not necessarily the Electoral College; the problem is that in the early 19th C the EC changed from a deliberative system to a winner-take-all system. Both add

President Kamala’s Hand (STILL)

DearDean22

Here is what @icecube is promoting in this below speech. Looks like Mr. Cube is advocating voting for Democrats up/down ticket. Let's take a look. We will also include how

Torr Leonard

torrHL

“there are four ways to change our form of govt w/o changing the written Constitution—and to restore liberty.First, in the case of Senate, we have to abolish the filibuster and

TrumpsTaxes

TrumpsTaxes

PENNSYLVANIA STATE SUPREME COURT THREADThe PA State Supreme Court has 7 Justices.Justices are elected in statewide elections.But since Democrats hold 5 seats and Republicans hold only 2, the GOP naturally

Restrained Elegance

RElegance

Thoughts for 2021 (not exactly cheery I'm afraid).1) Brexit is finally "done" and it's consequences will reverberate through the next decade or more. It is a stupid act of national

Edward L. Ayers

edward_l_ayers

1/ Two Centuries of Black Migration Led to Democrats’ Victory in 2020 (The Deep Demography That Structures American Politics — as posted on Medium via @newamericanhist ) 2/ The subtleties

David Byler

databyler

new piece on state legislatures! basically it's a deep dive on how we got from democratic domination 40 years ago to GOP wins now https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/18/republicans-now-enjoy-unmatched-power-states-it-was-40-

Bullock is the superior Steve #blm #mmiw

MT_Tomedian

President Trump has nearly completed his wall.It is not a wall of steel and concrete to keep people out. It is a wall of failed democracy and failed diplomacy to

Gennady Rudkevich

grudkev

I might do a thread on this later, but for now, let me point out that all electoral fraud is not the same. There is pre-election fraud, election-day fraud, and

Kathleen OKeeffe

beerwxsports

The repercussions of Wednesday’s insurrection are still reverberating through my brain, as I am sure they are yours. I don’t think that people realize how close we came, the United

yvette nicole brown

YNB

Isn’t it interesting that every time the Senate is asked to do THEIR constitutional duty of convicting & removing a criminal “president” they kick the can and the responsibility down

Josh

jr_foust

If the trends hold, and we get President Biden and Majority Leader McConnell, we can game plan out hard things we need to be prepared to do:1) Behave like we

Libertarian Redhead 🦇

LibertarianRed1

"Trump is a libertarian" Me: hold my whiskey, thread to follow. https://t.co/Jv2t4pmUWj Let's start with the LP platform regarding the death penalty. We oppose the state administration of it, in

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