Daily News | GOP wages an asymmetrical war on democracy because it can’t get the votes
It was the highlight reel of what should have been a banner week for American democracy — scores of down vest-wearing, smartphone-gazing students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in
of a campus building as they waited to cast a ballot for an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.at the campus polling place — more than any other precinct in Eau Claire, and nearly six times as many as voted there in a similar election four years earlier.
on election night. “But I do not have a worthy opponent to which I can concede.” He claimed without evidence that Protasiewicz is “a serial liar” and that the Democrat who defeated him doesn’t believe in the rule of law but “the rule of Janet.”It would be easy to dismiss Kelly’s election denial as unusually sour grapes, except that some lawmakers in the GOP majority in the Wisconsin legislature are — and this is hard to believe — alreadyProtasiewicz even before she takes the oath of office.
The Tennessee expulsions, tinged with a racism that echoed from 1960s civil rights protests with deep roots in
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Black Tennessee lawmakers call expulsion of their two members a 'horrific indictment' of the GOPBlack Tennessee state lawmakers are rebuking Republican members of the state's House of Representatives who voted to expel two Black legislators over their protests following the mass school shooting in Nashville, saying the effort was rooted in racism.
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The Black lawmakers expelled in Tennessee had been GOP targetsJustin Jones and Justin Pearson, the freshman lawmakers expelled in Tennessee after protesting against gun violence, had been targeted by Republicans for months.
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Tennessee GOP Show That Revenge Is Fascism's First Instinct'The Republican Party has devolved into an organized mob bent on revenge, because the people of America are rejecting their version of leadership and their abandonment of the principles of democracy,' writes Thom_Hartmann
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Tennessee GOP rep abruptly exits CNN interview after host berates him for expelling lawmakersTennessee state Republican Rep. Jeremy Faison abruptly walked off an interview with CNN after being lectured on expelling Democrats from the legislature.
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The Tennessee GOP’s move to stifle dissent is likely to backfireAdding insult to injury in Tennessee, Republicans expelled Jones and Pearson, who are Black. The expulsion vote for Johnson, who is white, fell short. Subtle, it was not. (via MaddowBlog)
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