On the eve of the March on Washington in 1963, Heather Cox Richardson rehearses the history that has gotten us to our current state of national peril.
As she notes, when the Democratic party began standing with Black Americans in their struggle to vote, white voters moved en masse to the Republican party and began spreading absurd lies about voter fraud, to justify curbing Black voting rights.
#Republicans #racism #voting
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The packing of the Supreme Court by Republican presidents led that "august" body to knock down provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and in 2020, the Republican party under Trump tried to iinvalidate the votes of millions of Black and brown voters, treating those votes as invalid.
And here we are. Here we've brought ourselves as a nation under the impulse of gross racism and lies.
#Republicans #racism #voting #BigLie #Trump #crime #insurrection
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Hard to lie about cases of ballots being wheeled out from under the counter after observers have gone in Georgia.
Or white vans full of ballotsmysteriously arriving in the middle of the night in Detroit.
Or the USPS semitrailer full of ballots driven from New York to Pennsylvania
#stolenelections
