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@isabelegodi and I are so grateful for everyone for voting and supporting us. With the power of the students & student workers behind us, we won and got DOUBLE the votes of the next alliance below us.
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LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, US Capitol Rotunda, 1965.
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.@AOC responds to this trend: "BOOOOO"
"This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together. And I think that the discourse around 'Everyone, let's all be like billionaires and opt out of our taxes,' I don't find it an inspiring message."
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur
New: Tax cuts are the HOTTEST new idea for Democrats Booker & Van Hollen (both 2028 prospects) unveil big tax-cut plans. Katie Porter says exempt $100K in income from California taxes. Keisha Lance Bottoms says exempt teachers from Georgia taxes. Pitched as answer to cost-of-living struggles. BUT: It has spurred a “wonk revolt” from liberal and moderate policy experts. The latter say the math won’t add up. The former say treating taxes as a punishment undermines the pursuit of a safety net. nbcnews.com/politics/elect…
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It's nearly impossible to disentangle race and partisanship in the South, which is why this ruling could have such apocalyptic consequences for Black representation across the Deep South (more likely in '28 than '26).
Zachary Donnini@ZacharyDonnini
Not a legal expert, but to my plain reading this is the passage in the ruling that seems most concerning for the future strength of Section 2, and likely why Elena Kagan was so alarmed in dissent. The key question going forward: can plaintiffs produce evidence for any current Black-majority Southern district showing that racially polarized voting exists in a way that cannot simply be explained by party affiliation?
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Today’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act is a devastating reminder that if we want to create a fairer democracy - one where Republicans cannot silence entire communities - we need to elect and support state legislators in every state across the country. /1
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ultimately he’s the only candidate in california taking the only issue in california as seriously as it needs to be taken
Tom Steyer@TomSteyer
California's affordability crisis starts with housing. I'll build one million homes in four years by changing how we build — because it would be insanity to do the same thing we're currently doing and expect a different result. My detailed plan: tomsteyer.com/issues/housing
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Basically “you can’t strike down something as a racial gerrymander if it’s necessary in order to get a partisan gerrymander”. We’ve moved from “partisan gerrymandering is non-justiciable” to “it’s A-ok and in fact can be used as an excuse for racial gerrymandering”
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It's uncouth to say it, but the Calais decision and really all VRA decisions of the Roberts Court seem reversed engineered to do whatever helps Republicans win Elections.
"You can't claim they were discriminating on race which is illegal as opposed to partisan gerrymandering, which is legal. You need to find evidence of racial discrimination."
Just happens to be true that partisan gerrymandering in the Deep South is de facto racial gerrymandering and will net Republican seats.
They come up with some textual support that I don't find overly compelling.
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The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good has been quietly relocated to a different state and allowed to resume work. thedailybeast.com/ice-agent-jona…
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Susan Collins put Alito, Roberts, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh on the bench.
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woah you mean the teachers know more than taylor lorenz? woah woahhhh
YIMBYLAND@YIMBYLAND
This is legitimately insane. Banning cell phones in schools might turn out to be the best thing we’ve done for our kids in a generation.
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The United States has only been genuinely a democracy since 1965. Today the Supreme Court gutted the legislation that made it possible.
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NAACP President Derrick Johnson statement on SCOTUS's Louisiana v. Callais ruling:
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Any Dem in 2028 who makes excuses for not packing the court is not getting my vote in a primary. End of discussion.
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
Justice Kagan writes in her dissent that the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v Callais “enters Section 2 all but a dead letter” The court’s decision could pave the way for southern states to draw out majority Black congressional districts.
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Russ Vought is changing federal worker performance reviews to limit who can get the best ratings. Then he wants to base layoffs on those reviews, while exempting political appointees from the process. The result: more MAGA embeds in government.
prospect.org/2026/04/29/rus…
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Hey at least we're not iran. We don't have an unelected panel of clerics ruling over us or anything.
VoteHub@VoteHub
KAGAN in her dissent: "The Callais requirements have thus laid the groundwork for the largest reduction in minority representation since the era following Reconstruction."
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Thank you @AOC for stating the obvious: the anti-tax obsession is effectively a tax on young American workers just starting out in the economy.
NOTUS@NOTUSreports
The differences between Rep. AOC’s and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ approach to tax cut plans are indicative of the divides Democrats must bridge as they form their agenda going into 2028. notus.org/economy/democr…
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The majority has willfully misread the Constitution & the VRA to produce this anti-voter decision
Never mind that it technically leaves Section 2 in place
The criteria they establish are impossible to meet — rendering Section 2 a nullity in effect
ms.now/deadline-white…
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Everyone is discussing CONGRESSIONAL districts.
But the VRA's effects were up and down the ballot, with huge implications for who holds local power.
Here's a story on how a Tennessee community was bracing for SCOTUS. boltsmag.org/voting-rights-…
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Justice Kagan:
"I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.' It was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers. It ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people's representatives in Congress. Only they have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the Members of this Court. I dissent, then, from this latest chapter in the majority's now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act."
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