Tierney Sneed at Talking Points Memo Reports, Congressional Push To Restore The Voting Rights Act Picks Up: While Democrats’ sweeping democracy overhaul HR 1 has run into obstacles in the Senate [- ahem, Joe Manchin’s and Kyrsten Sinema’s inexplicable devotion to the Jim Crow relic Senate filibuster rule -] attention has turned to the separate … Read more
“Let The People Decide” Arizona International Film Festival <reelfrontier@gmail.com VOTER SUPPRESSION LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE at the ARIZONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Online Film: April 17-20 * Online Panel: April 18 “A lot of people aren’t even AWARE of the attack on voting rights that’s going on, and that’s what makes Let The People Decide so important” –Ari Berman, Mother Jones “Essential viewing … Read more
As Hannibal Smith from the A Team used to say, “I love it when a plan comes together.” More than 100 chief executives and corporate leaders gathered online Saturday to discuss taking new action to combat the GQP Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression bills being introduced across the country, including the bill recently signed into … Read more
Update to A Creative Solution To Democratize The Senate Filibuster Rule. I posted about a creative solution to the anti-democratic Jim Crow relic Senate filibuster rule that even Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema would be hard pressed to argue against. Don’t eliminate the filibuster. Democratize it. They proved me wrong this past week. I suppose … Read more
The right-wing rag National Review, founded by snooty patrician William F. Buckley, Jr., the founder of modern movement conservatism, defended white supremacy and American Apartheid (sate sanctioned racial segregation and Jim Crow black codes). The Intercept reflects that In 1957, Buckley wrote an editorial entitled “Why The South Must Prevail.” The South does not want to … Read more