Ted ‘Cancún’ Cruz Led A Seditious Insurrection, Now Is Leading GQP Voter Suppression And Disenfranchisement

Authoritarian wannabe tinpot dictator, Donald Trump, said the quiet part out loud last year: “They had things [in the bill], levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends [of Fascism].

Trump openly admitting if we made voting easier in America, Republicans wouldn't win elections

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Trump: "The things they had in there were crazy. They had levels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again." pic.twitter.com/x5HmX6uogo

— Lis Power (@LisPower1) March 30, 2020

After losing the election in a landslide, Trump incited a violent seditious insurrection against the United States government to overturn the election on January 6, aided and abetted in his efforts by 147 Republican members of Congress who voted against certifying the Electoral College results even after the MAGA/QAnon cult’s violent insurrection threatened to “hang Mike Pence” and injured over 140 police officers, in particular, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-M)) and Ted “Cancún” Cruz (R-TX).

Now Ted “Cancún” Cruz is echoing authoritarian wannabe tinpot dictator Donald Trump. The AP reports, ‘An all-hands moment’: GOP rallies behind voting limits:

On an invitation-only call last week, Sen. Ted Cruz huddled with Republican state lawmakers to call them to battle on the issue of voting rights.

Democrats are trying to expand voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters,” [Ted is in the QAnon cult?] he claimed, and Republicans must do all they can to stop them. If they push through far-reaching election legislation now before the Senate, the GOP won’t win elections again for generations, he said.

Asked if there was room to compromise, Cruz was blunt: “No.”

“H.R. 1′s only objective is to ensure that Democrats can never again lose another election, that they will win and maintain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and of the state legislatures for the next century,” Cruz said told the group organized by the “Kochtopus” American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-backed, conservative group that provides model legislation to state legislators.

This is an admission by this POS Ted “Cancún” Cruz that Republicans have nothing to offer Americans, that they are a post-truth, post-policy propaganda machine that only engages in performative politics to “own the libs,” having abandoned responsible governance, and they are a tyranny of the minority that can only win through the anti-democratic Electoral College, gerrymandering, voter suppression and disenfranchisement, Senate apportionment and the Senate filibuster.

Cruz’s statements, recorded by a person on the call and obtained by The Associated Press, capture the building intensity behind Republicans’ nationwide campaign to restrict access to the ballot. From statehouses to Washington, the fight over who can vote and how — often cast as “voting integrity” — has galvanized a Republican Party in search of unifying mission in the post-Trump era. For a powerful network of conservatives, voting restrictions are now viewed as a political life-or-death debate, and the fight has all-but eclipsed traditional Republican issues like abortion, gun rights and tax cuts as an organizing tool.

That potency is drawing influential figures and money from across the right, ensuring that the clash over the legislation in Washington will be partisan and expensive.

“It kind of feels like an all-hands-on-deck moment for the conservative movement, when the movement writ large realizes the sanctity of our elections is paramount and voter distrust is at an all-time high,” [sown by Republicans and their “voter fraud” fraud] said Jessica Anderson, executive director of Heritage Action, an influential conservative Confederate advocacy group in Washington. “We’ve had a bit of a battle cry from the grassroots, urging us to pick this fight.”

White grievances to “Save my white privilege!” “Don’t let them minorities vote!”

Several prominent groups have recently entered the fray: Anti-abortion rights group, the Susan B. Anthony List, has partnered with another conservative Christian group to fund a new organization, the Election Transparency Initiative. FreedomWorks, a group formed to push for smaller government, has initiated a $10 million calling for tighter voting laws in the states. It will be run by Cleta Mitchell, a prominent Republican attorney who advised former President Donald Trump.

So more sedition from this disgraced lawyer. Trump Attorney Cleta Mitchell Resigns From Law Firm After Participating In President’s Georgia Phone Call:

Conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell resigned from the law firm Foley & Lardner Tuesday, the firm said in a statement, after the lawyer participated in President Donald Trump’s phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger trying to overturn the presidential election results and her involvement in Trump’s post-election efforts became public.

Meanwhile, Heritage Action has announced a new effort also focused on changes in state voting laws. It included a $700,000 ad campaign to back GOP-written bills in Georgia, the group’s first foray into advocating for state policy.

So far, the states have been the center of the debate. More than 250 bills have have been introduced in 43 states that would change how Americans vote, according to a tally by the Brennan Center for Justice, which backs expanded voting access. That includes measures that would limit mail voting, cut hours that polling places are open and impose restrictions that Democrats argue amounts to the greatest assault on voting rights since Jim Crow.

That push was triggered by Trump’s lies that he lost the presidential election due to fraud — claims rejected by the courts and by prominent Republicans — and the Jan. 6 seditious insurrection on the U.S. Capitol that those groundless claims sparked.

But the fight over voting laws now extends far beyond Trump and is shifting to Washington, where the Democratic-led Senate will soon consider an array of voting changes. The package, known as H.R. 1, would require states to automatically register eligible voters, as well as offer same-day registration. It would limit states’ ability to purge registered voters from their rolls and restore former felons’ voting rights. Among dozens of other provisions, it would also require states to offer 15 days of early voting and allow no-excuse absentee balloting. Democrats, who are marshaling their own resources behind the bill, argue it is necessary to block what they describe as voter suppression efforts in the states.

Republicans contend it’s a grab bag of long-sought Democratic goals aimed at tilting elections in their favor. Cruz claimed it would lead to voting by millions of “criminals and illegal aliens.”

The bill “says America would be better off if more murderers were voting, America would be better off if more rapists and child molesters were voting,” Cruz said.

Fuck this POS. The bill obviously does not say this. Cruz is a seditious insurrectionist who tried to overthrow American democracy for American fascism under a corrupt and criminal tinpot dictator, Donald Trump. The major newspapers in Texas called on him to resign. Instead he has doubled-down.

The Constitution currently tilts elections in favor of a tyranny of the minority. There is a structural bias toward the Republicans that is built into the Senate because of the overrepresentation of sparsely populated rural states (the 50 Democratic senators represent upward of 41 million more people than the 50 Republican senators), and the Electoral College (Democrats have won the popular vote in seven out of eight straight presidential elections. In a genuine democracy, we would not have had to endure the miserable failures of George W. Bush and Donald Trump). Ted “Cancún” Cruz wants to preserve this unfair advantage to Republicans, because it’s the only way he survives.

Cruz added that he had recently participated in an all-day strategy call with national conservative leaders to coordinate opposition. [First he led a seditious insurrection, now he leads voter suppression and disenfranchisement.] The leaders agreed that Republicans would seek to rebrand the Democratic-backed bill as the “Corrupt Politicians Act,” he said.

Some serious psychological projection there – the “vast right-wing conspiracy” IS the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C. Jim Crow voter suppression and disenfranchisement to preserve white supremacy is the very definition of corrupt politicians.

The focus on voting is visible across the conservative movement, even among groups with no clear interest in the voting debate. At a televised town hall in February, leading Christian conservative Tony Perkins fielded several questions about voting before tackling topics on the social issues his Family Research Council typically focuses on.

Perkins answered the question by recalling how voting laws were made stricter in his native Louisiana after a close 1996 Senate race won by Democrats. He noted that the state now votes solidly Republican. [“Voter suppression works!“]

Stronger voting regulations have long been a conservative goal, driven by old — and some say outdated — conventional wisdom that Republicans thrive in elections with lower turnout, and Democrats in ones with more voters. That has translated to GOP efforts to tighten voter identification laws and require more frequent voter roll purges. Both efforts tend to disproportionally exclude Black and Latino voters, groups that lean Democratic.

In a sign of the increasing attention to the issue last year, Leonard Leo, a Trump advisor and one of the strategists behind the conservative Federalist Society, formed The Honest Elections Project (sic) to push for voting restrictions and coordinate GOP effort to monitor the 2020 vote.

But the issue expanded beyond what many conservatives expected. As Trump groundlessly blamed fraud for his loss, and he and his allies lost more than 60 court cases trying to overturn the election, his conservative base became convinced of vague “irregularities” and holes in the voting system.

While Leo’s group, like other parts of the establishment GOP, kept a distance from such claims, state lawmakers stepped in quickly with bills aimed at fixing phantom problems and restoring confidence in the system.

Leo’s group has since released a list of its preferred voting law changes.

Similarly, other outside groups soon jumped into the debate that’s roiling their activists who write the letters, make phone calls and send the small donations that keep the groups relevant.

So fundraising off of voter suppression and disenfranchisement. Goddamn white supremacists!

H.R. 1 would override these GQP voter suppression and disenfranchisement measures. Congress Could Change Everything:

The GQP legislative campaign to suppress the vote can — and must — be stopped by Congress. The Brennan Center has analyzed each of the restrictive voting bills pending in the states and concludes that The For the People Act (H.R. 1/S. 1) would thwart virtually every single one. The For the People Act, which passed the United States House of Representatives in early March, is a transformative bill that would expand voting rights and strengthen our democracy.

Call your Senators and demand that they support H.R. 1 to thwart the greatest assault on voting rights in this country since the end of Reconstruction in 1876. If that means getting rid of the anti-democratic Senate filibuster rule from the Jim Crow era, senators must support reforming or “nuking” the filibuster rule in defense of American democracy’s most fundamental right, the right to vote. End Republican minority tyranny now.