There's a story about Ben Franklin emerging from the Constitutional Convention & telling a woman who asked what type of government they’d created, “a Republic, if you can keep it.” The #2024election is the moment where we find out if we can.
If #Trump wins in 2024, we lose the Republic. That’s not drama, and that’s not overstatement. That’s what Trump is promising. It's what he's been working on since at least October of 2020.
fearing Lincoln’s election would lead to the national abolition of slavery (a hyperbolic, reactionary response), a series of southern states seceded from the union and formed an avowedly white supremacist confederacy of slave states. that was the cause of the civil war.
Well, well, well, look who's finally taken off the fucking kid gloves; these four billboards are up around the location for tonight's GOP slugfest/debate/veep sweepstakes for an Incarcerated Former Guy in Milwaukee.
Before the mid-2000s and the widespread adoption of social media, we only would have had one or two presidential polls, conducted by Gallup, at this point in the cycle. They’re just anxiety-bait, with little to no predictive value, and are safe to ignore. #uspol#2024election
👀 “A lawyer from Palm Beach County has filed one of the first legal challenges to disqualify #Trump from the 2024 presidential race under a clause in the U.S. Constitution's #14thAmendment.
Coming into the #2024Election understand that the anti-abortion movement will never let up, despite overturning #RoeVWade And their bet is that justice-minded people are feeling too helpless and burned-out to fight back against their redoubled efforts to attack bodily autonomy post-Roe.
But the truth is that there are real ways to fend off their attacks and win, writes @andreagrimes
Congressional testimony: Michael Cohen: “Trump claimed his medical deferment was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery…He finished the conversation with the following comment: ‘You think I'm stupid, I wasn't going to Vietnam.’”
There were no medical records, there was no surgery.
We need anti-fascist vaccines. Unfortunately, those who need them are anti vaxxers.
GOP Rep. Elise #Stefanik won't commit to certifying the #2024election results - NBC News
ADDED, via Rupar:
Stefanik on if she's comfortable with Trump paraphrasing Hitler: "We have the media which is so biased, which is reiterating whatever the talking points the Biden campaign is giving. Our border crisis is poisoning American through fentanyl ... so yes, I stand by Pres Trump"
This study looked at deaths in both #Florida and #Ohio during the first 22 months of the pandemic and found the overall excess death rate of Republican voters was 15% higher than that of Democrats.
The gap widened further to 43% once COVID-19 vaccines were introduced, esp in OHIO.
The gap is still widening.
I wonder how this will play out in the general #2024election, the first real election test since the study, esp Ohio.
THIS is why #Trump is betting it all on winning in #2024election, pardoning himself & every one of his enablers, & rounding up his Democratic rivals & his critics & shutting them down for good.
We can’t let that happen.
Rick Hasen: #ELB: “Death threats and harassment: 2024 election workers already are scared” https://ift.tt/aRKE4Ip
This article names the names & calls out those who are treating 2024 as just another presidential election year. None of these players will thrive under a trump regime.
2024 is the year we must ALL come together to save our democracy from this narcissist, with no abiding ideals or loyalties (only naked self-interest). We can resume our regular partisan politics after the common enemy has been vanquished! #2024Election
Tammy Murphy, N.J. Governor’s Wife, Prepares to Run for #Menendez’s Seat
Ms. Murphy has never held or sought elected office but is in a strong position to take advantage of the scandal swirling around Senator Robert Menendez. #2024election#NewJersey
Discussion with Attorneys and Reporters discussing that we now know Donald Trump committed crimes to win his first election. We know that he committed crimes to try to overturn his second election loss with the insurrection and fraudulent elector scheme. Republicans are coconspirators in the election fraud and knowing lies to Americans. #2024election#vote
Pundits are everywhere, giving their analyses of current events, politics and the state of the world. You’ll hear a lot more from them this #election year.
But are they good for democracy?
Among other things, remember that pundits are not trained in #journalism. Just because they appear in a journalistic setting doesn’t mean they are adhering to the ethical and accountability standards of journalism.
Highly recommend this. #Project2025 has a context, which @tzimmer_history lays out, and represents the many factions aligning around major plans and agendas for remaking federal government should Trump win another term — but goes far beyond him in its aspirations. Mainstream #Journalism needs to do much more to report on, contextualize, etc. #USPol#2024electionhttps://mastodon.social/
#SouthCarolina to use #CongressionalMap deemed #unconstitutional #SCOTUS heard arguments on the redistricting case in Oct but has yet to rule🤬, essentially running out the clock for the #2024election. A #federal#court ruled Thurs that time had run out to draw a new congressional district in #SC & said the state could use its existing map even though it had earlier determined that map was unconstitutional.
During arguments, a majority of the #SupremeCourt appeared inclined to reinstate the lines the state had wanted. 5 months later, the justices have yet to rule. Both sides had asked the justices to rule by Jan.
By hanging onto the case, #SCOTUS effectively allowed the clock to run out for the #2024election.
[News]Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision (apnews.com)
Analysis: More Than A Million Voters Want Florida Marijuana Legalization Initiative On 2024 Ballot (www.forbes.com)
The initiative has 120,000 signatures more than needed — but that might not be enough to pass through the Florida Supreme Court.