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New #Mail #Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite #USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass #Disenfranchisement
#vote #elections #ballotshttps://www.propublica.org/article/mail-voting-usps-officials-concerns-disenfranchisement
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#Trump picks Dr. Heidi Overton, a White House aide & #Trump #loyalist, to lead the #FDA
A medical doctor & deputy director of the White House Domestic #Policy Council who worked on several of Trump’s 2nd-term “health” initiatives, Overton has become a trusted figure in the admin & a champion of Trump’s goals [ #disenfranchisement of the #poor & #eugenics ].
#PublicHealth #Health #vaccines #medicine #law #HealthInsurance #RFKJr #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy
https://apnews.com/article/fda-donald-trump-heidi-overton-marty-makary-a54907d62a2482bd462410c0778266b9?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension -
"The Weaponization of Belonging
The fundamental lesson from the #history of #Jewish #citizenship in #America is that #legal categories are neither self-evident nor self-executing. They are #political instruments, subject to intense scrutiny and sudden revision during periods of national anxiety.
As the #SupremeCourt prepares to issue its ruling in 2026, the historical record serves as a stark warning. When a government asserts the authority to define who is and is not a #citizen based on parental origin, it invariably opens the door to the systemic #disenfranchisement of #minority populations. The debate over #birthright citizenship is not merely a legal technicality; it is a battle over the soul of the nation and the fundamental definition of human belonging."
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a true victim of #weaponization
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kilmar-abrego-garcia
> "The government isn’t targeting Abrego Garcia for punishment because they think he's some sort of master criminal. They want to punish him *because* he’s an everyday guy who somehow managed to force the regime to bring him home."
#criminalization #institutionalization #delegitimization #disenfranchisement #dehumanization #whiteNationalism #feudalism #plutocracy all in support of fascist plunder
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45,000 ballots thrown out and a governor who calls it 'not a big deal' #GOPLiesAboutEverything #disenfranchisement #VotingRights www.rawstory.com/louisiana-ag...
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@SuperSpaceFan @TalktoBeverley
I honestly believe nothing short of a MASSIVE #BlueTsunami that even rampant #Gerrymandering and #VoterSupression #Disenfranchisement can't overcome will put a stop to the spread of this #Trumpism Disease and show the world the #racists & #grifting political #ConMen aren't winning, relegating them to the dustbin of history. -
Callais Decision Rapid Response Call
Thu 30 APR 7pm CT
La. v Callais opens the door for states to gerrymander Black & Brown majority districts out of existence. We expect more GOP-led states to follow suit for 2027 + 2028 elections. Join the call, join the fight: https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/947503 #NoKings #Gerrymandering #Elections #Voters #Disenfranchisement #SCOTUS -
This entire SAVE con is a Poll Tax. Poll Taxes were abolished by the 24th amendment.
However, in order to be able to vote if the SAVE act passes, you will need to spend hundreds of dollars and possibly months of time.
The Republicans are working to instate an illegal election policy change, in the same year as an election, as close to the election as possible. The change targets voters who don’t vote for Trump. Yes it will be overturned eventually by the Supremes, but not in time for 2026 elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_States
#SAVEAct #PollTax #24thAmendment #24th #Constitution #USConstitution #election #elections #vote #voting #votingrights #votingrightsact #disenfranchisement
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Lede: From fringe ideas to now part of the provincial agenda
So, how's that centrist, incremental opposition comin' along? Oh, my ideas are "too radical" and my preferences are easily discarded? Okay then, business as usual. I'll just see myself out. #disenfranchisement
25 years later, how the ‘Alberta firewall’ letter reflects today’s political landscape https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-firewall-letter-25-years-later-9.7145406
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#factCheck
Claim by Senator Duckworth: “9% of American citizens don’t have the identification that the SAVE act requires to vote. Almost 1 in 10.”PolitiFact rating: Mostly True
A 2023 national survey found about 9% of U.S. adult citizens either lack or cannot readily access documentary proof of citizenship, and a similar share lack a nonexpired driver’s license. However, the figure includes people who may have documents but cannot easily access them, and the survey was not limited specifically to registered voters.> Democrats opposing the SAVE America Act, which would require certain documents to register to vote and cast a ballot, point to a study showing 9% of adult U.S. citizens would have difficulty with those requirements.
#disenfranchisement #VRA #votingRights #voterID #constitutionalDemocracyWithoutEither
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Trump Urges Passage of the SAVE America Act — With New Provisions
Trump wants Congress to add voter ID and mail-in ballot restrictions, as well as unrelated anti-trans provisions.https://murica.website/2026/03/trump-urges-passage-of-the-save-america-act-with-new-provisions/
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The history behind Montana senator's mysterious scheme MAGA getting exactly what they voted for... now they can't vote. Just accept what pedo Daddy has selected for you. We tried to warn you. #corruption #disenfranchisement #Montana #undemocratic #Alme #Daines #Gianforte www.alternet.org/daines/
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@ProPublica In Czech Republic voters came with electronic IDs which were officially considered a valid ID for voting, and were IMO arbitrarily, wantonly and frivolously not allowed to vote, citing "overloaded system".
I can imagine a programming of the system like this:
if (voter.political_preference==opposition) {fprintf(stderr,"Error: sorry, system overloaded!\n"); exit -1; }
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202510/czech-parliamentary-elections-hit-by-digital-id-app-failure
https://www.smartsuite.in/czech-edoklady-crash-a-beginners-guide-to-digital-id-failures
Do you know what's the difference between Cambodian 3rd world developing country dictatorship and Czech Republic?
In Cambodia I got a dentist in 1 day, in Czechia I had to phone dentists for 2 months before I got one. In case of dermatologist even 4 months.
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime.
Some tags may be according to my opinion:
#votersuppression #electoralfraud #freedomtovote #disenfranchisement #disenfranchise #id #digitalid #digitalization #digitalitariandigitatorship #digitaldictatorship #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #failure #contempt #crime #sabotage #electionsabotage #electoralsabotage #sabotageofelection #invalidelection #fraudulentelection
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@ProPublica In Czech Republic voters came with electronic IDs which were officially considered a valid ID for voting, and were IMO arbitrarily, wantonly and frivolously not allowed to vote, citing "overloaded system".
I can imagine a programming of the system like this:
if (voter.political_preference==opposition) {fprintf(stderr,"Error: sorry, system overloaded!\n"); exit -1; }
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202510/czech-parliamentary-elections-hit-by-digital-id-app-failure
https://www.smartsuite.in/czech-edoklady-crash-a-beginners-guide-to-digital-id-failures
Do you know what's the difference between Cambodian 3rd world developing country dictatorship and Czech Republic?
In Cambodia I got a dentist in 1 day, in Czechia I had to phone dentists for 2 months before I got one. In case of dermatologist even 4 months.
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime.
Some tags may be according to my opinion:
#votersuppression #electoralfraud #freedomtovote #disenfranchisement #disenfranchise #id #digitalid #digitalization #digitalitariandigitatorship #digitaldictatorship #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #failure #contempt #crime #sabotage #electionsabotage #electoralsabotage #sabotageofelection #invalidelection #fraudulentelection
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@ProPublica In Czech Republic voters came with electronic IDs which were officially considered a valid ID for voting, and were IMO arbitrarily, wantonly and frivolously not allowed to vote, citing "overloaded system".
I can imagine a programming of the system like this:
if (voter.political_preference==opposition) {fprintf(stderr,"Error: sorry, system overloaded!\n"); exit -1; }
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202510/czech-parliamentary-elections-hit-by-digital-id-app-failure
https://www.smartsuite.in/czech-edoklady-crash-a-beginners-guide-to-digital-id-failures
Do you know what's the difference between Cambodian 3rd world developing country dictatorship and Czech Republic?
In Cambodia I got a dentist in 1 day, in Czechia I had to phone dentists for 2 months before I got one. In case of dermatologist even 4 months.
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime.
Some tags may be according to my opinion:
#votersuppression #electoralfraud #freedomtovote #disenfranchisement #disenfranchise #id #digitalid #digitalization #digitalitariandigitatorship #digitaldictatorship #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #failure #contempt #crime #sabotage #electionsabotage #electoralsabotage #sabotageofelection #invalidelection #fraudulentelection
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@skykiss In Czech Republic voters came with electronic IDs which were officially considered a valid ID for voting, and were IMO arbitrarily, wantonly and frivolously not allowed to vote, citing "overloaded system".
I can imagine a programming of the system like this:
if (voter.political_preference==opposition) {fprintf(stderr,"Error: sorry, system overloaded!\n"); exit -1; }
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202510/czech-parliamentary-elections-hit-by-digital-id-app-failure
https://www.smartsuite.in/czech-edoklady-crash-a-beginners-guide-to-digital-id-failures
Do you know what's the difference between Cambodian 3rd world developing country dictatorship and Czech Republic?
In Cambodia I got a dentist in 1 day, in Czechia I had to phone dentists for 2 months before I got one. In case of dermatologist even 4 months.
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech regime.
Some tags may be according to my opinion:
#votersuppression #electoralfraud #freedomtovote #disenfranchisement #disenfranchise #id #digitalid #digitalization #digitalitariandigitatorship #digitaldictatorship #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #failure #contempt #crime #sabotage #electionsabotage #electoralsabotage #sabotageofelection #invalidelection #fraudulentelection
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Americans who plan to vote: make sure the signature in your ID matches your signature in your ballot. I have been challenged on this after an overzealous DMV worker insisted several times i "really" sign their stupid line and i think my vote was not counted
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The attacks on immigrants and protesters on Minnesota’s streets have been paired with high-level legal assaults
— like a dubious DOJ investigation of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.Alongside the more visible struggles, the DOJ has repeatedly attempted,
as reiterated in a letter by Attorney General Pam Bondi,
to force Minnesota
(and, in fact, all 49 other states)
to open confidential voter rolls to federal scrutiny.Bondi’s recent letter, outlining steps to
“bring back law and order,”
repeated a demand that the administration has already been pressing in the courts.So far, Minnesota and several other blue states have refused the request.
Constitutionally, the federal government takes no role in elections;
they are overseen solely by states.Why might the federal DOJ take such a sudden interest in obtaining state voter data?
It’s clear that Trump’s ultimate aim is to distort democracy,
tilting elections through #mass #disenfranchisement.One way to suppress the vote and cheat an election is
to purge opponents’ voters from the rolls.Such purges are calculated to target (by de facto outcomes, if not explicitly)
people of color and low-income voters
— i.e., those likely to vote against the right.Seizing state rolls will facilitate such purges to an extent previously unreached.
It is a bitterly ironic reversal that the department that was supposedly the vaunted federal guardian of democratic rights
has now been pitted against them.As many experts have attested,
the Trump DOJ’s nationwide legal assault poses a grave threat to the U.S.’s already-tattered electoral institutions.https://truthout.org/articles/trump-doj-sues-to-force-states-to-share-confidential-voter-data/
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My wife took my last name when we got married, and with the new iteration of the SAFE act, she won't be able to vote, because she'll need to present her birth certificate, and her name differs.
This is intended to disenfranchise married women, trans folks, and anyone who can't easily lay hands on decades-old paperwork.
If you or anyone you know might be affected, they should start protecting their ability to vote now. Help them do it if they need help.
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#WabanakiAlliance Urges Voters to Reject Question 1 on Nov. 4
"On #November4th, Maine voters will face a referendum question, #Question1, that seeks to fundamentally change Maine’s election laws and make it significantly harder for #Wabanaki citizens and all Maine voters to cast their vote — especially our #elders, people with #disabilities, working voters, #caretakers, and those without reliable transportation.
"The Wabanaki Alliance is a proud partner of the #SaveMaineAbsenteeVoting campaign and stands in strong opposition to this measure, which would create unnecessary barriers to voting and disproportionately harm our citizens. For the #WabanakiNations, the right to vote is sacred and the result of a hard-won battle by our ancestors. Voting rights weren’t extended to Wabanaki citizens in Maine until 1967, decades after federal voting rights for indigenous people were passed in 1924. Another deeply troubling aspect of this ballot measure is that it explicitly excludes #TribalIdentification from the list of acceptable forms of #VoterID. As federally recognized tribal nations, we value our #TribalSovereignty and self-determination. This exclusion seeks to invalidate and undermine the ability to identify our people and have that authorization respected. As the original stewards of these lands and waters now called Maine since time immemorial, we find it imperative to assert this right and have it honored.
"Question 1 is not a measure to secure our elections. It is a measure to suppress votes. The Wabanaki Alliance urges all Maine voters to vote NO on Question 1 this November to protect the right to vote for all Mainers.
How Will Question 1 Make It Harder to Vote?
Q1 will restrict your ability to request an absentee ballot by:
Creating a voter ID requirement for the first time AND excluding Tribal IDs, university or college student IDs, employee IDs, Social Security cards, and birth certificates from the list of acceptable IDs required to request and return an absentee ballot or to vote in person on Election Day.
Eliminating the option to call your town clerk to request an absentee ballot, making it harder for those without reliable transportation or internet to request an absentee ballot.
Prohibiting town clerks from sending you an absentee ballot that you requested online until you provide proof of an approved photo ID, either in person or by mailing a photocopy of your photo ID or your driver’s license number or non-driver ID number.
Eliminating ongoing absentee ballots for seniors and people with disabilities.
Eliminating the ability for a designated family member or friend to pick up your absentee ballot on your behalf.Q1 will make it harder for you to return your absentee ballot by mail or drop box by:
Limiting towns to only offering a single ballot drop-box at the town hall. This would mean town clerks would be prohibited from providing absentee drop-boxes that are most convenient to where Wabanaki citizens live.
Prohibiting towns from including return postage on absentee ballots, even if taxpayers vote to fund it.
Requiring you to include a photocopy of an approved photo ID or your driver’s license number or non-driver ID number with your absentee ballot. Your vote will not be counted without that proof. The referendum also excludes Tribal IDs and other forms of valid ID from the list of acceptable IDs required to vote.
Eliminating the ability for a designated family member or friend to return your absentee ballot for you.Q1 will undermine the security of absentee voting by:
Second-guessing town clerks, requiring a two-person, bipartisan team to check ballot boxes, instead of the clerk or a trusted member of their staff. This restriction will place undue pressure on town clerks, and will lead many towns to simply get rid of their secure drop-boxes.
Q1 will make it harder to vote in person, either on Election Day or by absentee ballot, by:
Shortening the time period for early absentee voting by two days — eliminating the two most popular days for early absentee voting.
Creating a voter ID requirement for the first time AND excluding Tribal ID, university or college student ID, employee ID, Social Security card, or birth certificate from the list of acceptable IDs required to cast their ballot.
Key Dates✅ October 30: Last day to vote early in-person absentee and the last day to request an absentee ballot.*
✅ November 4: Election Day. Polls are open from 8 am to 8 pm. All absentee ballots must be returned to your town clerk by 8 pm."
https://www.wabanakialliance.com/no-on-question-1/
#MEPol #ElectionDay #MaineElections #Elections2025 #AbsenteeVoting #NoOnOne #NoOn1 #TribalIDs #CollegeIDs #Disenfranchisement #Authoritarianism
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URGENT: STOP THE “SAVES” ACT
Public comment closes 10/20. The SAVES act is an attempt to disenfranchise legal voters with names that do not match their birth certificate. From SPLC: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1BO5RIEhPGr6AiyJWYWv8vXI-9nB50-YU_OF3lATj2qY/mobilebasic?pli=1 Public Comment here: https://indivisiblenobhill.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a95e7193ecb316697255cbef1&id=70f3c7fd6b&e=ab3c91ffa0 #democracy #votingrights #uspol #disenfranchisement #SavesAct -
#USpol #Texas #Gerrymandering #Redistricting #Disenfranchisement
Ossum speech:
"Texas State Rep. #AnnJohnson clapped back at #GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.
“If you knew you could win this next election, you wouldn’t be taking this effort to try to steal five seats from elected officials that members of color elected to represent them in Washington D.C.”
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He was for it before he was against it.
#Voting #MailinVoting #Democracy #VoterSuppression #Disenfranchisement
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Although it isn't making even the fringes of the mainstream discourse surrounding the fascist GOP's election-rigging SAVE Act, the reality is that unless nazis with an eliminationist agenda towards trans people make some sort of exception, the bill will likely disenfranchise every trans person in America who has legally changed their name, and quite possibly most people who are in the process of transition and thus have ID that may be inconsistent with their presentation or other documents:
Federal Voter ID Bill Attacks Trans Voters — and Anyone Else Who Has Changed Their Name
"Much of the news coverage of the SAVE Act has focused almost entirely on the broad category of “married women” — a bloc of 69 million who may not have updated documents. But arguably, such a law is aimed directly at transgender people in addition to affecting married people who change their names. And that’s not to mention the 140 million U.S. citizens who don’t have passports and tens of millions who also don’t have easy access to a birth certificate. Regardless, the fact that trans people are at the center of this story has been easy to sideline: A story published by NPR last week listed eight things to know about this legislation — but didn’t mention the implications for trans people at all."
At this point can anyone who has been paying attention (a very small group indeed, as far as I can tell) claim to be surprised that trans-eliminationist nazis are trying to pass a law that further erases trans people from public life and social participation, yet most of American society hasn't even registered that as a potential consequence of this disastrous, anti-democratic bill? After all, when the president of the United States signed an executive order more or less saying that trans people didn't exist, which historically is a sure sign that a government intends to make that a reality, most Very Serious PeopleTM in our discourse shrugged and pointed to public polling as an excuse to not speak out to defend trans people. So why would this act of erasure and disenfranchisement be any different?
"Benfield is concerned that not naming trans people as a target of this legislation contributes to an insidious process that is ongoing: the erasure of trans people from public life in general.
“It’s going to affect lots of different kinds of people,” she said of the SAVE Act. “But the reason that the erasure of trans people worries me in this conversation is that it’s consistent with strategic erasure from the public sphere that’s already been happening.”
That strategic erasure includes President Donald Trump’s series of executive orders attacking so-called “gender ideology” and both state and national legislation that attempts to criminalize support for trans youth in physical and social transition. There are now only two genders — “male” and “female”— and anyone who falls outside of that could potentially face being pushed out of public life, including schools, sports, restroom facilities, and now voting itself. Even policies like Trump’s executive orders that aren’t immediately enforceable create a chilling effect, pushing trans people into the closet through intimidation."
I would hope that because it requires sixty votes in the Senate, the SAVE Act is a dead on arrival bill; but I can't say I'm all that confident in a Democratic Party that is openly blaming the results of an election they seemingly *tried* to lose on their (actually, nonexistent) support of trans rights, and its ability to protect people like me. Even if the SAVE Act is shot down however, the fact that this attempt at the mass disenfranchisement of trans people in American civic life doesn't even rate a talking point in this very public debate, strongly implies that when these bills only target trans people, the establishment "opposition" to the fascist agenda will continue to shrug, offer empty words of condolence, and simply let it happen; which is pretty much par for the course in the fascist Trump 2.0 era.
To say that living in a society where your rights and even your existence are not so much up for debate, but rather already judged to be either irrelevant, or non-existent, is surreal and unnerving, would be an understatement of massive proportions. I guess there is one upside here however, because if trans people can no longer vote, perhaps I'll finally be free of liberals who honestly don't give a rats ass about my life, screaming at me to support a Democratic Party that doesn't care whether I live or die, while pretending their party is a much better advocate for my right to exist, than they actually are.
#Fascism #GOP #SAVEAct #LBTQ #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #Disenfranchisement #CivilRights #HumanRights #TransErasure #Trump #Transphobia
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Although it isn't making even the fringes of the mainstream discourse surrounding the fascist GOP's election-rigging SAVE Act, the reality is that unless nazis with an eliminationist agenda towards trans people make some sort of exception, the bill will likely disenfranchise every trans person in America who has legally changed their name, and quite possibly most people who are in the process of transition and thus have ID that may be inconsistent with their presentation or other documents:
Federal Voter ID Bill Attacks Trans Voters — and Anyone Else Who Has Changed Their Name
"Much of the news coverage of the SAVE Act has focused almost entirely on the broad category of “married women” — a bloc of 69 million who may not have updated documents. But arguably, such a law is aimed directly at transgender people in addition to affecting married people who change their names. And that’s not to mention the 140 million U.S. citizens who don’t have passports and tens of millions who also don’t have easy access to a birth certificate. Regardless, the fact that trans people are at the center of this story has been easy to sideline: A story published by NPR last week listed eight things to know about this legislation — but didn’t mention the implications for trans people at all."
At this point can anyone who has been paying attention (a very small group indeed, as far as I can tell) claim to be surprised that trans-eliminationist nazis are trying to pass a law that further erases trans people from public life and social participation, yet most of American society hasn't even registered that as a potential consequence of this disastrous, anti-democratic bill? After all, when the president of the United States signed an executive order more or less saying that trans people didn't exist, which historically is a sure sign that a government intends to make that a reality, most Very Serious PeopleTM in our discourse shrugged and pointed to public polling as an excuse to not speak out to defend trans people. So why would this act of erasure and disenfranchisement be any different?
"Benfield is concerned that not naming trans people as a target of this legislation contributes to an insidious process that is ongoing: the erasure of trans people from public life in general.
“It’s going to affect lots of different kinds of people,” she said of the SAVE Act. “But the reason that the erasure of trans people worries me in this conversation is that it’s consistent with strategic erasure from the public sphere that’s already been happening.”
That strategic erasure includes President Donald Trump’s series of executive orders attacking so-called “gender ideology” and both state and national legislation that attempts to criminalize support for trans youth in physical and social transition. There are now only two genders — “male” and “female”— and anyone who falls outside of that could potentially face being pushed out of public life, including schools, sports, restroom facilities, and now voting itself. Even policies like Trump’s executive orders that aren’t immediately enforceable create a chilling effect, pushing trans people into the closet through intimidation."
I would hope that because it requires sixty votes in the Senate, the SAVE Act is a dead on arrival bill; but I can't say I'm all that confident in a Democratic Party that is openly blaming the results of an election they seemingly *tried* to lose on their (actually, nonexistent) support of trans rights, and its ability to protect people like me. Even if the SAVE Act is shot down however, the fact that this attempt at the mass disenfranchisement of trans people in American civic life doesn't even rate a talking point in this very public debate, strongly implies that when these bills only target trans people, the establishment "opposition" to the fascist agenda will continue to shrug, offer empty words of condolence, and simply let it happen; which is pretty much par for the course in the fascist Trump 2.0 era.
To say that living in a society where your rights and even your existence are not so much up for debate, but rather already judged to be either irrelevant, or non-existent, is surreal and unnerving, would be an understatement of massive proportions. I guess there is one upside here however, because if trans people can no longer vote, perhaps I'll finally be free of liberals who honestly don't give a rats ass about my life, screaming at me to support a Democratic Party that doesn't care whether I live or die, while pretending their party is a much better advocate for my right to exist, than they actually are.
#Fascism #GOP #SAVEAct #LBTQ #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #Disenfranchisement #CivilRights #HumanRights #TransErasure #Trump #Transphobia
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Although it isn't making even the fringes of the mainstream discourse surrounding the fascist GOP's election-rigging SAVE Act, the reality is that unless nazis with an eliminationist agenda towards trans people make some sort of exception, the bill will likely disenfranchise every trans person in America who has legally changed their name, and quite possibly most people who are in the process of transition and thus have ID that may be inconsistent with their presentation or other documents:
Federal Voter ID Bill Attacks Trans Voters — and Anyone Else Who Has Changed Their Name
"Much of the news coverage of the SAVE Act has focused almost entirely on the broad category of “married women” — a bloc of 69 million who may not have updated documents. But arguably, such a law is aimed directly at transgender people in addition to affecting married people who change their names. And that’s not to mention the 140 million U.S. citizens who don’t have passports and tens of millions who also don’t have easy access to a birth certificate. Regardless, the fact that trans people are at the center of this story has been easy to sideline: A story published by NPR last week listed eight things to know about this legislation — but didn’t mention the implications for trans people at all."
At this point can anyone who has been paying attention (a very small group indeed, as far as I can tell) claim to be surprised that trans-eliminationist nazis are trying to pass a law that further erases trans people from public life and social participation, yet most of American society hasn't even registered that as a potential consequence of this disastrous, anti-democratic bill? After all, when the president of the United States signed an executive order more or less saying that trans people didn't exist, which historically is a sure sign that a government intends to make that a reality, most Very Serious PeopleTM in our discourse shrugged and pointed to public polling as an excuse to not speak out to defend trans people. So why would this act of erasure and disenfranchisement be any different?
"Benfield is concerned that not naming trans people as a target of this legislation contributes to an insidious process that is ongoing: the erasure of trans people from public life in general.
“It’s going to affect lots of different kinds of people,” she said of the SAVE Act. “But the reason that the erasure of trans people worries me in this conversation is that it’s consistent with strategic erasure from the public sphere that’s already been happening.”
That strategic erasure includes President Donald Trump’s series of executive orders attacking so-called “gender ideology” and both state and national legislation that attempts to criminalize support for trans youth in physical and social transition. There are now only two genders — “male” and “female”— and anyone who falls outside of that could potentially face being pushed out of public life, including schools, sports, restroom facilities, and now voting itself. Even policies like Trump’s executive orders that aren’t immediately enforceable create a chilling effect, pushing trans people into the closet through intimidation."
I would hope that because it requires sixty votes in the Senate, the SAVE Act is a dead on arrival bill; but I can't say I'm all that confident in a Democratic Party that is openly blaming the results of an election they seemingly *tried* to lose on their (actually, nonexistent) support of trans rights, and its ability to protect people like me. Even if the SAVE Act is shot down however, the fact that this attempt at the mass disenfranchisement of trans people in American civic life doesn't even rate a talking point in this very public debate, strongly implies that when these bills only target trans people, the establishment "opposition" to the fascist agenda will continue to shrug, offer empty words of condolence, and simply let it happen; which is pretty much par for the course in the fascist Trump 2.0 era.
To say that living in a society where your rights and even your existence are not so much up for debate, but rather already judged to be either irrelevant, or non-existent, is surreal and unnerving, would be an understatement of massive proportions. I guess there is one upside here however, because if trans people can no longer vote, perhaps I'll finally be free of liberals who honestly don't give a rats ass about my life, screaming at me to support a Democratic Party that doesn't care whether I live or die, while pretending their party is a much better advocate for my right to exist, than they actually are.
#Fascism #GOP #SAVEAct #LBTQ #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #Disenfranchisement #CivilRights #HumanRights #TransErasure #Trump #Transphobia
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Although it isn't making even the fringes of the mainstream discourse surrounding the fascist GOP's election-rigging SAVE Act, the reality is that unless nazis with an eliminationist agenda towards trans people make some sort of exception, the bill will likely disenfranchise every trans person in America who has legally changed their name, and quite possibly most people who are in the process of transition and thus have ID that may be inconsistent with their presentation or other documents:
Federal Voter ID Bill Attacks Trans Voters — and Anyone Else Who Has Changed Their Name
"Much of the news coverage of the SAVE Act has focused almost entirely on the broad category of “married women” — a bloc of 69 million who may not have updated documents. But arguably, such a law is aimed directly at transgender people in addition to affecting married people who change their names. And that’s not to mention the 140 million U.S. citizens who don’t have passports and tens of millions who also don’t have easy access to a birth certificate. Regardless, the fact that trans people are at the center of this story has been easy to sideline: A story published by NPR last week listed eight things to know about this legislation — but didn’t mention the implications for trans people at all."
At this point can anyone who has been paying attention (a very small group indeed, as far as I can tell) claim to be surprised that trans-eliminationist nazis are trying to pass a law that further erases trans people from public life and social participation, yet most of American society hasn't even registered that as a potential consequence of this disastrous, anti-democratic bill? After all, when the president of the United States signed an executive order more or less saying that trans people didn't exist, which historically is a sure sign that a government intends to make that a reality, most Very Serious PeopleTM in our discourse shrugged and pointed to public polling as an excuse to not speak out to defend trans people. So why would this act of erasure and disenfranchisement be any different?
"Benfield is concerned that not naming trans people as a target of this legislation contributes to an insidious process that is ongoing: the erasure of trans people from public life in general.
“It’s going to affect lots of different kinds of people,” she said of the SAVE Act. “But the reason that the erasure of trans people worries me in this conversation is that it’s consistent with strategic erasure from the public sphere that’s already been happening.”
That strategic erasure includes President Donald Trump’s series of executive orders attacking so-called “gender ideology” and both state and national legislation that attempts to criminalize support for trans youth in physical and social transition. There are now only two genders — “male” and “female”— and anyone who falls outside of that could potentially face being pushed out of public life, including schools, sports, restroom facilities, and now voting itself. Even policies like Trump’s executive orders that aren’t immediately enforceable create a chilling effect, pushing trans people into the closet through intimidation."
I would hope that because it requires sixty votes in the Senate, the SAVE Act is a dead on arrival bill; but I can't say I'm all that confident in a Democratic Party that is openly blaming the results of an election they seemingly *tried* to lose on their (actually, nonexistent) support of trans rights, and its ability to protect people like me. Even if the SAVE Act is shot down however, the fact that this attempt at the mass disenfranchisement of trans people in American civic life doesn't even rate a talking point in this very public debate, strongly implies that when these bills only target trans people, the establishment "opposition" to the fascist agenda will continue to shrug, offer empty words of condolence, and simply let it happen; which is pretty much par for the course in the fascist Trump 2.0 era.
To say that living in a society where your rights and even your existence are not so much up for debate, but rather already judged to be either irrelevant, or non-existent, is surreal and unnerving, would be an understatement of massive proportions. I guess there is one upside here however, because if trans people can no longer vote, perhaps I'll finally be free of liberals who honestly don't give a rats ass about my life, screaming at me to support a Democratic Party that doesn't care whether I live or die, while pretending their party is a much better advocate for my right to exist, than they actually are.
#Fascism #GOP #SAVEAct #LBTQ #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #Disenfranchisement #CivilRights #HumanRights #TransErasure #Trump #Transphobia
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@dougiec3 A disgusting master example of neo-feudalistic, insurrectionary "Republican" minority caste unconstitutionally disenfranchising voters.
Things that shouldn't happen in the 21st century without resulting legal punishment!
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #GOP #ElectoralFraud #VoterSuppression #Disenfranchisement #Gerrymandering #CriminalFraud #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #ConspiracyAgainstRights #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion
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@johnettesnuggs Right. And Trump officially & publicly revealed their dirty, well-known secret conspiracy — "Republicans" cannot win, if they don't manipulate/rig elections in their favor.
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“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” said Mr Trump during an interview on Fox & Friends.
..."https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-election-voting-republicans-us-2020-a9437881.html
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #VotingRights #CivilRights #HumanRights #GOPsVoterSuppression #Gerrymandering #Disenfranchisement #ElectoralFraud #AnticonstitutionalGOP #Fraud #DefraudingAmerica #BetrayingAmerica #DeceivingAmerica -
@Chron Texans deserve representatives, who care about Texans as their sovereigns & all human beings.
#DefendAmerica #DefendDemocracy #AmericaDeservesBetter #TexasDeservesBetter #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #FireAbbott #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #BanTheGOP #ElectoralFraud #Gerrymandering #VoterSuppression #Disenfranchisement
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(URCC) Republicans of 1867 to black voters:
"[T]he word Radical as applied to political parties and politicians ... means one who is in favor of going to the root of things; who is thoroughly in earnest; who desires that slavery should be abolished, that every disability connected therewith should be obliterated."
"Republicans" of 2023:
Hold it, I gotta redraw congressional districts to disable blacks!
#DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #UnitedInDiversity #Freedom #Equality #Unity #WarDemocrats #ConDeSantis #ElectoralFraud #Gerrymandering #VoterSuppression #Disenfranchisement #DeSantis #Racism #ReconstructionAmendments #ViolationOfConstitution #Insurrection #Rebellion
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2022/apr/20/ron-desantis-florida-electoral-map-gerrymandering-republican-advantage
