🚨BREAKING: U.S. House passed GOP voter suppression law. 220-208. Every Republican voted to disenfranchise millions. It now goes onto the Senate where Democrats will be able to block it.
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….& there you have it.
Just what you voted for GOP America.
The inability to vote in future elections so your dear Dictator can continue to steal from you forever corrupted & uninterrupted.
Just like JD Vance says-the working peasants.
With tariffs now at 125%, China just slammed the door on U.S. ag exports — gutting American farmers and turning the trade war into a direct hit on rural America. The irony? While Vance mocked the Chinese as ‘peasants,’ it’s U.S. farmers now left holding the bag. https://www.newsweek.com/farmer-voted-trump-begs-end-trade-war-soybeans-china-2058638
That is the pain you must endure for voting in this conman.
Now you are asking for American taxpayers $ again, who are also suffering,many of which did not vote for the Maga maniac.
Be cool.
That was advice from your President.
Reeks of caring doesn’t it?
Never would Biden have done this to America.
There really needs to be a federal law that if a Congress or Senate legislator dies (or is institutionalized or incarcerated) the governor of that state is required to hold an election within 60 days.
We need a permanent solution to voting, once and for all. FFS this country has been holding elections since the 1780’s and the Voting Rights Act was passed 60 years ago so why elections are still an ordeal?
Republicans don’t have the votes needed due to Americans have evolved past the Handsmaids Tale of misogyny and racism lifestyle that the criminal Reich R’s represents and pushes.
So instead of magas just go live their lives in a free country they want Fascism to force us to live that nightmare.
It really seems like nonvoting Americans are the ones who have chosen to give power over all three branches of our government to the GOP. Somehow we need to convince more of those 90 million Americans to start caring about how country's fate and what happens to their fellow citizens.
So, they forced us to get real id's, and now that's not enough to prove your citizenship and right to vote. People are now being forced to get a passport if they can afford one. Republicans can only win by continually moving the goal post and cheating.
Of course they did because most of them either didn't understand it, or read or just did it out of fear of primary. No thinking process involved there.
Important semantic detail: “will be able to” is not necessarily equivalent to “will.” We’d better hope Chuck Schumer doesn't make the Senate Dems roll over on this, or that’s game over for free and fair elections in the U.S.
I know some people don’t believe. I have friends that don’t believe that are actually praying right now . Chuck needs to step up and do the right thing.
1/2 DOJ lawyers are quitting because they won't LIE to SCOTUS - 3 questions
1 - How will that impact Trump's illegality (he can't hide behind lawyers)
2 - Will that impact criminal proscutions at DOJ?
3 - can we get lawyers to fight now? https://youtu.be/_8j4mwApq-k
Democrats have a problem with uniting against. Facism. Doesn't give much hope in fighting against the Facist Administration. Then we have a governor from Michigan, also a Democrat trying to find common ground with Facism.
I called her and asked her to now vote no because it would stop people with hyphenated names like herself when she was building her first house from voting. She built her rustic home herself here. I hope she changes her mind.
Marc, I never know when/under what circumstances the Senate needs 60 votes or just a simple majority. I assume by your statement that this would take 60. Fingers crossed that's the case.
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Every republican voted to turn back the clock, the want women to go back to kitchen, bring back the time of slavery and get rich while doing it. Screw every last one of them!
Primary primary primary. Men in the Democratic Party who vote against any kind of women’s rights should be gone the next election.
Take note Mr. Blue Congressman….. you can’t win without women.
We will take you out.
Yeah because we know we can count on Senate Democrats to not roll over right? As long as that weak fuck Schumer is in charge I don't trust them for a second.
Jared Golden (Maine) has got to go. He obviously wants to suppress the votes of women, the disabled and the elderly. The other 3 Dems that voted for this POS SAVE ACT should be looked at carefully in their districts. I hope the Democrats in the Senate step up
Here are the Dem traitors:
Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas
Representative Don Davis of North Carolina
Representative Jared Golden of Maine
Representative Vicente Gonzalez Jr. of Texas
Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington
Our senators need to keep it together bc their actions backing this bill would help cause a civil war. their voters need to know they are supported and represented in this fight more than ever.
wtf didn’t Democrats stop it? Or make a bigger fuss? Nobody even knows about this @ericswalwell.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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You can vote if your name is the same on the voter rolls as on your license and /or passport. It’s the vast number of married women who changed their names who are at risk of disenfranchisement.
I read recently: Not unless you have a copy of your birth certificate AND marriage license, or if you have a passport.
A driver’s license is no longer valid.
We could have had the John Lewis Voting Rights Act just a few years ago but some senators wouldn’t overturn the filibuster rule (not a law). Now we are faced with a law that effectively suppresses voting and could imprison election workers if they register a citizen without the correct documents.
I refuse to pay taxes as should all women (really the country). As a blue state tax payer who has paid several tens of thousands in taxes to prop up red state fascists- this is a step too far.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. Don’t ever fucking talk to me about 2A again- this is a war on women.
This is more important than the market. Most women I’ve talked to assume that a marriage license will be a remedy. It is NOT in this bill. I have a passport, which is a remedy, but not everyone can spend the roughly $200 to get one. It can take months to get it in your hand. 105 years voting - gone.
Jared Golden (ME), Henry Cueller (TX), Marie Gluesenkemp Perez (WA) and Ed Case (HI) joined MAGA Repubs (with a spineless ‘No Vote’ from Donald Norcross (NJ)) to disenfranchise 10s of millions of Americans…
This is definitely a coup. That proposed voter suppression law is anti-Constitution, in my view. Thank goodness Democrats will be able to block it in the Senate.
Clarification: Democrats will be able to block it unless 50 out of 53 Republican senators decide to abolish the legislative filibuster and then reinstate the filibuster in 2027, depending on the results of the 2026 midterms.
The US is the only 'democratic' country that tries to stop large numbers of people from voting. Everywhere else tries to get the biggest turnout possible. It's like one party is scared of voting!
Learn your Declaration of Independence! It allows us to overthrow our government when it becomes an authoritarian regime! Call, write you piece of shite congressional rep telling them to vacate their positions for failure to do their job!! It’s we the people by the people for the people!
Democrats voting for it is just another reason why the Democratic Party is doomed to become irrelevant. Need to start completely fresh with a Declaration of NEW Independence.
Purist or not. There’s time in history (1776 - wink wink) when one has to change the game. Hoping that congress will continue to work as before (Schumer/Pelosi approach across the isle) and that we’ll have fair elections again under this regime gets into cognitive dissonance territory.
Republicans are terrified of voters because republicans do not believe in the concept of democracy, voting rights, or freedom.
Something off kilter to me is why they acknowledge that the vote has tremendous power. They defy every other reality.
Getting a passport or new birth certificate cost $$. And poll taxes are 100% voter suppression. I would be marketing it as a financial and administrative poll tax. Of course, that also means people need to know what a poll tax is. 😢
2 of those gop representatives will be a part of that CNN town hall tonight..I hope the audience gives them hell, telling them they are done. ESPECIALLY Lawler..the 2 faced loser who has a very high constituent # on Medicaid and Medicare
Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Henry Cuellar (Texas), and Ed Case (Hawaii) voted with Republicans to make life more difficult for voters.
4 House Democrats voted for it. They actually helped get it across the line. Also, remember what happened last time when we relied on Sen. Democrats to stop something.
This is dreadful to see. Republican Senators voted for this. Let's hope their constituents make themselves aware of how their representative voted. Absolutely appalling!
And, if Dems know what's good for them, they will block every piece of trash the Trump admin throws down, or we'll throw THEM in the trash 1st chance we get
@warren.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov and @schumer.senate.gov PLEASE filibuster the SAVE Act. It has passed the House, please get every. Single. Dem. and have a plan to filibuster as long as it is possible to do so in order to ensure it does not pass the Senate. We need you.
Case (HI), Golden (ME), Cuellar (TX) and most offensively a woman, Gluesencamp-Perez (WA) voted with Republicans for a bill that will make it harder for ALL women (51% of the population) to vote. They do not deserve your support, financial or otherwise. Every single one of them should be primaried.
The fact that four DEMOCRATS voted for this is despicable. We cannot stop this crazy train with our own party deserting us. Are these your reps? I’d be calling nonstop today if they were mine. Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Henry Cuellar (Texas) and Ed Case (Hawaii).
We hope. We can no longer truly trust Dems either now that Chuck has forgotten that he comes from NY where we don't give up the fight. Slotkin keeps forgetting who elected her. And Fetterman is playing footsie with tRUmp's orange toes....
Doesn't he know that even women and those without proper birth certificates etc in RED districts will have to get their docs together and pay to get this done?They won't be able to register to vote or to make changes to their voter info otherwise.This is voter suppression.Might tick off some people!
I would question the last sentence after reading what the budget reconciliation process is, noting that republicans control every committee involved in the process and that it requires only a majority vote in the senate and not 60 votes. Info here: 👇 https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2025-02-07-fact-sheet-budget-reconciliation-101
Case of Hawaii, Golden of Maine, Perez of Washington (part of the Blue Dog coalition--that's still a thing?) and Cuellar of Texas who I thought, and until now, was a good guy.
Of course Marie Republican Lite did.
Her town hall in 2 weeks is going to be spectacular. Her constituents, who voted for her - twice - only because Joe Kent is so much worse, have a whole lot of questions for her.
That traitor! She just posted about not voting for the budget and now this? She needs a strong Dem challenger because she won’t win against someone who is not Joe Kent.
read her statement on why she voted for it on her website-she KNOWS it will fail in the senate due to the filibuster-seems like she's looking for an excuse
We must make Congress to stop voting along party lines and start voting for the American people. I'm ashamed of ever voting for any of you, the ball-less and the brainless!! You are letting our Democracy disintegrate!
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MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNOWS REPUBLICANS VITED TO DISENFRANCHISE VOTERS.
Just what you voted for GOP America.
The inability to vote in future elections so your dear Dictator can continue to steal from you forever corrupted & uninterrupted.
Just like JD Vance says-the working peasants.
Now you are asking for American taxpayers $ again, who are also suffering,many of which did not vote for the Maga maniac.
Be cool.
That was advice from your President.
Reeks of caring doesn’t it?
Never would Biden have done this to America.
I love beautiful Portugal!
Especially the custard tarts at Pasteis de Belem.💙
No more patriarchy- if marriage equates a name change, let men change their names.
Women are done playing nice, here. HR7, Dobbs, THIS? We’re done w this. No more.
So instead of magas just go live their lives in a free country they want Fascism to force us to live that nightmare.
Going backwards to appease the ignorant and the selfish.
What a strange thinking in regards to their own children being left in the poverty of Fascism.
Poverty of the soul in the pursuit of egomaniacal power.
And not power to do good but simply power to lord it over other peoples.
But they were focused on banning plastic bags and straws -
Oh, yeah. Rotating villains.
And what about 1987, 1988,1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011?
I won’t even go back further
We are going to have a lot of amendments.
Filibuster it for next 20 months?
1 - How will that impact Trump's illegality (he can't hide behind lawyers)
2 - Will that impact criminal proscutions at DOJ?
3 - can we get lawyers to fight now?
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Let's hope the Senate Democrats do what is necessary to block this. They fucking better.
at least some Dems, correct?
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Henry Cuellar
Ed Case
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Take note Mr. Blue Congressman….. you can’t win without women.
We will take you out.
Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas
Representative Don Davis of North Carolina
Representative Jared Golden of Maine
Representative Vicente Gonzalez Jr. of Texas
Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington
had better
fucking block it
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I can ask, but we cannot let this pass no matter what.
but its way harder
A driver’s license is no longer valid.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. Don’t ever fucking talk to me about 2A again- this is a war on women.
WOW.
#NoSAVEAct
The five that voted for it are in majority Red districts and barely eked out wins
You purists are the reason we lose. Bet you are a Gaza/Hamas lover as well. Mopes like you were the reason Clinton and Harris lost
Bill dies in Senate - meaningless
Something off kilter to me is why they acknowledge that the vote has tremendous power. They defy every other reality.
Totally normal Thursday now…🤦🏻♂️
Hawaii case
Texas Cuellar
Washington DC Perez
Maine Golden
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Jared Golden
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Henry Cuellar
Ed Case
Rep. Henry Cuellar, TX
Rep. Jared Golden, ME
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, WA
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enjoin the battle!
Rep. Henry Cuellar, TX
Rep. Jared Golden, ME
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, W
Trump 7/28/24 - "In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."
Just wow
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Henry Cuellar
Ed Case
*Perez(WA)
*Cuellar(TX)
*Case(HI) 😡😡😡
And never more worried.
They really hate us. They don't want our voice, our power, our thoughts....just our womb.
Block the voter suppression misnamed “SAVE Act.”
202/224-3121.
Jared Golden (Maine),
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.),
Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Ed Case (Hawaii)
Indeed they did.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Henry Cuellar
Ed Case
Her town hall in 2 weeks is going to be spectacular. Her constituents, who voted for her - twice - only because Joe Kent is so much worse, have a whole lot of questions for her.
It’s too bad. I liked Marie-at first.
A flash in the pan if she doesn’t learn quickly who she should be defending.
Funny how Congress negatively changes SOME people.