Friend

The reason Steele ran straight to the FBI?

He was worried Trump might be being blackmailed.

He wasn't trying to nail Trump. He thought Trump was the potential victim.

27/

Damning thread about a NYT reporter's cover-up of the Russia story made even more damning by the Fusion GPS testimony x.com/patrickesque/s…

The American people deserve the opportunity to see the transcript of the Judiciary Committee’s interview with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson. Read it for yourself: feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.c…

And the court hits the nail on the head here: 'A legislature that is itself insulated by virtue of an invidious gerrymander can enact add'l legislation to restrict voting rights & thereby further cement its unjustified control' (p.50)

But our founding fathers believed it was 'essential' that our Congressional reps 'derive [their] powers from the great body of society, not from ... a favored class of it.' In other words, in a democracy, every vote has to count equally.

The court eloquently explains why partisan gerrymandering cannot be reconciled with a democracy: It writes that partisan gerrymandering 'amounts to a legislative efforts to give some voters a greater voice in choosing.'

And the court has some ?s we share about how partisan gerrymandering can possibly comply with the 1st A. The answer is it cannot.

Another tidbit: Republicans currently hold 76.9% of the congressional seats for North Carolina whereas NC voters case only 53.22% of their votes for Republican congressional candidates. That math just doesn't add up to democracy.

Breaking: We won! Three-judge-court in North Carolina strikes down congressional partisan gerrymander. Much more to come after we digest this 200+page opinion. #voting #northcarolina #fairmaps

On the to-do list for this month: Disaster aid funding. Passing the Dream Act. Long-term funding for CHIP and funding for community health centers. We have a lot of fights ahead. It’s critical you stay engaged. Keep calling Congress: (202) 224-3121.

Trump turns to DHS to carry on the tasks of a failed fraud commission.
Our elections are designated as critical infrastructure -- do we need to be concerned about Voter ID laws coming from DHS?
washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politi…

How Trump admin planning to rig 2020 Census:

1. Appoint GOP gerrymandering expert to run it

2. Massively suppress immigrant participation

3. Deny representation to Dems & minorities

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…

1. THREAD. Here is a 2014 directory of CNP, a radical right wing group, that the SPLC obtained and published. splcenter.org/sites/default/…

I just published “America’s Taliban, the Council for National Policy (to which Kellyanne, Bannon, the DeVos family…” medium.com/p/americas-tal…

If u listen to one thing today, let it be this: the founder of the Council for National Policy (who also founded ALEC, Heritage Foundation, & the Moral Majority) gave this speech stating, 'I DON'T WANT EVERYBODY TO VOTE.' LISTEN. #ProtectOurVotes youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsF…