One Chance to Stop the GOP Assault on Voting Rights

[DonViejo]

March 3, 2021 at 11:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Ron Brownstein: “Democrats may have only a brief window in which to block these state-level GOP maneuvers. Typically, the president’s party loses House and Senate seats in the first midterm election after his victory. Democrats will face even worse odds if Republicans succeed in imposing restrictive voting laws or gerrymandering districts in the GOP’s favor across a host of red states.”

“If Democrats lose their slim majority in either congressional chamber next year, they will lose their ability to pass voting-rights reform. After that, the party could face a debilitating dynamic: Republicans could use their state-level power to continue limiting ballot access, which would make regaining control of the House or the Senate more difficult for Democrats—and thus prevent them from passing future national voting rules that override the exclusionary state laws.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/03/one-chance-to-stop-the-gop-assault-on-voting-rights/

[BlancheSplanchnik]

1. Very unnerving.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. We will lose more than the right to vote.

We will lose everything this country stands for.

[Ponietz]

3. As it stands, a RepuQue Congress will never again certify a Democratic presidential winner

[Celerity]

5. especially as every 2 years the Rethug caucus gets more and more batshit cray radical white power,

fundie buybull banging, gun-toting, anti-science thug-laden.

[Celerity]

4. kick for visibility!

[moondust]

6. GQP reminds me of the Nazis.

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The Nazi Party used the (Reichstag) fire as a pretext to claim that communists were plotting against the German government, which made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

The day after the fire they passed the Reichstag Fire Decree nullifying many key civil liberties which is considered by historians as one of the key steps in the establishment of a one-party Nazi state in Germany.

The Reichstag fire was apparently the work of one Dutch communist, not a big plot against the German government.

The GQP is also using false pretexts to pass voter suppression laws basically attempting to establish a one-party GQP state in the U.S.

[uponit7771]

7. HR1 is that important, there's no tomorrow for this union of states either pass it or ...

... the people who are tacitly supporting a text book coup will be back in power.