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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe shocking vote in Kansas gets worse and worse for the Republican Taliban.
All four congressional districts voting no means there is a backlash among rural voters as well as suburban and urban voters to Republican overreach on abortion. And I suspect on other issues, such as transgender rights, etc. Abbot in Texas should be particularly worried as well as DeSantis in Florida. Democrats now have the tools to turn the midterms into a referendum on Republican overreach on abortion and other social issues.
CaliforniaPeggy
(156,619 posts)We need to make hay while the sun shines!
Onama Biden Man
(40 posts)Every democrat running should aggressively espouse codifying Roe into law and make it one of the main (if not the main) issues.
Sky Jewels
(9,148 posts)I usually give to individual candidates, but I got an email from the House Majority Pac and threw them a little cash because donations are matched times seven. So 5 bucks turns into 35; 50 turns into 350 ... You get the picture...
do we get ahold of them?
Sky Jewels
(9,148 posts)(It mentions the 7X match in bold ink in the second paragraph.)
On edit: I think I'll post this link as a separate post.
Ananda62
(316 posts)I just donated. It does say there is a 7x match 😊
Sky Jewels
(9,148 posts)Thanks for chipping in!
wryter2000
(47,940 posts)Just donated
Sky Jewels
(9,148 posts)Sogo
(7,191 posts)They're out-of-touch with America and incompetent as leaders....
AdamGG
(1,882 posts)The party of reason vs. the party of extremism dominates KANSAS. We need to expand on this and draw more examples every day.
LymphocyteLover
(9,847 posts)bucolic_frolic
(55,136 posts)from the rest of the populace. Now it's all out in the open.
Demsrule86
(71,542 posts)folks who expressed the belief that would never happen.
mountain grammy
(29,035 posts)We saws hundreds of 'vote yes' signs when we drove through Kansas in June.. not a single vote no. But they sure spoke up when it mattered.
Crowman2009
(3,524 posts)Outside of the delusional fantasy world of the internet, they are a small minority.
czarjak
(13,639 posts)Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)Would be consideredd was sickening..so unilateral... As if they decide and women have no say
mountain grammy
(29,035 posts)Last night I read that in Hayes, which had voted 70% for trump (I can't even imagine,) the yes vote was ahead, but only by a little and only with about half the votes were counted.
So glad to see this amendment fail. what a huge ray of hope Kansas, of all places, has given us.
Zeitghost
(4,557 posts)But I am cautious. The results of the election also showed that many who voted for abortion rights also voted for a full slate of Republican politicians. There are many on the right who are pro choice, at least to some degree, that do not base their votes on it.
Wounded Bear
(64,324 posts)While it may not be the focal point for their individual campaigns, the whole "repubs are coming for your women's health care and rights" should be pushed to the max. There are a whole range of women's issues that are affected by the anti-abortion push and that should be exploited by Dems everywhere.
wryter2000
(47,940 posts)Crowman2009
(3,524 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But it's looking like this time there may be actual repercussions doled out by we the people.
FakeNoose
(41,634 posts)... to support their evil agenda.
They just figured the rural, conservative people of Kansas would play along. But no! The Kansas voters aren't sheep. They ARE paying attention and they don't like this one bit. None of us do, and we're going to show the Repukes when it's our turn to vote.
Thank you Kansas!
Blue Owl
(59,103 posts)Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)GreenEyedLefty
(2,116 posts)even though she ran unopposed.
She received more votes than all of the Republican primary candidates combined.
uponit7771
(93,532 posts)Kaleva
(40,365 posts)Unwind Your Mind
(2,347 posts)I didnt hear that and probably wouldnt have, so thanks for telling us
catbyte
(39,152 posts)I did the same for Elissa Slotkin, too. I just couldn't leave them blank. My favorites for State Rep and Senate won so I was happy about the Primary.
Handler
(339 posts)peggysue2
(12,533 posts)Abortion rights and women's health care has proven itself a mighty narrative thread. But there's more. Americans do not like rights stripped away, period, and we know the Republicans were very hot on the idea of banning contraceptives, then other privacy matters. Marriage equality, for instance.
Then on the economic front with right-wingers howling about inflation and gas prices (now coming down), we have The GOP's Plan, thanks to Rick Scott and shouted out by Ron Johnson, to strip the so-called 'entitlements,' Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. There's a reason the 65+ electorate is moving away from the Republican Party and I suspect this is why. Defund the police was repeated forever, weaponized by the GOP against Democratic candidates. Let's try Defund Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid and let that play out. Or beat them over the head with Defund Public Education, something Mastriano in PA has said out loud.
And, of course, there's the whole question of the type of governance Republicans are so enamored with, why they're besotted by the likes of Victor Orban, an authoritarian who likes to pretend he's running a democratic state. Throw in the remaining J6 investigations and we've got a horror story brewing.
Narratives are important. And this time? We get to run with it by simply quoting what Republicans have said and written and promised.
It's a beautiful thing!
Unwind Your Mind
(2,347 posts)peggysue2
(12,533 posts)Might take you up on it.
Indykatie
(3,868 posts)and I imagine not too many women - or their partners - would be thrilled to know the government would force you to carry a rapists's baby
CrispyQ
(40,969 posts)Alice Kramden
(2,951 posts)summer_in_TX
(4,168 posts)be good to piggyback on.
A similarly-named Texans for Constitutional Freedoms might talk about government mandates, governmental over-reach, governmental tyranny, governmental corruption, governmental failures, by this Texas Republican leadership on a whole host of issues, especially the two that most affect people: abortion rights and trans rights.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)🎼🎶Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!
Roe roe roe your Vote
To FREEDOM and Liberty
Rejecting the Republican partys
Pro Slavery🎶
💜
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Isn't the last 3 of the last 4 Supreme Court justices he didn't hand pick his damn self 🤦🏾♀️🙄🖕🏾
The Supreme Court justices that he handpicked and stole from democrats when he didn't allow Barack Obama and Joe Biden to pick 2 of the justices.
And hes sitting on a interview trying to say well those were 9 justices that weren't elected that made that decision
What an unmitigated wrinkled useless withered up wee wee man
Upthevibe
(10,180 posts)PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VoteBlue2175
(28 posts)Oldtimeralso
(1,945 posts)Covid is a Democratic hoax...how did that work out? Ask over one million dead. Climate change doesn't exist...how about the record flooding in the south, the drought in the midwest, and the wildfires in the west. Wait that one I can explain we just didn't have enough Norwegians to rake the leaves. I'm also glad that the Revolutionary army took control of the airports before the Redcoats were able to. I hope that the trumpanziees wake up before monkey pox gets them.
ecstatic
(35,075 posts)Kaleva
(40,365 posts)It's unlikely that Rs in red districts may lose this fall even if the district voted to maintain abortion rights. It might have an impact on swing districts though
Tree Lady
(13,282 posts)Of the vote no campaign and they asked her about the ads that didn't specifically mention abortion. What they did in their ads was mention personal rights being taken away and republicans are big on personal rights.
I think this is how they won.
They showed if they talked about the word abortion they would vote against it. So democrats are getting smarter with their word usage. It's something republicans have used to their advantage for years tricking people with the way they worded issues.
Not sure we are tricking them so much as making them realize our bodies are a right we should be able to control. I think seeing how extreme they went to no exemptions even if you die finally did it.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)For instance right now Floridas Board of Medicine - made up of doctors appointed by Gov DeSantis - is meeting to decide if the state will restrict trans health care. Or maybe the GOP will go back to spouting openly racist drivel as their prime distraction and rabble-rousing target. But they won't back down on abortion, they've been working for too many years to get to this point.