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JustAnotherGen

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3. It was because of our tremendous turn out of the base

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Jan 20, 2022, 12:18 PM

Jan 2022

In 2020 - that we (black Americans and other minority Americans) are being punished by GOP State Governments.

That no vote was designed to stifle our voices, tell us to sit down, shut up, and accept taxation without representation.

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We need much better PSAs on voting rights and voter participation, for radio, TV and social media [View all] highplainsdem Jan 2022 OP

K&R, ... and we need to start early. This year the voter denial and suppression is going to be full uponit7771 Jan 2022 #1

True. highplainsdem Jan 2022 #5

Democracy Index puts US currently in "Flawed Democracy" status, Look at the nations that are higher uponit7771 Jan 2022 #2

That's so depressing for us. Shameful, really. This is something highplainsdem Jan 2022 #6

+1 uponit7771 Jan 2022 #7

It was because of our tremendous turn out of the base JustAnotherGen Jan 2022 #3

If the corporate media will let anyone carry pro-democracy speech that is. Alexander Of Assyria Jan 2022 #4