Elections are run by the states, not the federal government. They are going to happen as usual.
They could try to ignore the results, but the elections are happening.
silence7
joined 3 years ago
21
Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers
(www.washingtonpost.com)
When somebody does the right thing for the wrong reasons, the impact is the same.
XR has US chapters. They've mostly done protests on the scale of dozens to hundreds of people.
The big question isn't whether they'll break the law: it's whether they've alienated the local police enough that they'll do something besides look the other way.
I dont like lumping all Democrats together on this. They passed national anti-gerrymandering legislation through the House when they controlled it, but it died in the Senate because 3 out of 50 Democrats there wouldn't break the filibuster to pass it.
No. I think that some of the sites that claim to rank outlet bias intentionally describe center-right content as "left" in order to skew how people view things
No. They're just building concentration camps.
In much of the US, living together and presenting yourself as married over a period of years means you're actually married.
The big group this impacts is married women — in particular it has a name-matching requirement which will block a large fraction of married women from voting. They're doing this because women have consistently been more likely to vote for Democrats than men:
This makes it very much worthwhile for Americans to ask their Senators to block this legislation by any means necessary.
The goal here is to keep women from voting: the SAVE act very specifically requires that you
- Prove citizenship
- That you prove that the name on your citizenship document (eg: birth certificate) match your current name
Because women often change name when they get married, they'll have a mismatch, and need to spend time and money to be able to vote. If the legislation passes, it will block about 20 million Americans from voting. Because of gender disparities in voting, Republicans see this as to their advantage.
Give your Senators a call at 202-224-3121 and ask them to block this change.
Its a program for the Democrats to aspire to. What you're seeing here is people with voice shifting where the party stands. It will be meaningful when they hold power