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Tag Archives: voter suppression
Iowa’s Top Turkey? Covid Kim!
Progress Iowa <press@progressiowa.org> For Immediate Release: November 24, 2021 Contact: Ivy Beckenholdt, press@progressiowa.org Fowl Record Earns Gov. Kim Reynolds ‘Turkey of the Year’ Award Des Moines, Iowa — Citing her ‘fowl’ record of mismanagement and policy failures, Progress Iowa today … Continue reading
Posted in Covid-19, Kim Reynolds
Tagged masking policies, misuse of funds, turkey of the year, voter suppression
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Deadline For Democracy: Massive Public Pressure Needed Now
Action alert from Indivisible: This week, we’re taking over our usual newsletter’s slot with a big update: Today, we’re launching Deadline for Democracy, a movement-wide, all-hands-on-deck campaign to get the For the People Act passed in July. The next six … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa
Tagged Deadline for Democracy, For the People Act, voter suppression
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Beating Trump And Saving Democracy
Action alert from Indivisible In just the past few weeks, we’ve seen some major strides on our top democracy reform priorities. From the For the People Act and the D.C. statehood bill passing in the House to continued momentum on … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa
Tagged For the People Act, Indivisible, S.1, voter suppression
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Book Review: Our Time Is Now
If one needs a palate cleansing after the bitter taste of the Trump years, Stacey Abrams’ Our Time is Now is just the book to read. I didn’t know what to expect going in. I knew of her close Georgia … Continue reading
Posted in 2020 election campaign, 2022 Election campaign, politics
Tagged 2020 election campaign, book review, politics, Stacey Abrams, US Census, voter suppression
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Simple And Easy Change Or Voter Suppression?
As chair of the Iowa House State Government Committee, Representative Bobby Kaufmann was quick to get out into the newspapers in his district to explain the last minute dealings regarding voting process as the second session of the 88th Iowa … Continue reading
Book Review: The Hidden History Of The War On Voting
The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote — and How to Get it Back by Thom Hartmann is a quick but important read for people who want or need to review the history and origins … Continue reading
Posted in thom hartmann, voter suppression, voting rights
Tagged #votersuppression, by Thom Hartmann, thom hartmann, voter suppression, voting rights
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Meanwhile In Des Moines Citizens Get Screwed
Republicans tell university students: Come live in Iowa’s university cities, but you don’t get to vote there. Who can be surprised that Republicans in the Iowa legislature passed a bill out of committee that would restrict university students from voting … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Education, Iowa legislature 2019, Kim Reynolds
Tagged lobbyists, lobbyists behind closed doors, suppressing student votes, voter suppression
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Voter ID: Because Republicans Can Only Win By Using Voter Suppression
In light of the vote suppression law (aka voter ID), pushed by Republicans in the Iowa legislature, this is important. Republicans do not want you to vote. They want low turnout. They know Democrats win when there is high turnout. … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, voter suppression
Tagged voter ID laws, voter suppression
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Some Electoral Math
I am no mathematician and hold no claims to be. This last election results sure raise a lot of questions that real math wizards and analysts of electoral politics everywhere are going to be pouring over for a long time. … Continue reading
Approach To Voting Tells How Parties View Democracy
One of the quickest and easiest ways to judge how the two major parties in this country view the very fundamental concept of democracy is to simply see how they treat voters. As usual, we see Democrats busting their butts … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election Campaign, Branstad, Vote Fraud, voting rights
Tagged goo-goo syndrome, Green Bay, Paul Weyrich, The Young Turks, Trump voter sppression effort, voter suppression
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