Ron DeSantis Faces Three New Lawsuits After Signing New Voter Suppression Bill

The new law could devastate community voter registration drives

Hours before announcing his 2024 campaign for the presidency on Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law allowing him to continue to serve as governor while he pursues the GOP presidential nomination. While that was the headline, the new law contains a series of provisions making it harder to vote in the state, including new restrictions on mail-in ballots, efforts to make it easier to purge voting rolls, and limitations on third-party voter registration groups that could gut community registration drives. (via MotherJones.com).

Nicolle Wallace Literally Laughs Out Loud At Ron DeSantis’ Bizarre Promise

The MSNBC host has a blunt fact-check for the Florida governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate

“I will be able to destroy leftism in this country and leave woke ideology on the dustbin of history.” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

“A woke mob did not storm the U.S. Capitol. A woke mob did not shoot up Uvalde. A woke mob does not represent the threat that domestic violent extremism does, but OK, Ron, you go get the woke mob.” Nicolle Wallace. (via HuffPost.com).

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Democracy: Ya Gotta Fight For It

Posted here 2021-05-27

“There Is a Ticking Timebomb”

Republican controlled states across the country are moving more aggressively with their democracy-killing agenda to make voting as difficult as possible in counties where Blacks, Latinos and low-income voters reside. Legislatures in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa and Montana all have put in place vote-canceling laws in 2021. More Republican pols are concocting similar legislation.

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Elections and Consequences, A Reminder

Posted here 2022-11-02

America, We Hardly Know Ya

So, the question: Are we living in the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning to the Grand American Experiment?

The term ‘American Experiment’ is most often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville, a young lawyer and French aristocrat who observed America in the early half of the nineteenth century on behalf of the French government. De Tocqueville published his observations “Democracy in America” in two-volumes (1835/1840).

Historically, both Liberals and Conservatives lay claim to ownership of the term as the best illustration of America’s past and America’s future, and believe the work, still, best reveals their respective, righteous agenda.

I’m sure neither Libs nor Cons could care less, but de Tocqueville did not use the term American Experiment, grand or otherwise, in his observations of the ‘new’ American Democracy. He wrote that what the new Democracy showed the ‘old’ World is that civilised man ‘should attempt’ to build a society upon ‘new foundations’.

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