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You know everything you need to know about Republicans and elections by watching how hard they work to disenfranchise voters. As Paul Weyrich said years ago they don't want everyone to vote, because when everyone votes, they lose. If only the Republican Party could learn from its losses and change its policy proposals from the simple tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for business, ending immigration and marginalizing marginalized groups into something that the American people could actually support.

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Nov 8, 2022·edited Nov 8, 2022

I am about to vote a straight democratic ticket for the first time, without considering the qualifications of ANY republican candidates. I cannot support any R's. The R's are either complacent or complicit (why not both?) and neither represents me!

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First and foremost. How many of you p*ss away $60 in a month or year? If you aren't subscribing to PI but read it because you don't have a pay wall, we are endanger of losing Judd and PI.

He is under attack on Twitter where he gets people like us to subscribe or you freebies jump in. I found him 4 years ago and have subscribed ever since. My oh my. What Elon Musk is about to find out is pay walls after free seldom work. I won't pay the rich jerk's 1 billion a year tab. I can catch up on my reading on here and other substack newsletters.

That being said. I am very angry at MSM for unfair reporting of pre election. Trump is lede more nights than not. They contribute to voter suppression as well. 1% heart of ownership. WTH. The GOP is about to take this country off the Democratic Republic list and dammit my children and their children may never grow old, have families in anything resembling land of the free and home of the brave. (As if it truly was, but you catch my drift.)

Subscribe. You can't afford not to as this is the last wagon circle and the Cavalry ain't coming.

PS

Vote today if you haven't.

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Nov 8, 2022·edited Nov 8, 2022

Hi Judd, Thank you for being courageous enough to stay on Twitter which I abandoned when Musk first made his intentions known. I have learned that the path of confusion and hypocrisy is not the truth and that only Democrats have a sense of irony/humor because the other side is busy burning the house down. 🙏 PS I am gifting your column to others.

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Why wouldn't the Republicans keep doing this? It's been working enough for them to disenfranchise many voters. Their position seems to be that they are virtuous people whose side NEVER cheats---only those evil, leftist Democrats do things like that.

And they have an entire media network which screams constantly that they are right.

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VOTE like your very LIFE depends on it. It probably does!

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I subscribed on October 21,2022.

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Tucker Carlson claims that the "Democrats are going to steal the election and start a civil war." Which means (ignoring other implications) that you have to look to see how the Republicans are trying to steal the election. These attempts at disenfranchising voters are one key part of the Republicans strategy - see TN for another angle.

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Thank you Judd and company! Isn't it interesting that the people who know the least about the law are the ones who "cite" it (wrongly, of course)? Great reporting!

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Always nice to see a judge throw out a pathetic republican "lawsuit" if you can even call it that. I simply can't understand voting for any Republican at the moment. Until trump is dead, their party cannot be trusted with anything.

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Nov 9, 2022·edited Nov 9, 2022

Judd has opened an account on Mastodon, User ID @juddlegum@journa.host

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Check the lawsuits Republicans have filed to throw out valid votes using information from Popular Information and Democracy Docket with this interactive map. https://thedemlabs.org/2022/11/08/voter-suppression-by-republican-lawsuits-to-trash-votes/

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Perfect ending to this reporting of Republican internecine maneuvers, “is not only unprecedented, it is intolerable.”

Meanwhile, thinking of the ancient shared experience of the lunar eclipse--may light finally shine through all that obscures it! (I'm not watching or listening to any news today.)

In favor of seemingly impossible transformations turning in the direction of being sources of good--eg, Elon Musk learning how using his power for good could feel deeply satisfying; how news from PI can spread to change minds that are stuck; how a majority can focus on desired outcomes (rather than fears).

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In Georgia, the state where Stacey Abrams continues to be an election denier (after flipping and flopping to say she supports voter ID) and Biden Democrats ginned up a national political news narrative claiming State Republicans were suppressing votes there, this election has seen record numbers of ballots.

Including date of signature is a standard form completion/authorization step. If you don’t date the form big government Democrat bureaucrats will gleefully reject it. Requiring that same standard for ballots is easy to accept.

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Here’s what Georgia republicans have done to suppress Democratic voting in the midterm and the upcoming runoff. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/why-did-mail-in-ballots-in-georgia-plunge-by-one-million/

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Thanks Judd - please keep on writing in spite of the rich thugs who decry you.

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