Good Read from Ari Berman: The Founding Fathers planted a bomb in the Constitution. Donald Trump lit the fuse.
“We’re living in an era where a determined minority is doing everything in its power to try to destroy our democracy for their own agenda.”
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“Our model isn’t a relic of history,' says Biden. However, the crisis facing our democracy is much older than Trump and is a relic of a distant time in US history.

Ari Berman and sam explore how the US political system was created to restrain democracy, not protect it. 👇

This book is fantastic, timely, and infuriating.

Minority rule is threatening America. And that's the GOP plan for the USA. Ari Berman breaks this down in a brilliant new book. Catch this excerpt:
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The crisis facing American democracy is much older & deeper than Trump

The anti-democratic institutions created by the founders laid groundwork for minority rule. They planted bomb & Trump lit fuse

New @motherjones excerpt of my new book Minority Rule motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Excited to share that my new book Minority Rule is out 4/23 from Farrar,Straus&Giroux. Tells story of decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy & entrench their power but also movements to resist it amazon.com/Minority-Rule-…

Voting Rights Act under all-out assault from reactionary Trump judges. I discussed vital history of VRA & how GOP-appointed judges trying to nullify country’s most important civil rights law on Fresh Air today. Please listen npr.org/2023/11/30/121…

North Carolina Republicans passed bill today stripping Dem governor of majorities on state/local election boards & giving gerrymandered legislature huge new power to overturn elections & limit early voting in Dem areas. Scary stuff motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

If you care about the future of Democracy, you should be following what's happening in Wisconsin. This latest episode of Slate's What Next with Mary E. Harris and Ari Berman is a good overview of the history and the stakes of what's ahead.

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Ari Berman has been one of the essential chroniclers of Wisconsin’s descent into authoritarianism—and the fight back. Don’t miss this writeup.

Breaking: Wisconsin Senate votes to oust state’s top election official, caving to election deniers

This + threat to impeach state supreme court justice shows extreme tactics GOP using to subvert fair elections & maintain anti-democratic grip on power

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Wisconsin senate voting today to oust state’s top election official & GOP assembly threatening to impeach newly elected state Supreme Court justice to keep gerrymandered maps. Incredibly dangerous attempts to maintain GOP’s anti-democratic grip on power motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

Huge vote in Ohio today will decide whether GOP enshrines permanent minority rule or if democracy survives & the people can protect abortion rights, end gerrymandering & hold rigged legislature accountable motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

“If we saw it in another country, we’d say that’s not a democracy,” Pepper says. “But that country is Ohio.”

Really good summary of what’s happening and what’s at stake in ⁦Mother Jones⁩ , by ⁦Ari Berman⁩ motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

Ohio Republicans want to kill direct democracy to block abortion rights & protect gerrymandering

They’re funded by dark money groups who bankrolled Jan 6 & election denial

This stealth plan to end majority rule should be getting way more attention

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In other big democracy news, voting rights groups filed new lawsuit challenging gerrymandered maps in Wisconsin today after Janet Protasiewicz sworn in

In 2022 Tony Evers won 51% of vote but Republicans retained 67% of seats in senate & 65% in assembly

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Since 2020 election, 29 states have passed 73 new laws undermining fair elections, enshrining Trump's Big Lie

Yesterday Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock introduced Preventing Election Subversion Act to stop it

“Protecting our democracy is job one” he told me

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