They came for the history and the ballot box.
A federal judge forced the government to restore slavery exhibits at the house where George Washington kept nine enslaved people because someone in this administration decided that story shouldn’t be told anymore. The judge quoted Orwell and compared the government to a “Ministry of Truth.”
Civil rights organizations including the NAACP filed suit in Georgia to protect Fulton County voter data that the FBI seized at White House direction. Given this administration’s actions in Philadelphia and elsewhere, that seems prudent.
Congress is out but your representatives and senators still have offices and phones. Call or write them and tell them you see the racism running rampant through this executive branch. Demand they protect vulnerable communities.
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Alaska signed a confidential agreement letting DOJ flag individual voters for removal from state rolls, one of at least 12 states that quietly complied while judges ruled against DOJ in every related lawsuit.
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