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What kind of world do you want to live in?

Better,

What kind of country do you want to be a citizen of?

These are important questions, serious ones, and they are the real questions on the ballot come November 6th.

Every American needs to consider them.

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Do you want your country committed to justice for all and a consistent and universally applied rule of law?

If so, you cannot support a single Republican candidate.

Not one.

Not a single one.

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If you want to live in a nation that is able to compete in the global marketplace and believe that the only way to achieve that is by giving all of our children a world class education then you cannot vote for a single Republican.

Not one.

Not a single one.

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If you believe that our daughters deserve all the rights and privileges and, indeed, all of the challenges of our sons then you cannot support a single Republican candidate in November.

Not one.

Not a single one.

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If you believe that the institutionalized and visceral racism that has ruled this nation for far too long must be faced, challenged, and destroyed then you cannot support the Republicans in November.

Not one.

Not a single one.

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If you do not believe that corporations are people whose rights supercede those of individual Americans then you cannot vote for a single Repubican at midterms.

Not one.

Not a single one.

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If you believe that health insurance should be affordable, universal, and not withdrawn the moment you become ill then you cannot vote Republican.

Not for a single office.

Not one.

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If you believe in Net Neutrality.

If you believe in Climate Change.

If you believe there is more to the United States Constitution than one Amendment.

Do not vote for a single Republican.

Not one.

Not a single one.

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If you believe that our current immigration policy is immoral, inhumane, and unconstitutional.

If you believe in a woman's right to make decisions for her own body.

If you support marriage equality.

You cannot vote for a single Republican.

Not one.

Not a single one.

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Clean water & air.
Social Security.
Medicare.
Criminal justice reform.
Art.
College loans.
Decency.

It's all in the ballot.

If you support any or all of these things then you must not vote for a candidate of the Republican Party in November.

Not one.

Not a single one.

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The media is saying we @TheDemocrats need to make 2018 more than about @realDonaldTrump and #Russia and I say it's never been just about him.

That's their narrative.

It is not ours.

We know what we're fighting for.

And removing Trump is only the start.

#Vote
#Fight
#Resist
For those following the above thread I apologize for the thread error that occurred.

My phone died mid-send, and I'm dealing with a very cracked, nearly unreadable screen and when I was able to restore power it took a few moments to make sense of where I left off.

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Oct 7, 2018
Finally slept.

For a few days when I'd sleep I was either having nightmares about #Kavanaugh or, and this was a first, having nightmares about having nightmares about #Kavanaugh.

My poor puppies didn't know what the hell was going on...

"IT'S A NEW DAY. "

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When people invoke platitudes like this it is usually done in order to being hope, to assert the positive aspects of what's ahead.

Not today.

There is nothing positive about this. We played the Super Bowl and we lost, but there is no rematch.

2/
Worse, one of the players for the other team is suddenly a fucking umpire and wants to review the tapes of all previous games and change some of the calls made by other, better umpires from games we had already won in the past.

It doesn't make sense.

None of it.

3/
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Oct 7, 2018
I won't be lectured about majorities or electoral politics on the day #BrettKavanaugh was confirmed to #SCOTUS with the help of a goddamned Democrat.

I don't care where he's from or the demographics of his state. I don't care about any of that bullshit.

1/
He deserves some fire under his feet on the day he voted FOR a fucking lying racist rapist who is probably going to overturn ROE v. WADE and a host of other important pieces of legislation.

He could have called in sick.

He could have abstained.

2/
He could have stood on the Senate floor and said "I am casting this vote because my constituents have asked me to and I am their representative, but I personally strongly oppose this nominee, and support Professor Ford.

Instead he basically endorsed Collins speech.

3/
Read 7 tweets
Oct 6, 2018
Let it be our promise to every future life that is destroyed, changed, or affected by a Justice #Kavanaugh that we will make it a priority to see Sasse, Manchin, and Collins suffer for their vote today.

They must lose their Senate seats, and be reminded everyday why.

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If we can't manage to focus long enough to carry through on our threats to our elected leaders who betray us then there will never be a reason to fear us. There will never be a reason to reconsider a decision or vote.

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And maybe no mistake, @SenatorCollins must be made an example of, if only because so much focus was placed on her and her decision making process.

But also because of that poisonous victim blaming/ shaming speech she delivered yesterday.

SUSAN COLLINS MUST LOSE IN 2020.

3/
Read 11 tweets
Oct 5, 2018
There is no way to sugarcoat how bad things just got, and if there was, we shouldn't. This is a loss that will haunt this nation for decades.

The confirmation of #BrettKavanaugh has managed to confirm more than just a man, for many, its confirmed our worst fears.

1/
It has confirmed that the @GOP is the most corrupt ruling party at the federal level in our nation's history. That they will do anything and everything to protect itself, including putting the survival of our Republic itself at risk.

2/
Its confirmed that the real decisions are made before the questions are even formally presented, and that they really do not care what our opinions of those decisions will be.

And it has also confirmed that Donald Trump has a lot more power than we imagined.

3/
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Oct 3, 2018
If you want to live in a nation that is "led" by a man who would mock someone who was the victim of a violent sexual assault then we are very different people.

Trump's behavior today was that of a playground bully. They were the words that a bully utters and then laughs.

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The bully imagines, and may even hear, the world laughing with him, but the chuckles are only from his hangers-on and those hoping to impress the bully.

The rest of the world only turns its head to look away. They hope that someone, anyone, will intervene.

2/
They almost always get away with it, though, bullies.

And Trump will likely get away with this, like always.

#ChristineBlaseyFord passed a lie detector test on the day of her grandmother's funeral. No one non-partisan or credible has questioned her credibility.

3/
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Oct 2, 2018
They told us @HillaryClinton was just as bad as @realDonaldTrump.

Hell, @SusanSarandon said she was worse.

She should really never open her mouth about politics again, ever.

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U.S. to partners of U.N. LGBTQ staff: Get married, or get out nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-ou… via @NBCNews
That anyone ever fell for that ridiculous lie is beyond disgraceful.

Even if Clinton were guilty of the types of corruption they claimed she was she would still not be comparable in this way to Donald Trump.

Not even close.

But she's clearly not.

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As the nation braces itself for the @GOP's latest betrayal in the runup to the #BrettKavanaugh confirmation vote, it is becoming clearer that even those we once believed retained some recognizably moral standards, simply don't.

@SenatorCollins, @lisamurkowski--we see you.

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