[THREAD] Kavanaugh’s confirmation today is just 1 part of Republicans’ decades-long campaign to subvert our democracy. They put their relentless pursuit of a Supreme Court controlled by radical right-wingers ahead of brave women who have told their stories. #KavanaughConfirmation By taking extreme personal risk, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford & sexual assault survivors galvanized this process. Disturbing and credible allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were brought to light by several courageous women. None of it mattered to Republicans. #KavanaughConfirmation

[THREAD] Here's what just happened on #Kavanaugh. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-10 (all Rs, including @JeffFlake voting yes, all Ds voting no) to send the nomination to the Senate floor. 1/ As part of his remarks, @JeffFlake told the Committee he'd prefer the Senate floor vote on Kavanaugh to be put off one week to allow for an FBI investigation. 2/

For 21 months, NY Indivisible groups have been FED UP w/ fake Dem IDC Senators who caucused w/ Republicans. Tonight, the IDC era is OVER - sending a clear message: Indivisibles will help transform the Democratic party into one that fights for policies that help everyone. #NoIDCNY

https://twitter.com/IndivisWstchr/status/1040431998039453698

For too many years, the IDC had been considered a norm of New York politics. But this election season we’ve seen the grassroots stand up and say they’ve had enough. #NYPrimaries #NoIDCNY

https://twitter.com/Liat_RO/status/1038822296776044544

One year ago today, a wave of constituent pressure crashed in the Senate well -- saving health care for 23 million Americans and denying Trump a top legislative priority. 1/ We didn't build that wave overnight. It started little by little, when people like you showed up at town halls around the country to hold Republicans accountable for trying to repeal the ACA. nymag.com/daily/intellig… 2/

[THREAD] There's a LOT of updates today around the #TrumpPutinSummit and the #MuellerInvestigation. Here's what you need to know: Trump’s disgraceful and disloyal press conference today shows that he is a danger to us all, and that he is clearly acting on behalf of Russian, and not American, interests. Instead of confronting Putin’s threats to our democracy, he instead attacked the Russia investigation.

BREAKING: Trump just announced his #SCOTUSpick - Brett Kavanaugh, who has a troubling record on #reprorights, the environment, the ACA, and more. Keep reading to learn more about #WhatsAtStake and why we must #StopKavanaugh ⬇️ Brett Kavanaugh is one of the most cravenly partisan choices Trump could have made. He’s been called the “Forrest Gump of Republican politics,” as he seems to always show up in high-stakes, far-right political battles and conspiracy theories.

UPDATE: Paul Ryan is shopping around his immigration proposal as a “fix” to family separation. That’s a lie. It does NOT solve this Trump-created crisis. It only makes it worse. Here’s what this bill would 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 do:

#KeepFamiliesTogether #FamiliesBelongTogether

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❌ Jails families together — i.e., bigger cages for families
❌ INDEFINITE detention of children while parents are being prosecuted
❌ Would still result in separation of families if parent is sentenced to jail time

After months in the making, we’re excited to announce the next evolution of the Indivisible movement 🥁🥁🥁

… the official, on-the-ground launch of Indivisible435, our 50-state political program! Starting today:
📝Every Indivisible group will be able to sign up to use canvassing & phone banking tools!
💪We’ve doubled our organizing team to better support the thousands of Indivisibles on the ground.
🗣️We’ll build a national volunteer program to support 50+ key races!

The national conversation is very much focused (rightly so) on gun safety. But that is NOT what the Senate is doing next week. Instead, they're having a totally unrelated vote to de-regulate big banks and let racial discrimination in mortgage lending go unchecked. 1/ On the heels of the massive giveaway to wealthy, corps, and big banks (the #GOPTaxScam), this is a follow-up giveaway that would let two dozen of the country's biggest banks escape regulation and put us at risk of another financial crisis. indivisible.org/resource/repub… 2/

All votes are in, and the Senate Continuing Resolution cloture vote has failed. This means that the government is not funded and the #TrumpShutdown is officially in effect.

⬇️THREAD⬇️ Republicans let CHIP expire to pass the #GOPTaxScam. Trump ended DACA. The GOP caused the #TrumpShutdown and refused to put a bill that could pass to a vote. They can only fix it by cleaning up their mess— which has already upended millions of lives.

These are the faces of the Republicans that just voted (after 0 hearings) to give massive tax cuts to the rich and corporations, paid for by the rest of us👇👇👇#TrumpTaxScam .@RepKevinBrady: He's a driving force and key salesman behind the #TrumpTaxScam. The top 1% of Texans get a tax cut 3x as big as folks in the middle, as % of income.

Indivisibles we have an AM action for you. The Rules Committee is sending #HR3697 to full House for a vote. Heres why we need to act today → #HR3697 is a hateful bill that would allow Trump’s deportation machine to label wider categories of immigrants as “gang members.”

Indivisibles we have an AM action for you. The Rules Committee is sending #HR3697 to full House for a vote. Heres why we need to act today → #HR3697 is a hateful bill that would allow Trump’s deportation machine to label wider categories of immigrants as “gang members.”