Complete with a painting of the Callaway Plantation where hundreds of enslaved people were held captive... in case there was any doubt about the motivation behind the passage of this bill.
#WeSeeYou
#JimQrow
#JimCrow2
#HR1
#HR4
The nation is realizing what we have known all along: Georgia is a battleground state. Thanks to the relentless work done toward investing in & turning out voters of color. Senator-elect Raphael Warnock’s win is an extraordinary moment in Georgia’s & our country’s history.
I’m supposed to be ✌🏾resting✌🏾. Just popped in to say that
@SenatorWarnock
, son of Savannah + Morehouse,
@staceyabrams
’ successor as NGP’s board chair, and Senior Pastor at Ebenezer Baptist, presided over the United States Senate today.
#WhatATimeToBeAlive
The polls are now closed, but the work WILL continue.
We are undoing a history of suppression and injustice in Black and Brown communities.
The changes that we are now seeing didn’t happen overnight and it wasn’t solved with just one vote.
Just hopped out of the ancestor group chat. JL said keep his name out of your mouth while you dismantle his life’s work. Barry Goldwater said he’s proud of you + hell is not as hot as ppl make it out to be. What is it that folks in Phoenix say? It’s a✌🏾dry heat✌🏾
Our nation lost a civil rights giant one year ago today. John Lewis was a personal hero of mine -- a man of principle and courage, who encapsulated all the qualities of a true leader. Rest in power, my dear friend.
Im so so so moved by the outpouring of love, appreciation, and encouragement. We do this for the love. Love of ourselves, families, and communities. And we do this to build power. The power to change our circumstances and shape the future of the Georgia, and our country.
I don’t know, anyone got any ideas?
We’ll talk about yesterday, but we’ll also spend a lot of time on Georgia, including an interview with
@nseufot
Big pod today
Help me wish my friend,
the Dr. Who loving,
10+ books authoring,
voting rights defending,
history making,
@Forbes
100 Most Powerful Women in 2020 list making,
brilliant, hilarious, kind, generous,
@staceyabrams
the happiest of birthdays! ❤️🎉🎊
New on
@MSNBC
: Georgia has just broken the record for turnout in a runoff election.
2,337,483 Georgians have voted so far.
The previous record was 2.1 million, set in 2008.
With Jon Ossoff’s (
@ossoff
) victory, there is no looking back for Georgia.
We have put complacent leaders on notice: we have the power to vote you out and usher in elected officials who will honor the will of the people and address the needs of our communities.
Honored. Humbled. HAPPY to announce that I will be a Spring 2021
@HarvardIOP
Fellow. I look forward to being in community with this diverse cohort of civic leaders.
ALSO, GA Capitol police arrested a sitting elected official—
@Cannonfor58
—for knocking on the governor’s door. Her crime? Trying to watch Governor Kemp sign a bill that would suppress the vote of Georgians.
A few hours ago,
@GovKemp
signed
#SB202
into law. Let’s call this bill what it is: a blatant and intentional strike on Black, Brown, and new voters. (1/8)
After months of silence, the Cobb County/ Suburban Braves finally found their voice. Riddle me this, though. How does one enhance a discussion they refuse to participate in?
*Also, the Tomahawk Chop is racist and it’s beyond time that y’all end the practice.
Here is what I know: A better Georgia is not a pipe dream. Organizing gets the goods. Electoral outcomes are determined by 1) who shows up and 2) whose votes get counted.
The Civil Rights Movement and the Confederacy both lay claim to Georgia’s history. Who gets to write the story about Georgia’s future is being decided now.
@akamikki08
@MsLaToshaBrown
@maddow
That’s not my job. They’ve got half a century of service in the senate between them. Shall I chew their food and mama bird feed them too?
🗣End The Filibuster.
🗣Pass the For The People Act
🗣Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
🗣Stop playing with me
#tbt
I’m a joyful warrior in
@staceyabrams
’ March to the sea. (Unlike Sherman’s March from Atlanta to Savannah, this army seeks to end the Confederacy by BUILDING infrastructure not BURNING it.)
In 2021 so far, there have been more than 425 bills introduced in state legislatures in 49 states across the country aimed at making it harder to vote.
Join me, Sen.
@amyklobuchar
,
@ariberman
,
@nseufot
, and
@NicholsUprising
this Wednesday at 8 PM ET to discuss how we fight back.
In 2010,
@SenatorSinema
blasted the “false pressure to get to 60” votes.
Today, she is willing to go down in history as the Senator who ensured the irreversible fall of American democracy.
#FightForVotingRights
The first
#TIME100NEXT
list is out and I'm honored, humbled, and thrilled to be a part of this esteemed group. 😊 If you have not had a chance to see it, check it out:
The Senate Republicans’ theft of Obama’s Supreme Court appointment might end up being the most consequential thing to happen in American politics in my lifetime.
We are undoing a history of voter suppression and injustice in Black and Brown communities. The changes we are seeing now didn’t happen overnight, and we are not solving our challenges with just one vote.
Millennials and Zoomers — I got one message. 🗣 KEEP THAT SAME ENERGY! We still have maddddd work to do.
There are about 23K+ young people who are turning 18 between NOW and Jan. 5 — their vote MATTERS! Let’s make sure they have the opportunity to cast it. Period.
No one has felt the pain inflicted by this failed leadership more than the very voters we must mobilize to win here: people of color, young people, and women. Georgia’s winning progressive coalition is fed up, activated, and ready.
Want to help in Georgia? Donate to to support
@NewGAProject
led by
@nseufot
and other orgs working hard in Georgia right now to get out the vote!
Donate
Y’all! My fam is SO sick of me making comparisons between this moment and the Harlem Renaissance/the Roaring 20’s, but seriously, there are SO many parallels.
Yes!
@nseufot
has been leading the charge for
@NewGAProject
! This sister has led the registration of over 500,000+ Georgians and has been throwing down consistently for the past 3 years. I love me some Nse. I salute you Sis! ✊🏾❤️
Organizers showed up, and the voters decided. We know that our community is ready for change. We are ready to fight COVID-19 and to be represented in the halls of power by real leadership.
#Georgia
, I’m ready to see y’all at the polls! Super voters, re-registered voters & most importantly first time voters- all of your voices matter.
If you’re not registered or unsure, click here ➡️ to find out so you can vote in the Senate
#Runoff
election
Today is the final day for voters to register in the state of Georgia to vote in the state's special elections.
@nseufot
says "we are on a thirty day sprint to make history."
@MSNBC
100s of campaigns.
1000s more citizens registered.
Millions educated and mobilized
SINCE 2020. With an agenda that has been articulated. Repeatedly.
They ❤️ it on the campaign trail, but us keeping that same energy when it’s time to govern? Problems.
@forthecomments1
@nseufot
@tafkam08
@akamikki08
@maddow
That’s what you think we need after months of organizers going to jail, protesting, organizing in our states?
What speech you think we want to hear?
How many campaigns have you worked since 2020. We have worked on 100’s.
He has not delivered
Y’all think this is a joke.
Conservative lawmakers and candidates have made it clear that they have no intention of winning fair and square.
Read my full article that I penned for
@theatlantavoice
here:
@GovKemp
, the criminalization of Black elected officials and advocates — done at our Capitol today in your name — was unacceptable. You should resign.
Usher, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Julianne Hough will host competition series ‘The Activist’.
Activists go head-to-head in challenges to promote their causes, with their success measured via online engagement, social metrics, and hosts’ input.
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We will continue to be the Change Agents, Change Makers, Culture Creators and .. about that ACTION. (Word to
@NGPAction
😉)
South
#Georgia
, we hear AND see you. New voters, congrats on using your power for something
#MAJOR
. Super voters, no words aside from THANK YOU.
Thanks to Powered by People volunteers and
@ngpaction
(especially
@nseufot
!) for a great night on the phones to Georgia. Together we made 757,668 calls to voters to remind them that they can still vote early tomorrow (Thursday 12/31) or on election day (Tuesday 1/5). Go Georgia!
Hiring the same consultants, to run the same plays, the same tired ads, using the same targeting, employing the same small minded, regressive LOSING strategies while we’re experiencing a decline in our democratic freedoms and witnessing a rise in autocratic rule?
#weoffthat
This week we lost eight of our neighbors. The ongoing vitriol against the Asian American community is truly evil and deadly. When will we learn? We must not stand by, but stand together against the harassment, violence and hate from white supremacy that has no place in our world.
At least when you ran for Agriculture Commissioner, the shit you shoveled only ruined your shoes. Now? The shit you're shoveling is ruining our democracy.
@GovKemp
@tafkam08
@akamikki08
@MsLaToshaBrown
@maddow
I’m asking that they join me in amplifying the demand, whip the votes necessary amongst their colleagues, and sell it the way they tried to sell BBB, OR acknowledge that they were lame ducks from 1.6.21 + concede that only path forward is w/less GOP
People who lack vision traffic in division. They cannot lead us so they will try to divide us. While they try to tear us down, I’m going to be busy trying to lift the families of Georgia up – because we’re all we’ve got.
GA Democrats are hoping the state’s hip-hop music scene will help to boost engagement among young voters during the high-stakes Senate runoffs.
@PriscillaWT
talks to
@nseufot
of
@NewGAProject
Watch NOW:
More on this later, but the
@GAChamber
and
@atlchamber
's statements are super weak. Anemic. Full throated condemnation of these anti-voting bills and a call for
#Brian
to veto them when they hit his desk.
#gapol
A4: The Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Shelby v. Holder significantly weakened the VRA’s protections. In order to fix this,
@POTUS
must encourage Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
#HR1TownHall
Q4: How could
@POTUS
make clear that democracy reform, in particular the protection of voting rights for Black, brown and other historically disenfranchised communities, is a priority for his administration.
#HR1TownHall
#ForThePeopleAct
@DFADCoalition
We’re hiring for volunteer coordinators to help with the January 5th
#senaterunoff
elections.
We need good folks to help recruit, train and support volunteers as they make phone calls, send text messages and knock on doors.
Ready to work? Click here:
We must now rebuild our democracy from the ground up. Today’s insurrection at the Capitol in Washington D.C. is yet another sign that we need deep reforms to our political system.
Quick PSA from
@nseufot
: “Your feelings are not facts.” Especially when it comes to election integrity. “We can show you” Black voters are being purged from voter rolls. Election deniers “are not held to the same standard.” She’s got receipts so make sure to bring yours.
#Velshi
Hey! Y’all remember that one time
@nytopinion
let me share the playbook we’re using to put the final nail in Jim Crow’s coffin and win Black votes for real and not for play?
Finally sat down after the longest of weeks, opened this app and whoa! The
@NewGAProject
team has been working around the clock since to chase, and help Georgian’s cure, their provisional ballots before the Friday deadline.
A1: We have a saying
@NewGAProject
. Every voter, every election. And we mean it. Our democracy is made weaker when its citizens are blocked from participating in it. Our work centers on protecting the voting rights of ALL Georgians.
#HR1TownHall
Q1: Tell us about your organization’s work to protect voting rights and why citizen participation is foundational to a healthy democracy?
#HR1TownHall
@DFADcoalition
These new indictments in the Amaud Arbery, Daunte Wright and Elijah McClain cases are VERY telling. Now if they would just convict their asses!
#SayTheirNames
“Nothing underscores the power of their vote like winning the election. Seeing the power of their vote in real time is way more effective than the nine months of message research that we’ve done.”
#ItsElectionDay
#IsaidwhatIsaid
So this what we’re up against... the GA House is about to vote on HB 86 that will allow sports gambling in our state. There is NO WAY it will pass with out Dem votes.
The dynamics here are not subtle: we saw white police officers forcefully dragging a Black legislator from the Capitol. This type of intimidation by law enforcement officers towards Black folks fighting to protect the right to vote isn’t new. It’s straight out of Jim Crow.
Just one small example of the strong winds in New Orleans right now--a trash can gets blown down the street. To everyone affected by
#Ida
, please stay safe and listen to the guidance of local officials.
When he was Chair of the
@NewGAProject
, Rev. Warnock always made sure our North Star was to be a civil rights home, an organizing home, and a political home for all of Georgia, not just for the city of Atlanta.
Georgia is no stranger to making history and with the balance of the United States Senate resting on our shoulders we are sure to do it again on January 5. Hear from
@killermike
about what’s at stake in our new PSA written by
@adammansbach
!
#finishthefight
#alleyesongeorgia
About to go on
@TheWeekMSNBC
with this weekend’s guest host
@DrJasonJohnson
. Come for the Georgia updates. Stay for the jokes at the Professor’s expense.
"A vibrant, robust democracy is our greatest weapon against authoritarian rule." — said by
@NseUfot
, illustrated by Olivia Fields
@tncts
#TrailblazersPBS
(2/5)
Aint no way letting Oil+Gas FINALLY drill Alaska’s Arctic reserves satisfies the Byrd Rule (has an impact on the budget) and creating a pathway to citizenship for 8 million doesn’t. No way.
Pardon my raspy voice. Im new to this Saturday 7am tv interview life.
I just texted my team “who said yes to this?” The replies? “you did”, “umm, you”, and my fave (not my fave) “
@nseufot
”.
The real G.O.A.T.'s are the poll workers. And I STILL don't think we've thanked them enough for their sacrifice & commitment to standing in the gap & counting every
#vote
. Support them today on
#GivingTuesday
with PPE, snacks, & more in
#NGP
's
@Amazon
Wishlist ⬇️
#SoundOn
📢
2020 has shown us that what we want matter. We can create a
#GEORGIA
that is inclusive of every vote, every person and every body.
You can use your power at the polls right NOW- cast your vote today
#earlyvoting
#GAPol
If
@GovKemp
is so proud of this bill, why is he signing it behind closed doors? Why are Capitol police forcibly removing sitting elected officials for doing their jobs? In the words of Rep. Erica Thomas, “Protect and serve who?”
In the past 6 weeks, GA Republicans have introduced almost 100 bills attacking the freedom to vote. All predicated on the BIG LIE that there is widespread voter fraud.
I spoke w/
@NBCJoshua
on Saturday (Yes, I have a life beyond organizing. Hush.) abt the kinda-secret-but-not-really recipe to overcoming historic barriers to voting,& cutting through the fog of disinformation, to win elections & give this democratic republic a chance at survival.
And to the US Senate, it’s time to immediately restore the Voting Rights Act and pass the For The People Act. You have a duty to the American people to uphold democracy. Anything less just won’t do.
#S1
#HR4
#GeorgiaOnTheLine
#ForThePeopleAct
(8/8)