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What scares me is how much money is behind this movement.
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What scares me is how much money is behind this movement.
“This is real, this is serious and it’s frightening,” said Brian Clardy, a Murray State University history professor. “We must build a democratic resistance that amounts to a counter-fascist coup — In short, we must all become ‘antifa,’ or antifascists,” said John Hennen, a Morehead State University history professor emeritus”.
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Historians Warn the GOP Is Pushing Nation Toward Trump-Based Authoritarianism
Far right Republicans must lose the midterms and the 2024 presidential race to ensure democracy survives, they said.truthout.org
How does this improve our democracy?
Why would you want to do this unless your goal is to maintain power through undemocratic means? Voting shouldn’t be a partisan issue! Why shouldn’t voting be as easy and convenient as possible???
What happened to winning in the market place of ideas?
Is there another democracy out there that has a major political party trying to make just ****ing VOTING harder?
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I'm in Oregon. We all get our ballots mailed to us. And we consistently have some of the highest voter turnout in the nation.My ballot gets automatically mailed to me. I also vote early. Republicans want to eliminate those things? Well thats lame.
That’s a major problem if you’re a political party whose ideas and candidates aren’t popular.I'm in Oregon. We all get our ballots mailed to us. And we consistently have some of the highest voter turnout in the nation.
Mine too and it’s awesome. Why make voting hard? Shouldn’t it be easy? Why make voting as hard as getting Comcast to fix the cable?My ballot gets automatically mailed to me. I also vote early. Republicans want to eliminate those things? Well thats lame.
Texas is the only one nationwide to suppress students’ interactions with elected officials in class projects, according to researchers at the free expression advocacy group Pen America.
Practically overnight, a growing movement to engage Texas students in real-world civics lessons evaporated. Teachers canceled time-honored assignments, districts reversed expansion plans with a celebrated civics education provider and a bill promoting student civics projects that received bipartisan support in 2019 was suddenly dead in the water.
Texas does require high schoolers to take a semester of government and a semester of economics, and is one of 38 statesnationwide that mandates at least a semester of civics. But students told the 74 the courses typically rely on book learning and memorization, without hands-on lessons in civic participation.
“Students are now banned from advocating for something like a stop sign in front of their school,” Talarico said.
The central philosophy is that “students learn civics best by doing civics”, Generation Citizen policy director Andrew Wilkes said.
Generation Citizen’s method has been studied by several academic researchers who found participants experienced boosted civic knowledge and improvements in related academic areas like history and English.
Kurtz, however, contends the projects “tilt overwhelmingly to the left”.
Why compete in the marketplace of ideas when you can just focus on preventing undesirable voters from voting while super charging your rabid base with cruel policies towards opponents and appearing on Fox News?![]()
Texas Republicans target state’s largest city with voting restrictions
Two laws approved by the house on Tuesday will affect Democratic stronghold of Houstonwww.theguardian.com