Insurrection Consequences

Things Republicans Are "Good" At - Lying & Cheating

Democrats Increasingly Say American Democracy Is Sliding Toward Minority Rule

Republicans Win Fever Votes, But More Seats Than Democrats

Democrats got millions more votes – so how did Republicans win the Senate?

3 stats showing how much the deck is stacked against Democrats

America’s anti-democratic Senate, by the numbers

Extreme Maps

These maps show how Republicans are blatantly rigging elections

Thanks to gerrymandering, Republicans can continue to behave abominably and win the midterms

Karofsky Wisconsin Supreme Court Win A Boost for Liberals

Ha ha ha. Hey Republican cheaters, go fuck yourselves!

Jill Karofsky Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Race in a Boost for Liberals

Liberals Prevail In Wisconsin’s Contentious Coronavirus Judicial Election

Jill Karofsky wins Wisconsin Supreme Court election, defeating justice Daniel Kelly

Republicans Have Spent 50 Years Building Barriers Between Voters And The Ballot Box

Bill Moyers: Republicans admit they lose when elections are fair and free

Bill’s guest in this episode is the journalist David Daley. His best-selling first book, RATF**KED-WHY YOUR VOTE DOESN’T COUNT showed how Republicans used gerrymandering to lock up control of many state and local government for years, possibly decades – and remains their strategy.

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Skewed GOP Map In Wisconsin

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton finished in a near tie statewide, with Trump prevailing by roughly three-quarters of a percentage point. 

Yet Trump led Clinton in 63 of the state’s 99 Assembly districts, according to a review of state election returns. 

And he led her in 23 of the state’s 33 state Senate districts. 

Those numbers reflect the baked-in advantage — and virtual lock — the GOP enjoys in the battle for control of the Legislature, thanks to a one-sided map. [source]

Blasts From The (Deceptive) Past: Scott Walker Edition

Governor Scott Walker Caught In Political Plagiarism

So confusing was the dog and pony show Walker created to take credit for someone else’s work, the media actually found themselves confused. Was Walker announcing 125 jobs in addition to the 125 the media knew the Doyle Administration had already created?

Scott Walker, college drop-out or kicked-out?

I wish I could say definitely why he never graduated – it is a closely guarded secret. I believe the general line of thinking – that Scott Walker was caught cheating.

Scott Walker’s History Exposes a Dark, Illegal Past Behind The Choir Boy Face

Walker attended Marquette from 1986 to 1990, but never attained a degree. His sophomore year, Walker ran for president of the Associated Students of Marquette University (ASMU, the former title for Marquette Student Government). He was accused of violating campaign guidelines on multiple occasions. 

The Tribune reported then that he was found guilty of illegal campaigning two weeks before his candidacy became official. Later, a Walker campaign worker was seen placing brochures under doors at the YMCA. Door-to-door campaigning was strictly prohibited.

Walker initially denied this but later admitted to the violation, which resulted in lost campaign privileges at the YMCA.

Walker Campaign's “Wisconsin Comeback” plagiarizes Gov. Brownback's popular phony Kansas Comeback!!!

Scott Walker plagiarized Gov. Sam Brownback's Kansas Comeback campaign.

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R.I.P.: Democracy

Last November, the American people preferred Democratic House candidates to Republican House candidates by almost 1.4 million votes, yet Republicans still hold a substantial House majority due in large part to partisan gerrymandering...[G]errymandering is a major form of disenfranchisement. In the seven states where Republicans redrew the districts, 16.7 million votes were cast for Republicans and 16.4 million votes were cast for Democrats. This elected 73 Republicans and 34 Democrats. Given the average percentage of the vote it takes to elect representatives elsewhere in the country, that combination would normally require only 14.7 million Democratic votes. Or put another way, 1.7 million votes (16.4 minus 14.7) were effectively packed into Democratic districts and wasted. [source]

Republicans considered population in their 2011 redistricting scheme, but they studied voting patterns just as carefully. The GOP packed likely Democrats into supermajority districts and gave their own party the statistical edge in contested areas. The results were not just anti-Democratic but anti-democratic. In 2012, Republicans won only 46% of the total votes cast for Assembly but took 61% of the seats. [source]

Sam Wang, an associate professor at Princeton University, has done a thorough analysis of election results that was published in Sunday’s New York Times. Wang found that even though Democrats received 1.4 million more votes than Republicans in House races, the GOP won 234 seats to the Democrats’ 201. How did this happen? [source]

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While You Were Gone ...

... The Republicans decided to remove your ability to fairly elect your direct representative in government. Republicans are scumbags. They can't win an election fairly any longer (because they're controlled by chauvinistic, racist, homophobic, neanderthals), so they've decided to go all-in on sleaziness, cheating, and fraud, in an embarrassing attempt to hold onto political power. When all you ever had to offer was bullshit, and the people are no longer buying that, all you've really got left to offer is more bullshit. Bravo, Republicans, you are true sewer rats.

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