Ari Berman
National Voting Rights Correspondent at Mother Jones
Author: Minority Rule, Give Us the Ballot & Herding Donkeys https://t.co/GCGt2LeIFp Voting rights reporter: @motherjones Speaking: [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Ari Berman
On April 1, Republicans and Elon Musk decisively lost their bid to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court. But three days later the GOP came closer than ever to overturning the election of a Democratic justice to the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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3 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Ari Berman
“Musk has made this a referendum on the idea of an American oligarchy,” Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler told me recently, as he warned about the potential fallout from the $25 million that the world’s wealthiest person spent trying to flip a state Supreme Court seat. In the first major statewide election since Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, oligarchy lost and democracy won.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Ari Berman
4 hours agoMusk 'rejected decisively': Jeffries on Crawford win in WI Supreme Court raceAfter Susan Crawford won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, allowing liberals to maintain their narrow majority and defying Elon Musk after he spent millions of dollars to oppose her, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells Lawrence O'Donnell his message for Republican members of the House who are counting on Elon Musk to get them reelected.
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3 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Ari Berman
On March 17, Elon Musk appeared on Sen. Ted Cruz’s podcast and falsely alleged that Democrats were giving undocumented immigrants fraudulent access to programs like Social Security and Medicare to lure them to the US. “By using entitlement fraud the Democrats have been able to attract and retain vast numbers of illegal immigrants,” Musk claimed. “And buy voters, exactly,” Musk said.
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3 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Ari Berman
“I need to talk for just a minute or two about my opponent,” Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford tells a crowd of supporters in Kenosha. “Elon Musk.”It’s become her signature line.
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What’s happening in NC should be much bigger scandal: gerrymandered GOP legislature stripping power from Dem gov & AG in lame-duck session while Rs trying to throw out 60k votes to overturn Dem victory in state Supreme Court race https://t.co/ndMziRTKCC
Breaking: North Carolina GOP Legislature overrides Gov Cooper veto & passes lame-duck power grab stripping power from Dem gov & AG and taking control of state/local election boards. Incredibly brazen effort to nullify 3 million votes cast for Dems in 2024 & rig future elections
One of the key lessons from 2024: Dems can’t just run on preserving democracy. They need to convince skeptical voters democracy is worth saving, can improve people's lives & outline an alternative vision for reforming a broken system https://t.co/RRRXeoRyUe