gehayi:

Also? Pay attention to what your state legislatures are doing. Because, in most cases, state legislatures are the ones who draw up the voting maps.  There have been a LOT of reports of redistricting to ensure that whether a majority of the voters vote for Democrats or not, the Republicans will win actual seats in the midterms.  There are also a lot more bills (some of which have already been passed and/or signed by state governors) to make voting and voting registration harder, especially for younger and minority voters…who tend to vote Democrat.

Which is why Ryan, McConnell and their ilk are so arrogant. They feel that their seats are assured, even if the majority of the voters want them out of office. It’s the November 2016 election all over. They don’t mind having the illusion of elections, but they don’t want elections to have any impact. They are in office–and they never intend to leave.

This is the OPPOSITE of democracy.

npr:

The words were those of Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

But they resulted in a rarely invoked Senate rule being used to formally silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

On the Senate floor Tuesday, Warren began reading from a letter Scott King wrote in 1986 objecting to President Reagan’s ultimately unsuccessful nomination of then-U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions to a federal district court seat.

Now-Sen. Sessions, R-Ala., is President Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general. Warren was speaking in the debate leading up to Sessions’ likely confirmation by the Senate Wednesday.

Republicans Vote To Silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren In Confirmation Debate

Photo: Pete Marovic/Bloomberg via Getty Images

sandandglass:

Full Frontal s01e02

sandandglass:

TDS, March 17, 2015

ladyhistory:

Actual footage of Senator Mitch McConnell celebrating his Election Day victory.

iammyfather:

Or don’t vote, and LIVE with the consequences.