Ohio's far right politicians drew themselves an illegal supermajority, then passed extreme bills no one wanted,
so Ohio voters decided to take matters into our own hands
And we're just getting started.
BREAKING: Ohio voters enshrine abortion access in its constitution, NBC News projects — another victory for abortion-rights supporters in a red state since the fall of Roe v. Wade
NOW --
#Ohio
citizens submit over 731,000 signatures for the amendment
If this amendment passes this November, Ohio will ban ALL politicians (current and former) from the state's redistricting process 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
1) Sign up to help ban politicians from Ohio's redistricting process in 2024:
2) Contact OH legislators:
3) Support our work: We'll have to fight back HARD against a supermajority that isn't used to losing
NEW: Billionaire Elon Musk has created a PAC collecting voter data from those living in key states through an online "register to vote" form that does not directly register people to vote.
All of this in an effort to help Donald Trump become president.
"...
@FrankLaRose
was the one who first put forward the idea of raising the threshold for a constitutional amendment to pass from a simple majority to 60%.
This would change the way the Constitution has worked for more than 110 years."
#VoteNOinAugust
It's hard to explain how cruel the Ohio Senate Republicans' proposed budget is, but here's a snapshot
The left column shows $$ DeWine wanted to spend
Middle shows the House's edits
Right shows Senate Rs gutting programs that keep children safe & healthy
The public understands when courts cross the line by redefining words and legislating from the bench. Whenever this occurs, it will threaten public confidence in our courts.
This is not normal or appropriate behavior from
@FrankLaRose
, the guy who runs Ohio's elections.
Corrupt politicians support Issue 1. ALL living former Ohio governors AND 5 of the most recent Attorneys General oppose it.
Vote NO on (or before) August 8th
(h/t
@OhioLegisWatch
)
Unconstitutional district maps make them feel invincible
It's time for that feeling to end.
Help us ban current and former politicians from Ohio's redistricting process in 2024:
This is an actual press release from the Ohio House Republican Caucus.
They're claiming Ohio's new constitutional right to abortion access doesn't repeal the abortion bans passed by the legislature
‼️📣 NEW — We're building a list of extremist
#Ohio
school board candidates:
Is your district on the list?
Mark your calendar:
ELECTION DAY is November 7th
EARLY VOTING begins October 11th
🧵THREAD -- Are you free Wednesday 5/17?
We need you at the
#Ohio
Statehouse to oppose the Higher Education Destruction Act:
9:30 am — Pack the Statehouse North Hearing Room, where SB 83 will likely receive a vote
(They're only accepting written testimony 🤬🤬)
1/
BREAKING NEWS -- YOU DID IT!!!!
🎉💗🎉💗🎉💗🎉💗
Your advocacy helped convince Governor DeWine to VETO HB 68 and PROTECT trans Ohioans from big government overreach!!
"There aren't two sides to facts"
We're proud that this editorial came from an
#Ohio
paper.
Reward
@clevelanddotcom
with a subscription:
Online news:
Project Text:
Last year, "more than a thousand letters bearing the names of Ohioans purportedly supporting fracking in state parks were submitted to the state.
But virtually all of them were manufactured by a Texas-based energy group"
Today,
@DaveYostOH
let them off with no punishment
Lakewood voters -- If you're in a precinct that ran out of ballots, we're told by voter protection that "ballots are en route and voters should return now" to vote
Republican Maureen O'Connor was Chief Justice of the
#Ohio
Supreme Court during the last redistricting cycle
She watched politicians like Mike DeWine repeatedly draw illegal maps
She knows we need to ban ALL politicians from Ohio's redistricting process.
Former Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, a Republican and face of the Citizens Not Politicians campaign, is calling out DeWine.
"The disinformation from the Governor today is insulting to everyone in Ohio."
Article coming soon.
@WEWS
@WCPO
@OhioCapJournal
#Ohio
— Don't take anything for granted. This election could be terrifyingly tight.
We need every Ohioan possible to vote NO on Issue 1 on (or before) August 8th:
WHY we're voting NO:
Ohio Northern University has a new poll showing State Issue 1 up 42-41 with 17% undecided. A quite different result than a Suffolk University poll earlier this month that showed it down 30 points.
Let this sink in.
The man who runs all of
#Ohio
's elections supports impeaching the Chief Justice of Ohio's Supreme Court because she won't let him break the law.
NEW: Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Friday said he “certainly wouldn’t oppose it” if the legislature impeached Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor over redistricting rulings in the state.
By
@martyschladen
‼️ RED ALERT ‼️
The Higher Education Destruction Act was just added to tomorrow's agenda with less than 24 hours notice
We're hearing that Ohio Rep
@GayleManningOH
(R-Lorain County) is considering flipping to a Yes vote
If she buckles, this devastating bill likely passes
CHECK THIS OUT: Ohio-based
@RedWineBlueUSA
is in the
@WashingtonPost
!
These suburban women are fighting to stop book bans in Ohio and across the country!
Ohio spends gross amounts of your tax dollars on so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" (CPCs)
These are essentially fake clinics intended to talk people out of getting abortions.
CPCs do NOT offer the basic health services that
@PPAOhio
does.
Unconstitutional district maps make them feel invincible. Safe from the outrage of
#Ohio
voters. It's time for that feeling to end.
Help us ban current and former politicians from Ohio's redistricting process:
"At the height of its sweeping Statehouse bribery scheme, FirstEnergy secretly paid $300,000 over 5 checks to a dark money nonprofit its lobbyist explicitly associated with now-Senate President Matt Huffman" 👀 👀 👀 👀
🕵🏻♂️🕵🏾♀️‼️🤬 Important investigation by
@Eileen_McClory
of
@DaytonDailyNews
---- Ohio's universal voucher program spends your tax dollars mostly on "families already sending their kids to private schools":
UPDATE: Gov DeWine has signed this Republican legislation (HB 201), so your gas bill will likely go up
HB 201 lets natural gas companies charge Ohio customers more for upgrades and planning costs, "including proposed projects that might never be built"🤬
The campaign to remove politicians from
#Ohio
's redistricting process is doing brilliant work 🔥🔥
They'll be collecting signatures at eclipse events around the state:
"Moms For Liberty" is active in
#Ohio
this year
Help stop extremism in your community
ℹ️️RESEARCH school board candidates before voting:
ℹ️CHECK our list of extremist candidates:
🇺🇸VOTE on or before Nov 7th
The official government website of the Ohio Senate is spreading inflammatory misinformation about Issue 1. Experts say the GOP effort is “unprecedented” and “crosses a line.”
@OhioSenateGOP
Take it down. Government websites don’t belong to you. They belong to the people.
We're confident that most Republicans in the Ohio legislature realize how devastating SB 83 would be to our colleges/universities, our workforce, & our state's economic future
Thank you to Republican Reps Justin Pizzulli (R-Scioto Co) & Gail Pavliga (R-Portage Co) for voting NO
This is huge. Hard to express how critical
#Ohio
's 3 Supreme Court races are this year.
Because of what we saw with
#redistricting
, we know these justices literally decide whether or not Ohio's Republican Statehouse
#supermajority
is allowed to openly break the law.
1/3
Today (Wednesday 5/10) is a BIG day.
Join us at the Ohio Statehouse at 1:30 pm today to say NO HJR 1, NO SJR 2, and NO special elections ✊️
Learn more:
Check our list of extremist
#Ohio
school board candidates before you vote:
+Email us for more candidate research resources!
HowThingsWorkOH
@gmail
.com
Election Day is THIS TUESDAY 11/7
This bill, HB 413, is in the
#Ohio
House Criminal Justice Committee:
📲 Contact the committee chair (click his picture for contact info) & let him know what you think.
THIS WEDNESDAY (5/3), join hundreds of
#Ohio
organizations at the Statehouse to say NO to HJR 1 & SJR 2.
These resolutions would make it MUCH harder for Ohioans to collect signatures & pass ballot initiatives.
Don't let them take away the people's power.
If your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't be trying so hard to take it away.
Check your registration at
Then make sure to vote on (or before) November 7th
Ohio's Statehouse supermajority has the power to do anything they want -- including keeping Biden off your ballot
It's time to remove ALL politicians from Ohio's redistricting process.
Vote for the amendment this November
Republican House Speaker Jason Stephens says there won’t be a legislative fix to change the 90-day certification deadline to get President Biden on the Ohio ballot - no will among supermajority Republicans to do it. But he says he’s confident Biden will be on the fall ballot.
The
#Ohio
legislature has officially begun its Lame Duck session.
Ohio's Republican supermajority will likely try to pass their most controversial bills during Lame Duck.
Abortion bans, book bans, attacks on voting rights, we're watching for everything.
Reminder -- after Republican lobbyist Neil Clark was arrested in the FirstEnergy bribery scandal, he died by suicide wearing a "Mike DeWine for governor" t-shirt
A devastating loss for Ohio. Brigid Kelly was truly in it for the right reasons 💔
How to see what Brigid fought for in the Statehouse:
🔹️
🔹️ Under "General Assembly," select 132nd, 133rd, or 134th
🔹️ Under "Primary Sponsor, " select "Brigid Kelly"
✅️ YES on Issue 1 = Abortion rights
✅ ️YES on Issue 2 = Adult-use marijuana
‼️ and ️we have to stop extremist school board candidates
Check out our list of extremist candidates to avoid:
Support our work:
ALERT — HB 103 would force
#Ohio
to develop new, statewide social studies standards for grades k-12 based on the extremist "American Birthright” model.
Use this new toolkit to help save social studies:
Republican Maureen O'Connor was Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court during the last
#redistricting
process
She watched politicians like Frank LaRose and Mike DeWine repeatedly draw illegal maps. She knows we need to ban ALL politicians from redistricting in
#Ohio
State governments are the most powerful, and the most widely ignored, level of government.
Who runs your Statehouse? Who controls your state elections? Do you know?
Ohio voted yesterday using illegal maps, because our Republican supermajority openly ignored our state Supreme Court
Under legal maps, Ohio would likely be sending 2 more Ds to the House
If Ds lose Congress, it will be because of how little attention is paid to state politics.
‼️‼️BREAKING -- Issue 1 will be described on Ohio's official ballot using medically inaccurate language such as "unborn child" 🤬
This DOES NOT CHANGE the language that will become law if Issue 1 passes. Read the actual amendment:
✅️ YES on Issue 1 = Abortion rights
✅ ️YES on Issue 2 = Adult-use marijuana
‼️ and ️we have to stop extremist school board candidates
Read our list of extremist candidates to avoid:
Support our work:
The American Historical Association makes it very clear — we cannot let
#Ohio
SB 83 become law
@AHAhistorians
Use this toolkit to contact Ohio lawmakers:
☢️‼️☢️‼️
#Ohio
House Republicans are receiving INTENSE pressure to pass the Higher Education Destruction Act (SB 83) next week
They NEED to hear from Ohioans who oppose it
Use this toolkit to make sure House Rs say NO to SB 83:
Thank you to all
@OHHouseDems
who voted NO on SB 83 in committee this morning
Special thanks to
@JoeMiller4Ohio
for demanding time to read Ohioans' testimonies &
@RepWeinstein
for passionately reminding his colleagues that SB 83 makes it hard to teach facts about the Holocaust
But we know why. Every time they have a public hearing, the proponents of SB 83 are trounced by opponents, in terms of sheer numbers, in terms of Ohioans v outsiders, and in terms of quality of arguments.
The only way this could pass was trickery and manipulation.
@FrankLaRose
"Liberal activist groups" like every living former Ohio governor
and 5 of the most recent former Attorneys General 🙄
Ignore this 1 corrupt politician. Vote NO on Issue 1
In 2016, Ohio's Republican supermajority passed a bill de-regulating puppy mills (yes you read that correctly):
It was literally known as the "Petland bill":
Years later, much of that law is still in place:
Doug Ringhiser bought his Shih Tzu puppy, AJ, for $4,300 from a Petland store in Pickerington on a Tuesday. The seemingly healthy dog was dead of septicemia by Sunday.
Petland stores are selling sick and dying dogs. The state has no plans to stop them.
Keith Faber just made it REALLY difficult for his fellow Republicans to argue they shouldn't be held in contempt of court.
Could
@GovMikeDeWine
, Secretary of State
@FrankLaRose
, and Ohio's top two Statehouse Republicans end up in jail next week?
#ConstitutionalCrisis
Reminder -- after Republican lobbyist Neil Clark was arrested in the FirstEnergy bribery scandal, he died by suicide while wearing a "Mike DeWine for governor" t-shirt
Since the Statehouse Republican
#supermajority
passed universal vouchers,
#Ohio
has sent $387 million of your money to private (often religious) schools instead of local public schools
**UPDATE 4/19 @ 1:30pm**
HJR 1 was voted out of committee, but we're hearing Republicans may not have the votes to pass it through the entire House.
🚨🚨 KEEP CALLING!!!! 🚨🚨
Tell these
#Ohio
reps that if HJR 1 passes out of committee, do NOT let it pass the House:
🔶Speaker
@JasoncStephens
614-466-1366
🔶Floor Leader Bill
@CincySeitz
614-466-8258
🔶Your State Rep — find yours by typing your address below the map:
Tweet 3/3
NEW — We spoke with lawyers and listened to experts.
Use this document to speak with anyone who's still on the fence about Ohio Issue 1:
#YesInNovember
#VoteYesonIssue1
#vote
Election Day is THIS TUESDAY 11/7
There used to be more significantly seats in this Ohio Statehouse committee room. Is the Ohio GOP trying to literally reduce the number of people who can attend public hearings?
WATCH:
Ohioans testify against 2 bills that would use lies about
#CriticalRaceTheory
to ban honest, accurate, diverse curriculum in Ohio schools.
There are so many people here to testify for
#HonestyInEducation
that they've set up multiple overflow rooms.
@kylegriffin1
YES! 710,131 signatures! Absolutely incredible!
BUT FIRST -- We must defeat
#Ohio
Issue 1 on August 8th.
Far right politicians are trying to stop abortion rights by stopping Ohioans from amending their own state constitution:
Ever wonder how things got so bad at
#Ohio
's Statehouse?
Most politicians know the lines are drawn so they can't be voted out
But we can change that this year:
Why 2021 is CRUCIAL:
🇺🇸 Redistricting
(Let's end
#gerrymandering
)
📜State budget
(Want
#education
funding?
#Broadband
? Social services? 👀)
🇺🇸 Local Elections
Your actions this year will shape
#Ohio
for the next decade.
📨📨 SIGN UP to join the fight!
It's horrific that this grieving father has to beg Donald Trump and Ohio's Republican politicians to stop spreading racist lies about his dead son
Shame on everyone who spreads lies about the hardworking, God-fearing, Haitian immigrants in Springfield
"The blue side thinks..they just need better outcomes in federal elections. The focus is on winning swing states in national elections.
The other side, though, knows our democracy isn’t stable—that it can be subverted through the statehouses"
@DavidPepper
I am getting numerous reports about voters in North Canton (Stark County)
#Ohio
are being turned away because the polls have run out ballots and backup ballots. Voters were told to come back later but some say they can’t.
Helpful reporting on Springfield from
@ReporterAmber
and
@ScottWartman
:
There’s no evidence of Haitians eating people’s pets. They arrived in the U.S. legally and came to Springfield as businesses recruited immigrants for jobs.
Wow. Ohio
@GovMikeDeWine
met with FirstEnergy at an RGA fundraiser in 2018
"Shortly after," FirstEnergy donated to a dark money group tied to the RGA
Some of the money ($500,000) was literally labeled "DeWine"
‼️
#Ohio
's Constitution still contains language allowing slavery.
@CecilThomasOH
is introducing a resolution to remove this language.
📲Call your senator. (Type your address here to find yours: )
SAY: Cosponsor the anti-slavery resolution
#BlackLivesMatter
🥳HUGE news! The bill to close
#Ohio
's rape loophole (HB 161) is scheduled for another hearing AND A VOTE this Tuesday (4/23)!
Use this template to submit testimony to support HB 161:
Then make 3 quick phone calls to help HB 161 pass committee...
@TheLeadCNN
@Russo4Ohio
@jeffzeleny
YES! 710,131 signatures! Absolutely incredible!
BUT FIRST -- We must defeat
#Ohio
Issue 1 on August 8th.
Far right politicians are trying to stop abortion rights by stopping Ohioans from amending their own state constitution:
This feels like a good moment to launch our new project.
Too many people vote for president & then leave the rest blank -- leaving extremists to run our Statehouses.
Share far and wide -- Make sure your friends don't just vote, they
#VoteTheWholeBallot
.
🚨 STAY IN LINE 🚨
Even if your polling location is out of ballots, STAY IN LINE! The county BOE must bring additional ballots, and you WILL have the right to vote if you are in line by 7:30pm.
Help us spread the word before polls close at 7:30: STAY IN LINE!
🇺🇸HUGE:
#Ohio
legislators are introducing a BIPARTISAN
#BailReform
bill!
Ohio's expensive, racist
#CashBail
system lets "wealthier people accused of a crime go free, while poorer people ACCUSED OF THE SAME CRIME stay behind bars."
@acluohio
#EndCashBail
ALSO call House Speaker
@jasoncstephens
:
614-466-1366
Rep93
@OhioHouse
.gov
Remind him that very few of his members actually support SB 83. They're being bullied by the Senate. He can stop it.
Email HowThingsWorkOH
@gmail
.com for more SB 83 resources
If anyone is interested, the Franklin County Health Commissioner is NOT a Doctor. Yet our local schools are taking his advice & closing schools and all sports! It's time for parents to start asking questions!
This is HUGE.
Republicans rigged
#Ohio
's Statehouse district maps, twice.
Now a BIPARTISAN majority of state Supreme Court justices has rejected the maps, twice.
They gave the legislature until 2/17 to try again.
@EqualDistricts
#StopCheatingUs
‼️Today is a big day!
@GovMikeDeWine
has the ability to remove individual lines from Ohio's budget bill.
Contact Gov DeWine (and his top staff):
Ask him to "line item veto" these anti-child, anti-family items from
#Ohio
's budget:
Former Cleveland dot com politics reporter
@AndrewJTobias
has joined
@SignalOhio
and will launch a statehouse bureau for the new-ish nonprofit outlet that has newsrooms in Cleveland, Akron and will soon open one in Cincinnati
#Ohio
SB 17 is genuinely awful. A war on the working poor.
📲 Contact the committee Chair, Senator
@KristinaRoegner
: 614-466-4823 or Roegner
@OhioSenate
.gov
📣 Tell her NOT TO LET SB 17 move forward. No more hearings.
WATCH -- Over 100 Ohioans are testifying against SB 83, a bill that would devastate
#Ohio
's public colleges/universities.
It would ban entire departments, majors, classes, scholarships, extra curricular activities, and so much more.
#Ohio
is currently run by a
#supermajority
of one political party (the Republican Party).
Supermajorities often mean no accountability for massive failures like this one.
#VoteTheWholeBallot
Secretary of State
@FrankLaRose
can fix this problem by allowing multiple ballot drop boxes in each
#Ohio
county.
He could do it right now. Today. Without Statehouse approval:
So where is he?
@merlemadrid
@GrandjeanAmanda
@DavidPepper
My county drop box is 40 minutes away with no traffic. I’m disabled and would have to pay for a taxi. Exactly how many obstacles are voters meant to overcome to exercise their rights to citizenship?