Mallory McMorrow
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Michigan State Senate Majority Whip | @NotreDame | @raywert's ginger half | Noa's mom
Royal Oak, MI
Joined October 2012
I've talked to thousands of people who say: "It's all too much. I know I have to do something. I have no idea where to start.". Just a few years ago, neither did I. After the dust settles in November - what's next is on us. And this book is for you.
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Senator Lana Theis accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an attempt to marginalize me for standing up against her marginalizing the LGBTQ community. in a fundraising email, for herself. Hate wins when people like me stand by and let it happen. I won't.
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A healthy 28-year-old mom is dead. Not because doctors couldn't help her; because they refused until it was too late. Because they feared HELPING HER would land them in prison. A young mom is dead. A 6-year-old boy lost his mom. "Everybody wanted this," Donald Trump told us.
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So let me get this straight: a woman athlete excels at her sport, and Elon, JK Rowling, and a swimmer who once tied for 5th place say she must be a man. When her competitor issues an apology and her own father produces a birth certificate and childhood photos, they double down.
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I didn't wake up on Monday morning thinking that, by Friday, I'd answer a phone call saying, "Hi, Mr. President." I'm humbled by @potus reaching out to discuss my speech, why we do this, and what it means for the soul of the nation. We can, and we will. #HateWontWin.
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As a proud elected representative of tens of thousands of Detroiters: Fuck this guy. Don’t come back.
Trump in Detroit: The whole country will be like Detroit if Kamala Harris is your president
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Today’s news that the Supreme Court is taking up the Moore v. Harper case ahead of 2024 should scare the hell out of all of us. This Court could gut our Presidential elections the same way they just gutted Roe. Here’s a 🧵 on why it’s so dangerous and what we can do about it. 1/.
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For the second straight day, the Michigan Senate GOP ended session early in a cowardly attempt to silence Democrats from speaking on the Senate floor about the slaughter of children in Texas. But we won't be silenced. Here's the speech Republicans were too afraid to hear.
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Oh wow the founder of Amazon wants to get rid of the public postal service? You don't say. Is this what it looks like to "Drain the Swamp?".
Trump confirms some interest in privatizing the USPS. He says it’s not the worst idea he’s ever heard. It came in the context of his forthcoming dinner with Jeff Bezos.
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Imagine if we just supported and loved our friends and made space for uncertainty and questions without judgment.
Will Ferrell and his close friend, former head writer at SNL, Harper Steele embark on a cross-country road trip together after Harper comes out as a trans woman in the documentary film, WILL & HARPER. In select theaters this September and on Netflix September 27.
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Normally I wouldn’t preemptively post a response to the response to the State of the Union, but after reading Sarah Huckabee-Sanders’ remarks on Republicans in a “culture war we didn’t start and never wanted to fight”…ma’am this was nearly a *year* ago.
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A sitting State Representative sees a group of busses at the airport and immediately yells “illegal invaders” which is a pretty rude (and also, frankly, dangerous) way to greet the Gonzaga Men’s Basketball Team arriving for March Madness.
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I know that hate will only win if people like me stand by and let it happen. And I want to be very clear right now:. Call me whatever you want. I know who I am. I know what faith and service mean, and what it calls for in this moment. We will not let hate win.
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WE’RE NOMINATING HER ON THEIR ANNIVERSARY?! 😭.
Happy anniversary, Dougie. I wouldn't want to be on this journey with anyone but you.
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.@Tim_Walz’ son standing and crying with joy and yelling to everyone, “That’s my dad!” This is family. This is America. This is beautiful.
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Women rejecting being pitted against each other in favor of hyping each other up is the 2024 vibe we need.
Taylor Swift led the standing ovation for ‘Barbie’ as it won the #GoldenGlobe for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.
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State House. State Senate. Governor. Hate didn’t win.
BREAKING: Michigan Democrats win back full control of the Legislature for the first time since 1983.
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Another one. This time. Don’t you dare say you’re protecting children if you’ve spent more time banning books and telling certain kids they can’t play soccer. Don’t you dare.
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This morning, a woman in my district who teaches at Oxford messaged me saying she and her colleagues who survived the shooting "need to do something more tangible than cry." Because if we continue to do nothing, this will keep happening, again and again and again and again.
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I sat on it for a while wondering why me?. Then I realized. I’m the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme. Because you can’t claim that you’re targeting marginalized kids in the name of “parental rights” if another parent is standing up and saying no.
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So who am I? I am a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom who knows that the very notion that learning about slavery or redlining or systemic racism means that children are being taught to feel bad or hate themselves because they are white is absolute nonsense.
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Want quality teachers in your schools? Stand up and push back against hate so teachers can get back to creating a welcoming, inspiring space for kids to learn and grow instead of having to constantly defend against attempts to marginalize any kids who are different.
I've heard from a lot of educators re: @MalloryMcMorrow's speech & why it's resonating so deeply with them. It's because they've been waiting for someone to speak up & stand up for those simply trying to help kids against the absurd & damaging attacks they are currently facing.
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This is the face of a man who’s flat-out lying to try to win. And he knows it.
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I learned that SERVICE was far more important than performative nonsense like being seen in the same pew every Sunday or writing “Christian” in your Twitter bio and using it as a shield to target and marginalize already-marginalized people.
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People who are different are not the reason our roads are in bad shape, or healthcare costs are too high, or teachers are leaving the profession.
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The impulse to mock and attack with no regard for the fact that there’s a human being on the other end of the “joke” and the inability to simply say, “I’m sorry”. Character matters.
BERMAN: Last night you posted a clip from Ms Teen US 2007 -- Caitlin Upton. When you posted that, were you aware she thought about committing suicide for the attention that received?. JD VANCE: No, certainly not. B: Would you like to apologize?. V: I'm not going to apologize
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No child alive today is responsible for slavery. No one is this room is responsible for slavery. But each and every single one of us bears responsibility for writing the next chapter of history. We decides what happens next, and how WE respond to history and the world around us.
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We cannot let hateful people tell you otherwise to scapegoat and deflect from the fact that they’re not doing anything to fix the real issues that impact peoples lives.
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I want my daughter to know that she is loved, supported, and seen for whoever she becomes. I want her to be curious, empathetic, and kind. I want every child to feel seen, heard, and supported, not marginalized and targeted if they are not straight, white, and Christian.
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Where was my mom on Sunday?. She was at a soup kitchen. With me. My mom taught me at a young age that Christianity and faith was about being a part of a community, about recognizing our privilege and blessings and doing what we could to be of service to others -.
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So you dehumanize and marginalize ME. You say I’m one of THEM. You say she’s a groomer, she supports pedophilia, she wants children to believe they were responsible for slavery and to feel bad about themselves because they’re white. Here’s a little background on who I really am.
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Imagine if you found out that you wearing socks could save someone else's life. "That's it?!" you'd say. And you'd be walkin' around with your socks on feeling like a dang super hero. It's like that, but with a mask. The fabric's just somewhere else. #MaskUpMichigan.
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These University of Michigan med students walked out of a day they’ve worked their whole lives for because they understand the vow to “first, do no harm.” Abortion is necessary medical care.
Incoming medical students walk out at University of Michigan’s white coat ceremony as the keynote speaker is openly anti-abortion
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We are not responsible for the past. We also cannot change the past. We can’t pretend that it didn’t happen, or deny people their very right to exist.
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I don’t know how to tell some of you this, but if there’s something in a store you don’t want, you don’t have to buy it. Yes, even in Target.
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This is the first time I’ve seen this quote from Daniel Radcliffe and honestly this needs to be a #PureMichigan ad
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Growing up my family was active in our church. I sang in choir. My mom taught CCD. One day, our priest called a meeting with my mom and told her that she was not living up to the church’s expectations, b/c she was divorced, and because he didn’t see her w us at mass every Sunday.
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Some wholesome post-#DNCConvention2024 content. As I’m walking down a street, a man got out of a Suburban and yelled, “Mallory!” Lo and behold it’s @JoshShapiroPA. I introduced myself, told him my mom lives is PA and with no hesitation he said, “Let’s send her a video!” ❤️
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Truly nothing will convince moderate suburban women to vote Trump like putting the woman responding to the President in the kitchen.
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especially people who were marginalized, targeted, who had less…often unfairly.
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I also stand on the shoulders of people like Father Ted Hesburgh, the longtime president of the University of Notre Dame who was active in the civil rights movement,.
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"usual pedo grifters" is straight-up QAnon rhetoric that led a gunman to open fire in a DC pizza place believing there were children trapped in a non-existent basement. Anyone claiming to legitimately care about children should stop using rhetoric that will get people killed.
The White House, House Dems, & usual pedo grifters are so out of touch with the American people that rather than present ANY PLAN or urgency to address the nationwide baby formula crisis, they double down on sending pallets of formula to the southern border. Joe Biden has NO PLAN.
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who recognized his power and privilege as a white man, a faith leader, and the head of an influential and well-respected institution - and who saw Black people in this country being targeted and discriminated against and beaten,.
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and reached out and locked arms with Dr. Martin Luther King when he was alive, when it was unpopular and risky, and marching with them to say, “We got you.” To offer protection and service and allyship, to try to right wrongs and fix the injustice in the world.
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Honestly though: there’s a winning strategy in just showing how downright weird this is. And laughable. This reaction speaks for America. These are not serious people. Let it rip.
President Biden’s reaction to Marjorie Taylor Greene looking like an idiot is the funniest that happened tonight
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“And I’m not going to yield for my entire five minutes so don’t ask again.”. This is righteous anger.
Cicilline: You know who didn’t have constitutional right to life respected? The kids at Parkland and Sandy Hook and Uvalde… so spare me the bullshit
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When you end gerrymandering and finally have a legislature that reflects the will of the people for the first time in 40 years, a Michigan story 💪.
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This is the natural progression of trans panic: any woman who doesn’t fit the narrow mold of what they deem acceptable for how a woman should look or sound or act, if she dares excel, she must not be a woman. Shows how little they really think of women. Stop trans panic. Stop.
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HALF of the Michigan Republican candidates for governor (all of whom have touted widely-discredited claims of election fraud) may not make the ballot because of *checks notes* election fraud.
5 of 10 Michigan Republican candidates for Governor may not make the ballot, including the polling & spending leaders, because too many of their signatures came from a fraudulent signature gathering firm.
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What I need the lobby corps to know: Grappling with a colleague accusing you of grooming children, the types of QAnon claims that led a gunman to open fire on a DC pizza place believing that he was saving children, makes it impossible to focus on your client's bills.
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It’s almost 11pm and I’m just getting home but the energy still has me feeling FIRED UP. Listen to how excited everyone is (and this is the energy of people *waiting for the shuttles to leave*) @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz MICHIGAN HAS YOUR BACK 💪
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If we don’t act today to win back state legislative chambers in key swing states, we may lose the right to democratically elect the next President. 7/.
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Coming up now. Say it again. #HateWontWin.
#Morningjoe will have @MalloryMcMorrow on tomorrow morning to talk about her breathtaking broadside against hate, lies, and performative political Christianity. Watch it below.
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For the past year, my mom has been a regular at Central Bucks school board meetings speaking out against book bans, anti-LGBTQ policies, and Moms for Liberty nonsense. Last night, decency won big #HateWontWin
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Uh…what? Here’s my view from the inside corner of the hangar where you can just see the throngs of people outside, the plane after the rally (when I was able to walk around to see it), and some scenes from very people and me. He’s lost it.
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The truth is that Black, LGBTQ, and other marginalized people have been fighting alone for too long. That’s how we got here. Honestly, I’m sorry I’m late. To all the other people like me, it’s our turn. We’re late, but we’re not too late. Let’s go. 💪 #HateWontWin.
Don’t let @MalloryMcMorrow fight bigotry alone.
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He made this pledge *8 days ago*.
Elon Musk backs down from $45 million a month pledge to Trump, says he doesn’t ‘subscribe to cult of personality’
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Moms. Will. Win.
Tennessee House subcommittee members had state troopers physically remove gun safety activists who quietly held signs from a hearing. We bow down to this woman who - visibly shaking - said: “You will have to drag me out.”. Moms will win.
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Me not sleeping tonight because the first Democratic-Majority Michigan state Senate in nearly 40 years gavels in tomorrow…. in a Democratic trifecta…. with a majority-women Majority caucus in both the state House AND state Senate. Time to get to work 💪
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One man says “I alone can do this” and demands you fall in line or be destroyed. One man knows the fate of a nation of 330 million is far bigger than one man. This is a selfless decision that the country will recognize for the rest of our history. And I know which side I’m on.
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And we must destroy it so that the hateful GOP doesn't destroy the lives of LGBTQ kids who just want to be seen and supported as they are, so teaching the reality of history and slavery and racism isn't erased from our schools. Hate won't win.
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@RonFilipkowski A 14 year old is a CHILD. A CHILD should not be forced to carry A CHILD from RAPE. Why do children’s lives - their future, hopes, dreams, aspirations - not matter!?.
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If you’re reading this right now, odds are you didn’t know who I was a year ago. That was when I decided I wasn’t going to stand by and let a colleague marginalize LGBTQ kids and call me a pedophile. #HateWontWin.
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I’m not sure who advised this Senator to deliver this speech like a high school drama club monologue but they should be fired. (Why is there fake plastic fruit in the background).
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There’s a lot of pressure to dig your heels in on a position, especially as an elected official. It takes strong character to change your position. Good on Rep. Golden.
Golden: I have opposed efforts to ban deadly weapons of war like the assault rifle he used to carry out this crime. The time has now come for me to take responsibility for this failure. Which is why I now call on the United States congress to ban assault rifles
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Ah yes the folks who love to tell us "criminals don't follow laws" saying they will not follow laws.
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Forced genital inspections. Of CHILDREN. The Republicans who claim to care about protecting children voted for forced genital inspections of children because they’re afraid a trans kid might want to play on a team with their friends.
Kansas Republicans just overrode the Democratic governor’s veto, enacting a new law that allows for forced genital inspections of children to make sure they’re not transgender.
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If the Supreme Court enshrines ISLT, it means Trump's Republican Party won't need a coup after the election to install him as President in 2024, they can just change the rules in swing states ahead of time to ensure they get the outcome they want.
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With the men running for President weirdly fawning over the “late great Hannibal Lecter” or dropping a dead bear cub in Central Park, it’s time. Here’s to competency, sanity, and a woman who will move us forward. Women - let’s show ‘em how it’s done. LFG! #WomenforHarris
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@VetGirlDad So she pursued a legal abortion early in her pregnancy knowing she could not afford to raise additional kids as a single mom, then faced complications, and because of that - you think she deserves to die?.
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A boy bought an AR-15 just after his 18th birthday and used it to murder 19 school children whose bodies were so badly mutilated that distraught parents were asked to give DNA samples to help identify the remains. But the Majority Leader won’t take action, because they’re “fun.”.
"I think an AR-15 is a very fun rifle to have out here on my shooting range," Michigan Senate GOP Majority Leader Mike Shirkey told a radio host last week when asked if he had any concerns over the gun being considered an assault rifle. "We have lots of fun with it.".
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I’ll take a President who’s honest about having a bad night versus a man who’s never done any kind of internal reflection his entire life. It’s not just about the race at the top, but I promise you this: our work down-ballot, at every level, depends on what we do this November.
President Biden: Let me close with this. I know I'm not a young man. I don't walk as easily as I used to. I don't talk as smoothly as I used to. I don't debate as well as I used to. Well, I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to
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Today, the Michigan Senate passed an 11-bill gun safety package - including Safe Storage, Universal Background Checks, and Extreme Risk Protection Orders. Speaking on my bill - which creates the ERPO Act - I shared stories of the lives these laws could have saved. #mileg
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It’s fascinating to see some of the same people decrying universal breakfast and lunch in schools because they believe feeding children is the parents’ responsibility, but they don’t believe it’s the parents’ responsibility if their child accesses their unsecured gun and shoots.
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With all due respect to my colleague, this would account for approximately 0.4% (yes, less than 1%) of all acreage in Michigan (61.898 million acres), leaving 99.6% of total land for other purposes.
"Oh great, we're going to put up 260,000 acres of solar panels on farmland!? That's BRILLIANT!". U.P. dairy farmer @SenEdMcBroom was having none of Lansing Democrats' Green New Deal scheme that would require grazing farms all over Michigan. 👇🔥
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Louder for the people giving Republicans a pass 📣.
Pete Buttigieg to Margaret Brennan when she suggests Democratic divisions killed paid family leave: "Hold on. But if even one Republican were prepared to support paid leave, we'd be in a different territory. So let's not let 50 Republicans off the hook."
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Republicans in June: "It's not an abortion ban; it's sending the issue to the states.". *States all over the country organize to protect access to abortion*. Republicans now: "Elect us and we will pass a nationwide abortion ban." . There it is. VOTE like your rights depend on it.
“If we take back the House and the Senate, I can assure you we’ll have a vote on our bill. If the Democrats are in charge, I don’t know if we’ll ever have a vote on our bill.” -Graham on his federal abortion ban, in a clip Dems would be happy to run as is.
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Nobody wanted this. Women should not be driven to the brink of death. They shouldn't die like this. Amber's death was a CHOICE. How is that "pro-life"?!. This poor baby. This sweet little boy. There's no way to read this story without seething.
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I graduated from college with a degree in industrial design and an internship under my belt as a designer at a major automaker…in 2008. I had student loans, no job, and stayed between couches, house sitting, or in the back of my car. I also had no health insurance. I left my.
The day that the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments — and @JoeBiden was right by my side to get it done. The future of the ACA hangs in the balance in this election. We've come too far to go back — and we've got to do everything we can to protect it.
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I’m sorry what.
Trump: You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore. In four years, you won��t have to vote again.
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The uncomfortable silence you hear is because real ones know you either go full Dew or no Dew
Vance: I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday and one today. I'm sure they will call that racist.
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Abortion is an economic issue. Other states, and state legislatures, would be wise to heed this warning:.
Eli Lilly and Co.—among Indiana’s largest employers—on the state’s new near-total abortion ban: “Given this new law, we will be forced to plan for more employment growth outside our home state.”
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I SEE YOU, WHITE HOUSE 👀.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven.
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Barack Obama has the unique ability to both calm us about our state of affairs and convince us we need to act - the balance to inspire without making us feel overwhelmed by the sheer scope of it all. He reminds us who we are as humans and how much we can (and will) do together.
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So what can we do? Ground zero for this fight is right here in Michigan, so the first thing you can do is help me flip the state Senate by donating to my leadership fund, A More Perfect Michigan. 8/
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It’s a theory @UMichLaw Asst. Professor @LeahLitman and @CardozaLaw Professor @kateashaw1 say “should have been called the “state-legislature-as-the-end-of-democracy theory” in an upcoming paper that heavily critiques the doctrine. 5/
@kateashaw1 & I have a forthcoming paper debunking the independent state legislature theory (@SSRN please approve the paper, it's been up for over a week):
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Certain politicians structured their entire campaigns on anti-LGBTQ fearmongering, dedicate countless hours of their time introducing and debating bills targeting LGBTQ people, others are hellbent on banning LGBTQ books. Another shooting. Hate kills.
At least 5 killed, 18 injured in shooting at LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs, police say
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If the Court applies this theory, because Republicans control both legislative houses in 30 states, including swing states like here in Michigan, it allows them — and only them — the ability to choose how an election is decided, run, and what districts should look like. 6/.
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In Michigan, we’ll demonstrate what’s possible when we elect Democrats. We’ll show what state legislatures can do, and create a state where everyone is welcome, protected, and able to thrive. That’s why I’m exactly where I need to be, and why I won’t run for US Senate in 2024.
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Speechwriter got him good.
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Happy Birthday to my birthday twin, the one and only, the OG “That Woman from Michigan,” @gretchenwhitmer ! 🍻
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Last night, the @MIHouseDems passed the Reproductive Health Act, eliminating many arbitrary hurdles that prevent women from accessing abortion care. Predictably, many Republicans and anti-choice folks are fearmongering about "partial birth abortion" so I'm reupping some facts:.
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Imagine saying out loud “young voters are an issue.” And not for a second reflecting on why young voters are voting so strongly against you. Keep showing up, Gen Z. You are powerful as hell. @Victorshi2020 @santiagomayer_.
Younger voters are the issue. It comes from years of radical indoctrination - on campus, in school, with social media, & throughout culture. We have to counter it or conservatives will never win battleground states again. @yaf
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“When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a culture war.”.
Please take 2 minutes out of your day and watch @PeteButtigieg perfectly articulate why Republicans behave the way that they do, and how it harms people more than it could ever help. So well said, Pete. Thank you.
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Maybe use those platforms to advocate for equal pay for women athletes or more air time for women’s sports or anything that would actually support women and women’s sports instead. Otherwise you don’t actually care about women in sports and you never did.
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Words have meaning. A “groomer” is someone who befriends a child to sexually abuse them. Larry Nassar was a groomer. Groups like Moms for Liberty and their supporters throw out horrific words and accusations, which people then believe, and they don’t care about the consequences.
"What do you mean by that?” Scott Pelley asks Moms for Liberty founders about claims, posted on the group’s social media, that students are being “groomed” by teachers and librarians.
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This is how you use your platform. Gun violence affects all of us and all of us need to take up space to change our country’s devastating course. Step up.
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