👉🏿 We can’t sit on the sidelines when our rights are at stake 👈🏿
That’s why
@KingJames
just passed the
#MoreThanAVote
baton to
@NnekaOgwumike
to launch our fight for women’s rights and reproductive freedom.
They want to choose for us, but we get to decide our future.
In Harris County, home to 2.4 million voters, Texas shut down 11 of 12 ballot drop off locations.
We got you, Houston. Get a free
@Lyft
(up to $15) in Harris County to drop off your ballot at NRG Arena using code HOUVOTE. Details:
#LyftUp
"colored people, Black people, whatever…”
If you thought racism took a day off yesterday, out in Arizona they’re telling us to sit down and shut up when we defend our voting rights.
They’ll use every trick in the book to try to stop us from voting but we won’t fall for the okey-doke. If you’re in Detroit, fight back and report mess like this to elections
@Michigan
.gov.
My office has received a recording of a robocall targeting Detroit voters using racially-charged stereotypes and false information to deter voting by mail. It is an unconscionable, indefensible, blatant attempt to lie to citizens about their right to vote.
Eventually, Texas lawmakers pulled the racist motto off the bill. But they left the racist attacks on our voting rights.
📢 Join our partners
@MOVE_texas
and
@TXCivilRights
at tomorrow morning’s rallies to stop voter suppression.
Don't forget to join us for a rally to demand that Texas legislators reject voter suppression tomorrow, May 8th, at 11 am CT on the South steps of the TX Capitol in Austin OR at Emancipation Park in Houston!
Austin:
Houston:
Even after
@MichaelVick
served his sentence, he still couldn’t vote.
Check out the first episode of our new miniseries chronicling his journey to regain his voting rights at
Over
#NBAAllStar
in Atlanta, we called on lawmakers to drop their voter suppression bill. They didn’t.
Now,
@MLB
has decided to move their All-Star Game from Atlanta.
All the states still considering voter suppression bills should take note:
Actions have consequences.
It’s not just Georgia. Florida’s trying to make it harder to vote too.
Join
@MichaelVick
and voting rights groups calling on Florida to call off their voter suppression plans:
If you think the activism around George Floyd’s murder was just about getting a verdict, you missed the point.
This is about more than a verdict. This is our hope:
America is facing a record shortage in poll workers and communities of color are the hardest hit.
It doesn’t have to be this way. 🗣🗳
Become a poll worker & ensure everybody has a voice:
@naacp_ldf
#WeGotNext
Shut up and dribble? 🤨 Nah.
This is how we took change into our own hands:
🤚🏿 42,000+ poll workers recruited
🤚🏿 298,000+ votes at arenas
🤚🏿 Combated ex-felon disenfranchisement
🤚🏿 Squashed misinformation
🤚🏿 Empowered the Black vote
...and this was just the tip-off 💪🏿
How do you turn pain into progress?
When the NBA season stopped after the police shooting of Jacob Blake,
@KingJames
doubled down on our work to create real change.
Must-watch
@RoadTrippinPod
:
📺:
🎧:
A verdict won’t bring back George Floyd.
A verdict won’t bring back Daunte Wright.
A verdict won’t bring back all the Black lives lost too soon.
We need more than a verdict.
We need Black lives to matter before they're gone.
Nope.
Not this time.
We’re teaming up with
@WeWinBlack
to combat misinformation targeting Black voters.
First up,
@DesusNice
and
@TheKidMero
have got 3 things you should know:
Breonna Taylor was killed one year ago today.
We
#SayHerName
because her life mattered.
We
#SayHerName
because she deserves justice.
We
#SayHerName
because our work must continue until Black lives are treated with equal value.
“By any measure, it should be the biggest story in sports...”
🤚🏿 Players take on and force out team owner who attacked
#BlackLivesMatter
🤚🏿 The new owner? Former player and activist
@ReneeMontgomery
"Being a softball player, we don't have the same viewership or visibility as, say,
@KingJames
might have or another NBA or MLB player,"
@ALESHIAOCASIO
said. "But we can change the world around us."
They REALLY don’t want us to vote in Georgia.
🛑 end automatic voter registration
🛑 end no-excuse absentee voting
🛑 voter ID requirements for absentee
🛑 reduce drop box availability
🛑 limit weekend early voting
Arizona’s Jim Crow 2.0 bill would throw nearly 200,000 voters off the “Permanent” Early Voting List.
It’s no accident that these voter suppression bills all across the country hit people of color hardest. Call on your lawmakers to
#ProtectOurPower
:
🗣 "Calling us crooks... You know what's criminal? A bunch of politicians trying to silence Black people." -
@JalenRose
Stop Jim Crow 2.0. Call your lawmakers TODAY. Get started at 🗳✊🏿
State Farm Arena is an official early voting location for all registered voters of Fulton County for the Jan. 5th Runoff Election.
In partnership w/
@MBStadium
, we will host early voting Dec. 14-19 before moving to MBS Dec. 22-30 (closed 24 & 25).
🔗
As of 2:45 p.m., 37,000 votes have been cast in Harris County today. Do you know what that means? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
We have surpassed 900,000 total votes. Next stop: one million.
#VoteEarly
at any of our 122 Voting Centers:
#HarrisVotes
📣 BIG NEWS 📣
🤚🏿🤚🏿🤚🏿🤚🏿🤚🏿🤚🏿🤚🏿🤚🏿
🤚🏿 40,000+ 🤚🏿
🤚🏿 POLL WORKERS 🤚🏿
🤚🏿 RECRUITED 🤚🏿
🤚🏿🤚🏿🤚🏿🤚🏿🤚🏿🤚🏿🤚🏿🤚🏿
We were celebrating when 10,000 of you signed up to tackle the poll worker shortage. It turns out that was just the 1st quarter!
@NAACP_LDF
So what are NBA players doing about it?
As always, looking to LeBron James — who has already recruited more than 10,000 poll workers to staff voting sites on Election Day:
We can’t lose the momentum of last summer. We need action to reform our police and protect Black lives.
See the full
#TheShop
segment on Monday on
@UNINTERRUPTED
and
@morethanavote
GEORGIA: 🚨 TODAY 🚨 is the deadline to register to vote in the runoff‼️
🗳 Served a sentence? You can vote.
🗳 Turn 18 by Jan 5th? You can vote.
🗳 But you must be registered to vote.
Get registered or check your registration TODAY:
@NewGAProject
Sports arenas are dormant.
Citizens across the US need large spaces where they can safely vote and maintain social distance.
We’ve got a group of elections experts ready to help teams convert their arenas into precincts.
Here they explain how it works
California is 1 of 4 states with no process to decertify & remove abusive police officers from our streets.
👉🏿 A vote to fix that could come as soon as TODAY 👈🏿
📣 Join
@HBarnes
,
@KingJames
,
@Chiney
, and
@NnekaOgwumike
: Call on the CA legislature to pass
#SB2
📲 1-866-284-9113
Remember: Attorneys General and District Attorneys work for us.
We can elect them. And we can replace them.
Make sure you, and everyone you know, are registered to vote, and vote all the way down the ballot.
#BreonnaTaylor
Michelle Obama is teaming up with NBA champ LeBron James to generate buzz for voting early. Her group When We All Vote and his More Than A Vote are providing info, transportation, music, food and virus safety gear at early voting sites Oct. 18-31.
THREAD: What does voter suppression look like? Here's what Georgia Republicans stuffed inside ONE of the nearly 50 anti-voting bills filed post runoff.
#HB531
will:
Eliminate Sunday Voting, Slash 108 Total Available Hrs of Early Vote, Remove 1 of 2 Sat Vote Options,
#gapol
1/8
.
@Cameron__Champ
out here at
#TheMasters
speaking truth about Georgia’s voter suppression law🏌🏾♂️🗳
“As you can tell, it really targets certain Black communities and makes it harder to vote, which to me, it's everyone's right to vote.”
When
@ReneeMontgomery
opted out of the WNBA season to fight for social justice, she didn't expect such an outpouring of support:
"That to me was when I was like, wow, so people really are ready to hear about this..."
So proud to have Renee on the team!
13-year-old Zaila Avant-garde of Louisiana is your 93rd Scripps National
#SpellingBee
champion ‼️
The first African-American winner of the competition 👏
More Than a Vote and
@NAACP_LDF
are coming together to protect polling sites in black communities across the US.
We have a duty to stand for those who cannot. That starts by stepping up to fill a critical void at the polls.
Sign up now:
It's been a full year since George Floyd was murdered.
We’ve had enough talk.
We need action.
Join
@TheNBPA
,
@TheWNBPA
, and
@Athletes4Impact
and tell your Senators to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act:
Looking for a way to honor the legacy of the great
@RepJohnLewis
?
We're offering an online screening of John Lewis: Good Trouble with proceeds directly funding
@FLRightsRestore
’s fines and fees fund.
#GoodTrouble
Contribute & watch here:
🥺 "My grandmother couldn't even walk on this campus... if she was here today to see her granddaughter has a statue where she once could not walk, it goes to show how you just plant seeds." —
@_ajawilson22
GEORGIA: Tomorrow -- Tuesday, January 5th -- is Election Day!
The
@WNBA
's
@AtlantaDream
got the stakes exactly right -- there are moments that make history. And this moment chose Georgia.
Make sure all your Georgia fam make their plan to vote tomorrow at
In this first look from the
#Takeline
premiere,
@jlin7
talks with
@netw3rk
and
@reneemontgomery
about the details around his post speaking against the rise in hate crimes against Asian people.
Proud of you Mama!!! ❤️✊🏾👸🏾 And proud of everyone who is getting out there and voting for the first time and early! I love it!! 👑
#MoreThanAVote
#TheShopHBO
** deep breath **
🗣 IF YOU'RE IN LINE WHEN POLLS CLOSE, YOU CAN STILL VOTE.
SO IF YOU'RE IN LINE...
STAY IN LINE
STAY IN LINE
STAY IN LINE
STAY IN LINE
STAY IN LINE
STAY IN LINE
STAY IN LINE
STAY IN LINE
(please)
STAY IN LINE!
(and if you have any issues, call 866-OUR-VOTE)
Updated story on Bank of America Stadium and Spectrum Center being approved as early-voting poll sites this fall. When you can vote early at the arena:
.
@BarackObama
: The roots of racism in this country are deep... We vote, we get a win... we consolidate that power... and then we go after the next injustice...
Vote:
#TheShopHBO
We are a coalition of Black athletes and artists who have come together to fight systemic racism's impact on our community's right to vote.
Join us and keep our community from being silenced because Black voters matter more than ever:
“In one America, you get killed by sleeping in your car, selling cigarettes or playing in your backyard. In another America, you get to storm the Capitol, and no tear gas, no massive arrests, none of that.” - Jaylen Brown
@FCHWPO
(via
@NBATV
)
📹 CAUGHT ON TAPE: Remember how Georgia, Florida, Texas, and more claimed they wrote their own voter suppression bills?
NOPE. Not true.
It was a secret coordinated effort to pretend it was “grassroots, from-the-bottom-up.”
Breaking: Florida legislature passes Georgia-style voter suppression bill
#SB90
criminalizing giving food/water to voters in line, restricting mail ballot drop boxes, making it harder to vote by mail & expanding partisan challenges to vote counting
If you're looking for a way to get involved in this upcoming election, sign up to volunteer as a poll worker for early voting and Election Day. You can help your community and make sure this election runs fairly and safely. Sign up:
You ain’t slick.
Georgia just saw game changing Black turnout — and now all of the sudden you’ve gotta have access to a printer — twice — to vote by mail?
This voter suppression bill must be defeated.
It’s
#NationalVoterRegistrationDay
Moved recently? Not registered? Not sure?
Take a few minutes right now to make sure your voice is heard in this election:
It’s not just Texas... or Georgia... or Florida... racist voter suppression bills are being debated all over the country.
📲 Call your lawmakers and tell them NO JIM CROW 2.0:
👨🦳: we’re cracking down on your voting rights
👩🏾🦱: Why?? Are you saying we cheated last time?
👨🦳: no no no
👩🏾🦱: Then why??
👨🦳:
👩🏾🦱:
👨🦳: well... other people think you cheated so 🤷♂️
Striking admission from GOP Rep Alan Powell: “I’m not getting into the part about widespread voter fraud. You’re correct, it wasn’t found. It’s just in a lot of people’s minds, that there was.”
Fake voter fraud leads to real voter suppression
COMING SOON:
@JemeleHill
and
@Bakari_Sellers
to host “The Shot: History, Hesitancy, and Hope” audio specials on COVID-19 vaccination in the Black community 💉💪🏿