This is great news. Restoring the public's trust in the integrity of the Census Bureau after all its been through with this Administration is a must.
The U.S. Census Bureau has halted all work on Trump's directive to produce a state-by-state count of unauthorized immigrants that would have been used to alter a key set of census numbers....
Following a historic Presidental election in which President-elect Biden crushed Trump, Smart Dissent took three weeks off from new posts after not taking a week off since February 2017. We're back with new additions to our database because Trump and Republicans continue to undermine our nation on their way out. We hope to not need to add nearly as much as we get into 2021 but will post as needed.
With that in mind, let's look back to 11/18/20:
SOUND THE ALARMS AT FULL BLAST.
The demonic Bill Barr is setting the stage to disrupt our elections in a matter of weeks. Trump, Barr, and Fox News are working in concert to undermine confidence in the election
You probably didn't notice but as of two weeks ago, all three of the major US government entities - DOJ, DHS, and ODNI - have now taken steps that appear to weaken election security.
The U.S. Postal Service is being hijacked in the middle of an election season. Why is Louis DeJoy removing top officials who run day-to-day operations? It's his job to get the mail delivered on time, not play partisan games.
Newly installed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said.... he has a “good relationship” with Trump — he’s donated more than $2 million to the Trump campaign or Republican causes since 2016, and chaired the finance committee for the 2020 GOP convention....
In a massive 357-page opinion a North Carolina Court has struck down their state's legislative districts as partisan gerrymanders. New districts are ordered to be in place for 2020 elections.
This is the same North Carolina state legislature controlled by Republicans who held a surprise vote to jam through savage budget cuts WHILE DEMOCRATS WERE AT 9/11 CEREMONIES. REPUBLICANS.....
The title above states the obvious. We simply wanted to put this into a post and share it thousands of times via twitter to remind everyone and perhaps educate a few along the way.
Republicans rely on gerrymandering as the only way for their to maintain minority rule. And by minority, we mean there's less Republicans than Democrats. We aren't referring to minorities in the traditional sense.
A secret trove of documents were revealed Thursday showing that the Trump administration added a citizenship question to the 2020 census as part of a right-wing plan to change how voting districts are drawn in the United States—a plan hatched to benefit “non-Hispanic whites.”
A major Republican redistricting strategist played a role in the Trump administration's push to get a citizenship question on forms for the 2020 census.
Republicans took the wrong message from being trounced in November 2018 by the largest margins in midterm history. So many important reasons why they were crushed but instead of reflecting on any of the hundreds of them and adjusting their platform to work on behalf of the good of our people and country, their response is to attempt to suppress votes in order to maintain power. This is disgusting, evil, illegal in many cases, and just flat out infuriating.
Florida Republicans are cruising quickly in a devilish attempt to sabotage Amendment 4, a ballot initiative that restored voting rights to about 1.4 million former felons. The GOP is now pushing through a bill that would disenfranchise roughly 1.1 million of them.
In November, a supermajority of Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment restoring voting rights to former felons who’ve completed their sentences.