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    1. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

      Day TWO of #19thRepresents is underway with Stacey Abrams! Next up today: Meryl Streep, Zoe Saldana, BLM's Alicia Garza, Voto Latino's María Teresa Kumar, John Hopkins' Martha Jones & NYT's Nikole Hannah-Jones!https://www.crowdcast.io/e/19th-represents-day2 …

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    2. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

      "What we're watching in 2020 is the pinnacle" of voter suppression efforts Abrams say to kick off the second day of #19thRepresents summit programming.

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    3. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

      "We have not run out of time," Abrams says. "We have time, if Congress will take action" on the HEROES Act. "We'll have voting that works well."

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    4. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

      "They're not going to do what should be done and restore the Voting Rights Act to full force," Abrams says of congressional Republicans after the death of Rep John Lewis as we head into 2020 elections. #19thRepresents

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    5. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

      "In 42 states you can vote by mail," Abrams says. "You can also vote early." Pre-pandemic there was VBM in 34 states, she notes. #19thRepresents

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    6. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

      "Vote by mail" will not work for those facing evictions and are in unstable housing situations, Abrams says, recommending: 1) vote by mail or 2) vote early during #19thRepresents

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    7. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

      Call your Secretary of State and "demand drop boxes," Abrams says during #19thRepresents

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    8. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

      Abrams decries "malfeasant application" of voting laws in Georgia and other states. "We have good laws," she tells the #19thRepresents

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    9. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

      "I believe it would be a good idea" to have a woman of color as VP pick, Abrams says, adding most importantly Biden will pick the "best partner for him." "I trust him." "Optimally it will be a woman of color but I do not begrudge any choice that he makes." #19thRepresents

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      Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

      Hearing Meryl Streep talk about my job before launching into suffragette readings is beyond. #19thRepresentshttps://www.crowdcast.io/e/19th-represents-day2 …

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        2. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

          "They knock at the doors of Justice and ask for an equal chance," Zoe Saldana reading Mary Church Terrell at #19thRepresents

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        3. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

          "It is not only votes for women but the entire question of Democracy that's at stake," Meryl Streep reading Gertrude Foster Brown at #19thRepresents

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        4. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

          "Do you want a government for the people, by the people and for the people? And aren't women people?" Streep reading Foster Brown #19thRepresents "Women should have the vote because it is unjust, shameful and just cowardly of men."

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        5. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

          "This dream, this idea, this aspiration, this is what American Democracy means to me," Zoe Saldana reading Mary Mcleod Bethune for #19thRepresents

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        6. Amanda Becker‏Verified account @AmandaBecker 11 Aug 2020

          Nikole Hannah Jones kicks off a #19thRepresents panel on suffrage as unfinished business by reminding us that race and racism have been the “Achilles heel of the women’s movement.”pic.twitter.com/Zx1meaO9Xr

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