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"For alll its often-empty swagger, the Tennessee General Assembly has made one thing very clear: If Americans don’t start paying closer attention to what’s happening in statehouses across the country, the republic may never recover." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/tennessee-general-assembly.html …
“We tend to focus our shock and outrage on the manifold travesties unfolding on the national stage, but it’s a mistake to tune out what’s happening in statehouses around the country, for Tennessee is far from alone in following the Koch playbook.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/tennessee-general-assembly.html …
“Hours after Tennessee legislators passed the fetal-heartbeat bill, Georgia passed a nearly identical one, and in recent years similar bills have passed in Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota and Ohio.”
“Fifteen other states have added work requirements of some kind for Medicaid. TX has already tried, & failed, to prevent the children born to undocumented parents from receiving birth certificates. The list goes on & on: the death of compassionate democracy by 1000 paper cuts.”
Thank you, @margaretrenkl, for shining a light on why states matter, and how what happens in state capitals affects the foundations of our very democracy.
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