Democracy Happy Hour – July 7, 2021

Democracy Happy Hour, July 7, 2021 - History of the Filibuster.

Upcoming Meetings:

• 07/14/21 – Oligarchy vs Democracy
• 07/21/21 – Anti-Corruption & Accountability in Government
• 07/28/21 – Fair & Impartial Courts: How do we get there?

Meeting Recordings & Chat:

• Speaker View Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/GwyI6Pnf-MwqdKZf1MGOmaXfNKGVXGiBV0xL9hXwnJ7lOKbAQ5PY2YR71eDtwlf9_qL7kohjsZO9RueR.-43syuXcgThH46AJ

• Gallery View Recording:  https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/s3ofSCrLdyFE2VxmujCxgZzbuoDZgRNJoUN7tcDqAToZcLgiD-6znLtZbB-VI7kuuEdyfccsVtEUFZuE.XSCNyZ8URo2rgADq

• Chat (Link to download the file):  https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/sdownload/c9YjYEuOyRs8SSUR2zpOiQ0sNwYhDrEM5ZzjKFtgs8IcuvDqBU3Ra1lMkJKh4WmV5uetgID5IL7C1mTp.Q6LCu4zVWKZer4qe

Actions, Events & Misc. Links:

• DONATE to Fix Democracy First - https://www.fixdemocracyfirst.org/donate

• Contact your King County Councilmember to support Ranked Choice Voting for the Nov. 2021 ballot: https://secure.everyaction.com/wekTMOyBRke6KZLoCoAndw2

• Deadline for Democracy – WA State Virtual Rally on July 10th @ 12 pm PT

• Event page: https://act.indivisible.org/event/deadline-for-democracy/163338
• Registration page: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PGyI-mUhTnWXIOGhwu4Cow

• Social Justice Film Institute – A Discussion of Voting Rights and the Films on July 16th – Recording available starting @ 1 pm PT - Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote & Suppressed 2021: The War on Democracy by Brave New Films – Register @ https://socialjusticefilmfestival.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=e0e4e6f2e5e2c92c9879ba1b2&id=2c0feeae60

Panelists include:

• Moderator: Cindy Black, Executive Director of Fix Democracy First
• Giovanni Severino, Lead Policy Organizer of the Latino Community Fund
• Breanne Schuster, Staff Attorney at ACLU - Washington

WA Redistricting Links:

• Redistricting Justice for WA - https://www.redistrictingjusticewa.org/
• WA State Redistricting Commission - https://www.redistricting.wa.gov/
• Upcoming WA Redistricting Hearings in July:

• 1st & 2nd CD: July 24, 10am–12pm

• 1st CD includes parts of Legislative Districts (LDs) 1, 5, 10, 37, 39, 42, 44, 45, 47, 48, and a small portion of LDs 40.
• 2nd CD includes all of Legislative Districts (LD) 38, most of LDs 10 and40 and parts of LDs 1, 21, 32, 38, 39, 42, 44.

• 4th & 5th CD: July 24, 1–3pm

• 4th CD includes all of Legislative Districts (LDs) 8 and 15 and parts of LDs 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, and 16.
• 5th CD includes all of Legislative Districts (LDs) 3, 4, and 6 and parts of LDs 7, 9, 13, and 16.

• 3rd & 6th CD: July 26, 7–9pm

• 3rd Congressional includes all of Legislative Districts( LDs) 17, 18, 49, most of LD 20, and parts of LDs 2, 14, and 19.
• 6th CD includes all of Legislative Districts (LDs) 23, 24,and 26 and parts of LDs 19, 27, 28, 29, and 35.

• 7th & 9th CD: July 31, 10am–12pm

• 7th CD includes all of Legislative Districts (LDs) 34, 36, and 43 and parts of LDs 11, 21, 32, 33, 37, 46.
• 9th CD includes most of Legislative Districts (LDs) 11, 33, 37, and 41 and parts of LDs 5, 27, 30, 47, and 48.

• 8th & 10th CD: July 31, 1–3pm

• 8th CD includes parts of Legislative Districts 2, 5, 11,12, 13, 25, 28, 30, 31, 33, 41, 45 and 47.
• 10th CD includes all of Legislative District (LD) 22, most of LDs 25 and 28, and parts of LDs 2, 20, 27, 29, 31, and 35

Democracy in the News Links:

• Supreme Court upholds voting restrictions, strikes down donor disclosure - https://thefulcrum.us/voting/supreme-court-voting-rights‍
• Opinion: Oligarchy Day at the Supreme Court - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/01/oligarchy-day-supreme-court
• ‍Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Voting Restrictions - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/us/politics/supreme-court-arizona-voting-restrictions.html
• Racial bias in voting laws? Supreme Court makes it harder to prove. - https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2021/0701/Racial-bias-in-voting-laws-Supreme-Court-makes-it-harder-to-prove?icid=rss
• ‍Supreme Court Backs Donor Privacy for California Charities - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/us/supreme-court-donor-privacy.html
• ‍Dark Money Is About to Get Much Darker - https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/07/supreme-court-guts-donor-disclosure-rules-americans-for-prosperity-california/
• ‍Democrats Have 1 Option Left - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/07/supreme-court-voting-rights-filibuster/619341/
• ‍Seventeen states have enacted 28 new laws making it harder to vote - https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/politics/voter-suppression-restrictive-voting-laws/index.html
• What's Next For Voting Rights After The Supreme Court's Decision - https://www.npr.org/2021/07/03/1012777226/whats-next-for-voting-rights-after-the-supreme-courts-decision
• ‍New Hampshire's top court strikes down complicated voter registration law - https://thefulcrum.us/voting/new-hampshire-voter-registration
• ‍Ballots and voting equipment are moved again as review of 2020 election drags on in Arizona’s Maricopa County - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/arizona-maricopa-county-audit-ballot-review/2021/07/01/3576eadc-d4f2-11eb-a53a-3b5450fdca7a_story.html
• ‍Poll: More Americans Are Concerned About Voting Access Than Fraud Prevention - https://www.npr.org/2021/07/02/1012302107/poll-more-americans-are-concerned-about-voting-access-than-fraud-prevention
• ‍What's keeping democracy experts up most at night? An overturned election - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/what-s-keeping-democracy-experts-most-night-overturned-election-n1272971
• ‍Experts Debate Reducing the Supreme Court’s Power to Strike Down Laws - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/us/politics/supreme-court-commission.html
• ‍Gerrymandering and restricting voting rights: Flip sides of the same coin - https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/560995-gerrymandering-and-restricting-voting-rights-flip-sides-of-the-same-coin?rl=1
• ‍Michigan's push to end gerrymandering offers 'hope' for divided nation, advocates say - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-s-push-end-gerrymandering-offers-hope-divided-nation-advocates-n1272989
• ‍Republicans weigh ‘cracking’ cities to doom Democrats - https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/06/republicans-redistricting-doom-democrats-498232
• ‍Here’s a different way to fix gerrymandering - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/06/heres-different-way-fix-gerrymandering/
• ‍Why the Climate Crisis Demands Democracy Reform - https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/why-climate-crisis-demands-democracy-reform
• ‍US Protest Law Tracker - https://www.icnl.org/usprotestlawtracker/?location=&status=&issue=&date=&type=
• ‍6 months after Capitol assault, corporate pledges fall flat - https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-senate-elections-capitol-siege-election-2020-house-elections-62e7985e962e6852ef5041b32c63368c
• ‍Secretive ‘dark money’ network launches anti-critical race theory campaign - https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/06/secretive-dark-money-network-anti-critical-race-theory/
• ‍Checking The Success Of Your State's Efforts To Restore Voting Rights To The Formerly Incarcerated - https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/07/01/how-many-people-convicted-of-felonies-are-registered-to-vote-in-your-state
• ‍State Courts’ Stark Lack Of Diversity Demands Action - https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/state-courts-stark-lack-diversity-demands-action
• ‍The Strange, Sad Death of America’s Political Imagination - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/opinion/us-politics-edward-bellamy.html
• ‍New York Primary Election Results - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/22/us/elections/results-nyc-mayor-primary.html
• ‍New York’s Election Mess Is Not the Fault of Ranked-Choice Voting - https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/nyc-adams-garcia-wiley-election-chaos/
• ‍H.R.3863 - To establish the use of ranked choice voting in elections for Senators and Representatives in Congress - https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3863?s=1&r=3
• ‍‘We the People’ Updates the Sound of Schoolhouse Rock With Rap and R&B - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/arts/television/we-the-people-netflix.html
  

Filibuster Links:

• Filibuster – Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster‍
• About Filibusters and Cloture - https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture.htm‍
• About Filibusters and Cloture | Historical Overview - https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture/overview.htm
• ‍The origins of the filibuster—and how it came to exasperate the U.S. Senate - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/reference/united-states-history/origins-of-filibuster-united-states-senate/#close
• ‍The Senate Filibuster Is Another Monument to White Supremacy - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/senate-filibuster-monument-white-supremacy/613579/
• ‍Obama: The filibuster is a “Jim Crow relic” - https://www.vox.com/2020/7/30/21348382/obama-filibuster-jim-crow-relic-john-lewis-funeral-voting-rights
• ‍'Kill Switch' Explores How Senate Minority Uses Filibuster to Protect Its Interests - https://www.npr.org/2021/01/12/956145713/kill-switch-explores-how-senate-minority-uses-filibuster-to-protect-its-interest
• ‍All the Lies They Told Us About the Filibuster - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/all-the-lies-they-told-us-about-the-filibuster.html
• ‍The Impact of the Filibuster on Federal Policymaking - https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2019/12/05/478199/impact-filibuster-federal-policymaking/#Ca=3#Or=1#Pr=28#IA=R
• ‍Number of senate filibusters by minority party from 1917-2012, by party - https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/27yz6i/number_of_senate_filibusters_by_minority_party/
• ‍What Democrats Can’t Do as Long As The Filibuster Remains In Place — And What They Can - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-democrats-cant-do-as-long-as-the-filibuster-remains-in-place-and-what-they-can/
• ‍The Case Against the Filibuster - https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/case-against-filibuster
• ‍Time to Deal with the Filibuster - https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/time-deal-filibuster
• ‍Explainer: what is the filibuster and why do some Democrats want to get rid of it? - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/30/what-is-filibuster-meaning-republicans-blocking-biden-agenda
• ‍The Decision That Will Define Democrats for a Decade - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/democrats-biggest-decision-nuking-filibuster/617854/
• ‍Say Goodbye to the Senate Filibuster - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-25/senate-filibuster-is-on-the-way-out
• ‍Senate filibuster fight cools for now, but battles ahead - https://apnews.com/article/politics-filibusters-kyrsten-sinema-joe-manchin-mitch-mcconnell-e2cc0c9fe29370b009277877604745e0
• ‍The case against Democrats nuking the filibuster - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/22/case-against-democrats-nuking-filibuster/
• ‍10 Reasons Why Progressives Should Support Senate Filibuster Reform and Not Abolition - https://brucelesley.medium.com/why-progressives-should-support-senate-filibuster-reform-and-not-abolition-a7be4888a813
• ‍What is the Senate filibuster, and what would it take to eliminate it? - https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/what-is-the-senate-filibuster-and-what-would-it-take-to-eliminate-it/
• ‍Defending the Filibuster, the Last Safeguard of Minority Rights - https://www.heritage.org/political-process/commentary/defending-the-filibuster-the-last-safeguard-minority-rights
• ‍Arguments for and against the filibuster, 2021 - https://ballotpedia.org/Arguments_for_and_against_the_filibuster,_2021
• ‍No standing, no marathon speeches, no catheter bags: How filibustering got way too easy - https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/silent-filibuster-got-too-easy/2021/07/05/93bf2ff2-d9cd-11eb-9bbb-37c30dcf9363_story.html