if you ve ever been to london or if you re like me and you basically spend every waking hour you re not working, eating, sleeping or fishing watching british crime dramas set in london, which is what i do now because i m a middle-aged childless lesbian anyway, whether you ve been to london or spent a lot of time in london in your mind, you might have noticed these blue plaques on the london landscape. the british government puts up these blue disks, these blue plaques on historic sites of all kind not just in london. and some of these historic plaques are exactly what you d think, exactly what you d imagine. winston churchill 1874-1965, prime minister, lived and died here. or this one. lived here as a law student. francis bacon, participator, lived and worked here 1961-1992. lady diana spencer, princess diana, lived here. some are exactly what you would imagine. some are harder to guess at. this is one featured in the the new york times not long ago that commemorates the
elections and the individual right to vote by the tens of thousands. the group fair fight action, which is a voting rights and pro democracy group in georgia, they are raising the alarm about this, suing in federal court to try to stop this from continuing to happen to georgia voters. nbc news reporting it today exclusively again to sound the alarm about the fact this is happening in georgia and also effectively to give the whole country a heads up that, you know, if anti-voting, anti-election, anti-small d democratic forces haven t gotten to this yet in your state it is working great in georgia and likely coming your way. you may or may not by now be able to see the theme that is emerging from these seemingly disparate stories, right? the thing these all have in common is people coming
possible. the denial of free and fair elections is undemocratic, it is not unprecedented. black americans were denied full citizenship voting rights until 1965. women were denied the right to vote until just 100 years ago. the united states supreme court in recent years has weakened the voting rights act and now the defeated former president and his supporters used the big lie about the 2020 election to fuel torment and anti-voting laws. new laws designed to suppress your vote to subvert our elections. here in georgia, for years, you ve done the hard work of democracy. registering voters. educating voters. getting voters to the polls. you build a broad coalition of voters. black, white, latino, asian
possible. while the denial of fair and free elections is undemocratic it is not unprecedented. black americans were denied full citizenship voting rights until 1965. women were denied the right to vote until just 100 years ago. the united states supreme court in recent years has weakened the voting rights act. and now the defeated former president and his supporters used a big lie about the 2020 election to fuel torrent and torment and anti-voting laws. new laws designed to suppress your vote to subvert our election. here in georgia, you ve done the hard work of democracy. registering voters, educating voters, getting voters to the polls. you have built a broad coalition of voters, black, white, latino,
earth and wreck the environment so more people die as a result of increasingly violent storms and hurricanes and floods and wildfires. that s literally a pro-death policy that includes being cool with the death of the planet. and if your voters overwhelmingly vote to re-elect a president morally responsible for the deaths of more than 500,000 fellow americans and you are still plotting to put him back in office and spreading dangerous lies about the election that the fbi says are fueling domestic terrorism, even after members of your dear leader s cult stormed our capitol bringing treason flags and nooses and hunting lawmakers, including the five foot tall woman speaking while chanting hang mike pence, you are not pro-life. if you continue to demand more american troops keep dying in forever wars so military contractors can keep raking in the dough, that s not pro-life. the republican is a lot of