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marvelsmostwanted:

Obviously we’ve all been waiting for Trump’s indictment and the intensive media coverage is expected, but I hope cable news can take a breath and cover what’s happening in Tennessee.

To quickly summarize, the GOP-led legislature has moved to expel three Democrats because they participated in a peaceful protest about the Nashville shooting.

…To restate that, Republicans are kicking democratically-elected officials out of their state legislature because they exercised their constitutional right to protest.

These are elected officials who represent some 200,000 people in Tennessee. They’re being silenced.

This is not what a democracy looks like.

Tennessee House moves to expel 3 Democrats after gun protest
Tennessee Republican lawmakers have taken the first steps to expel three Democratic members from the GOP-dominant House for their role in a
AP NEWS

Here’s a TikTok with one of the representatives explaining that they turned their ID badges off and won’t even let them in:

Update: More from this representative https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRcX99c8/

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