In Episode 2 of The Rabble, we laugh, we cry, and we might just twerk a little. We go all heart-eyes for Cardi B and a bunch of other rabble-rousers, and we learn a little about a new bill that would have completely changed the life of someone close to Becky if it had already been passed several years ago. Plus, we talk to Amanda Gnaedinger from Common Cause Texas to find out why we can do everything in life on the Internets EXCEPT register to vote... and what we can do to change that.
Amanda Gnaedinger from Common Cause Texas
Link to look up your representatives using the Common Cause tool:
https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/
Join in the Common Cause Texas online voter registration efforts:
https://www.commoncause.org/texas/our-work/expand-voting-rights-election-integrity/online-voter-registration/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s awesome Instagram feed: https://www.instagram.com/ocasio2018/
Joanna Cattanach’s Medium post about deciding to run for office again:
https://medium.com/@joannacattanach/nevertheless-she-persisted-in-blue-suede-heels-cd3283ec0e64
Joanna Cattanach on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoannaForTexas/
Terry Meza’s story:
https://www.reformaustin.org/2018/11/12/terry-meza-defeats-incumbent-rodney-anderson/
Terry Meza on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerryforTexas/
More about the bill filed by Judith Zaffrini to help domestic abuse survivors escape financial abuse:
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/14/texas-bill-domestic-abuser-victims-financial-debt/
TX Lege bill tracker website:
https://capitol.texas.gov/billlookup/billnumber.aspx
Cardi B Instagram video on the government shutdown:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BstmkvDFGAm/
The latest on the government shutdown:
https://www.vox.com/2019/1/22/18192810/government-shutdown-update-trump-pelosi-mcconnell
Chip Roy is a jerk and votes against backpay for federal workers affected by the government shutdown:
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/424942-the-7-republicans-who-voted-against-back-pay-for-furloughed-government-workers
Why can’t Texans register to vote online?
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Why-can-t-Texans-register-to-vote-online-12920691.php
Join in the Common Cause Texas online voter registration efforts:
https://www.commoncause.org/texas/our-work/expand-voting-rights-election-integrity/online-voter-registration/
Join the Common Cause "Rabble Rousers":
http://bit.ly/TXRabbleRousers
Link to Supreme Court Haikus on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SupremeHaiku
Great video explainer on the Citizens United decision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5kHACjrdEY&vl=en
Link to look up your representatives using the Common Cause tool:
https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/
Link to Resistbot:
https://resist.bot/