https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jun/25/control-house-and-senate-1900/

Time for a generational change to Democrats

Periods of time when one party controlled Presidency and both House and Senate:

FDR 1933-1935 1935-1937 1937-1939

FDR 1939-1941 1941-1943 1943-1945

Truman 1945-1947

nil Truman 1947-1949

Truman 1949-1951 1951-1953

Eisenhower 1953-1955

nil Eisenhower 1955-1957 1957-1959 1959-1961

JFK LBJ 1961-1963 1963-1965 1965-1967

nil Nixon Ford 1969-1971 1971-1973 1973-1975

Carter 1977-1977 1977-1979

nil Reagan 1981-1983 1983-1985 1985-1987 1987-1989

nil H.W. Bush 1989-1991 1991-1993

Clinton 1993-1995

nil Clinton 1995-1997 1997-1999 1999-2001

nil G.W.Bush 2001-2003?

G.W.Bush 2003-2005 2005-2007

nil G.W. Bush 2007-2009

Obama 2009-2011

nil Obama 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017

Trump 2017-2019

nil Trump 2019-2021

nil Biden 2021-2023 2023-2025

ERIC is a national system that Texas officials say is an important tool to keep voting rolls clean. But a band of right-wing voting fraud activists, joined by state GOP officials, wants to gut it.

Now, lawmakers who regularly attend those meetings have introduced legislation written by the group that would end Texas’s participation in the coalition: the Electronic Registration Information Center, also known as ERIC.

Keith Ingram, the elections director for the secretary of state’s office, told the group that the program was the only option available to ensure voters aren’t registered or voting in more than one state at the same time. Nonetheless, the activists moved forward with an effort that experts say is set to undermine one of the best election integrity tools available to Texas and other states to prevent election fraud.

“Exponential” increase in potential for voter fraud without ERIC

The conservative campaign against ERIC, long considered the gold standard for cleaning voter rolls, began with misinformation published starting last year by a conservative website, The Gateway Pundit, about ERIC’s funding and origins. As conservative doubts grew and ERIC, led by executive director Shane Hamlin, attempted to correct the record, activists in some states began pushing Republican officials to withdraw their membership.

This week, in the wake of the board meeting, three states — Florida, Missouri and West Virginia — announced they would leave the program.

(Can't post complete article here, but worth reading....)



https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/09/texas-voting-eric/

Implicates every ongoing trial or Jan 6 conviction! "Brady evidence"!

55 minutes but worthwhile discussion.....David Corn talks about Republican politics history, and suggests we should in fact "Preach to the Choir"

There are more of us than them...but many people are just not as involved.

Two of Mine:

Night of the Meek
Mute

..on preserving a mother's life..

https://www.insider.com/texas-woman-forced-to-wait-for-life-saving-abortion-scarred-2022-11

...on miscarriages...

https://health.wusf.usf.edu/npr-health/npr-health/2022-05-10/in-texas-abortion-laws-inhibit-care-for-miscarriages


What some Republicans prefer to do: (this story is well known)

https://abcnews.go.com/US/indianas-attorney-general-files-complaint-doctor-gave-child/story?id=94215243

https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/global-markets-bis-urgent-2022-12-05/

Beyond me to understand this.....

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/03/texas-united-methodist-church-split/

........32 years ago...