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Republican ban on contraceptives leads to no Trojans in Mississippi

Republican contraceptive ban leads to No TROJANS IN MISSISSIPPI

“They’re coming for contraception: Republicans vote against right to birth control and condoms.” All but eight House Republicans voted against a bill to codify the Right to Contraception Act … which would codify health care providers’ rights to provide contraceptives. The bill specifically defined contraceptives as “any drug, device, or biological product intended for use in …

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Mississippi voter suppression plabook Tate Reeves Brett Favre scam

Mississippi Voter Suppression Playbook

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), map, political districts, accountability, Mapping and Story Mapping, Power mapping / By Deepak Puri

A football ‘set play’ is plan of action to score. See how the Mississippi Voter Suppression playbook robs the poor to pay the rich. “Reeves misspent money intended for state’s poorest residents … at least $77 million in federal funds intended for education and job programs for the state’s poorest residents were misspent or directed …

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Tate Reeves Brett Favre Mississippi welfare scandal

Rob the poor to pay the rich: Follow the missing $70 million in Mississippi welfare scandal

Leave a Comment / Power mapping / By Deepak Puri

Robin Hood robbed the rich to help the poor. Mississippi Republicans do the opposite: They rob the poor to pay their multimillionaire friends. “The nation’s poorest state used welfare money to pay Brett Favre for speeches he never made. The state auditor says $70 million in federal welfare funds went to Favre, a volleyball complex …

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Republican death sentence

Leave a Comment / map, political districts, accountability / By Deepak Puri

Over half of Mississippi’s rural hospitals are at risk of closing – PBS “Over half of Mississippi’s rural hospitals are at risk of closing immediately or in the near future, according to the state’s leading public health official. Gov. Tate Reeves and other Republican leaders have killed proposals to expand Medicaid, which primarily covers low-income …

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Republican racism contaminates Jackson Mississippi water supply

Jackson Mississippi: Mapping the racism in contaminated water

Leave a Comment / Disaster Response, Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping / By Deepak Puri

Republican racism contaminates the water supply in Jackson, Mississippi. “About 150,000 residents in Jackson were without safe water. Problems at one of the town’s two water-treatment plants has left many without water to drink, brush teeth or flush toilets. Residents in the majority-Black city have been on a boil-water notice since late July, and they have faced …

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