Mastodawn

The United States of America was founded on the principle of
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
and a war with Great Britain, so why is Puerto Rico taxed by the federal government but has no representation in Congress or Senate?
#StatehoodForPuertoRico #PR51 #StatehoodForDC #DC52

Labor Party (US)Jan 3, 2025

3.2 million Americans in Puerto Rico—more than 21 states—are denied voting representation in Congress. Statehood is about fairness and equality. Is it time to add Puerto Rico as the 51st state? Learn more: https://buff.ly/40giwts
#StatehoodForPuertoRico #51stState #EqualRepresentation #AmericanDemocracy #vote #votingrights #EveryVoteCounts #RacialJustice #JusticeForAll #historymatters #USHistory #AmericanHistory #colonialism

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Jun 6, 2024

@GottaLaff

#USpol #SCOTUS #ExpandTheCourt

I'd love to participate 😇

#StatehoodForDC
#StatehoodForPuertoRico

https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112570238798990241

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@ NovaNaturalist HAS ALSO MOVED Mar 21, 2024

@GottaLaff
Wait till those GOP "reformers" discover there are more US citizens in Puerto Rico than in all of Vermont, Wyoming, Alaska and North Dakota, and yet Puerto Ricans have zero electoral college votes for electing a president and no representation in the Senate, and those four states have 8.

Surely they will be so outraged they will immediately be demanding #StatehoodForPuertoRico
#notaxationwithoutrepresentation

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Jun 12, 2023

@GottaLaff

(1/n)

#USPol #USElections

Yes, but...

#AbolishTheElectoralCollege

...is just a start of what needs major mending in the #US electoral system:

#IntroduceProportionalRepresentation
#MakeGerrymanderingACrime
#StatehoodForDC
#StatehoodForPuertoRico
#DoubleNationality for #NativeAmericans,
#NoGunsNearTheVotingBooth

#ThomasJefferson "...wrote to #JamesMadison in #1789:"

"Every #constitution then, & 👉every law, naturally expires👈 at..." (1)

(1)
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-12-02-0248

Founders Online: Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 6 September 1789

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 6 September 1789

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Jun 12, 2023

@Hey_Beth @noondlyt

(4/5)

...
#IntroduceProportionalRepresentation
#MakeGerrymanderingACrime
#StatehoodForDC
#StatehoodForPuertoRico
#DoubleNationality for #NativeAmericans,
#NoGunsNearTheVotingBooth.

Gladwyn d’Souza Jun 6, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/opinion/roberts-court-glacier-labor-workers.html

In the #SCOTUS war on #workers, the #Robertscourt is only acting in the #SupremeCourt’s #historical capacity as an #agentofcapital. It has rarely been a friend to the #rightofworkers to #organize and act in their own interests.

#GerrymanderedCourt
#ExpandTheCourt
#EndTheFilibuster
#StatehoodForDC
#StatehoodForPuertoRico

Opinion | There Is One Group the Roberts Court Really Doesn’t Like

It is difficult to overstate the court’s hostility to organized labor and the rights of American workers.

The New York Times

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 23, 2023

@ScienceDesk

Important reminder:
#CitizensUnitedVsFEC must be repealed by reversely codifying it in #Congress.

Here is the most recent data what the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex has been spending on #contributions to #US politicians*.

In order to achieve this: #Supreme13--#ExpandTheCourt.

To get things going: break the #Senate stalemate:

#AbolishTheFilibuster
#StatehoodForDC
#StatehoodForPuertoRico
#AbolishTheElectors

#ItIsAllInterconnected.

*
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?Ind=D

Defense | OpenSecrets

OpenSecrets.org issue profile for Defense.

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Apr 15, 2023

@[email protected]

No more gerrymandering
Abolish the Electoral College
#Supreme13 - #ExpandTheCourt
#ImpeachClarenceThomas
#StatehoodForPuertoRico
#StatehoodForDC
No public office for convicted felons, with a minimum sentence of # years or # dollars (TBD)
#TermLimit for all politicians (2 consecutive years on state and federal level, 3 on local level due to many small communities)
Assault weapons monopoly for the military and special police units only

and this:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109976532688427491

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Mar 4, 2023

@[email protected]

I have long been advocating for #StatehoodForPuertoRico to remedy this (and also to help remedy the issue if the hijacked #SCOTUS, and the #Senate, originally).

Do you think the vast majority of #Puertorriqueños would support this?

@[email protected] @MarkTurnerNC