Quick update round up

A lot happened this week.

Trump was formally arrested, (moment of thanks for Stormy Daniels). Trump is already back in Florida as we await the rest of his trial, and I don’t think I can summarize it better than Rachel Maddow so here it is:

@maddowshowOur deal with viewers last night: We’ll let you know right away if Donald Trump says anything newsworthy in his speech, but otherwise we’re not taking it live. #fyp #news #politics #media #trump

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The topic that went to the top of the headlines as events unfolded this week, is the “Tennessee Three”.

On March 30th Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson, showed solidarity with a protest by mostly students, organizing (the only political power they have as many are too young to vote) to demand action on the gun violence after the Covenant School shooting in Nashville. Videos of the peaceful protest quickly went viral on the internet. There was no property damage, the students were all screened by the Tennessee highway patrol, and no one was hurt.

After mass shooting, Tennessee House moves to expel three members calling for gun control

Yet the events were quickly spun as violent and likened to January 6th by right-wing pundits and media outlets. A video went viral on tiktok of a local station playing actual January 6th footage while covering the events at the Tennessee Capitol.

@cherriesatdawn#tnnews #tennessee #justinjones #gloriajohnson #justinpearson #nashville #nashvilleprotest

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The Republican super majority-controlled house voted to expel the three members on 4/6/2023.

NBC News @NBCNews

Chants of "Vote no!" are heard in the Tennessee House chamber ahead of expected votes to potentially expel Reps. Justin Jones, Gloria Johnson (seen hugging), and Justin Pearson, who all participated in a gun control protest inside the state Capitol last week.

After hours of demonstrations by multiple generations of people demanding House leadership not expel these members, powerful speeches, and many on TikTok from out of state called in solidarity with the Tennessee Three, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were expelled from the House of reps, Gloria Johnson was not.

Garrison Hayes @garrison_hayes

Justin Pearson (@Justinjpearson) was just expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives. Here he shouts with his family and supporters. Drawing on the Black church tradition of giving “glory in tribulations.” #TennesseeThree

The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller

The Nashville @MetroNashville special meeting of the council to elect an “interim successor” to @brotherjones_ is set for 430pm Monday There’s a big push by citizens to have them send Justin back.

The internet does not skip a beat, the moment the news was announced people mobilized to rally support to re-elect both Justin Jones and Justin Pearson back to their positions in the special election. Here is my video covering what I’ve found:

@showme_yourmask#stitch with @popular.info #update as of friday 4/7/2023 #tennessee #justinjones #noactionnopeace #justinpearson #houseofrepresentatives #gloriajohnson

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In other news:

You may have heard the judge rejected the injunction on the Willow project, the lawsuits are still moving forward. The action I shared with you in the last newsletter is gaining momentum!

New Stop Willow Action!

The last update I got was over 57,000 emails have been sent, 5,700 calls, and over 32 additional reps signed on! This is fantastic! If you are just now hearing about this call to action it’s not too late to help!

https://act.newmode.net/action/writeforwillow

As always… reminder to check the links!

https://showme-yourmask.info/

I am always updating the links and actions and folks are telling me they haven’t been getting my videos pushed to them on tiktok as much recently. This is something we deal with a lot 🥲which is why I am calling on everyone to find me on youtube where we have a magical notification button that tells you the moment I post!

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