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Rotimi Adeoye

Rotimi Adeoye is a writer and voting rights advocate from Pennsylvania. Formerly, Rotimi was a congressional aide and advisor for the ACLU Voting Rights Project. He tweets under @_RotimiA.

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GAME ON

Forget the Supreme Court, Beat Trump at the Ballot

SCOTUS was never going to save our democracy. Only we can do that.

Rotimi Adeoye

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IT’S 1860 AGAIN

Texas’ Border Stunt Is Based on a Confederate Legal Theory

Gov. Greg Abbott says the federal government has “broken the compact between the United States and the States” with its immigration policies.

Rotimi Adeoye

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UNLEASHED

Right-Wing Power Brokers’ Plan for Trump’s Second Term

Project 2025 is almost 900 pages of radical conservative policy preferences—it’s an unnerving blueprint for what Trump can do if he returns to the White House.

Rotimi Adeoye

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DISGRACEFUL

Mississippi’s Voting Failures Shouldn’t Be Happening in 2023

Polling places ran out of ballots in heavily Black communities. This is unacceptable and can’t be allowed to happen again.

Rotimi Adeoye

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CALL IT WHAT IT IS

North Carolina GOP Is Creating a ‘Secret Police Force’

The euphemistically named “Gov Ops” is a civil liberties disaster waiting to happen.

Rotimi Adeoye

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RECKLESS

Vivek Ramaswamy Wants to Rewrite the Constitution

Ramaswamy’s significant policy ideas—rescinding birthright citizenship and raising the voting age from 18 to 25—show a desire to overhaul fundamental aspects of our Constitution.

Rotimi Adeoye

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TERMINALLY ONLINE

DeSantis’ Failed Strategy to Campaign on Culture War BS

The Florida governor apparently fails to understand that he’s running for President of the United States, not King of the Far-Right Internet Trolls.

Rotimi Adeoye

Tim Scott
WASTED OPPORTUNITY

Tim Scott’s Vision for America Isn’t for Black People

His personal story is inspiring, but his record as a U.S. Senator is one that doesn’t place much concern for Black Americans’ needs.

Rotimi Adeoye

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CONSCIENCE OF A CULTURE WARRIOR

The Ron DeSantis Campaign Kicked Off Already… in 1964

The Florida governor’s “antiwoke” agenda is just Barry Goldwater’s playbook updated for the digital age.

Rotimi Adeoye

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HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDZ

GOP Can’t Beat Gen Z, but It Can Stifle Its Vote

Republican policies are unpopular with young people, so they’re copy-pasting racist voter suppression tactics to silence their voices.

Rotimi Adeoye

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