The Tennessee Holler

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TODAY'S HOLLER; Blackburn's Geyser of Gloria Lies 🤥 Gov. Lee Vs. Public Schools 🐍 WKRN Anchor's Deleted Tweet 🤦‍♂️ & much more Check out today's links & videos & SUBSCRIBE: mailchi.mp/24b358981487... CHIP IN MONTHLY to help us Holler & get a hat: tnholler.com/2023/06/holl...

TODAY'S HOLLER: GLO-JO Gets Going 🔥Marsha Gets Nervous 👀 Tennesseans Get Excited 🥳 & much more Check out today's links & videos & subscribe: mailchi.mp/f8ee4c6611f6... CHIP IN to help us Holler & get a Holler hat: tnholler.com/2023/06/holl...

NASHVILLE mayor’s race runoff — Per Axios, Alice Rolli (Republican) had hired a VEGAS firm whose SVP discussed recruiting the Proud Boys to a rally. It was publicly reported on by @NevadaCurrent in 2021 (and easily Google-able). She has now severed ties.

TODAY'S HOLLER: @GovBillLee & GOP Governors Vs. Public Schools 🐍 Sexton Blocking Popular Gun Reform 🤨 Mcconnell Booed Hard in KY 👀 & much more Check out today's links & videos & SUBSCRIBE: https://mailchi.mp/a5e41d5d5038/expand-medicaid-693332

🔔 WILLIAMSON COUNTY: rally at the library August 15th, when Rep. Andy Ogles & Senator Jack Johnson will be holding an event there👇🏽

⚡️NEW: Acting on behalf of @brotherjones_ attorney @ericholder writes Speaker @repcameronsexton demanding “full & immediate reinstatement of Rep. Jones prior to special session — including committee assignments”

TODAY'S HOLLER: Justins Cruise to Re-Election 🔥 Rep @AftynBehn A Real Thing 🥳 @freddieoconnell In Mayor's Race Drivers Seat🚗TN GOP Defends Hitting Kids 😡 & More Check out the Links & SUBSCRIBE: https://mailchi.mp/319502417ba6/expand-medicaid-693328

AXIOS NASHVILLE: “A progressive wave… progressives won big…” 🌊 https://www.axios.com/local/nashville/2023/07/25/mayoral-candidate-freddie-oconnell-nashville?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_nashville&stream=top

Republican Alice Rolli advances to the run-off for NASHVILLE mayor against progressive @freddiefornashville Oconnell — as Cari points out, make no mistake about the partisan nature of her candidacy👇🏽

🚨 BREAKING: long-time progressive activist @AftynBehn has just won her NASHVILLE HD-51 race, and will now be a state house representative 👀 🎉

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Trump is 77 years old. He faces 78 felony charges.

Today’s NY Post cover 🇺🇸

BLOCKING PROGRESS: Despite every poll showing Tennesseans support gun reform, radical Republicans Senator @senjohnson & speaker @repcameronsexton "don't perceive that happening” https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2023/jul/31/tennessee-house-speaker-senate-majority-leader/

🇺🇦 KNOX NEWS: “U.S. Rep. @timburchett voted to cut all funding for Ukraine in the recent national defense appropriations bill. The vast majority of Congress from both parties voted to support Ukraine and oppose Russian leader Vladimir Putin.”

Tim Burchett of Tennessee votes to abandon Ukraine in its war for survival | Ashewww.knoxnews.com Victor Ashe also weighs in on DeSantis fundraisers and a new state Supreme Court justice. And his weekly list of notable birthdays!

MURFREESBORO: “A Hendersonville man charged after threatening to ‘shoot up a school’ in Murfreesboro...” https://www.newschannel5.com/news/man-arrested-in-murfreesboro-after-threatening-to-shoot-up-school

The % of lawmakers in congress over 70 has tripled in 20 years. Explains a lot. 🇺🇸 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11213581/Congress-age-senate-house.html

UPDATE: Federal prosecutors accuse disgraced ex state senator Brian Kelsey, a Republican from Germantown, of delaying his sentencing after unsuccessfully attempting to withdraw his guilty plea… now seeking a longer sentence…

Prosecutors accuse Brian Kelsey of delaying sentencing after guilty plea in campaign finance casewreg.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Thursday accused a former Tennessee state senator from Germantown of intentionally delaying his sentencing after the Republican unsuccessfully attempt�...

From @TNSenateDems: “With five months left in 2023, Tennessee has already set a new annual record for the number of people who have been killed in mass shootings: 29. Children accounted for more than a third of these homicides.” 😳

HARVARD POLL: “Young US Voters Becoming More Progressive… on LGBTQ+ rights, economic inequality, climate, gun violence… Trump's rise may have accelerated their evolution… This generation has never felt secure—personally, physically, financially…”

Facing Widespread Precarity, Young US Voters Are Leaning Hard to the Leftwww.commondreams.org "This generation has never felt secure—personally, physically, financially," said one pollster.

NASHVILLE: MONDAY is your chance to hear from HD-51 candidates @aftynbehn & Anthony @davisfortn — at a forum organized by the @eastnashtivists 👇🏽

⚡️VANDY SUED: “@VUMChealth is being sued by its transgender clinic patients, who accuse the hospital of violating their privacy by turning their records over to @AGTennessee Skrmetti.” #ScarySkrmetti

Transgender Patients Sue Hospital For Giving Records To Tennessee's Attorney Generalwww.huffpost.com Two patients sued Vanderbilt University Medical Center for violating their privacy by turning their records over to Tennessee’s attorney general.

Pretty much.

🔥 🗣️ APSU history prof MINOA UFFELMAN: “I grew up in a small town. I also teach Southern history. Aldean’s song fits into a long history of white supremacy that is cloaked in the language of small-town values. It is disgusting and dangerous.”

STUDY — IT’S NOT JUST LEGACY ADMISSIONS: “Affirmative action for minority kids may be dead, but AA for rich kids is alive and well… rich kids with similar scores admitted to elites schools far more… higher earnings… creating a sort of NEO-ARISTOCRACY…”

(Future senator?) Gloria Johnson on challenging @MarshaBlackburn: “We have a senator who stands with bullies, and I have a reputation for standing up to bullies." That really is what it’s all about.

Tennessee Rep. Gloria Johnson builds campaign staff, eyes Blackburn U.S. Senate challengewww.tennessean.com The Tennessean confirmed Johnson is currently building a campaign staff, with an official announcement expected sometime next month.

🇺🇸 🎯🗣️ “People aren’t facing up to the horrors a 2nd Trump term would bring —- Trump, and Republicans, plan on never leaving power again…” https://newrepublic.com/article/174535/people-arent-facing-horrors-new-trump-term-bring

🎯🗣️: “Would targeting drag shows and trans kids, for example be your legislative priorities? — Only 45% of Tennesseans who could have voted did. The 55% who sat home made Tennessee the second-most conservative state.” https://app.sparkmailapp.com/web-share/8t3jb_MdQ-tazxUtYFJ1blAZLRp4sk_zBuhoI_aU

Barbie gets the last laugh💰💰 https://t.co/qtTZ4i9DbX

👇🏽🎯 “U.S. taxes are already paying for the cost of universal basic coverage. Americans are just not getting it. They could be… as a share of its economy, 🇺🇸 spends about twice as much on health care as other high-income countries.#MedicareForAll

Opinion | We’re Already Paying for Universal Health Care. Why Don’t We Have It?www.nytimes.com Guaranteed basic coverage will protect those who have insurance from uncertainty.