Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib
From Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Era to now. Progress with civil + voting rights has been crushed by the filibuster. It's an undemocratic tool used by a shrinking minority of extreme reactionaries+bought elected officials to stop the wishes of a diverse majority. End it. — PolitiTweet.org
Steve Neavling @MCmuckraker
Between 1917 and 1994, half of the bills that failed because of the filibuster were civil rights legislation, inclu… https://t.co/L2AXwjxbZD