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@jessicashortall
Name: 
Jessica Shortall 🧂
Location: 
Dallas, TX, USA
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11678
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Equality is everyone’s business. #txlege frenemy. Scandal namer. Restless idealist. Author: Work.Pump.Repeat. Not a journalist. Salty. She.
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From @WesleyLowery
How do you write a 10 years later piece on the Tea Party and not mention - not once, not even in passing - the fact… https://t.co/80Vk7mQcNf
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From @JStein_WaPo
@WesleyLowery too bad there is nobody you could call for a quote about this in the entirety of the democratic party… https://t.co/CSsxs4SUaW
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From @JayCaruso
@WesleyLowery "...the fact that it was essentially a hysterical grassroots tantrum about the fact a black guy was p… https://t.co/dTnOIFIAeq
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From @hottakebob
@JayCaruso @WesleyLowery Historical revision is indeed a problem, since most sources tend to identify Rick Santelli… https://t.co/5dKCzoQSEX
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From @WesleyLowery
@hottakebob @JayCaruso To look at a movement 10 years later requires not just the “spark” but also the motivations… https://t.co/k2opVh7TqG
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From @JayCaruso
@WesleyLowery @hottakebob I'll concede that's fair but it also doesn't align with what you said, "...essentially a… https://t.co/ovPQILwEsZ
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From @WesleyLowery
@JayCaruso @hottakebob Just one of many studies. Another, which places racial animus at the center of Tea Party mot… https://t.co/vUCHvwcUNX
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From @WesleyLowery
@JayCaruso @hottakebob And, again, the entire subject of race goes completely unmentioned in the New York Times' os… https://t.co/6yMCSge9IG
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From @JayCaruso
@WesleyLowery @hottakebob And I agree that's a fair point. Where we likely will never agree is what driving force b… https://t.co/ZjrytLzYdK
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From @jessicashortall
@JayCaruso @WesleyLowery @hottakebob Can you bring yourself to say “racist” or does it really, truly, after all thi… https://t.co/euAfSYPeix
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From @24aheaddotcom_
It started well before then. @WesleyLowery is a racist, assuming any mostly-white group must be KKK. He's no help at showing Koch ideas wrong. MT @hottakebob ...most sources tend to identify Rick Santelli's rant in February 2009 to be the catalyst of the Tea Party movement
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From @24aheaddotcom_
.@jessicashortall: when was Teaparty founded?
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From @24aheaddotcom_
List all the times those listed engaged TPers in debate about the huge flaws in their policies: MT @JStein_WaPo too bad there is nobody you could call for a quote [supporting playing race card on Teaparty] in the entirety of the democratic party, academy, or activist circles