Source: asbe / Getty For the second time in less than a week, a U.S. citizen in Memphis has been fatally shot by officers with a federal task force created by President Donald Trump and deployed to the city by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee. Earlier this week, we reported that two Tennessee National Guard members, […]
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Source: Portland Press Herald / Getty America loves a white boy, I tell you what. Despite mounting controversies around Graham Platner early in his Senate campaign, he became the Democratic Party’s white boy of the month for the last several months. He won his nomination in a landslide victory, taking over 70% of the vote. […]
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Source: ALEX WROBLEWSKI / Getty Megyn Kelly has been going full Megyn KKKelly in regard to the subject of immigrants on U.S. soil, and how even the ones who are documented need to leave because they just can’t assimilate into whatever it is white conservatives think “American” culture is. So, it should surprise no one […]
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Source: Michael Ciaglo / Getty On Monday, Colorado’s Supreme Court unanimously rejected an effort by the Colorado state legislature to engage in a mid-decade redistricting effort through two separate ballot proposals. According to the New York Times, the court’s core issue was that the ballot proposals violated the state’s “single subject requirement,” which means a […]
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Source: HENRIQUE CAMPOS / Getty Apparently, President Donald Trump has become so accustomed to being such a loser of a commander in chief that he won’t even take an easy win when it’s right there in front of him. Let me explain… On Wednesday, congressional Democrats and Republicans were ready to pass into law the […]
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Source: Jackson Lahmeyer For U.S. Congress / other Jackson Lahmeyer, a Trump-endorsed Congressional candidate, has suspended his campaign after it was revealed he had been sending romantic text messages to a woman who wasn’t his wife. A Republican pastor engaged in infidelity?? I’m shocked, I tell you. Stunned. The Washington Post reports that on Tuesday, […]
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Source: SAMUEL CORUM / Getty Okay, so this was supposed to be a story about the Georgia state legislature launching a mid-decade redistricting effort with the express purpose of diminishing Black voting power, but halfway through writing it, the legislature announced it would not pursue redistricting during the special session. Don’t you just love […]
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Source: The road to the midterms is fully in swing, as New Jersey, South Dakota, Iowa, New Mexico, Montana, and California held their primary elections on Tuesday evening. Here’s everything we know about how some of the key races played out. California’s Governor’s Race Is Too Close To Call, And Yet Another Reality TV Star […]
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Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty In addition to undermining democracy, starting pointless wars, and using his office to enrich himself, President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term trying to rewrite history when it comes to the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot. Apparently, giving blanket pardons to people who stormed the Capitol, attacked cops, […]
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Source: The Washington Post / Getty Despite a redistricting effort failing to gain the necessary votes in the state Senate last week, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has called a special session focused on redistricting. According to AP, the debate period begins on Monday, and it’s expected to be somewhat contentious despite Republicans having a […]
Read MoreSource: Erika Goldring / Getty Last month, we reported that Louisiana Republicans decided to postpone the state’s congressional primaries amid the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to strip away Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which resulted in the blocking of a Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana just weeks before the election. And in doing so, the Louisiana […]
Read MoreSource: diane555 / Getty On Monday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court previously ruled was racially gerrymandered. NBC News reports that the Supreme Court set aside those previous rulings and sent the case back to the lower courts for relitigation. Alabama has tried for […]
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Source: Brett Carlsen / Getty The GOP has wasted no time in capitalizing on the Supreme Court’s ruling to gut the Voting Rights Act to disenfranchise Black voters. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee called a special session on Tuesday to focus on redistricting, and on Wednesday, the state legislature revealed a map that eliminates the state’s […]
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Source: garrykosoff / Getty Can you imagine how conservatives would have responded if former Democratic presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden or Bill Clinton had spent their presidencies proving daily — maybe even hourly — that they were sad, lonely, adoration-starved men, who weren’t above dealing with their record low approval ratings by slapping their names […]
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Source: Joe Raedle / Getty On Tuesday, Virginia voters dealt a devastating blow to the GOP in the nationwide redistricting battle by voting “yes” on a new congressional map that would give Democrats a 10-1 advantage in the state. With Democrats now narrowly edging out Republicans in the number of House seats up for grabs, […]
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Source: UCG / Getty For years, Democrats cast themselves as the last clean hands in a dirty game—denouncing dark money like it was a political disease infecting only the other side. They built an identity on outrage, on the promise that they were better than the billionaires, the backroom deals, the anonymous checks. But somewhere […]
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