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How Republicans applied old school racism to new demographics, and lost.
January runoff races could flip the Senate and prevent the majority leader from obstructing another Democratic presidency. This is a richly deserved nightmare scenario for <itch McConnell who has given Americans so many nightmares for so many years.
Chairman of Trump’s Wisconsin campaign and former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker tweeted that it is unlikely a recount would change Trump’s fortunes in the state.
That five justices on the Supreme Court appear very open to upend two centuries of established law, to help an historically unpopular and authoritarian president cling to power is itself ample reason for Democrats to reform the court itself.
Unlike many people incarcerated in state and federal prisons legally ineligible to vote, moat in local jails -- detained pretrial or held on misdemeanor charges -- are legally eligible to vote, but are unable to do so,
Black and Latinx people are disproportionately affected by disenfranchisement laws, which are still in effect in most U.S. states.
Voting rights groups are demanding local officials do more to protect voters from intimidation by right wing extremists enlisted by President Trump to suppress the vote. The most likely targets will be polls in communities of color in swing states.
In the early 1960s, Rutha Mae Harris faced armed police as she sang at demonstrations across the US. The voice of the civil rights movement reflects on Martin Luther King, Donald Trump, racism and resilience.
Seasoned election lawyers said Florida attorney general is wrong on the law and doing the governor’s bidding to suppress likely Democratic votes.
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