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Oct 24 2022
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Voters to Decide on Removing Slavery Exception from 5 State Constitutions
Voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont are voting this year on removing language from state constitutions that allows slavery and involuntary servitude as punishments for criminals.
Key Quotes: "At the time when our Founding Fathers prescribed that all men were created equal, over half a million Black Americans remained enslaved," said the lead organizer of the
Washington Examiner Axios CNN (Online News)Aug 18 2014
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America’s half-century of polarization, in one GIF
Alabama's electoral votes will go to the Republican presidential candidate in 2016. We can say this with certainty, because we know that the state votes Republican almost without fail. But the extent to which it votes Republican does change. And in recent presidential elections, for example, it's been more Republican than in the past, when you compare its vote to the national popular vote
Washington PostAug 22 2015
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Southern Trump's audacious spectacle is part of His strategy
It was Donald Trump The most audacious spectacle yet in a summer full of them, as the Republican presidential front-runner, in His Boeing 757 thundered over a football stadium here Friday night and gave a raucous speech to one of the largest crowds of the 2016 campaign.
But Trump's flashy About performance was more than showmanship. His visit to Alabama was coolly strategic, touching
Washington PostMay 19 2021
Analysis
The South could still become a summertime Covid-19 hot spot
All of a sudden, it seems like America is on the verge of liberation from Covid-19. Nearly half of all Americans have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has loosened recommendations for the fully vaccinated, particularly its mask guidance. States have followed the CDC’s lead, loosening their mask mandates and social distancing
VoxFeb 17 2021
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From Amazon to Google, tech workers seek unions – and a voice
The tech industry has long held unions at arm’s length. But tech workers are increasingly demanding a voice. In the end, they may not need traditional union representation to get it.
At an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, workers this month began voting on whether to join a union. The issue is not wages – starting pay is more than double the state’s minimum wage – but
Christian Science MonitorSep 23 2020
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Trump-appointed justice could signal major Supreme Court shift on abortion
With President Donald Trump poised to nominate a U.S. Supreme Court justice to fill the vacancy created by the death of liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a new 6-3 conservative majority could be emboldened to roll back abortion rights.
The ultimate objective for U.S. conservative activists for decades has been to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion
ReutersSep 14 2019
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President Trump Claims He Was At Ground Zero On Sept. 11. But Was He?
News organizations now refer to President Trump's whoppers — from the size of his inaugural crowds to a hurricane threatening Alabama — as routinely as referring to rain in Seattle.
But, there was still some surprise this week when at services to mark the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the president insisted, "Soon after, I went down to Ground Zero with men who worked for me
NPR (Opinion)Sep 13 2015
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True Believer? Why Donald Trump Is The Choice Of The Religious Right
When Donald Trump stepped to the podium in a football stadium in Mobile, Alabama, filled with 30,000 people there to hear him spread the gospel of Trump, he was overcome.
"Now I know how the great Billy Graham felt," Trump said last month.
Trump and Graham, the famed Baptist revival preacher and counselor to presidents, are not exactly cut from the same cloth. And yet, Trump is
NPR (Online News)Jul 17 2020
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Dianne Feinstein seeks to block aid to states without mask mandates
Federal COVID aid will get even more political if the Senate’s senior Democrat gets her way.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, wants to use federal coronavirus relief to force every state to require the wearing of masks in public.
The Senate will take up the next coronavirus economic relief bill later this month. At that time, I intend to offer an amendment to prohibit
Washington TimesNov 16 2019
Opinion
Stephen Miller’s White Nationalism Is the Guiding Strategy of the Modern Republican Party
Before border-patrol agents separated migrant families, before the White House declared a ban on Muslims, before the U.S. Army deployed troops to the border, before the Trump administration’s raids, restrictions, and deportations, Steven Miller e-mailed Breitbart.
He was excited. It was March 2015. Miller, then an aide to the notoriously anti-immigration Alabama senator Jeff Sessions,
GQ.com