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May 01 2021
Analysis
Georgia’s election law sparks ‘Jim Crow’ rhetoric, as well as pushback
In recent weeks, Democrats have repeatedly warned that Republican-backed election bills like the one enacted in Georgia amount to a resurgence of Jim Crow, the legal structures in the pre-1960s South that kept Blacks segregated and politically powerless.
The system included both segregationist laws and social norms that relegated Blacks to second-class status. Significant elements of
PolitiFact
Jun 14 2020
News
Film academy is setting new inclusion standards for Oscars eligibility
The motion picture academy on Friday announced a fresh set of measures aimed at boosting representation both within the group and across the film industry as a whole, including new inclusion standards for Oscars eligibility, marking the next chapter in the historically white-male-dominated organization’s ongoing campaign to remake itself inside and out.
Los Angeles Times
Nov 24 2021
News
Hillary Clinton: Gaslighted Americans Can't Appreciate Biden's Accomplishments
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday praised President Joe Biden’s “extraordinary” accomplishments over the first nine months of his term, suggesting that Americans don’t understand or appreciate them because of the way they are receiving their information, Fox News reports.
"You know, democracy is messy. You know, a lot of people got, oh I think, kind of frustrated looking at the messy process
Newsmax (News)
Dec 17 2019
News
‘Empty faith led by a bogus prophet’: George Conway leads Never Trumpers denouncing president
A group of President Trump’s staunchest critics, including White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s husband, is starting a super PAC in hopes of stopping his reelection.
The organization, dubbed the Lincoln Project, is led by a seven-person advisory council, including conservative lawyer George Conway, former John McCain adviser Steve Schmidt, former John Kasich adviser John Weaver,
Washington Examiner
Nov 10 2020
News
Why Trump decision to block Biden transition matters
Until now, smooth transitions of power had been a hallmark of U.S. democracy. The pandemic, economic recession, and national racial reckoning make the threat of a contested election – and rocky transition – all the more consequential.
The Trump White House’s decision to block routine actions that would facilitate a transition to a Biden administration has added a new layer of turmoil to
Christian Science Monitor
Nov 10 2020
News
How Sanders, AOC and 'The Squad' plan to make Biden the most liberal president ever
Progressive Democrats like "Squad" member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., are already gearing up to lobby a Biden-Harris administration for policies like the Green New Deal and Medicare for all.
Before the election, Sanders said left-wing lawmakers and supporters need to push Democratic President-elect Joe Biden to be the “most progressive
Fox News Digital
Dec 10 2020
News
Standing by Swalwell, Pelosi says background check on every intern isn't necessary
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she's not concerned about Rep. Eric Swalwell's ability to serve in Congress despite his past connections with a suspected Chinese spy.
"I don't have any concern about Mr. Swalwell," Pelosi said Thursday during her weekly news conference.
She pushed back on GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy who has publicly questioned whether Pelosi knew of China's
Fox News Digital
Oct 02 2013
Opinion
Obama’s price of victory
Twenty years ago, when he was trying to persuade Bill and Hillary Clinton that universal health care was a politically unrealistic goal, the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan repeated one insistent warning: Sweeping, historic laws don’t pass barely. “They pass 70-to-30,’’ he said, “or they fail.”
Four years ago, when he was trying to persuade Barack Obama that he would pay a terrible
Politico
Jan 02 2016
News
Donald Trump's year of tweeting dangerously
Donald Trump didn’t just dominate media coverage and polls since announcing his White House bid in June. He dominated Twitter, too — a surprisingly effective strategy that saw him drive entire news cycles merely by blasting out choppy pronouncements on his Samsung Galaxy smartphone, often at odd hours. Trump enters the new year with more than 5.5 million Twitter followers and a slimmed-down
Politico
May 29 2021
News
Texas GOP lawmakers unveil sweeping version of elections bill
The final version of the sweeping GOP elections bill, negotiated in private by two Republican leaders from the Texas House and Senate, was unveiled Saturday, setting up an intensely partisan showdown over a measure that now includes a longer list of new rules and restrictions.
With GOP majorities in both houses of the Legislature, however, there is little doubt about the ultimate fate
USA TODAY