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The district attorney’s office in Memphis, Tennessee, announced that prosecutors will look into every case involving the five officers accused of killing Tyre Nichols during a traffic stop after he was brutally beaten to death. […]

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The majority of Republicans and white evangelicals are sympathetic to Christian nationalism, a new study has found.  The new study offers unprecedented insight into the breadth and depth of Christian nationalism in today’s politics, helping […]

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While the College Board was developing its first Advanced Placement course in African American studies, it was in repeated contact with the administration of Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.  Florida’s education department privately complained for […]

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Native Americans are protesting against the Kansas City Chiefs’ appropriation of Indigenous cultures ahead of the team’s face-off against the Philadelphia Eagles at the Super Bowl on Sunday. As fans of the Kansas City Chiefs […]

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The man who threatened a Black police officer with a pole attached to a Confederate flag as he stormed the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021 was sentenced to three years in prison. The Delaware man […]

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President Joe Biden has vowed to protect social security and Medicare.  Biden is championing his administration’s achievements, and has insisted that he will further protect the programs.  At a speech on Thursday in Tampa, Florida, […]

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The special counsel in charge of the investigations against the former president Donald Trump has subpoenaed former vice president Mike Pence, sources told Fox News. After months of discussions between Pence’s legal team and federal […]

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Republican Party donors and leaders are talking about how best to stop former president Donald Trump from running away with the nomination again in 2024, POLITICO reports. But the GOP and its big donors do […]

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The Republican Party had long been looking forward to the House Oversight Committee hearing on the Hunter Biden laptop story and Twitter, Reuters reports. They wanted to show Democrats conspiring with rascally Twitter employees, suppressing […]

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Former South Carolina governor and member of former president Donald Trump’s administration Nikki Haley is preparing to announce her run for the White House, The Guardian reported. A new poll has found that just one […]

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Republicans put the spotlight on themselves through extraordinary rudeness during the annual State of the Union address, Reuters reports. Boos, taunts, groans, curses, and chortles came from the GOP, shattering a four-decade ritual where the […]

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McDonald’s employees are standing against sexual harassment in the workplace and the massive fast food chain’s failure to deal with the issue, The Guardian reported. McDonald’s has now signed a legally binding pledge with the […]

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The Tyre Nichols death at the hands of police officers has shown not only police brutality, but also massive issues like low standards for police hiring and a lack of experienced supervisors, PBS reports. No […]

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Senator of the United States Mitt Romney said that Republican Representative George Santos, who is in hot water over his membership in Congress, shouldn’t have attended President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech. Before […]

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Responding to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders (R) urged the establishment of a “new generation of Republican leadership,” The Hill reported. “The dividing line in America […]

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This Black History month has seen Republican states limiting Black history lessons in public schools.  It also comes at the same time that scholars are producing groundbreaking new works around art, slavery, civil rights, and […]

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Republicans are making appeals to conservative and far-right voters by hyper-focusing on race and gender issues, as well as education issues, billing them as ‘parental rights.’  However, these messages showed a mixed record in November’s […]

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Prior to the 2024 election cycle, in which they will have to preserve 23 seats, Senate Democrats are having problems communicating with voters, The Hill reported. They claim that they intend to run on the […]

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The FBI intercepted the neo-Nazi leader’s conspiracy to strike Baltimore’s power grid with the aid of a confidential informant, according to charges filed by the U.S. Justice Department against him and an associate, Reuters reports. […]

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Sen. Joe Manchin is feeling the heat in West Virginia. Manchin is preparing for what is expected to be one of the messiest statewide campaigns in recent West Virginia history, Axios reports. The West Virginian Democrat […]

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Officials are offering to provide a closed-door briefing to congressional leaders about their review of the trove of classified files at former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, as well as the documents found […]

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Controversial far-right Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is being roasted for complaining about her Congressional salary of $174,000. The extremist Republican is now facing backlash. She said the job and the salary make her “miserable”. […]

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The conservative political network associated with billionaire Charles Koch won’t be backing former President Trump’s 2024 presidential bid, Axios reports. It makes the Koch network the latest GOP megadonor to distance themselves from Trump. A […]

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Republicans’ latest attack focus is on drag performances. A slew of bills, mostly in Republican states, are looking to restrict or prohibit drag show performances in the presence of children.  Legislation moving through several GOP-controlled capitols […]

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz has introduced a bill to limit senators to two terms in office, Business Insider reports. However, the two-term senator also said he sees no problem in running for a third term […]

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Local authorities have said that the U.S. Justice Department will take part in a study of the Memphis Police Department following the murder of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who was fatally assaulted by […]

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According to a federal court in Oklahoma, a federal statute that forbids marijuana users from owning weapons is unconstitutional because of a U.S. Supreme Court decision from the previous year that greatly increased gun rights, […]

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According to the most recent actions of New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, prosecutors are poised to decide whether to charge former President Trump in relation to a $130,000 hush money paid to adult film […]

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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) formalized its desire to exclude Iowa from the early lineup and shuffle the order, with South Carolina going first, on Saturday by approving an altered early presidential primary state calendar, […]

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