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The Tennessee Upstart That Suddenly Has Trump World Quaking

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You should be paying attention to Tennessee. The congressional race in the state’s seventh congressional district, which includes Nashville, is where cracks in Donald Trump’s base are starting to show. Democrat Aftyn Behn is facing off against Matt Van Epps, a Republican West Point grad who had been strongly favored to win. Both parties have […]

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Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Was Christian Nationalism’s Biggest Moment

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On Sunday, a crowd of 80,000 people — plus scores more watching online — memorialized Charlie Kirk. The event, held at a State Farm Stadium, home to the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, brought together the biggest names in Christian music while also featuring a predictable lineup of MAGA loyalists. There were declarations that Donald Trump was […]

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Where’s Black MAGA while Trump Wipes Black History?

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Last summer, vying for the White House, Trump hailed himself as “the best president for the Black population.” A little more than a year later, this claim has become downright unbelievable, precisely because of what he’s done. In this video, I highlight this week’s Washington Post report on the Trump administration’s decision to remove Black […]

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Baltimore’s Mayor Slams Trump Troop Threat: “What We Want From the President Is Very Simple.”

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President Trump is planning to ramp up his federal reach into local enforcement after first flooding the streets of DC with National Guard troops, and this week he promised to send troops to more cities—including Baltimore. Despite a federal judge ruling that Trump broke the law when deploying the National Guard in Los Angeles earlier […]

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EXCLUSIVE: These Three Texas Democrats Are “Standing Strong” Amid GOP Redistricting Push

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We’re well into the second week of the Texas redistricting showdown. Far from home, these Texas Democrats are resolute. In an undisclosed location, I sat down with them to talk about their decision to leave their home state to stand up for democracy. WATCH: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mother Jones […]

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The Knock-Down, Drag-‘Em-Out Texas Redistricting Showdown Heats Up

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An old-fashioned Western showdown is happening in Texas right now.  On one side you have Texas House Democrats who fled the state over the weekend to stop Texas Republicans from carrying out Trump’s orders to redraw the state’s maps. And Texas governor Greg Abbott who is very, very upset about it all. As of this writing, […]

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Dems Are in Their “Revenge Gerrymander” Era and This Zellennial Candidate Is Here for It

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Should Democrats be revenge gerrymandering?  “Hell yeah,” says Texas congressional candidate, Isaiah Martin. On Sunday evening, Texas House Democrats fled the state to try to block an effort by state Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional map and flips five districts from blue to red. Some Democrats are now looking for blue states to return […]

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Where Is Obama? “I’m Out Here!” He Told Me. Watch the Interview.

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Over the past few weeks, you might have noticed a renewed flare-up in a yearslong liberal freakout: Where is Barack Obama? That was the headline of a provocative essay in The Atlantic, which concluded that Obama had entered “the fierce lethargy of semi-retirement.” Cue the discourse: Articles, interviews, TikTok clapbacks, and everything in between. Everyone […]

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No, Democrats Aren’t Controlling the Weather. Neither Is Anyone Else.

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Everything is a conspiracy theory if you don’t know how anything works, and that seems especially so when you take stock of the disinformation swirling in the aftermath of the deadly Texas floods. The Independence Day floods in Texas Hill Country have killed at least 121 people, with scores still missing. Yet even as the increasingly […]

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The Trump Trick: Pardon Black Celebs, Make It Easier to Imprison Black People

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Trump has been on a spree this week: He’s pardoned or commuted the sentences of a host of people this week, tax fraudsters and TV personalities among them.  So, how do you get one of these pardons? In my new video, I point out that if you’re Black, you should probably know Trump’s “Pardon Czar,” […]

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Everything Changed After George Floyd. Five Years Later, What Have We Learned?

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It’s been five years since George Floyd was murdered on a Minneapolis street in the Spring on 2020. Though far from novel, this particular act of state violence shocked the world and ignited one of the largest protest movements in modern history. In my latest video, I argue that this moment was much bigger than […]

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No, Elon Musk, Government Should Not Be Run Like a Business

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For years, I’ve heard the familiar refrain: “America should be run like a business.” First, it came from the young Republicans at my small, conservative, undergraduate institution, advocating for Mitt Romney in 2012. More recently, it has become a justification for Elon Musk’s indiscriminate cuts to government spending alongside his team at the so-called Department […]

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