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January 31, 2022 10:42 am | By 75043Celebrating Black Women on the Federal Bench
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. President Joe Biden’s first year in office has brought both triumphs and disappointments. There’s no question that the administration has work to do on voting rights and on passing the critical social…
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January 27, 2022 11:24 am | By 75043USA TODAY: Biden must honor his commitment to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court
On January 27, 2022, People For the American Way President Ben Jealous published the following op-ed in USA Today: Whatever you think of the pressure exerted on Justice Stephen Breyer to retire over the last couple of years – and it has been intense –…
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January 24, 2022 4:32 pm | By 75043Trump, the MLK Holiday, and the Big Lie
This op-ed was distributed by Trice-Edney Newswire. Did you see how former President Donald Trump spent Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend? He made one of the ugliest appeals to racial resentment and white grievance that I have seen in decades.…
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January 24, 2022 10:39 am | By 75043THE HILL: Despite Senate setbacks, the fight for voting rights is far from over
On January 23, 2022, People For the American Way President Ben Jealous published the following op-ed in The Hill: There’s no way to sugarcoat it: the Senate’s failure to overcome a Republican filibuster of voting rights bills last week is…
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January 14, 2022 4:27 pm | By 75043From MLK’s Alma Mater and John Lewis’s District, Reminders of the Power of Direct Action
This op-ed was distributed by Trice-Edney Newswire. President Joe Biden could have delivered his recent voting rights message to U.S. senators from the White House just down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol. Instead, he and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled…
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January 12, 2022 4:21 pm | By 75043The Big Truth: The Big Problem Is The Big Lie
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. It’s been a year since a mob of Trumpists violently attacked the U.S. Capitol. They wanted to stop Congress from affirming President Joe Biden’s victory. Some of them were out for blood.…
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December 23, 2021 10:11 am | By 75043Celebrating Biden’s First Year Judges
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Could you use some good news at the end of this very challenging year? I have some great news. President Joe Biden and the Democratic-controlled Senate have done a fantastic job nominating…
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December 16, 2021 4:20 pm | By 75043Defending a Democracy in Flames
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom. And how we can preserve it. Our freedom is threatened. We all need to be paying attention and preparing to take…
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December 3, 2021 5:18 am | By 75043Right Wing Judges Put Millions’ Rights and Access to Health Care at Risk
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. The political and legal movement to criminalize abortion in the U.S. is on the brink of its biggest victory in 50 years. Most at risk are those who are already among the…
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November 30, 2021 2:11 pm | By 75043USA TODAY: Charlottesville sends message to the hearts of Americans from the heart of the old Confederacy
On November 26, 2021, People For the American Way President Ben Jealous published the following op-ed in USA Today: The 2017 violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, has, for the past four years, made the city shorthand for white supremacist…
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November 19, 2021 5:52 pm | By 75043
Giving Thanks
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. “In everything give thanks.” That Bible verse can be hard to put into practice. Just by being alive we can be sure of having moments of sadness as well as happiness. When…
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November 16, 2021 10:17 am | By 75043Investing In American People And Communities
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. President Joe Biden and the Democratic Congress have come through with a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package—something the previous president repeatedly promised but never delivered. The plan will bring much-needed investments to American…
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November 5, 2021 11:10 am | By 75043Lesson for Democrats in Virginia Defeat: Give Voters Something to Vote For
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Election Day in Virginia was a major defeat for the Democratic Party. It could signal a much bigger disaster in 2022 if Democratic officials do not learn the right lessons and do…
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November 1, 2021 2:22 pm | By 75043Senate Republicans Block This Generation’s Voting Rights Act: Will President Biden Meet the Challenge?
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Across the country, Republican state legislators have been busy imposing new voting restrictions and devising corrupt redistricting schemes to give their party more power than they could win under a fair system.…
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October 27, 2021 5:21 pm | By 51279Virginia: Don’t Go Back Down the Trump Road with Youngkin
Days away from a critical election in which Virginians will select their next governor, the stakes could not be higher: Glenn Youngkin is a right-wing candidate whose ascendance to the governorship would trigger another Trumpian disaster. Youngkin himself has said…
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October 22, 2021 3:43 pm | By 75043The Far-Right Political Playbook Is a Threat to Our Health, Our Schools, and Our Democracy
This op-ed was distributed by Trice-Edney Newswire. The New York Times recently reported that the public health system in the United States may be less prepared for the next pandemic than it was for the current one. Given everything we…
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October 14, 2021 5:50 pm | By 75043A Politician’s Shameless Bigotry
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. There’s an old saying about bullies: they can dish it out, but they can’t take it. Witness North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson. He abuses his position of authority to insult and…
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October 12, 2021 11:23 am | By 75043Why I Went to Jail on October 5
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Sometimes friends have to hold friends accountable. That’s why I got arrested outside the White House on Oct. 5. I was there with other civil rights and religious leaders to call on President…
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October 1, 2021 3:47 pm | By 75043Local Governments Can Lead in Public Safety Movement
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. Negotiations on a federal police reform bill have collapsed because Congressional Republicans are willing to stand in the way of lifesaving changes to policing. It is time for state and local governments to…
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September 23, 2021 1:58 pm | By 75043
Biden’s Promise for Diverse Judges and Federal Court Diversity
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. One of the most important reasons to vote Donald Trump out of the White House was to stop him from packing our federal courts with even more anti-voting-rights, anti-equality, pro-corporate judges. Stopping the flood of…