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September 25, 2023 6:12 pm | By 52560Svante Myrick for The Hill: No Labels’ Friendly Facade Masks its Threat to America’s Future
First published in The Hill. “Can we all get along?” More than 30 years ago, after Los Angeles police officers charged with beating him were acquitted at trial, Rodney King asked that plaintive question that has gone down in history. His…
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September 21, 2023 3:43 pm | By 51279MSNBC: The Christian right’s wish list for Trump is worse than you think
First published on MSNBC. At this year’s edition of Pray Vote Stand, the Christian right’s most influential political gathering, activists previewed their campaign to further cement Trump’s Christianization of the federal bench. The Center for Judicial Renewal, which is run by…
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September 21, 2023 3:25 pm | By 51279Daily Kos: Cavalcade of Extremists: The Christian Nationalist/Anti-Semitic ReAwaken America Tour
First published in Daily Kos. The ReAwaken America Tour: Where T-Shirts Are Nasty & Paranoia Prevails The Christian nationalist ReAwaken America tour is back after a summer hiatus. The tour which features disgraced former General Michael Flynn, frequent guest speakers Eric…
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September 21, 2023 3:14 pm | By 52560Svante Myrick for The Hill: Virginia’s elections are a bellwether for conservative policy nationwide
First published in The Hill. In just a few days, the first votes will be cast in elections that face intense scrutiny every time — and never more so than this year. Early voting in Virginia’s off-year statewide elections starts Friday. …
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September 11, 2023 4:54 pm | By 109808Roger Vann for Stanford Social Innovation Review: Why We’re Targeting the Hardest to Reach Voters
First published in Stanford Social Innovation Review. For Black Americans, the right to vote has never come easy. After centuries of systemic legal exclusion, our ancestors marched and shed blood time and time again for the right to cast a…
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September 11, 2023 4:40 pm | ByLGBTQ Nation: This Republican Senate candidate says he’s running to vanquish witchcraft
First published in LGBTQ Nation. A Virginia Republican seeking his party’s nomination to unseat Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) says he is doing so in part to stop witches from taking over the state. Retired Navy veteran Hung Cao launched his…
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September 11, 2023 3:44 pm | ByThe Wonkette: Right Wing Pundits: Trumpists Are Violent Psychopaths Who Will Kill Us All If They Don’t Get Their Way
First published in The Wonkette. If there is one thing that conservative pundits can agree on, it is … well, it’s everything. They’re honestly not all that original. But this week, at least two of them are out here warning…
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September 11, 2023 3:22 pm | By 52560Svante Myrick for The Hill: Alabama’s not the only state that’s drawing up racist voting maps
First published in The Hill. “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” was Alabama Gov. George Wallace’s (D) pledge in 1963. It would be great if attitudes like that were buried long ago in the landfill of racist history. But looking at Alabama today, it…
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September 8, 2023 11:01 am | By 52560The Right’s War On Prosecutors is a Direct Attack On Voters: Svante Myrick for The Hill
First published in The Hill. At every chapter in our history, new crises create new heroes. Right now, the two who are shining the brightest are District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia and suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell in Florida. These Black…
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September 7, 2023 3:13 pm | By
Right Wing Watch Reports on Mike Huckabee Saying 2024 Could Be Last Election Decided by ‘Ballots Rather Than Bullets’: Raw Story
First published in Raw Story. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee predicted that, should Donald Trump’s legal troubles preclude him from winning next year’s presidential election, violence will follow. Huckabee, who ran for president in 2008, delivered his fiery remarks on his most recent…
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September 7, 2023 3:05 pm | By
Svante Myrick Comments on Court Ruling Against Alabama Republican Map: The Grio
First published in The Grio. In a victory for voting rights advocates, a special master was appointed to redraw Alabama’s congressional map after Republicans in the state put forth a redistricting map that the court ruled violates the constitutional rights…
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September 1, 2023 12:59 pm | By 52560The Latest Hit to the Supreme Court’s Credibility Shows It Won’t Police Itself: Svante Myrick for The Hill
First published in The Hill. Yesterday, after receiving an extension on the deadline to file legally-required disclosures for 2022, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas submitted records that reveal yet more favors and perks from billionaire Harlan Crowe, including details that went unreported in…
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August 31, 2023 2:02 pm | By 109376‘Grandparents For Truth’ Mobilizes Against Book Banning And Censorship: United Against Book Bans
First published by United Against Book Bans. People For the American Way—a proud partner to Unite Against Book Bans— has been fighting authoritarian attacks on the freedom to learn for more than 40 years. Now, with book-banning and censorship on the…
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August 28, 2023 11:15 am | By 52560Republicans Have Made It Clear, No State is Safe from Abortion Bans: Svante Myrick for The Hill
This op-ed was first published in The Hill. Most Americans believe abortion should be legal in most cases. In every state where voters have voted on the issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, voters have sided with reproductive freedom and against abortion…
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August 23, 2023 10:47 am | By 28186Biden Judge Writes Unanimous Opinion Upholding Collective Action by Former Patients Required to Work for No Pay
Judge Dana Douglas, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, wrote a unanimous opinion that upheld a lower court ruling that numerous former rehabilitation patients could proceed with a collective action against the…
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August 22, 2023 12:48 pm | By 28186Three Trump Judges Rely on Decision Overturning Roe to Allow Alabama Law Harming Transgender Teens to Take Effect
Three Trump judges on the Eleventh Circuit relied on the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that reversed Roe v Wade in a ruling that overturned a trial court injunction and put into effect a harmful Alabama law that forbids important medical…
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August 21, 2023 3:02 pm | By 28186Biden Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Reverse District Court and Allow Disability Discrimination Claim to Proceed Despite Trump Judge Dissent
Judge Myrna Perez, nominated by President Biden to the Second Circuit, cast the deciding vote in a 2-1 decision that reversed a lower court and ruled that a clerk-typist could go forward with her claim that officials had failed to…
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August 18, 2023 12:47 pm | BySvante Myrick Quoted in the Grio on Race Being at the Center of the Trump Indictment in Georgia – the Grio
First published in the Grio. Race is squarely at the center of Donald Trump’s historic criminal case in Georgia, where he will surrender at a county courthouse next week to be arraigned. No one will be paying attention to the…
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August 16, 2023 2:57 pm | BySvante Myrick Quote On Why Conservatives Are Comparing Trump’s Indictment to Stacey Abrams – the Grio
First published in the Grio. Now that former President Donald Trump has been indicted for racketeering and other alleged crimes related to attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, conservative voices are arguing the criminal case brought by Fulton County District…
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August 16, 2023 1:14 pm | By
Svante Myrick Quoted on How Indictment and Potential Trial Could Damage Trump – Truthout
First published in Truthout. A new survey suggests the growing pile of criminal indictments and felony charges against Donald Trump could eventually erode the former president’s substantial lead in the GOP primary if enough voters pay attention to news from reliable…
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