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The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Thursday continued castration a landmark voting rights law in a decision likely to help Republican states fight challenges to voting restrictions they’ve put in place following last year’s elections. In a case from Arizona, the justices upheld two state voting restrictions that limited who...
Welcome to the first episode of the Blackitics podcast. Weekly, co-hosts Kwaisi France, Richard Hazel, Dr. Bamidele Olatobosun, and Walter Shelton promote their own unique political views by suggesting worthwhile negotiations the black community should engage in, laws and policy of interest to black people, and what effective resistance to...
“Getting anyone elected takes a village, but this is especially true of Democrats in ruby red states such as Louisiana. Beyond the work, it takes an important shift in Democratic politics.” Jessica Tarlov Progressive journalist and writer Zaid Jilani has noted how success in shifting political agendas requires appealing to...
Many people on the right and left are calling for Hillary Clinton to shut up and disappear. Why? Because she’s a woman. There’s no other explanation given the history of how vocal and active defeated Presidential candidates have been throughout our nation’s history. New York Times bestselling author and...
Eli Watkins, Dan Merica and Katelyn Polantz report on the Dotard’s dossier, a collection of memos that were initially intended as political opposition research by Christopher Steele, a former MI6 officer, who was hired in the summer of 2016 by a Washington firm that was already collecting opposition research...
What a hellish, exhausting year it’s been. Every time there’s a presidential campaign shit gets ugly in America. Emotions run high. Divisions are played on and widened by political masterminds who know how to paint a line and convince us that stepping over it will be the first step in...
According to NBC’s Pete Williams, this is not a reopening of the email investigation as technically it was never closed. The Comey letter was sent to the Hill out of an abundance of caution and to be extra thorough. There is no sense that any of this was due to...
In God we trust, so says our nation’s great green deity. While the founding fathers’ beliefs were about as far from Christian as possible without being total heathens, no doubt a great thread of the American fabric is the belief in a deity and specifically in the Judeo-Christian tradition of...
As the greatest smear-campaign in American history sneaks into its 4th year, you can’t help but be impressed at the scumsucker dream team assembled to see it through. Never before has a single person been the target of a 23+million dollar congressional witch hunt, a right-wing news (propaganda) website whose editor works for her political opponent, a...
With Trump’s recent call for Russia to hack his opponents’ emails (a proxy-Watergate except standards of conduct are so twisted in this foul year of our lord 2016 that what used to be considered an impeachable (or at least inconsolably treasonous) offense is written off as just more campaign bluster)(though misuse of email...