Politics
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As Expected, Trump Continues His Delusional Fight Against Mail-In Ballots
President Donald Trump tries to act like he doesn’t listen to mainstream media but he does and he heard the same news that we did; that mail-in ballots were likely to favor Biden because Democrats aren’t about that “standing in line during a fucking pandemic” life. So of course, before the election, Trump and his…
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The LGBTQ Community Will Usher In a New Era After Big Wins on Election Night
While it might’ve been an anxiety-ridden election night for most of us, for the LGBTQ community it was a historic night of triumph. Throughout the country, gay, queer, trans and non-binary candidates racked up congressional win after congressional win, prevailing over years of discrimination in order to put Black excellence at the forefront. In New…
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'Welp, Kanye West 2024': Rapper Concedes 2020 Presidential Race, Will Not Run This Town Tonight
For those of you who were expecting to tell Kanye West, “Congratulations, President-Elect Kanye West”…well, you can’t tell him nothin’. We may not know yet who our next president is—but it certainly isn’t Kanye. According to Billboard, Kanye admitted defeat in the 2020 presidential election race. The 43-year-old rapper tweeted “KANYE 2024” along with a…
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The Presidential Race Isn't Finished, but One Thing Remains True…America Is Still Racist
Michigan’s secretary of state announced that final results won’t be ready until Wednesday. Philadelphia has 300,000 mail-in ballots to count. Milwaukee isn’t reporting until later this morning. And despite President Trump’s phony declaration of victory, we do not know who won the presidential election as of this morning. Because Trump doesn’t give a shit about…
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Robocall Disinformation Campaign Tells Flint Voters to Avoid Long Lines and Vote After Election Day
Modern-day voter suppression takes many forms: Disproportionately long lines at precincts in majority-Black neighborhoods, biased voter ID laws, and requiring the formerly incarcerated to pay off all their fines before voting, to name just a few. Political disinformation campaigns, in which individuals and groups spread information they know to be false or misleading, can also…
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Trump Goes on Fox & Friends to Complain About the Good Ole Days When Fox News Was Really Biased
It’s Election Day! So that means President Trump is up early on the phones with Russian operatives making sure that all of the systems are in place to steal another election. I kid, or do I? But seriously, you know someone is worried when they make an appearance on Fox & Friends to complain about…
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Lifestyles of the Rich, Famous and Political: What Are Black Celebrities Doing on Election Day 2020? [Updating]
This is the day the overlord has made, let us cringe and be anxious in it. The most politicized Tuesday of the year—also known as Election Day—has finally arrived, which means today will be a very vote-heavy day. Yes, that even includes my beat in entertainment, as celebrities definitely have a lot to say about…
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The Root’s Live Election Blog, Prayer Circle and Dumpster Fire Watch Party
Welcome to the season finale of America! In the previous episode of this long-running reality show, the villain, played exquisitely by veteran reality show veteran Donald J Trump, played a racist dog whistle as an uncontrolled coronavirus dumpster fire killed more than 200,000 Americans. Meanwhile, Joseph Robinette Biden appeared out of nowhere to save the…
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Voters of Color in 2 Key Swing States Are Seeing Their Mail Ballots Returned at Higher Rates Than White Voters
Florida and Georgia—two crucial battleground states in the 2020 election—are rejecting mailed-in ballots from voters of color at substantially higher rates than those from white voters, according to a recent analysis by NBC News and the Democratic political data firm TargetSmart. According to NBC News, the data looks at mailed-in ballots across 11 different states.…
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Activist Patrisse Cullors Delivers Final Rallying Cry to Black Voters: 'Add to the Power We Built in the Streets'
Election Day is finally here, after a historic early voting period that has seen record numbers of voters turning up across the country to make their voices heard at the ballot box. But although we are many decades removed from the Jim Crow laws that formally barred Black voters from voting, ghosts of the past…