Politics
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White Nationalist Who Threatened Stacey Abrams' Campaign Poses for Picture With Brian Kemp
In late September, The Root ran a story about a campaign event held by Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams in Augusta, Ga. Here’s what we wrote at the time. This is a pretty smart campaign stop—she’s tied with Secretary of State and Republican nominee Brian Kemp less than two months from Election Day and African-American…
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Texas Voting Machines Are Reportedly Switching Votes for Beto O’Rourke to Ted Cruz
Several Texas organizations have received reports of voting machines switching votes in the high-profile Senate race between incumbent Ted Cruz, who is reportedly not the Zodiac Killer (allegedly) and upstart candidate Beto O’Rourke. The Houston Chronicle reports that multiple voters have documented incidents during early voting where they have used the straight-ticket option (where the…
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Trump Rants Like Racist Grandpa in Speech to MAGA Negroes
Donald Trump set aside some time between racist rants to go on a racist rant with young black conservatives gathered at the White House to listen to the president give a rambling speech that hailed Kanye West, praised Jim Brown, gave a shout out to black people getting out of prison and asked the crowd…
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#VotingSquad: Michelle Obama Wants You to Get Your Friends and Family to the Polls and Vote
There are only 11 days left before the 2018 midterm elections, and efforts to make sure people get out to the polls and vote are ramping up. Michelle Obama, co-chair of When We All Vote, has launched a new digital campaign that aims to get all Americans involved in making sure their friends and family…
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President Trump Was on Late-Night Twitter Trolling CNN
The president of the United States is obsessed with himself. So much so that around the time that he should have been counting enflamed winged devil horses, he was up on Twitter railing about CNN’s treatment of his presidency. Initially Trump tweeted: and then he deleted that and posted this: This was clearly written by…
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Suspicious Packages Addressed to Sen. Cory Booker and Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Intercepted by FBI
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are the latest to receive suspicious packages in the mail that were thankfully intercepted by investigators making this the 12th such package that was sent to an outspoken critic of the president’s tenure. According to Business Insider, the FBI confirmed Friday morning…
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Newt Gingrich: If Democrats Want to See Trump's Tax Returns Then We'll See If the Kavanaugh Fight Was Worth It
The blue wave is coming. And if the midterms turn out in favor of Democrats, well, seats will flip and in the end, the good guys (fine, the lesser of two evils) will take control of Congress. One of the biggest promises being made by the Democrats is that they will subpoena President Trump’s tax…
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Auntie Maxine Ain’t Scared of No Damn Pipe Bomb
From day one, Rep. Maxine Waters of (D-Calif.) has made it abundantly clear that the president of the United States was a vile man who couldn’t be trusted and that she had no intention of trying to work with him. In fact, while the rest of her constituents were busy trying to walk the fine…
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Trump Is Sending 800 Troops to Stop the Migrant Caravan and It Has Nothing to Do With the Midterms
Donald Trump, the Asshole-in-Chief and the supervillain of Americans who don’t recognize that he’s evil, has not only declared that a caravan of migrants are going to pillage white communities, steal white babies and drink all the artisanal beer they can find, but now he’s sending 800 troops to meet them at the border because…