alabama senate race
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The Furious Fight for Alabama’s Senate Seat Is Crazier and More Racist Than Ever
In Alabama’s 2018 special elections, black women saved their state from sending an alleged teenage dating connoisseur to the U.S Senate. Instead, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) won the empty seat vacated by former MAGA Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, whose voting record is just as racist as his name. This time won’t be that…
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Trump to Accused Child Molester Roy Moore: Please Don’t Risk My Legacy by Running for the US Senate in 2020
Donald Trump still has love for accused child molester and possible new-old candidate for a U.S. Senate from Alabama Roy Moore, but he’s warning Moore away from the ballot in 2020. In a set of tweets (what else?) Wednesday, the occupant of the Oval Office begged Moore to think of the bigger picture—Trump’s legacy, the…
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Habari Gani?! Imani! The Black Women of Alabama Embodied Faith in 2017
Faith. George Michael crooned about it; black people in America somehow maintain it—even if it’s the size of a mustard seed—time and time again. Faith, or Imani, is the last principle of Kwanzaa, the weeklong black cultural holiday started more than half a century ago. This entire week, for each day of Kwanzaa, The Root shone…
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Alabama Republicans Pray Over Roy Moore’s Racist Voter-Fraud Lawsuit. God Responds, ‘Roy, Bye’
In a holiday miracle as wondrously joyous as that time a brown woman from the Middle East managed to give birth to a blond, blue-eyed baby, Alabama Republicans certified the Alabama Senate special-election results, effectively ending Roy Moore’s legal claims that it was impossible that so many black people voted against him with white Jesus…
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Roy Moore Has Gone Full AppleCare Lady and Filed a Lawsuit to Block Alabama Special-Election Results
Police need to make a wellness run to Roy Moore’s home to make sure he’s OK, because he isn’t handling this breakup well at all. Some weeks ago, black women in Alabama stormed on the voting booths like: And cast their vote for Doug Jones. The Democrat won the special election for one of Alabama’s…
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Top 10 Moments Black People Won in 2017
2017 has been, how do I put this succinctly, a fucking shit year. From the plagues of biblical proportions that this administration keeps trying to drop on us to the fact that Mother Nature is sick of the bullshit and has been trying to finally kill us all via hurricane, 2017 has not been skimpy…
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Roy Moore Is Holding on Like a Superglued Mink Eyelash in a Thunderstorm; He Still Won’t Concede
Shortly after the Alabama Senate special election, Roy Moore was allegedly seen standing outside waiting for Doug Jones’ victory tour bus. When Jones emerged, a battered and desperate Moore began singing to the senator-elect and his entourage. View footage of the scene below: Yes, Moore is still trying to convince the lawn-chair-sitting, mud-truck-racing, Budweiser-drinking folks…
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Watch: How Black Voters Saved Alabama
After an arduous election, Alabama elected Democrat Doug Jones to the Senate over the embattled equestrian enthusiast and Republican candidate Roy Moore. For the first time in a quarter century, there will be a “D” beside the name of an Alabama senator, and you can thank black voters for that.Black-voter turnout for this special election…
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The Top 10 Moments From Roy Moore’s New Racist, Dog-Whistle, Batshit-Crazy Video
What you are about to see might be the scariest thing you’ve seen online since someone released that close-up image of Donald Trump’s hair. It’s scarier than Chrisette Michele’s miscarriage photos. It’s scarier than the Chrisette Michele “Black Lives Matter” song. I want to say it’s scarier than Chrisette Michelle, but God ain’t through with…
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Meet the Former Sharecropper Who Helped Push Alabama’s Historic Black Voter Turnout
In a long-overdue (and, frankly, yet to be seen) declaration, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez recently acknowledged the importance of black women to newly elected Alabama Sen. Doug Jones’ victory. “Let me be clear: We won in Alabama and Virginia because black women led us to victory,” Perez said. “Black women are the backbone…