congressional races
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, QAnon Supporter and Purveyor of Racism, Wins Georgia GOP Nomination
White America is clearly intent on putting its worst foot forward. We already have to deal with folks like Tom Cotton, Matt Gaetz, and, obviously, the president himself, but apparently this wasn’t enough trash for the folks in Georgia’s 14th Congressional district as the GOP nomination went to a QAanon supporter and blatant racist. Marjorie…
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#FlipThe6th: The Jon Ossoff Train Keeps Running in Ga., Forcing June Standoff With GOP
Democrat Jon Ossoff, 30, almost turned a GOP stronghold blue Tuesday night in a special election to see who will take over Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. Instead, Ossoff, who would become the youngest member of Congress if elected, forced a June runoff with the GOP front-runner, former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, which will…
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Special Elections Prove Democratic Resistance Is Still Weak
I got a lot of conflicting messages about winning and losing as a kid. I remember hearing, “It’s not how you win or lose, it’s how you play the game” from my dad when my eighth-grade youth football team lost Every. Single. Game (we actually didn’t score one point all season). Then, in youth basketball,…
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#WeBuiltThis: Black People Built America, and America Won’t Stop Killing Us
If you’re black, enfranchised and under 35, you’ve probably caught hell from at least a dozen people about your civic duty to vote. (Something about your ancestors bleeding and dying for your right to vote, and how folks your age should be galloping to the polls. It’s like your civic duty to stand for the…