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House Approves Bill to Make Lynching a Federal Crime in Rare Bipartisan Vote
Our political process has felt dysfunctional for over a decade now. It seems far rarer than it should that the parties in power actually come together and get something done. It finally happened today though, albeit for something that is long overdue. The House of Representatives has passed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act by a…
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Will Lynching Finally Become a Federal Hate Crime? House to Decide Next Week
While many of us view lynchings as a thing of the past, the unspeakable traumas that they’ve inflicted upon our community are still very much alive today. That and they aren’t exactly a thing of the past, as our friendly neighborhood racists always take the time to remind us. Yet despite their being racially motivated…
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At the 2020 State of the Union Address, Democratic Congresswomen Once Again Made a Statement With Style
As Trump continued his whitewashing of America on Tuesday night’s State of the Union, many of the Democratic women of the House of Representatives (including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi) once again donned white in protest. While many of our most famous congressional faces—including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Frederica Wilson (Fla.),…
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Impeachment Season Is Drawing to a Close: Donald Trump’s Senate Trial to Begin This Week
Folks, it’s time to steam that impeachment outfit. The Senate impeachment trial of Donald J(ulius d’Orange) Trump will begin this week, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The timeline was spurred by an announcement today from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that the House will vote on a resolution moving the impeachment process forward on…
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BREAKING: House Votes to Impeach Trump
The House of Representatives has voted 230-197 to impeach President Donald Trump on the grounds of Article 1-Abuse of Power and 229-198 on Article II-Obstruction of Congress, reports NBC News. After eight hours of debate, including a rousing speech by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) the House finally came to a vote on Wednesday night. The…
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It's Impeachment Season: Tens of Thousands Rally Across America In Support of Removing Donald Trump
On the eve of a House vote to impeach President Donald Trump, tens of thousands of Americans rallied across all 50 states and the District of Columbia in support of removing the quid-pro-ho from office. In Times Square, hundreds of protesters held a banner quoting the Constitution for all those sequestered in the city’s skyscrapers…
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Democratic Party Leader Maya Rockeymoore Cummings Mulls Run for Her Late Husband’s Congressional Seat
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, head of Maryland’s Democratic Party, says she’s considering running for the 7th Congressional District seat that was held by her late husband, Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings. “I love Baltimore city, the counties of the 7th Congressional District, and the state of Maryland,” Rockeymoore Cummings said Thursday in her first public comments about…
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A Defiant Donald Trump Tells House Impeachment Investigators That He and His Peeps Won’t Be Talking
Donald Trump appears to have thrown down the gauntlet before House Democrats, announcing Tuesday that he and his administration will no longer cooperate with the House’s impeachment inquiry into Trump’s actions. The writing was on the wall Tuesday morning when Trump abruptly yanked his permission to have the U.S. ambassador to the E.U., Gordon Sondland,…
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Trump Loses His Lone Black Republican Face in the House as Texas Rep. Will Hurd Announces Retirement
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), one of the few dissenting Republican voices against the president and the lone black Republican in the House of Representatives, announced Thursday night that he will not seek reelection in 2020. “I have made the decision to not seek reelection for the 23rd Congressional District of Texas in order to pursue…
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Robert Mueller's 'City Boy Summer' and 10 Things We Learned From the House Committee Hearings
Now that former special counsel Robert Mueller’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intel Committee has concluded, Democrats are disappointed that Mueller didn’t call Trump a “lying-ass liar” under oath and Republicans are upset that the special counsel didn’t definitively declare: “No collusion, no obstruction.” However, buried in the six-plus hours of…