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Black Detroit Lawmaker Receives Racist Threats for Refusing to Entertain Widespread Voter Fraud Claims
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Trump supporters are racist. Some people might call the statement debatable or even an outright lie, but anyone who can support a man who constantly proves himself to be a xenophobe and hater of all things Black Lives Matter is no different from their cult leader in…
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We Have to Talk About Trump’s Star Voter Fraud Witness Melissa Carone
Umm, I am not a doctor. I don’t even play a doctor on The Root. So I can’t diagnose anyone, nor would I try to, but let me talk a little about Black. Black is harmless. He will cut your grass for $20 no matter how big your yard is. Black will wash your car…
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14-Year-Old Honestie Hodges, Handcuffed at Gunpoint by Michigan Police as a Child, Dies From COVID-19
In 2017, 11-year-old Honestie Hodges made national headlines after a horrific confrontation with Grand Rapids, Mich., police, in which they handcuffed the little girl at gunpoint at her home. The incident led to a new policy dictating how the department would interact with minors. A little less than three years later, Honestie has died from…
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NAACP LDF Sues Trump on Behalf of Black Detroit Residents, Allege Voting Rights Act Violation for Attempts to Block Michigan's Vote Certification
After a week of foolery in the process of certifying Michigan’s election results, which show the state going for decisively for President-elect Joe Biden over incumbent President Trump, Black Detroiters are fighting back against what they see as an attempt to disenfranchise them. On Friday, the NAACP Legal Defence Fund (LDF) filed a lawsuit on…
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GTFOH Trump Watch: So Y’all Just Going to Steal the Election Right in Front of Us?
President Trump lost the election. Full stop. Since losing the election, which he lost, the president has baselessly claimed massive voter fraud and then failed to provide any evidence. His lawyers have filed lawsuits that have been thrown out almost as soon as they arrive in the courts. Now, the president is just openly courting…
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Michigan Republicans Are Now Trying to Rescind Their Vote to Certify Wayne County Election Results…and I’m Tired
I don’t hate anyone…but man, I hate Republicans. On Wednesday, The Root reported that two Republicans on the Wayne County Board of Canvassers in Michigan—Monica Palmer and William Hartmann—tried their best to stall the certifying of election results based on concerns about unbalanced precinct numbers where the number of votes recorded in poll books didn’t…
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Republicans in Wayne County Refuse to Certify Votes From Detroit, Reverse Decision After Being Called Out for Racism and Securing Audit
Racist Republicans are trying their hardest to invalidate the results of the presidential election—specifically by targeting the ballots of Black voters. The latest indication of this was a fracas on Tuesday night at a meeting of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers in Michigan, held to certify the votes of the county in which Detroit…
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Voters of Color Are Helping Flip GOP Strongholds. We Know Exactly Who Should Get Their Flowers for That
There are many who will scramble to take credit—or to diminish—the surge of Democratic votes that flipped Wisconsin and Michigan blue and are on the verge of similarly flipping Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, states that helped elect Donald Trump in 2016. No matter how they arrived—be it through the mail, in lengthy early voting lines,…
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Vote Challengers Chant 'Stop the Count' at a Detroit Vote-Counting Facility
Vote challengers erupted in a chant of “stop the count” outside of a vote counting facility in Detroit on Wednesday. The Detroit Free Press reports that police officers had to push back crowds who were demanding they should be allowed in the vote tallying room at the TCF Center. Republicans whined and shouted that they…
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Waiting on the Mail: Millions of Mail-In Ballots Remain Uncounted as Legal Challenges Loom
As of Wednesday afternoon, the presidential election was still very much ongoing, with millions of ballots still being counted in crucial battleground states. In total, voters mailed in nearly 64 million ballots prior to Election Day, spurred in large part by concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, reports the New York Times. But it may take…