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Ilhan Omar, a Somali American, Seeks Seat in Congress
Ilhan Omar is a Somali-American politician who escaped from Somalia as a child, grew up in a Kenyan refugee camp and later immigrated to Minnesota. Years after immigrating, she became the nation’s first and only Somali-American lawmaker when she won a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Now she is ready to become the…
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Help Me Find the Lie: DNC Leader Keith Ellison Calls GOP ‘the Party of Racism’
In today’s water-is-wet news, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)—arguably one of the realest to ever do it—told guests gathered at Netroots Nation conference on Friday that the “Republican Party today is the party of racism” and former President Abraham Lincoln wouldn’t kick it with these racists. “You hear Republicans say, ‘We’re the party of Lincoln.’ He…
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Minn. GOP Attacks Rep. Keith Ellison in Racist Facebook Post
No one believes that everyone in the GOP is racist, but an official Republican social media account featured a racially tinged, Islamophobic photo of Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) that demeaned his religion and insinuated that he has sex with animals. Late Monday night, someone in Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District Republican Party took to the group’s…