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Arizona Sen. John McCain to Stop Cancer Treatment
It has been a long and valiant fight but on Friday, Arizona Sen. John McCain’s family announced that one of the most popular Republicans to speak out against the current president’s authoritarian regime will discontinue his brain cancer treatment. “The progress of the disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict,” McCain’s family said…
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Florida House Republican Candidate Faked College Degree: Report
A candidate vying for a seat in Florida’s House of Representatives has been accused of faking the Bachelor’s degree she claims she earned from Miami University. Although The Root cannot confirm the candidate’s forgery, the accusations come from a somewhat credible source: Miami University. Not that Miami University. The other one. The one that’s not…
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Well This is Awkward: Black GOP Candidate Claims She Can Win Because People Don't Want to Vote for 'Old White Men'
The Republican Party, aka the party of old white men, has a new black firecracker with an interesting platform: Vote for me because people don’t want to vote for old white men! According to The Sun-Sentinel, Carla Spalding, who is Caribbean-American, spoke during an Americans For Trump-Broward meeting in Florida. Nothing says old white men…
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Trump Effect: Spokesman for GOP Senate Hopeful Called Memphis, New Orleans and Baltimore 'Shitholes'
Remember when Donald Trump referred to black countries as “shitholes” and then tried to lie and say he didn’t say it and then Omarosa got kicked out of the White House and confirmed that he said it? Well, it looks like the deplorable GOP leaf doesn’t fall far from the decrepit GOP tree as a…
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Alabama’s Republican Nominee for Chief Justice Might Be the Only Judge More Racist Than Roy Moore
The man who could replace Roy Moore as the next chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court is a lot like Moore—only more racist and homophobic. Let’s be clear. Roy Moore is a racist. Moore insinuated that the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, should be repealed. He said that the last time America was great was…
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Black GOP Senate Candidate Believes That Slave Descendants Are Better Off in America
Bishop E.W. Jackson (pronounced Bishop Ewwwwww) is a black man in Virginia who’s running for the Republican nomination for the Senate. Stop me if you know where this is going. During an interview about his long-shot chance of actually winning a Senate seat in the South as a Republican, Jackson did his best to appease…
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GOP Senator Believes Las Vegas Victims Should’ve Gotten ‘Small’ When the Shooting Began: Report
For Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the issue isn’t gun control or gun safety, or that average citizens can walk into a gun store and walk out with an automatic weapon and enough rounds to bring down a building. Nope, for Thune the real issue in an open society where not everyone can be protected is…
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The Lovefest Between Republican Senators and Jeff Sessions During His Confirmation Hearing Is Sickening
If there was any lesson to glean about the state of racism in America on Tuesday, it did not come from the farewell address by our nation’s first black president. Many of us might have believed in Barack Hussein Obama but never placed much faith in the country he described on the Democratic National Convention…
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Coretta Scott King Wrote a Letter Blasting Jeff Sessions in 1986. So Where Is It?
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is currently undergoing a weird process of schmoozefest and hard-hitting interrogation as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general. This isn’t the first time Sessions has faced a committee while seeking approval to fill a high-ranking position. In 1986 Sessions was up for federal judge, and Coretta Scott King wrote a…
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Protests Erupt During Attorney General Confirmation Hearing for Jeff Sessions
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) could barely get through the opening lines of his speech during his confirmation hearing Tuesday before protests erupted. Two men dressed as Ku Klux Klan members greeted Sessions before the confirmation began, the Daily News reports. The two fake Klansmen were quickly escorted out as one of the men exclaimed, “You…