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Sarah Palin Calls Stacey Abrams a ‘Literal Loser’ and Twitter Quickly Reminds Her That She’s Sarah Palin
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s entire Alaskan house—you know the one where she can see Russia from her front yard—is made of glass. So as the old proverb goes: Never throw stones when you’re dumb as a goddamn rock. But when has that ever stopped Sarah Palin? On Tuesday, Palin was attempting to post…
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Stacey Abrams, Who Came ThisClose to Winning Georgia Governor's Race, to Deliver Democratic Response to State of the Union Address: Report
Reports are swirling across the internet that Stacey Abrams, who ran as the the candidate against Republican Brian Kemp for governor of Georgia during the 2018 midterm election, has been tapped to deliver the Democratic response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address before Congress next week. MSNBC host Chris Hayes tweeted Tuesday afternoon…
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Stacey Abrams Meets With Top Democrats to Talk Possible 2020 Senate Run
Senator Stacey Abrams certainly has a ring to it. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that Abrams, who gained interest nationwide after conceding a hotly contested election for the Georgia governor’s seat last year, met with Democratic leadership in Washington, D.C., to discuss a possible 2020 run—for the U.S. Senate. An aide told AJC that Abrams…
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Stacey Abrams Exemplifies the Kwanzaa Principle of Imani—Consciously Moving Forward Against Forces Seen and Unseen
The last day of Kwanzaa is represented by the principle of Imani, or faith—the essence of what has gotten us through when there seemed no way out. Black people, in general, are a spiritual people. But we are also a people of faith, which is not necessarily attached to formal religion. In the words of…
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Stacey ‘Google Me’ Abrams Says She’ll Run Again, Was Most Searched Politician in US This Year
Stacey Abrams continues to let the people know she’s not taking her foot off these Republicans’ necks and will be running for office again. It might not be a bad idea—Abrams was the most Googled politician of 2018 in the U.S. People are checking for her, and for good reason. While declining to concede the…
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Nobody Should Be Talking About Beto and Gillum in 2020 Until We Understand Stacey Abrams in 2018
This past September at a Congressional Black Caucus party, I caught up with one of the main players of the “Stacey Abrams for Governor” campaign. I’d been covering the Georgia election from day one so I had a pretty honest relationship with most of the team. At that point, Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp had…
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Brian Kemp Is Getting Called to the Principal's Office to Explain How He Stole Georgia's Gubernatorial Election From Stacey Abrams
Remember that time when Brian Kemp, while serving as Georgia’s secretary of state, oversaw the same 2018 gubernatorial race that he eventual won? And how he used every voter suppression tactic imaginable—from understaffed polls, to purging hundreds of thousands of voters from state rolls, to tossing out provisional ballots, to ensuring that voting machines were…
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Black Hair Matters: The Affirmative Power of Politicians Like Ayanna Pressley and Stacey Abrams
When Ayanna Pressley got her Senegalese twists done for the first time about three years ago, it was a moment of affirmation and recognition. “I just really loved it,” she told The Glow Up. “I felt my most authentic and powerful self.” Speaking over the phone this past September, Pressley explained that when she was…
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Stacey Abrams-Backed Group Files Lawsuit Urging Georgia to Fix Its Raggedy-Ass Election System
Stacey Abrams may have conceded in this year’s hotly contested governor’s race, but the fight to make Georgia elections fairer and more democratic is far from over. A political group backed by Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight Action, filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta on Tuesday against interim Secretary of State Robyn Crittenden and state election…
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Group Made Its Way Through Mississippi Before Senate Runoff to Get Black People to Register to Vote—and to Understand Their Political Power
TUNICA, Miss.—Devin Gordon was standing outside his second-floor apartment when LaTosha Brown asked to have a chat. “How you doing young man?” Brown asked. “Can we talk to you for a second?” She was out canvassing the neighborhood with Tunica Teens In Action, a local organization that helps young people become politically engaged, when one…