19th Century Political Parties Kidnapped Reluctant Voters, Printed Own Ballots
Author Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th-century master of American macabre, may have died of dirty politics. According to legend, a gang of party “poll hustlers”
Author Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th-century master of American macabre, may have died of dirty politics. According to legend, a gang of party “poll hustlers”
Whichever candidate or party they support, many Latinos want media outlets to do more to go deeper on both the candidates’ ethics and the issues they say they represent.
The past three-and-a-half years have seen more women of color stepping up, running for office, leading movements, and getting prepared to turn out the vote like never before. The Time 100 list of most influential people for 2020 has more women than ever.
Trump’s tweets speak to an imagined and well-to-do stereotypical suburban resident who fears the bogeymen of poverty and crime. That combination of threats has historically had a Black or Latino face.
Unita Blackwell was one of the heroes who joined SNCC and brought the vote to Mississippi, courtesy of the Voting Rights Act. Its passage by Congress in 1965 was bought with the blood of martyrs and the untold suffering of thousands more.
Today, former President Barack Obama cited that progress and urged the Magnolia State to do something it has not done since Reconstruction: Elect a Black man to the U.S. Senate.
The first 2020 presidential debate took one of its ugliest turns when President Donald Trump refused to say he condemned white supremacists after moderator Chris Wallace asked him to do so. Gov. Tate Reeves declined to criticize the president.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves allowed the statewide mask mandate to expire today, saying at a Hinds County press conference that “we should not use the heavy hand of government more than it is justified.”
Mike Espy, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, is worried that as many as 600,000 Mississippians could lose health-insurance coverage as President Donald Trump continues his effort to remake the U.S. Supreme Court.
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