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Baltimore’s Mayor Slams Trump Troop Threat: “What We Want from the President Is Very Simple.”

Baltimore’s Mayor Slams Trump Troop Threat: “What We Want from the President Is Very Simple.”

President Trump is planning to ramp up his federal reach into local enforcement after first flooding the streets of DC with National Guard troops, and...

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EXCLUSIVE: These Three Texas Democrats Are “Standing Strong” Amid GOP Redistricting Push

We’re well into the second week of the Texas redistricting showdown. Far from home, these Texas Democrats are resolute. In an undisclosed location,...

14.08.2025 4

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The Knock-Down, Drag-‘Em-Out Texas Redistricting Showdown Heats Up

An old-fashioned Western showdown is happening in Texas right now.  On one side you have Texas House Democrats who fled the state over the weekend to...

06.08.2025 4

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Dems Are in Their “Revenge Gerrymander” Era and This Zellennial Candidate Is Here for It

Should Democrats be revenge gerrymandering?  “Hell yeah,” says Texas congressional candidate, Isaiah Martin. On Sunday evening, Texas House...

05.08.2025 3

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Where Is Obama? “I’m Out Here!” He Told Me. Watch the Interview.

Over the past few weeks, you might have noticed a renewed flare-up in a yearslong liberal freakout: Where is Barack Obama? That was the headline of a...

18.07.2025 4

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Where Is Obama? “I’m Out Here!” He Told Me. Watch the Interview.

Over the past few weeks, you might have noticed a renewed flare-up in a yearslong liberal freakout: Where is Barack Obama? That was the headline of a...

17.07.2025 5

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No, Democrats Aren’t Controlling the Weather. Neither Is Anyone Else.

Everything is a conspiracy theory if you don’t know how anything works, and that seems especially so when you take stock of the...

12.07.2025 2

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The Trump Trick: Pardon Black Celebs, Make It Easier to Imprison Black People

Trump has been on a spree this week: He’s pardoned or commuted the sentences of a host of people this week, tax fraudsters and TV personalities...

31.05.2025 8

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Everything Changed After George Floyd. Five Years Later, What Have We Learned?

It’s been five years since George Floyd was murdered on a Minneapolis street in the Spring on 2020. Though far from novel, this particular act of...

23.05.2025 3

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No, Elon Musk, Government Should Not Be Run Like a Business

For years, I’ve heard the familiar refrain: “America should be run like a business.” First, it came from the young Republicans at my small,...

06.05.2025 5

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Trump’s “DEI Purges”? Yeah, It’s Just Racist Bigotry.

I want to make space for the idea that some people had well-intentioned gripes against DEI.  Many were told that diversity, equity, and inclusion...

22.03.2025 40

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I Think We’re Being Lied to About DEI

“DEI is dead.” At least that’s what the headlines scream. I spent the last few weeks reading the public statements, leaked internal memos, and...

05.03.2025 9

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Black Viewers Rally Around Joy Reid

A day after winning an NAACP Image Award, one of MSNBC’s highest rated shows is done. The cancellation of Joy Reid’s primetime show, The ReidOut,...

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Popular Things Happen When You Vote. Here’s the Proof.

Mother Jones illustration; Getty What changes if more people showed up to vote? One answer emerges by comparing Minnesota and Tennessee—two states...

03.11.2024 3

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My Warning to Black Voters Who Want to Stay Home This Election

Paul Sancya/AP Genuine question: Do influential white people routinely tell members of the white community to not vote? Every four years, it seems...

29.10.2024 1

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What’s Up With Black MAGA?

Every four years, the presidential election brings with it a perennial question about an essential voting bloc: Who will Black voters turn out...

19.10.2024 4

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“People Will Literally Die.” America’s Youngest Congressman Sounds the Alarm.

Mother Jones illustration Rep. Maxwell Frost is the youngest US congressman—and every headline and article about him (including ours!) never fails...

22.08.2024 10

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I Spent a Week with Black MAGA. Here’s What I Learned.

Mother Jones illustration Just a few (long) weeks ago, President Joe Biden was still running for re-election, grappling with persistently negative...

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