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How Delaney Hall Went from Rehab Center to National ICE Flashpoint

Delaney Hall has been many things: a jail, a halfway house, a rehabilitation facility. For the past year, however, it’s been something more fraught:...

10.06.2026 6

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Watch: Is Trump’s Party Stranglehold Actually a Death Grip?

It pays to earn an endorsement from Donald Trump. Across 118 endorsement, the president boasts a perfect score in 2026’s midterm primaries, ousting...

29.05.2026 8

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One Congresswoman’s Scary Yearlong Fight for Justice After Standing Up to ICE

It’s been just over a year since Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), a sitting member of Congress, showed up to Delaney Hall, a U.S. Immigration and...

18.05.2026 10

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“We Could See the Largest Drop in Black Representation Since the End of Reconstruction.”

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the country’s most important civil rights legislation, the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law...

30.04.2026 10

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Is Hasan Piker the Left’s Biggest Problem—or Its Best Shot?

Hasan Piker’s name is everywhere. Not because he won an election or passed legislation. Not because he’s a big sports star or an astronaut. It’s...

17.04.2026 10

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The Tennessee Upstart That Suddenly Has Trump World Quaking

You should be paying attention to Tennessee. The congressional race in the state’s seventh congressional district, which includes Nashville, is...

22.11.2025 10

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Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Was Christian Nationalism’s Biggest Moment

On Sunday, a crowd of 80,000 people — plus scores more watching online — memorialized Charlie Kirk. The event, held at a State Farm Stadium, home...

23.09.2025 10

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Where’s Black MAGA While Trump Wipes Black History?

Last summer, vying for the White House, Trump hailed himself as “the best president for the Black population.” A little more than a year later,...

20.09.2025 20

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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...

06.09.2025 20

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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 10

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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 20

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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 20

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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 20

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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 20

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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 30

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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 20

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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 20

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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 20

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