Politics

Racist Mississippi Senator hopes Trump can help her win tomorrow

November 26, 2018 By Associated Press

The final chapter of the 2018 midterms is nearing a close in Mississippi and it’s turned out to be a much closer contest than anyone expected.

The House has gone Democratic. Can its majority now go bold?

November 21, 2018 By Sam Pizzigati

Tony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying — without much success — to get his Jacksonville, Fla., neighbor to go with him to the mid-term election polls and vote. The young neighbor, a high-school...

Trans Day of Remembrance: Expanding focus to include the living

November 20, 2018 By Michelle Zacarias

Many trans organizers are pushing allies to take a different approach to TDOR this year, focusing instead on trans lives as opposed to just deaths.

Mimicking Mussolini: Trump’s war on the First Amendment

November 20, 2018 By Pauline Murphy

Had the technology been around in those days, Mussolini probably would have been tweeting in bed every night.

Barber to House Dems: Act to restore voting rights!

November 15, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

U.S. House Democrats must use their new – and growing – majority in the next Congress to act on restoring voting rights.