The Lost Cause lives on
Hegseth's order to restore a confederate memorial (without calling it what it is) perpetuates America's most pernicious historical lie.
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Tim Truxell
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An assault on civil rights 60 years in the making
Sixty years after its groundbreaking passage, the Voting Rights Act faces its gravest threats yet. It has evolved into a legal battlefield where the very foundations of American democracy are being contested.
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Turning back the clock, women's suffrage edition
Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
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Trump administration takes new aim at higher education with new directives
The administration tightens it's grip on higher education, trying to exert more control on who colleges enroll and which grants are funded.
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Pam Bondi just declared war on Civil Rights
A new memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi aims to roll back diversity programs, effectively making it illegal to not give contracts to white people.
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This has always been the endgame
We're moving backwards on DEI and fighting racism, and the numbers from a new poll demonstrate this.
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Texas Democrats flee to block Republican's unprecedented redistricting effort
Historic quorum break aims to prevent dilution of minority voting power and protect democratic representation for them.
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FCC approves Skydance's CBS takeover after major concessions to Trump
Skydance's $8 billion deal for CBS raises serious questions about freedom of the press amid corporate capitulation to an administration allergic to criticism.
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The return of a confederate general
A statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike that demonstrators toppled and burned in 2020 will be reinstalled in D.C.
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60 year old archive faces cuts due to the war on Black history
The Amistad Research Center, one of largest repositories of Black history, was forced to cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended federal grants.
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