Victory For Domestic Workers in Illinois
After years of campaigning and organizing, domestic workers in Illinois are celebrating victory as Gov. Bruce Rauner signs the Illinois Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights into law, guaranteeing basic...
View ArticleWingnut Week In Review: Trump Takes “Alt” Out of “Alt-Right”
Donald Trump’s campaign shake-up completes the process of bringing white supremacists and white nationalists from the extreme fringe into the mainstream of American conservatism and the GOP. Source
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Trump And The Alt-Right Clinton to target Trump’s ‘alt-right’ embrace in Thursday speech. Politico: “Campaigning in Reno, Nevada, on Thursday, Hillary Clinton will address Donald Trump’s recent...
View ArticleDonald Trump Isn’t Really Reaching Out To African-Americans
Contrary to recent headlines, Donald Trump isn’t reaching out to African-Americans. He isn’t even talking to us. He’s talking past us, and saying exactly what his alt-right base wants to hear him...
View ArticleClinton Reminds Us That Silence Never Defeats Hatred
Hillary Clinton could have stuck to a bit of time-honored advice in online circles: don’t feed the trolls. Instead, Clinton reminded Americans that hatred must be called out and exposed for what it is....
View ArticleWingnut Week In Review: The GOP Won’t Defend Trump, Or Denounce Him
This week, Hillary Clinton linked Donald Trump to white supremacists and white nationalists in the alt-right movement, and laid bare his own history of racial discrimination. Republicans responded with...
View ArticleTruth, Reconciliation, and Healing Racial Trauma
The racial healing the country needs can’t begin until we address the residue of racial trauma that has haunted African-American communities for generations. Source
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Sound And Fury On Immigration
High on decibels, low on policy details and devoid of anything new, Donald Trump’s latest immigration speech was still a chilling reminder of why he must not become president. Source
View ArticleWingnut Week In Review: Hispanic Advisers To Trump, “We Quit!”
Donald Trump reverted to type with his immigration speech, delivered shortly after his visit to Mexico. After flirting with “softening” his position, the old Trump-style xenophobia was a hit with some,...
View ArticleHow Conservative Failure on Race Led to Voter ID Laws
Voter ID laws like North Carolina’s “monster law” have very little to do with “voter fraud,” and everything to do with conservatives' willful failure to win through persuasion the votes of black and...
View ArticleWingnut Week In Review: To Russia With Love?
If Donald Trump wasn’t the Republican nominee, what would it take for his words and actions to be labeled treason? In fact, why does no one dare call it treason? Source
View ArticleWhat Clinton and Millions of Workers Have in Common: Going To Work Sick
This weekend we learned that Hillary Clinton has been doing something that millions of other Americans also do: going to work sick. The difference is that too many American workers don’t have much of a...
View ArticleMinimum Wage Increases On the Ballot In Four States
This election isn’t just about whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be president. Ballot initiatives will give voters the chance to raise the minimum wage for workers in four states. Source
View ArticleWingnut Week In Review: Invasion of the Clinton Body Doubles
After Hillary Clinton went a bit wobbly at the 9/11 memorial, the internet went off the deep end with speculation about her health, and whether she’s even the real Hillary Clinton. Source
View ArticleWhen Will Black Lives Finally Matter To Donald Trump?
For all his bloviating about “law and order,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has yet to express any serious outrage over police killings of unarmed African Americans. Source
View ArticleTrump Promises Nationwide Stop-And-Frisk Policing
Leave it to Donald Trump to stand in black church, before a somehow still overwhelmingly white audience, and promise to implement New York City’s racist, unconstitutional stop-and-frisk policing...
View ArticleWingnut Week In Review: Don't Know Much About History
This week, a Donald Trump supporter managed to somehow surpass even Donald Trump himself in sheer, unadulterated ignorance of our nation’s history regarding race. Source
View ArticleNative Youth Demand A Senate Hearing On Dakota Pipeline Impact
Native American youth are making their voices heard in the movement to stop the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, and demanding a hearing in the Senate. Source
View ArticleClinton Is The Clear Choice On Race And Criminal Justice Reform
Little Zianna Oliphant, speaking through her tears at a city council meeting in Charlotte, said more about what’s really happening with policing in black communities than Donald Trump did in 90 minutes...
View ArticleWingnut Week In Review: Donald Trump Dives Into The Gutter
Writer Maya Angelou once offered this sage advice: "If someone shows you who they really are, believe them." With his latest misogynistic attack on Alicia Machado, Donald Trump dives into the gutter to...
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