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June 10, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Arrested Again for “Terroristic Threats”
Jake Lang is now behind bars after threatening to instigate a racist mob.
June 10, 2026
Rekha Kennedy
The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Decision Is Worse Than You Think
The high court’s
Callais
ruling is already being used to delete majority-minority federal districts. But its most catastrophic impact may be felt closer to home.
June 9, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
DOJ Greenlights Workplace Discrimination With New Attack on EEOC
The Department of Justice is going after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
June 5, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Massive Attack on Legal Immigration
A federal judge has ruled against the extreme anti-immigration policies Trump instituted last fall.
June 4, 2026
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Is Showing Its Boundless Contempt for Black Voters
In a controversial shadow-docket ruling, the high court’s conservative bloc has fully dismantled the constitutional protections of Black voters.
May 29, 2026
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
Louisiana Republicans Complete Their Racist Redrawing of Voting Map
Louisiana is eliminating a majority-Black district and handing Republicans another seat in Congress.
May 27, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Secret Team Focused on “Remigration” Exposed
Remigration is a far-right term that means the mass deportation of all nonwhite people.
May 26, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Admits More White South African Refugees in Made-Up “Emergency”
Trump appears determined to turn the refugee program into a “whites only” perk.
May 25, 2026
Jake Grumbach
,
Perry Bacon
The Voting Rights Act Is Dead. Here’s a New Model for Black Politics.
After
Callais,
the old civil rights politics is moot. And more recent strategies have limited reach. Here’s how we can build something more transformative.
May 15, 2026
Katherine Stewart
A Very Authoritarian Semiquincentennial Celebration
How the White House’s Freedom 250 program is desecrating our remembrance of the nation’s founding.
May 13, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Team Is Pissed at Aide Secretly Enabling Crazed Nighttime Rants
Natalie Harp is helping Donald Trump make dozens of late-night, conspiracy-laden posts.
May 13, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
MAGA Rep. Flees When Confronted About Racist Hakeem Jeffries Comment
Representative Jen Kiggans agreed when a radio host said Jeffries had “cotton-picking hands.”
May 12, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
MAGA Virginia Rep. Thinks Hakeem Jeffries Has “Cotton-Picking Hands”
Representative Jen Kiggans agreed when a far-right radio host made the racist insult.
May 12, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Trump Accuses Obama of Treason in Unhinged Crashout About Black People
Donald Trump posted multiple times implying that Black people are a public menace.
May 11, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Stephen Miller Had Latina Girlfriend Who Was Embarrassed by Him
A new report reveals how Trump’s top adviser—an avid white supremacist—was rejected by a Latina woman.
May 8, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Samuel Alito Cited Fudged Data in His Ruling Gutting Voting Rights Act
Alito cited data provided by the Department of Justice that used faulty methodology.
May 8, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Suffers Two Brutal Court Losses in Less Than 24 Hours
The courts have delivered major blows to two of Trump’s signature policies: tariffs and the “anti-woke” crusade.
May 7, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Protests Erupt as Tennessee Republicans Erase Only Democratic District
Tennessee Republicans have carved up the city of Memphis, eliminating the only majority-Black district in the state.
May 6, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Tennessee Republicans Kick Out Democrats as They Vote on New Map
“This is the Republicans’ white power rally,” warned state Senator Gloria Johnson, as protesters shouted down the GOP.
May 5, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Admin Sues
New York Times
for Discriminating Against White Men
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims it has a case against the newspaper detested by President Trump.
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