Sen. Joe Manchin might have just killed Democrats’ dreams of passing comprehensive election reform. The senator announced Sunday that will not support the For the People Act, making him the only senate Democrat not in favor of it. If passed, the For the People Act would expand access to the …
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January 6th, 2021, marked the saddest day in the history of American democracy since April 12th, 1861, the day South Carolina secessionists fired on Fort Sumter and commenced the Civil War. Assassinations, military atrocities, enacting horrific laws, all are shameful and wrenching, and forever stain the nation’s history. But deliberate …
Read More »Civil Rights Icon John Lewis on the Art of Making 'Good Trouble'
Congressman John Lewis’ Washington, D.C., office is filled from floor to ceiling with photographs and souvenirs from a lifetime of activism: the Freedom Rides he risked his life for from the age of 21; the March on Washington, where Lewis wrote a speech so fiery that Martin Luther King Jr. …
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