The term “white trash” is definitely racist, but maybe not in the way you think.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The term “white trash” is definitely racist, but maybe not in the way you think. I’ve broken it down for y’all here
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Vox: One surprisingly simple reason evangelicals love Trump
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trump is betting that evangelicals will maintain their hardline views on immigration
Burge’s findings are in line with prior polling on evangelicals’ positions on immigration issues. An October PRRI survey of more than 2,000 voters found that Republican white evangelical Protestants were 75 percent more likely than all Republicans to assert that “immigrants are invading American society.”
Politico: How Close Did Russia Really Come to Hacking the 2016 Election?
Reading Time: 26 minutes “The FBI and DHS keep reassuring the public that they’ve ‘got this,’ but the lack of transparency and visibility into the investigations [of what occurred in 2016] doesn’t inspire confidence or provide assurance to the public that we can trust the process,” said Susan Greenhalgh, vice president of policy and programs for National Election Defense Coalition. “Elections demand transparency. Concealing the investigations and findings from the public directly undermines trust and confidence.”
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Editorial: Impeachment without removal ~ is it really worth all the trouble??
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many might think I’m being overly dramatic when I say we’ve watched our democracy die in plain sight. It’s been a slow, painful, messy, bloody death of one of the most cherished institutions history will ever know. Now we can mince words, and say it was never really a democracy because it was always a republic, and while political science majors can have fun with that debate, the reality is our nation, as we knew it will never be the same as it once was.
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Video – Pelosi: Impeachment has absolutely nothing to do with politics
Reading Time: < 1 minute Video – Pelosi: Impeachment has absolutely nothing to do with politics
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Vox: Kamala Harris and the fallibility of identity politics
Reading Time: 6 minutes In every defeat there are lessons to be learned. For her largest advocates, the wound of realizing that their shared kinship was not as widespread as initially conceived may take a while to heal. But our obligations as voters demand that we hold our favored candidates accountable to the commitments they make to their constituency, and push them to understand what representation really means in 2020. This includes listening to the policies constituents want, and not only grasping but representing a new rubric of fighting for justice.
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PBS: The House Judiciary Committee is taking up public impeachment hearings. Watch LIVE
Reading Time: < 1 minute The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET. Watch live in the video player.
The hearing by the Judiciary comes after the House Intelligence Committee held 5 days of public impeachment hearings late last month.
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PBS: We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned
Reading Time: 6 minutes A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election. One that got a lot of traffic had this headline: “FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide.” The story is completely false, but it was shared on Facebook over half a million times.
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Vox: Far more women than men want to see Trump impeached
Reading Time: 5 minutes Here’s what the gender gap could mean for 2020.
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Huffpo: She Was Sex Trafficked At 14 — Then Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison
Reading Time: 14 minutes There is little precise data on domestic sex trafficking, because victims are hard to identify and there is no standardized system for tracking them. But there are hundreds of thousands of human trafficking victims in the U.S., according to Polaris, an anti-trafficking organization, and studies show that most sex trafficking survivors in this country are U.S.-born women and girls of color who are first exploited as minors. In Texas — which, along with California and Florida, is one of the top three states for sex trafficking cases — there are almost 79,000 victims under 25, according to a 2017 study by the University of Texas at Austin.
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