one-minute hate in america

The “Theocrats” usually equated to the GOP right wing, but sometimes to people like me: libertarians who believe in God. ... The “Homophobes” (again, often linked to the GOP right wing) are a fav group: defined as anyone who does not encourage and promote homosexuality and berate..

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'we have a long way to go:' descendants of first black americans on

Brenda Tucker, descendent of one of the first black Americans William Tucker whose parents were brought from Angola on the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619, pays her respects at grave at Tucker family Hampton, Virginia, U.S., July 27, 2019. ..

video-game violence is now a partisan issue

Scholar and essayist Ian Bogost traces the history of video game scapegoating, noting that while the panic used to be bi-partisan, and then-senator Hilary Clinton targeted video games in 2005, now it’s mostly GOP voices who blame video games for violent actions such as mass shootings. ..

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Democrat-led House has passed gun control bill that includes fixes to the background check system, and it has languished in GOP-controlled Senate.. ..

the incredible shrinking gop

But this time, Republican trend mirrors deeper shift within Republican Party away from women, people of color, and suburban communities — in other words, swath of American electorate that cannot be written off.. Those figures, Post noted, reflect the composition of Republican..

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with a vacancy on the texas supreme court, attention turns to

And because statewide elections in Texas have been captured by Republicans for two decades, candidates are effectively selected in the GOP primary, when the electorate is mostly white. . For Hispanic judges, that amounts to what experts call a “surname challenge”: With little other information,..

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