Elections2020
Congressional Black Caucus tackles outsized coronavirus impact on African Americans
April 9, 2020“Blacks are nickeled and dimed” for both health services and access to other aid, says Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.
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Senate Dems propose big pay hike for frontline anti-pandemic workers
April 8, 2020Senate Democrats’ plans for the next big economic stimulus bill include a big pay hike for frontline workers.
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Black Wisconsin voters: Right-wing court order to hold election was voter suppression
April 8, 2020“We had to be willing to die to get our vote, and the same thing is happening right now,” said one 33-year-old voter in Milwaukee.
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Sanders drops out of Democratic race, says movement “won the ideological struggle”
April 8, 2020Acknowledging Biden will be the nominee, Sanders declared, “We will go forward together to defeat Donald Trump, the most dangerous president in modern history."
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Medicare for All – If not now, when?
April 8, 2020The new reality ushered in by the coronavirus makes ideas that were once considered “radical’ into things that are now absolute necessities.
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