On Monday, Democratic National Committee delegates passed the party’s platform in a voice vote. The themes are familiar, with a focus on reproductive rights, the working class, climate change, and infrastructure, among other things. The original platform was approved just days before President Joe Biden’s exit from the race and unveiled a day before the […]
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DNC Fact-Check Day 1: Democrats’ Warnings About Trump’s ‘Project 2025 Agenda’
Project 2025 has a starring role in this week’s Democratic National Convention. And it was front and center on Night 1. “This is Project 2025,” Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, said as she laid a hardbound copy of the 900-page document on the lectern. “Over the next four nights, you are going to […]
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Can Kamala Harris Recreate the Political Momentum of 2008?
Black Voters and the Fight for Democracy is a multipart series that explores the stakes of the 2024 election for our communities. This project was produced as part of the Advancing Democracy Fellowship. Jovita Lee wasn’t old enough to vote in 2008, when Barack Obama was at the top of the Democratic Party ticket. But […]
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Harris Shares Vision for the Economy
Before a crowd in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris laid out her economic agenda — her first big policy proposal since President Joe Biden’s abrupt departure from the race in July. It was Harris’ latest effort during her warp-speed campaign for the White House to reintroduce herself to voters, who know […]
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Ilhan Omar Ends the Squad’s Losing Streak
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota on Tuesday put a stop to the losing streak that the “Squad” of progressive Democrats in the House had been on this summer. Omar, the incumbent of Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, beat her primary challenger, Don Samuels, a former Minneapolis City Council member who nearly defeated her in the […]
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Ayanna Pressley On Project 2025 and the DOJ
The tone of this year’s presidential election may have shifted since Joe Biden ended his reelection bid and passed the baton to Vice President Kamala Harris. But Democratic lawmakers are still sounding the alarm about what they say are the threats of a Donald Trump presidency. “People should stay woke,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a founding […]
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Newbern’s First Black Mayor Won in the Courts, but the Fight Is Far From Over
NEWBERN, Ala. — The sunrays beamed on Patrick Braxton’s forehead as he raised his right hand and placed his left on a Bible, held by his wife, Freda. He stood confidently, ready to execute his oath of office for all to see. That moment — on an early August afternoon — felt so familiar yet […]
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How Harris and Walz Are Trying to Shift This Election’s Vibes
“What do you have to say to the American people?” Megan Thee Stallion asks Vice President Kamala Harris in a TikTok video. “We are not going back,” Harris says, emphatically. Then, without missing a beat, Megan sticks out her tongue and makes her signature sound: ahhh. It’s a short clip — about 10 seconds, from […]
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Meet Kamala Harris’ VP Pick, Gov. Tim Walz
After feverish speculation, Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Harris’ selection of Walz is the most significant decision of her rapidly evolving presidential campaign. It comes as the two prepare to introduce the new Democratic ticket via a tour through seven cities in battleground states: Philadelphia; […]
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Harris Faces Critiques of Her Identity, Along With Her Record
Last week, in a moment at the National Association of Black Journalists convention that’s gone viral, former President Donald Trump challenged whether Harris is really Black. He said that he didn’t know that she’s Black until some years ago, “when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black.” Two […]