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US Rep. Emanuel Cleaver faces off with Missouri lawmakers seeking to reshape his district

Facing those seeking to oust him from office, Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver warned Missouri lawmakers on Thursday that a redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump is reopening decades-old racial divisions in Kansas City. Cleaver flew from the nation’s Capitol to Missouri’s statehouse in what he acknowledged was a likely quixotic attempt to stop a Republican plan that would dramatically reshape his Kansas City district to give the GOP a better shot at winning one more seat in next year’s election. Missouri’s Senate […]

todaySeptember 12, 2025

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Rep. Ayanna Pressley says, like Trump, his attempt to reinstate death penalty is ‘flawed and deeply racist’

U.S. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., slammed President Donald Trump for calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty in Washington, D.C. “Like Donald Trump himself, the death penalty is flawed and deeply racist. It is a fundamentally unjust punishment that has no place in any society,” said Pressley in a statement after Trump said on Tuesday that the death penalty is a “very strong preventative” against crime. Pressley, who has sponsored federal legislation to prohibit the death penalty, noted that […]

todayAugust 29, 2025

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Kamala Harris calls Texas Rep. Nicole Collier during Capitol confinement: ‘We are all there with you’

Former Vice President Kamala Harris personally reached out to Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier as she continued to be confined inside the state Capitol after refusing a demand from the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives to sign a permission slip that would require 24-hour supervision by law enforcement. “You really are inspiring so many people. And I just want you to know that you are among those who history will reveal to have been heroes of this moment,” […]

todayAugust 20, 2025

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Texas Rep. Nicole Collier sues over ‘illegal confinement’ by Republicans inside state capitol

Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier is fighting back in court after not being allowed to leave the state Capitol because she refused to sign a “permission slip” that would have required her to be under 24-hour supervision by a law enforcement officer. Collier on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state House of Representatives after House Speaker Dustin Burrows required Democrats to sign a waiver that would compel them to be under the supervision of the state Department of Public […]

todayAugust 19, 2025

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Rep. Nicole Collier refused GOP ‘permission slip’ rule, was locked in the Texas chamber — and slept in her bonnet overnight to protest

Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier is being hailed by Democrats after refusing to agree to a demand by Republican leadership in the state House of Representatives to be under law enforcement supervision to leave the Capitol chamber. Collier, who was among 50 Texas Democrats who fled the state in protest of what they called a racially gerrymandered congressional map, declined to sign a permission slip requiring a Department of Public Safety escort to ensure she didn’t again flee and delay […]

todayAugust 19, 2025

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‘It is a hot mess’: Rep. Jasmine Crockett calls out GOP gerrymandering plot after redrawn map kicks her out of her own district

After Texas Republicans unveiled a new congressional map favoring the GOP at President Donald Trump’s request, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett revealed that, based on the redrawn district lines, she no longer lives in her own district. “I currently don’t live in the [Congressional District] 30 that they created…that’s not where I live now,” Crockett shared in a video reacting to the new map. The very outspoken and popular Democrat said state Republicans created the map kerfuffle despite asking her and other […]

todayJuly 31, 2025

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Rep. Ayanna Pressley is frustrated by lack of ‘sustained outrage’ and allyship over Black suffering

As President Donald Trump continues to hammer away at diversity, equity, and inclusion, while pressuring the private sector, including businesses and college campuses, to end DEI policies, U.S. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley admits that as she and other Democrats continue to fight for racial equity, she is frustrated by the lack of “sustained outrage” over how the rollbacks of DEI and civil rights protections are impacting Black communities. “It’s very frustrating that the work of Black liberation and having our full […]

todayJuly 25, 2025

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Rep. Ro Khanna tests economic agenda—and potential 2028 presidential run—with Black voters in South Carolina

U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., traveled to South Carolina over the weekend to meet with Black leaders and voters as he engages with communities on economic policy. “We need a fresh economic vision for this party and it needs to center conversation with Black voters. We have not had enough conversations with Black voters about what we need to do to create good jobs in the 21st century in Black communities,” Khanna told theGrio. Referring to President Donald Trump‘s recently […]

todayJuly 22, 2025

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Rep. Maxine Waters warns crypto legislation opens door for Trump corruption, financial crisis

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to pass landmark cryptocurrency legislation, sending the nation’s first federal regulatory framework for stablecoin digital currencies to the desk of President Donald Trump. Ahead of Wednesday’s historic vote on the GENIUS Act, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., led a group of House Democrats in opposition to the crypto legislation, warning that it would open the floodgates for financial corruption and further enrichment of the wealthy class, most especially Trump and his family. Waters, […]

todayJuly 16, 2025