Trump wants to make it hard to vote, in a country where Black and Latino voters already face much longer wait times than white voters, and during a pandemic that makes waiting not just tiresome and a burden for workers and parents but an active health risk. Trump also wavered on the question of whether he’d accept…
Black folks in America have been told that a rising tide lifts all boats and that swift changes are not only improbable, but impossible. We are simultaneously being taught the lie that America is a democracy built by “revolutionaries” who changed the system with war and uncivil disobedience. This contradiction is why a sustained, nonapathetic…
A new video from the Biden campaign is hitting Donald Trump where it hurts: in the ego. “Deer in the headlights, Part Two” hits Trump as “Too scared to face the people. Too weak to lead.” The video focuses on Trump’s response to the protests following the police killing of George Floyd. “The nation marches for…
Anyway, after that embarrassment, Trump was surely giddily awaiting something fantastic from an outlet that was clearly willing to do just about anything to earn his affections. Even Fox News delivers down the line polling that, frankly, has not been anywhere near flattering for Trump as of late. Thursday afternoon OAN dropped its poll along with…
In the U.S., while 100 Confederate monuments were removed after the racist mass murder of worshippers in Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, there are still 700 standing. Historian Karen Cox told The Washington Post that 30 have been built in the past two decades. But while some Southern states are moving to protect their monuments to slavery…
When we first publicly rolled out our Black Lives Matter tracking poll on Wednesday, support stood at 49%, opposition at 24%, and the “meh” response was at 25%. Now opposition remains at around the same level, but more of the “meh” has shifted to support. White support has gone from 41% on Wednesday to 44% today, continuing…
Trump, who seems to have lived most of his adult life in a state of heightened paranoia, has finally erected a physical tribute to his victimhood—a fortress to keep his perceived enemies, such as Monday night’s peaceful throng of protesters, at bay. Attorney General William Barr has been more than happy to oblige Trump’s fantasies,…
BuzzFeed News had reported in late 2018 that DACA recipients and their advocates said they were being denied loans after having been eligible in previous years. “People working with DACA recipients on housing say they have noticed the change in guidance in the year since President Donald Trump unsuccessfully moved to rescind the program, which protects people who were brought…
Here’s the current electoral map picture: It’s a little confusing, since the color blue in the first map “approves of Trump,” while in the second map it means the exact opposite. But it’s still not too hard to sort out: Blue states really don’t like Trump. Red states like Trump. There are the edge-case states—states that…
Biden called on white people to imagine if “every time your husband or son, wife or daughter, you feared for their safety from bad actors and bad police. Imagine if you had to have that talk with your child about not asserting your rights, taking the abuse handed out to them so—so, just so—they could…