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By Kylie Cheung • @kylietcheung • 5 years ago

How the Senate’s Structure Upholds White Male Dominance

In last week’s midterm elections, Democratic and progressive political candidates flipped red House districts, key state legislative bodies, governors’ offices, and even Senate seats in Nevada and Arizona. We’ve elected one of the most diverse Congressional classes in history, with historic numbers of women and LGBTQ representatives, including the first Muslim and Native American women representatives.

Yet, despite many positive returns from the midterms, we were also forced to see how our government remains fundamentally structured around protecting and maintaining white patriarchy — particularly through the U.S. Senate.

Democratic candidates won seats in the House, but lost Senate seats in North Dakota, Missouri, Indiana, and possibly Florida

By Jess Fournier • 6 years ago

Quick Hit: Black Women Have Always Been Leading the Revolution

“When ya’ll gonna realize that treating black women like deities is just another way to keep pretending that we aren’t human” – Folu

On Tuesday, in a stunning upset, Democrat Doug Jones won the Alabama Senate special election against Republican Roy Moore, flipping a Senate seat in a historically red state with a long history of racist voter suppression.

The race had disturbing echoes of the 2016 Presidential election: Roy Moore – a virulently Islamophobic white supremacist and sexual predator – up against Doug Jones, a white centrist Democrat. And as in 2016, the majority of white people (68%) – and 63% of white women ...

“When ya’ll gonna realize that treating black women like deities is just another way to keep pretending that we aren’t human” – Folu

On Tuesday, in a stunning upset, Democrat Doug ...

By Mahroh Jahangiri • @mahrohj • 6 years ago

Days from election, Charlottesville paper smears Black candidate as too “aggressive”

Virginia voters will go to the polls tomorrow in the biggest election since last November. The tight race between Ed Gillespie (R) and Ralph Northam (D) for next Virginia Governor feels eerily similar: a mildew-ridden bathroom garbage can is running on a virulently anti-immigrant campaign and has a chance at winning only because the Democratic candidate is a less-than-inspiring, capitulating centrist.

In Charlottesville though, the race looks a little different: for decades, the city’s Council has been dominated by the Democratic Party; now, after a summer of white nationalist violence (and elected officials’ utter failure to prevent it), four independent candidates are dominating the race — and vying with two Democrats for two Council seats up ...

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