Lexington Herald Leader: “A grand jury has indicted an 18-year-old accused of pointing a gun at a group of protesters at an anti-Trump gathering in Eastern Kentucky. Marcus Slusher, of Harlan, was indicted by a Harlan County grand jury Nov. 19 on one count of second-degree terroristic threatening, according to Harlan Circuit Court records. About…
Month: December 2025
“Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest”
WaPo: “Arrested Nov. 12 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ferreira, 33, said it is insulting to sit in orange prison scrubs facing possible removal to Brazil after spending most of her life in the United States while the Trump administration paints her as a criminal. She is being detained for being in the United…
“Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps”
NY Times: “The Supreme Court cleared the way… for Texas lawmakers to use newly redrawn congressional maps favoring Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections. The decision overturns, at least for now, a lower-court ruling that the new maps were likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. That decision had blocked lawmakers from using the maps in the…
“Harris County Democratic Party reprimands Houston Mayor John Whitmire, withholds future endorsement”
Houston Public Media: “Houston Mayor John Whitmire’s political party of more than five decades admonished him on Sunday — barring the lifelong Democrat from receiving its endorsement in the future, according to multiple local precinct chairs who attended the meeting where a vote was held. A progressive group within the Harris County Democratic Party pushed…
“How far can Democrats ride the affordability argument? A progressive running in deep-red Tennessee is about to find out”
CNN: “Aftyn Behn, the Democratic nominee for next week’s special election in a heavily Republican Tennessee congressional district, has made affordability concerns a centerpiece of her campaign messaging – mirroring the playbook of the party’s victorious candidates for governor in Virginia and New Jersey earlier this month. Tuesday’s contest is poised to test just how far Democrats…
“Chaos Reigns as Texas Awaits Supreme Court’s Ruling on Redistricting”
NY Times: “Lloyd Doggett had been set to bow out of politics after three decades in the U.S. House after Republicans in the Texas Legislature redrew his congressional district this summer. If he hadn’t, he would have been forced into a re-election battle against a young fellow Democrat and rising progressive star in the Austin…
H. Rap Brown, Black Power Activist Who Promoted Violence, Dies in NC Prison Serving Life Sentence for Murder
WaPo: “Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, who as H. Rap Brown becamea magnetic and polarizing force in the 1960s Black Power movement, died Nov. 23 at a federal prison hospital near Butner, North Carolina, where he was serving a life sentence without parole for the 2000 murder of a sheriff’s deputy. He was 82….Mr. Al-Amin rose to…
“North Carolina Can Use Republican-Friendly Congressional Map, Court Says”
NY Times: “A panel of three federal judges in North Carolina on Wednesday allowed the state’s newly redrawn congressional map to go into effect for the 2026 midterm elections, a victory for the Trump administration and Republican efforts to retain control of the U.S. House next year. The judges, at the U.S. District Court for…
“Three GOP Seats at Severe Risk in Virginia Democrats’ Redistricting Push”
Cook Political Report: “Earlier this year, it looked like Republicans were poised to double or triple the size of their thin cushion in the House by launching a mid-decade redistricting war. But they may have had a blind spot: the extent to which Democrats could push to set aside anti-gerrymandering constitutional amendments in blue states…
“Karoline Leavitt’s Family Member Captured by ICE”
Political Wire: “White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been personally linked to the brutal ICE raids sweeping America,” the Daily Beast reports. “Her 11-year-old nephew’s mother, Bruna Ferreira, is now in custody at an ICE facility at Louisiana, facing deportation to Brazil.”