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…

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…

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…

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…

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.”

The State: “The founder of an anti-abortion group who shot and wounded a man during a confrontation in front of Planned Parenthood in Columbia has been arrested. According to records from the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Columbia, Mark Baumgartner was taken into custody Tuesday. Baumgartner is being charged with assault and battery of…

The Guardian: “Charlotte has engaged in a bless-their-hearts approach to the surge befitting a city full of bankers who want results while minimizing risks. “Bless your heart” sounds nice, often said in complete sincerity, but widely understood by southerners to be a quiet way to tell someone they’re an idiot when offered in the right…

HuffPo: “The long battle over injecting Christianity into public schools is escalating in Texas, as state Attorney General Ken Paxton pursues lawsuits against schools that have refused to comply with a state law saying the Ten Commandments must be displayed in classrooms. The law has put schools in a difficult position, forcing them to weigh whether to…

C-SPAN: “Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) talks about eight Black representatives from South Carolina who served in Congress during the Reconstruction Era. The eight included Joseph Rainey, the first Black politician elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and Robert Smalls, a Civil War hero who fled the Confederacy to fight for the Union Army. Both…

Tallahassee Democrat: “The latest battle in a nearly year-long effort to block Florida’s first black bear hunting season in a decade begins Nov. 17 with a demonstration at the state’s Capitol and will intensify a week later across the street in a Leon County courtroom. …Meanwhile, attorneys for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission and Bear Warriors United, a nonprofit dedicated to preservation of wildlife and habitat,…