NY Times: “Just two years ago, nearly every national politician in the Democratic Party was calling for Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia to resign. A racist picture was discovered on Mr. Northam’s medical school yearbook page, and the physician-turned-politician said he did not know which person he was in the photograph — the white man…

NY Times: ““It was very clear to me, I took an oath to defend the Constitution. I didn’t take an oath to defend Donald Trump. What he did was a frontal assault on the Constitution,” he said over coffee at Sunshine Pancake House in Loris, S.C., on Wednesday. Now that vote threatens to end his…

AR Times: “The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday granted the state of Arkansas’s request for a hearing by the full court on the Arkansas Times’ lawsuit challenging the state law that requires a pledge not to boycott Israel from those who want to do business with the state. A panel of the court had held, 2-1, the…

AL Political Reporter: “In a rambling speech before a Mobile Republican club, U.S. Senate candidate Mo Brooks said Alabama Republican legislators weren’t real Republicans, called 90 percent of Chinese citizens slaves and cautioned that another civil war could be on the horizon…. “These two elections are the most important in the history of this nation,…

TX Observer: “As a former student of Texas public schools, much of what I remember from Texas history class boils down to this: General López de Santa Anna, of Mexico, was evil incarnate—my old friends and I still marvel at how much this was hammered into our heads—and the Texas Revolution was a fight for…

The Texas Tribune: “Some of Democrats’ biggest regrets about the 2020 election in Texas had to do with organizing. It was not consistent throughout the cycle — and usually isn’t in any cycle. It was supplanted by TV ads at the end. And it was hampered by the coronavirus pandemic. Now, with the backing of…

Facing South: The moves of the North Carolina sedition caucus are not only dishonest, servile, and wrong; they are unfaithful. They break fidelity with the American promise. In 1935, the German American political theorist Carl Friedrich wrote that “to be an American is an ideal, while to be a Frenchman is a fact.” Friedrich wasn’t…

AP: “A former Tennessee governor’s administration helped fund a contract murder of a key federal witness decades ago while embroiled in the state’s largest political scandal, law enforcement officials announced Wednesday. The new details revealed for the first time Wednesday have elements that ring of a movie: a trusted ally of union boss Jimmy Hoffa…

The North State Journal: “Oh, by the way, Stacey Abrams next target? Neighboring North Carolina. And her easiest entry point?  Asheville, the San Francisco of the South. Don’t take my word for it. Ms. Abrams own twenty-eight-page manifesto, The Abrams Playbook, has the Tar Heel State mentioned seven times. Fair Fight 2020, her organization, is…

WaPo: “Russell Moore is either a politically disillusioned troublemaker or a prophet in a time of darkness. In a 4,000-word letter charging the Southern Baptist Convention with racism and sexual abuse, he has single-handedly brought the evangelical Christian world to its knees. Moore wrote his hard-charging letter in February 2020, while still serving as president of the…