The Hill: “Tennessee’s Republican-controlled House voted Monday to approve legislation that would largely prevent pride flags from being displayed in public school classrooms, sending the measure to the state Senate, where it is also expected to pass. The measure, House Bill 1605, would prohibit local education agencies from displaying flags other than the United States flag…

Politico: “We reached out to scores of top political thinkers and congressional insiders to ask what they think is the single most consequential way McConnell has changed Washington. Their answers spanned a wide range, from normalizing obstruction and shielding Donald Trump from accountability to serving as architect of the Kentucky Republican Party and reshaping the…

WaPo: “Left unmentioned: The deluge of offensive comments that made such a declaration necessary. There was the time he called school shooting survivors “media prosti-tots” for advocating for gun-control policies. The meme mocking a Harvey Weinstein accuser, and the other meme mocking actresses for wearing “whore dresses to protest sexual harassment.” The prediction that rising acceptance of homosexuality would lead to pedophilia and “the END…

Off the Kuff: “An LGBTQ advocacy group is suing the Texas attorney general after his agency requested information that the group said would reveal the identities of its members, including those who sought to stay anonymous in recent suits. The suit, filed Wednesday by PFLAG, argued that the requests violate its members’ right to free speech, to petition…

North State Journal: “A 50-year-old Head Start program has had a multi-generational impact on migrant farmworker families and their children. Maria Garza, the CEO of the East Coast Migrant Head Start Project (ECMHSP), shared with North State Journal the impact of what the organization does and how it has made a “big difference” in the…

TX Observer: “March 1 Update: On Thursday, federal judge David Ezra blocked Texas from enforcing its state deportations law, Senate Bill 4, which was set to take effect March 5. In his ruling, Ezra stated that both the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedent “affirm that states may not exercise immigration enforcement power except as authorized…

AL Political Reporter: “Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., declared that Senator Katie Britt, R-Ala., will deliver the Republican Address to the Nation following the President’s State of the Union address on March 7.”

NC Newsline: “Every Black person who has faced a jury in a capital trial in Johnston County between 1991 and 2014 received a death sentence, an expert in an ongoing hearing testified on Thursday. Data analyzed by Richard Smith, a professor of statistics at UNC-Chapel Hill, revealed that no Black defendants tried in capital cases…

WaPo: “The city [of Richmond, VA] has announced plans for a major memorial to its history as the nation’s second-largest market in the pre-Civil War trade in enslaved people, culminating years of frustrated efforts to recognize a difficult past. “We have collectively, as a city, been neglectful for far too long in recognizing the part…

Political Wire: “Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November,” the AP reports. “McConnell, who turned 82 last week, was set to announce his decision Wednesday in the well…