Retired federal judge Thomas Griffith, a conservative, co-authored a report looking into the 2020 election. He says Jan. 6 protestors were duped. “All the evidence points in one direction,” he says. “And that is that President Biden won, and President Trump lost.”

On this day in 1630, the Virginia Assembly sentenced Hugh Davis, a white man, to be whipped for having a relationship with a Black person. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Across state and federal primaries and elections since 2020, the Mississippi Free Press has identified 331 total precinct changes. As of the 2024 primaries, 90 precincts still had incomplete, incorrect or missing addresses. mississippifreepress.org/errors-remain-…

Wondering if a follow up question could/would be , should there be a day off to vote?

The Vance campaign provided the Wall Street Journal with a police report to prove their claims about cat-eating Haitians in Springfield. The WSJ spoke to the woman who filed it, who said she later found her cat alive and well in her basement. She also apologized to her Haitian

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Which candidate would you want to have a beer with? And why on earth is that our measuring stick for politicians? Learn how actual campaigning -- and the "common touch" -- became a staple of presidential politics in this new video (and lesson!) from Retro Report #APUSH #APGov

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Linda Monk Yes, 1956. This conservative memory of the Constitution would gain renewed importance and visibility after the New Deal and WWII as part of the Cold War memory of the Revolution forged in the 1950s to help define the US in direct opposition to the Soviet Union.

Non-citizens cannot legally vote in US elections. No one is actually advocating for that right to be extended to non-citizens. Number of instances where this illegal voting actually occurred is staggeringly rare across country. Hysteria over non-issue is to generate fear & anger.

Today is #TalkLikeAPirateDay so we invited pirate historians Dr. Jamie L.H. Goodall (she/her) & Rebecca Simon aboard to talk pirate mythology, Disney, and maybe a little Black Sails. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN drops NOW on Historians At The Movies Podcast

George Washington passionately warned against dictatorship in his Farewell Address (published today 1796): “Domination of one faction...sharpened by the spirit of revenge” would bring "despotism” if Americans sought "security and repose in the absolute power of an individual.”

#OnThisDay in 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to a mass meeting in Grenada, Mississippi, followed by a march. The news came after 300 members of the white community had called for “an end to violence.” The next morning, King, along with Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young and folk

Unhoused people aren’t addicts and drunks. No, they are God’s children. They are human beings, like every one of us here. And my faith tradition is clear: it says they are precious in the sight of God.

There is no Republican Party. MAGA replaced it. US party politics has always been more fluid than folks realize. The coming & going of parties has been a norm for much of US history. For left & right, this is a moment of remarkably fluid party politics, massive redefinition.

From madebyhistory: While it is rare for foreign policy differences between the political parties to affect electoral outcomes, it has happened before time.com/7021448/presid…

Not-so-great expectations: Students are reading fewer books in English class apnews.com/article/books-…

Her "We the People" speech during the Watergate hearings is forever etched in my memory.