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Vote Like a Black Woman

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By Lavora Barnes
| contrariannews.org
There’s a general fatigue surrounding the phrase “vote blue no matter who,” and for good reason. It’s a reductive and incomplete adage. We cannot demand (or take for granted) the cooperation of a strong Democratic base, organized and engaged under the principles of a consistent and well-understood party platform without doing the actual work of fostering and maintaining relationships within that base.
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Ethics must be part of any crypto legislation | Opinion

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By Lavora Barnes
| Detroit News Verified
As someone who has spent decades helping Democrats build winning coalitions in Michigan and across the country, I know that voters can forgive policy disagreements. What they do not forgive is when politicians look out for themselves instead of the people they were elected to serve.
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Want to Fight Today's SCOTUS Decision? Then fight for the Georgia Supreme Court in May.

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By Ben Wikler, Lavora Barnes, Spencer Klein
| contrariannews.org
Today, the Supreme Court delivered a serious and perhaps fatal blow to the Voting Rights Act. As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent, a state now “can, without legal consequence, systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power” due to supposed “updates” that “eviscerate the law.” (Harrison Keely via Wikimedia Commons) The result will be a wave of Republican-controlled states redrawing their maps to entrench Republican power by destroying majority-Black and Latino districts.
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