"Republicans’ wildest claims about the Bidens pale in comparison to the president’s personal enrichment from the White House."
>President Trump and his conservative base are wasting no time seeking more bans for transgender athletes after the Supreme Court’s ruling this week. Conservative activists are now pressuring Democratic states to enact bans on transgender athletes similar to those in red states. Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson joins The Weekend to discuss the unrelenting attack on the transgender community.
>As people across the U.S. celebrated the Fourth of July yesterday, a large group of masked white nationalists marched in Washington, D.C., representing what Eddie Glaude calls the, “ugly underbelly of America.” Michele Norris, MS NOW senior contributing editor, and Eddie Glaude, professor at Princeton University and MS NOW contributor and analyst join The Weekend to discuss.
"The Christian nationalist version of the founding of the United States represents a deliberate attempt to forcibly baptize America and transform the nation into something it isn’t — and something the founders never intended it to be."
Francesca Hong is a favorite in the race. If she wins the Democratic primary on August 11, we could finally see how a democratic socialist is able to perform in a swing state.
Polling so far of a potential race between Francesca Hong and Tom Tiffany, the leading Republican, shows a statistical tie.
Between Hong in Wisconsin and El-Sayed in Michigan, both campaigns will serve as major stress tests for progressive electability in crucial presidential battleground states.
MSNOW was the only network that just aired repeats of specials during the 250th anniversary of the country? I know they don’t really want to broadcast Trump speeches or anything like that- but it seems like a missed opportunity to do some counter programming
Topics included: interview with Abdul Al-Sayed talking about health care for all Americans, mortgage-free homes for families of the 9-11 fallen heroes, and the value of dissent on this, America's 250th Anniversary.
Jacob had many other great points to make, including the finding that if 3.5% of the populace continues to protest government overreach in a non-violent fashion those movements end up winning. He also noted that "collective stubborness" is an important and powerful way to bring about desirable change.
>Jen Psaki talks with Democratic candidate for Senate in South Carolina, Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, about her race against incumbent Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been in office since Andrews was in the 8th grade, and why her candidacy has the best chance in years to put Graham out.
>Jacob Soboroff hits the streets of Washington, D.C. to tour the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and Kennedy Center – sites of Donald Trump’s ongoing “beautification” renovations. “Nature abhors interference,” one passerby said while overlooking the pool’s visibly green water.
>Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) gave a speech on America's 250th anniversary at the Maryland State House focused on patriotism and giving tribute to his grandfather.
New York City’s progressive mayor expressed pride in the nation’s founding principles while rebuking oligarchs and federal immigration agents.
>“It feels like we are being robbed of a unique moment of national unity by a president who cannot fathom a celebration that does not revolve around him,” says Luke Russert.
Trump described the Great American State Fair as packed with happy people and asserted that Biden or Obama could not have achieved it.
Yet when placed beside the 1976 Bicentennial, the difference feels striking.
Though America had just emerged from Vietnam and Watergate, crowds still filled the National Mall.
Fifty years on, the situation seems quite distinct—the photo conveys much.
>Sen. Bernie Sanders: “We can do it, but we're not going to do it with the crew that it's in Washington right now. We need a political revolution. It's beginning to happen, and I feel confident about what you're going to be seeing in the next few months.”