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After Blocking $2.85 Minimum Wage Raise, Republican Governor Gives Cabinet $73,405 Raise
After banning Alabama cities from increasing their minimum wage, Governor Bentley just gave an 80% raise to his cabinet.
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Alabama Republicans File Bill To Take Away Food Stamps If You Own A Car
Needy families must now choose between being able to take their kids to school or being able to feed them.
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Alabama Governor Robbed Citizens Of Millions In Oil Spill Money To Rebuild Beachfront Mansion
Showing a reckless disregard for the needs of his state’s people in favor of corporate bosses and his own fancy, Alabama’s Republican governor Robert Bentley is renovating an abandoned 7,500 square-foot governor’s mansion with money left over from 2010 BP oil spill settlement. An estimated $1.5 to $1.8 million of grants from the settlement in…
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Black Man Beaten At Trump Rally Speaks Out: They Called Me "N*gger Monkey"
As captured on video Saturday by CNN, Mecutio Southall, an African-American protester, was viciously beaten at another bizarrely xenophobic Donald Trump campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama. Southall, a single father of three and a social activist, said in an interview with ThinkProgress that he went to the Trump rally to speak out against Trump’s persistent hateful…
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Trump's Rally Turns To Riot As Supporters Viciously Beat Black Protester
Donald Trump’s supporters gang-attacked a black man at a campaign event after he ordered them to “get him out of here.”
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Alabama Republican To Black Vet He Disenfranchised: Stop 'Being A Victim', Walk 45 Miles To Vote
The state of Alabama made headlines around the nation when they enacted one of the most outrageous voter suppression schemes ever seen in our democracy. First, they passed a law requiring stringent photo identification at the polls; more recently, Republicans voted to close license-issuing DMVs in thirty-one counties, which just happen to all be overwhelmingly…
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Alabama's Racist DMV Closings Provoke Demand For Federal Voting Rights Investigation
Republicans have long been trying to make it harder for minorities to vote and participate in politics – mostly because they know minorities don’t connect with the GOP’s bigotry and exclusionary policies. One of the dirty tricks conservatives been trying to pull off is messing around with the requirements to vote – and targeting things like driver’s…
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After Demanding Voter ID Laws, Alabama Republicans Close DMVs In ALL Black Counties
The state of Alabama announced that it will no longer be issuing drivers licenses in predominately African American counties. This is extremely problematic because Alabama now requires a photo ID to vote. By making it impossible to receive a driver’s license in counties where 75% of registered voters are black, they eliminate the black vote…