The Voting Rights Act made being Black in the South more tolerable. Gutting it makes it less so.
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From June 2025: On Bill Cassidys' fanciful belief that he could get re-elected
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Jarvis DeBerry
Jarvis DeBerry
Louisiana 2026: They’re trying to wash us away.
Louisiana Rep. Dixon Wallace McMakin, who argued for this democracy-killing bill in the House said in support of it:
I’m going to vote for this bill today.
I’m going to vote for it tomorrow.
And I’m going to vote for it the rest of my life.
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I was honored to edit this poignant piece responding to Justin Fairfax murdering his wife Cerina Fairfax and then himself. It’s by Kahn Davison, whose father killed his mother before ending his own life.
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It is, indeed, a beautiful sentence.
“It’s important that we as a country condemn this racist filth, if only for the sake of Black children growing up during Trump’s presidency.”
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My @ms.now column: Trump’s claiming to have dropped drug prices 600%. “Apparently, nobody has dared to tell him he’s wrong. Instead, they’re standing around marveling at the emperor’s new math.”
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Jarvis DeBerry
Jarvis DeBerry: Trump’s insult should be called out as racist filth
There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.
Jarvis DeBerry
Before coming to the Senate, Dr. Bill Cassidy worked at a hospital for poor and uninsured people and launched a vaccination program for some of Louisiana’s most vulnerable people.
In two weeks, Louisiana GOP leaders have:
*Prevented a NOLA Black Democrat from taking office by eliminating the position
*voted to cut N.O. judges
*Suspended elections
*Voted to cut a Black Congressmen's seat
*Threatened to remove 8 more N.O. officials