politicsnation. ten nights lead, the showdowns to come. culture or politics have consumed the republican party as we approach an election year. threatening the legislative agenda in congress in the house speaker kevin mccarthy s concessions to the hard right flank of his caucus have led to the passage of a military spending bill. bogged down with amendments targeting diversity programs and lgbtq protections. in the meantime, alabama senator tommy tuberville is holding up dozens of military appointments over the pentagon s abortion policies. some colleagues are warning the blockade could endanger national security. against that backdrop, a potential government shutdown. the showdown looms and the first presidential caucus of 2024 is just six months away. delaware congresswoman lisa rochester joins me shortly to talk about all of it. plus, the phony war on critical race theory is still raging in state houses. and on school boards across the country one of the intellectual archi
of course the number of events like this that go on march, that we know nothing about, is countless. while we wrote this book, we thought it was absolutely important for the public to understand. that black women and girls are also victims of anti black police violence, black women and girls as young as seven, as old as 93, have been killed by the police. black women and girls are more likely, reverend, than any other group of women to be killed by the police. and yet we don t know anything about it. we have the african american policy forum call this the double loss. first that their lives are stolen, and then the fact that their lives are stolen is basically made invisible. so we don t know stories like friend garrett, whose daughter, michelle soul was killed on a