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And that case, Shelby County v. Holder, is what we re going to examine today in our series The Right To Vote. As the vice president mentioned, that Supreme Court case has, in part, made it possible for states to enact new restrictive voting laws. So let s go back. Shelby County is in the heart of Alabama, and that s where a Black city council member named Ernest Montgomery initially lost his bid for reelection in 2008, after his district was redrawn to include fewer voters of color.
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ERNEST MONTGOMERY: This was about my people.
The ride for voting rights: Inside the journey to build Black voting power
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How Extremists Weaponize Irony To Spread Hate
By Tom Dreisbach
April 26, 2021
On a recent episode of his livestreamed show, the 22-year-old extremist Nick Fuentes repeated a formula that has won him a following with some of the youngest members of the far right. He went on an extended, violent and misogynistic rant, only to turn to the camera and add with a smirk, “Just joking!”
In this case, from the April 22 edition of Fuentes’ show,
America First, a viewer wrote in to ask Fuentes for advice on how to “punish” his wife for “getting out of line.”
Fuentes responded, “Why don’t you smack her across the face?”