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  SHARED FOR INFORMATION AND EDUCATION ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN TACTICS BEING EMPLOYED ACROSS THE NATION TO ENSURE RACIAL GERRYMANDERING AND TO CONTINUE TO DISENFRANCHISE BLACK VOTERS!  You may have heard me say, "I would be the first Black man elected statewide from Louisiana."   But this race is deeper than the color of my skin.  It’s about whether Louisiana will finally send someone to DC  who will represent the people whose ancestors were forced to build Louisiana.  When I say that I would be the first Black man to represent Louisiana state-wide, what I really mean is   I would be the first person to represent people whose ancestors were sharecroppers, like my grandparents. It means I would be the first person to   represent people whose ancestors were kidnapped and enslaved for centuries on this soil. It means that I would be the first person to represent people who had to   fight for their right to vote, sit at the same lunch counter, and ...

    Friday, March 21   ON THE DOCKET THIS WEEK DOGE hits a key roadblock in its effort to dismantle the federal government North Carolina legal community tells Jefferson Griffin to stop trying to overturn state Supreme Court election The fight for a fair map in Louisiana hits SCOTUS   DOGE DOGE hits a key roadblock in its effort to dismantle the federal government The Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) — the faux-agency led by billionaire Elon Musk — ongoing efforts to dismantle the federal workforce hit a roadblock this week as the courts are still trying to figure out what, if any, actual power the department wields. On Tuesday, a federal judge in Maryland  issued  a scathing rebuke of DOGE’s attempted takeover of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), writing that DOGE’s efforts to shut down the agency “likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways.” Judge Theodore Chuang, who was appointed by former President ...