Tag: History of the United States

The prospective candidates mostly lack political experience, but they have ambition – a trait that is celebrated at Emerge Virginia, part of the Emerge America national training program for Democratic women started in California in 2002. Over the next several months of training, Copeland will help connect the trainees with party leaders, elected officials and the sprawling network of Emerge alumnae – many of whom are now positioned to help other women climb the ladder. In early 2017, Copeland received a text messagefrom Jennifer Boysko, an old friend and alumna of a previous Emerge Virginia program who was, at the time, a member of the Virginia house of delegates. She learned that Spanberger was already considering a run for Congress, so Copeland encouraged Dart and she decided to give it a go. You can’t.” After the original Year of the Woman saw a wave of glass-ceiling-smashing and barrier-breaking women were elected to Congress in 1992, progress toward gender parity essentially plateaued. Debra Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, thinks the female-led activism and momentum generated by big gains for women in the Trump era are signs that 2018 was not an outlier – but neither was it “mission accomplished”. “We had a record number of women running, but we need to see more, because we know that when women run they win at the same rate as men do.” In 2020, more women are running for president than ever before. Before 2018, the voters of Virginia’s 7th district had never elected a woman – or a Democrat – to the seat. “One of the lessons we learned in 2018 is that no matter what has historically been the case we cannot judge what voters want because we’ve now been proven wrong multiple times.” As the afternoon waned on the first day of Emerge Virginia’s candidate training, communication coach Courtney Knapp asked for a show of hands of those who had ever been told they were “too” emotional, “too” abrasive, or “too” ambitious. “We are en fuego, ladies,” High told them.

David Blight on Frederick Douglass: 'I call him beautifully human' Read more Harvard professor Jill Lepore chooses to begin her history of the United States with that quotation, and much of the worst of America, from lynching to brutality to Native Americans, is rightly here. Is it possible for the US – or any nation – to be ruled by reason and choice? This is, therefore, a history of political equality which necessarily becomes primarily a political history. The question nearly sundered the colonies from all government. Like so many Americans, Lepore asks that question and another: “By what right are we ruled?” Her aims are ambitious. Finally, “this book aims to be something else, too – an explanation of the nature of the past.” “History isn’t only a subject,” Lepore writes. Lepore offers an unabashedly liberal perspective, but seeks to be scrupulously fair to the modern conservative movement American politics has always been robust, but technology and better methods of analysis have magnified the impact. She offers an unabashedly liberal perspective, but seeks to be scrupulously fair to the modern conservative movement, devoting numerous pages to its intellectual origins as well as to its nativist and conspiratorial elements. This is a history for the 21st century, far more inclusive than the standard histories of the past. Lincoln did not say merely that we “can” save the country, but that we “shall”.

When gunmakers and dealers gather this week in Las Vegas for the industry's largest annual conference, they will be grappling with slumping sales and a shift in politics that many didn't envision two years ago when gun-friendly Donald Trump and a GOP-controlled Congress took office. Instead, fueled by the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the federal government banned bump stocks and newly in-charge U.S. House Democrats introduced legislation that would require background checks for virtually every firearm sale, regardless of whether it's from a gun dealer or a private sale. Even without Democrats' gains in November's midterm elections, the industry was facing a so-called "Trump slump," a plummet in sales that happens amid gun rights-friendly administrations. Background checks were at an all-time high in 2016, President Barack Obama's last full year in office, numbering more than 27.5 million; since then, background checks have been at about 25 million each year. You didn't have President Obama to put up in PowerPoint and say 'He's the best gun salesman, look what he's doing to our country,'" he said. Robert J. Spitzer, chairman of political science at the State University of New York at Cortland and a longtime watcher of gun issues, said that not only have shifting politics made it difficult for the gun industry to gain ground but high-profile mass shootings — like the Las Vegas shooting that happened just miles from where the SHOT Show will be held and the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting — also cast a pall. This year's show will again allow reporters from mainstream media to attend. Joe Bartozzi, the new president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said the industry isn't disturbed by the drop in gun sales or the shift in federal politics. But other industry priorities, such as reciprocity between states for carrying certain concealed firearms and a measure that would ease restrictions on purchasing suppressors that help muffle the sound when a gun is fired, failed to gain traction. The hope is that increasing the number of public ranges will encourage more people to become hunters.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - The 2018-19 government shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history, and neither side shows signs of budging on their positions. The most obvious compromise is more fencing along the southern border in exchange for a path to citizenship for DACA kids, the nearly 1 million "dreamers" brought to the USA illegally when they were children. However, both sides have previously rejected deals involving DACA. Newly-inaugurated governor Ron DeSantis still has two more justices to appoint to the Florida Supreme Court. Last week, DeSantis picked Barbara Lagoa to fill the first of three open spots on the court. This week the candidates for Tampa mayor will officially qualify to run for the office. The city of Lakeland will hold a special election on Tuesday to fill the seat left open by Michael Dunn, the Lakeland city commissioner who was charged with second-degree murder after shooting a man who tried to leave his store with a stolen hammer. The League of Women Voters of Northern Pinellas County will hold a forum for the candidates for Tarpon Springs mayor and city commissioner #3. The event is from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday evening at the Tarpon Springs City Hall. Watch Politics On Your Side with host Evan Donovan every Sunday morning at 9:30 right before Meet the Press.

(Yes, her legal name is Kelly Kelly.) He wanted me to plant questions for Muskie ... "Black advance" means dirty fixture ... Can you compare the Watergate scandal with Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election in favor of now-President Donald Trump? There’s a parallel between the Nixon White House trying to influence who the Democrats would choose as his opponent (in 1972) and the Russians trying to meddle in our election in favor of one candidate. Whether it was Trump’s fault or not, most people would not deny the Russians (were involved). Even on a casual basis, people can hide behind the monitor, and everybody’s 10 feet tall on the internet. There are people working full time — for China, for Russia, for Germany, for Great Britain, for Israel — to figure out how to compromise someone else’s networks. After that, I got involved in security because of my dad ... (He continues later) I started my own company with a partner.

The present Russian investigation hit its “have you no sense of decency” moment last week when Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russians for defrauding America. View Cartoon In 2016, the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election. Attorney General Sessions recused himself because people told him he may be a spy and he said, sure, why not. Then, when people got mad at him for that, he appointed a special counsel, Robert Mueller, to investigate the president because the firing suggested that he was a Russian spy. The special counsel statute requires the referral to identify a crime. During the special counsel’s tenure, the House and the Senate uncovered oodles of evidence that foreign nationals were providing Hillary Clinton with opposition research meant to influence the election. The special counsel, though, ignored it and instead indicted the hapless internet trolls. They could point out that foreign nationals try to influence American elections all the time, but they were singled out for exercising their right to free speech, guaranteed even to foreigners by the U.S. Constitution. They could introduce evidence that millions of illegals in American – yes, even the Dreamers –were organizing, marching, and otherwise helping Hillary Clinton in the last election. This indictment confirms that.