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After Trump’s win, Black women are rethinking their role as America’s reliable political organizers
By KENYA HUNTERUpdated 6:57 AM CST, November 24, 2024
ATLANTA (AP) — As she checked into a recent flight to Mexico for vacation, Teja Smith chuckled at the idea of joining another Women’s March on Washington.
As a Black woman, she just couldn’t see herself helping to replicate the largest act of resistance against then-President Donald Trump’s first term in January 2017. Even in an election this year where Trump questioned his opponent’s race, held rallies featuring racist insults and falsely claimed Black migrants in Ohio were eating residents’ pets, he didn’t just win a second term. He became the first Republican in two decades to clinch the popular vote, although by a small margin.
“It’s like the people have spoken and this is what America looks like,” said Smith, the Los Angeles-based founder of the advocacy social media agency, Get Social. “And there’s not too much more fighting that you’re going to be able to do without losing your own sanity.”
After Trump was declared the winner over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, many politically engaged Black women said they were so dismayed by the outcome that they were reassessing — but not completely abandoning — their enthusiasm for electoral politics and movement organizing.
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www.nbcnews.comThe rising price of paying the national debt is a risk for Trump's promises on growth and inflation
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Trump’s AG pick Pam Bondi is more conventional than Gaetz but the agenda to disrupt the Justice Department won’t change | CNN Politics
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www.cnn.comAfter Trump's Project 2025 denials, he is tapping its authors and influencers for key roles
During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump denied knowing anything about the “ridiculous and abysmal” plans, even though some were written by his former aides and many allies.
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Senate GOP motivated to rapidly confirm Trump nominations ahead of party trifecta in Washington
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CBS News poll finds Trump starts on positive note as most approve of transition handling
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www.cbsnews.comTrump's Republican Party is increasingly winning union voters. It's a shift seen in his labor pick
Working-class voters helped Republicans make steady election gains this year and expanded a coalition that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members.
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National security officials meet with US telecom execs to share intel on Chinese cyber-espionage campaign, White House says | CNN Politics
Top telecom executives met with US national security officials at the White House on Friday as concerns mount over a long-running Chinese cyber-espionage campaign that has targeted some of the most senior US political figures in the country.
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Alcohol, antipathy cloud Pete Hegseth sex assault allegations with conflicting accounts
Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department changed his account of whether he was drunk during a 2017 encounter investigated as a sexual assault.
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Trump takes aim at government as public faith in US institutions continues to erode
A new Trump administration readies the dismantling of a government it was elected to manage – the very objective his most ardent supporters demand.
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Putin's threats escalate after Russia fires new hypersonic missile at Ukraine
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Klobuchar says she can't make a decision on Trump nominees without FBI background checks
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Trump taps Rollins as agriculture chief, completing proposed slate of Cabinet secretaries
President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary.
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Senators bracing for confirmation battles over unorthodox Trump Cabinet picks | CNN Politics
Republicans avoided a confirmation firestorm when former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration as attorney general, but lawmakers on Capitol Hill are already bracing for how they’ll navigate the next slew of unorthodox Trump picks — and they have warned the president-elect’s choice to lead...
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