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The Impact of Virginia’s Supreme Court Gutting the Voting Rights of Thousands As recently as 1965, the United States enforced mandatory state segregation via what was known as “The Jim Crow Laws,” so named in reference to American performer and playwright Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice’s portrayal in blackface of the character named “Jim Crow, which he used to mock and perpetuate derogatory stereotypes of enslaved Black Americans in the 1830s. Rice was a noted racist, often now being...

On Sunday, April 12th, 2026, Donald Trump announced that “effective immediately” the U.S. Navy would be preventing ships from passing through the Iranian-controlled Strait of Hormuz, accusing Iran of “extorting” them. He had previously criticized Iran for blocking the critical oil shipping passageway. This comes after neither the U.S. nor Iran was able to come to terms to end the current war taking place in the region, started by the Trump Administration on February 28th. The current conflict...

On February 24th, 2026, Donald Trump delivered the first State of the Union address of his second term. Besides setting a record for being the longest ever given by any president since these sorts of things have been tracked, it also set a record for lies per minute. In typical Trump fashion, a lot of ketchup was thrown at the wall to see what might stick...and a lot has happened since that evening in late February. Let’s examine just a few key points, shall we? Jobs Created vs. Jobs Lost...