‘Tsunami’ Of Democratic Victories Delivers Massive Repudiation Of Trump

“They tried to take our healthcare, ban our neighbors, peddle bigotry, and steal for the one percent. Yesterday was the result. Just wait until 2018.”

Jake Johnson
By Jake Johnson
Ben Bostwick, a volunteer with the Northam campaign, adjusts an inflatable Trump chicken at a polling place, Nov. 7, 2017, in Alexandria, Va. Republican candidate for Virginia governor Ed Gillespie faces Democrat Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam in Tuesday's election. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Progressives had an opportunity to deliver a "massive repudiation of Donald Trump"—and of Trumpism more broadly—Tuesday night with gubernatorial and state legislature races taking place across the country Tuesday night, and they delivered in a big way. While it was the high-profile victory of Democrat Ralph Northam over the "unabashedly

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The Power of Hate – In Loving Memory Of Nabra Hassanen

Thousands have signed a petition calling on state and federal officials to investigate the 17-year-old’s death as a hate crime. But the case, like others before, highlights how challenging it is to apply that label and the narrow criteria it needs to meet.

Sarah Abed
By Sarah Abed
17 year-old Nabra Hassanen. (Photo: Facebook)

FAIRFAX, Va - Social engineering has brought us the current political and social climate that we see today.  It has legitimized and validated people who harbored cultural biases. Nabra had three strikes against her, she was black, Muslim, and a female, all three components put her at increased risk of social ostracization and potential

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Muslim Teen Leaving Virginia Mosque Murdered

The attack occurred as a man in London plowed his van into a group Muslim worshipers outside a mosque, killing at least one person.

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
17 year-old Nabra Hassanen. (Photo: Facebook)

Police in Fairfax County, Va, say they believe the remains of a female found in a pond Sunday afternoon are those of a 17-year-old girl who was assaulted and disappeared hours earlier while walking with a group of friends. Multiple news outlets report that the group was walking to a mosque, while others report that they were leaving a

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Virginia Senate Passes Bill That Will Effectively Turns Cops Into Secret Police

“It’s like a secret police force. A police force the public must pay for, but a police force the public is not entitled to look at with any scrutiny”.

Clarice Palmer
By Clarice Palmer
Ferguson

In the United States, the Fourth Estate, also known as the Fourth Power or the fourth branch of government, has always been a popular label for the media’s role in a free society. But in the state of Virginia, legislators want to remove that power from the press by shielding police officers from public scrutiny. Senate Bill 552, which has

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Virginia Man Dies After Being Tasered Over 20 Times While In Police Custody

Police Chief James Binner stated that “The deployments of Tasers when a subject has become violent, causing damage to property and placing the safety of persons at risk, as was the case with Linwood Lambert Jr., is appropriate and necessary use of force.”

USA Today
By USA Today
Linwood Lambert, 46, was tased over 20 times in thirty minutes by police the night he died

A hearing in a wrongful death lawsuit for a man who died in police custody begins Thursday in Virginia. Linwood Lambert, 46, was tased over 20 times in thirty minutes by police the night he died, according to Joe Messa, an attorney for the Lambert family. Lambert's sister, Gwendolyn Smalls, filed the $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against

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Police Bully Family Farm Over ‘Black Lives Matter’ Sign

The police union at the Fairfax Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 77 called for a boycott of the family business, according to local WUSA.

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S. Wooten
By M. David for Counter Current News
And S. Wooten

Published in partnership with CounterCurrent News. Virginia police couldn’t believe a local family farm would have the audacity to post a “black lives matter” sign on their window. Far from just a statement, the phrase has come to indicate support not just for the idea that black lives matter just like all other lives, but also for the wave of

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