By Jesse Jackson Last week, President Trump, in a rambling stump speech in Montana, bizarrely compared his oratory to that of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, arguing (incorrectly) that Lincoln was “ridiculed” for the speech. “He was excoriated by the fake news. …Fifty years after his death, they said it may have been the greatest speech […]
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Future of Democratic Party Lies in Moving to the Moral Center
By Jesse Jackson The media is now reporting on the debate among Democrats and activists about what the party should stand for, and how it will win elections. Establishment Democrats said fear that the populist reform energy represented by Bernie Sanders and rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who upset Rep. Joe Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat in […]
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Trump Won’t Protect Our Elections, So States Must Step Up
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Russian President Vladimir Putin came late to the Helsinki Summit with Donald Trump on Monday and spoke first at the news conference afterward. He handed Trump a soccer ball from the World Cup, but he clearly walked away with the trophy for the World Cup of politics, largely because Trump, […]
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Arrogant Supreme Court Justices Trample the Law in Service of the Rich
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. We are witnessing an astounding attack on democracy by the five male right-wing majority of the Supreme Court—“black robed rulers,” Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan called them, “overruling citizens’ choices” in a series of 5-4 decisions. These are right-wing lawless judges ignoring the laws and will of our elected representatives […]
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Slave Owners and Nazis Quote Romans 13 to Justify Immorality, Too
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. The Trump administration has separated some 2,000 children from their parents, most of whom have come to the United States seeking asylum. Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited the Bible, Romans 13, as justification for this zero-tolerance immigration policy. The first verse reads: “Everyone is to obey the governing authorities, because […]
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Credit South Korean President for Setting Up Trump-Kim Summit
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. The summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un got on track because of the extraordinary leadership of South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Remember how we got here. In 2017, Trump and Kim were trading insults and threats. Trump called Kim “Rocket Man” in his first […]
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Hold fast against the assault on Dr. King’s legacy
By Jesse Jackson The 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination comes amid a fierce struggle for the soul of America. We will celebrate the progress that has been made since Dr. King was taken from us in 1968, and decry the agenda that is still unfinished. But we cannot ignore the systematic effort – […]
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Home-Grown Reactionaries, Not Russians, are Greatest Threat to Our Elections
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. This past weekend, we once again gathered in Selma, Ala., to commemorate “Bloody Sunday,” the March 7, 1965, march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge that was savagely put down by police. That march – and the march from Selma to Montgomery that followed under federal protection – helped galvanize public […]
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Janus Case is Part of Continuing Attack on Workers
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Janus v. AFSCME; a ruling is expected in a few months. The case is the culmination of a concerted right-wing attack on the unions of teachers, police officers, firefighters, nurses and other public sector workers. If successful, it […]
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Tax Cut Will Widen the Racial Wage Gap
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. President Donald Trump keeps boasting about the low black unemployment rate, although African Americans still suffer nearly twice the unemployment rate as whites do. What Trump never mentions is the growing racial wealth gap: the economic disparity between whites and people of color that plagues this country. The statistics from […]