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Kenny Stancil at Common Dreams writes—

Shedding more light on a significant electoral trend that progressives have drawn attention to in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, a new analysis by Earther found that of the 93 House co-sponsors of the Green New Deal resolution who ran for reelection this year, only one lost their congressional race.

The last time we saw Mark and Patricia McCloskey, they had cleaned themselves up to give an impassioned re-branding speech at the Republican National Convention. In that speech they warned America that the Democratic Party would “abolish suburbs.” Very on-brand for the couple whose singular claim to fame is coming outside of their expensive St. Louis home to threaten peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters with guns. They received some felony charges for that.

Jon Ossoff has challenged Sen. David Perdue to three live televised debates before their January 5, 2021 runoff election. 

“Our country continues to face great challenges—acute public health and economic crises, persistent economic hardship for working families, unequal justice under the law, deep political divisions, and widespread corruption in our political system,” Ossoff wrote in a letter to Perdue.

The coronavirus pandemic has been criminally handled by the Trump administration. In recent weeks, Texas has surged past California to become the state with the most cases of confirmed COVID-19 infection. Texas has also had a much higher rate of infection than California has. Now its rate of death is increasing as well.

There’s a reason why Black women have been so enthusiastically highlighting our own contributions in the presidential race netting President-elect Joe Biden the election, and it’s not only that his running mate, Kamala Harris, is slated to make history as the first Black and South Asian American woman to serve as vice president. Granted, the new historical precedence is a large part of the reason why, but that’s hardly the whole story.