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Patriots owner Robert Kraft is bringing his tackling antisemitism campaign to the Super Bowl with a 30-second ad this Sunday amid a shocking rise in antisemitic incidents since the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel.

"Ah, you know what, you know how to make a 93-year-old man cry," Jones says, his voice cracking up after finding out he is going to be the face of Robert Kraft's anti-antisemitism campaign.

And injunctive relief, just fired tonight in arizona. quote, at least five times last week supporters of defendant clean elections usa, gathered at ballot boxes in arizona with the express purpose of deterring voters from depositing their ballots. things are getting worse. on friday, to the drop box watchers were armed and wearing tactical gear. on saturday, armed and masked individuals were gathered near drop foxes. defendants activities have already prompted three a voter intimidation complain...

The New York Times published its first article on the pentagon papers. Reflecting on the significance of the history it created, the New York Times writing today, quote, the lies revealed in the papers were of a generational scale. And for much of the American Public it seeded a suspicion of government that is even more widespread today. Remember a few years later came watergate, a scandal that forced a president to resign and raised even more distrust in government. And now, along with a republ...

Voting acts. whether joe biden has a strategy for getting that passed is what every democrat wants to know, so much that a group of prominent civil rights and voting rights organizations tolded biden, dont even bother coming if you dont have a plan to articulate for how youre actually going to get this through the senate ahead of this vote that chuck schumer, the senate majority leader, is threatening to change the senate rules if republicans wont get on board with some type of voting rights leg...

For the reauthorization of the voting rights act in 2006 and now will not vote for it. our democracy is fragile as you have said but it only change in democracy that occurs is when the american people demand it and we must continue to demand it. >> this as a republican party trying to explain why not one of the 50 gop senators appears willing to support the actions necessary to protect this right this time around. >> when the senate reauthorized that law a decade ago it passed 98-0. why dont rep...

The line in their voting acts. he said it is beyond distasteful. he said because they broke the law, it does not entitle democrats to break the senate. dont forget, you can also listen to our podcast. download our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. hi, america, erica hill in for ana cabrera. omicron making a rough start to the new year. lets take stock of where were at. theres been an increase in cases, hospitalizations also increasing dramatically surpassing the delta peak we saw in se...

Right all the time, you cant really have democracy and history teaches you that. but i think theres another point which has to do with the future. much as its right for you and i to be talking about the scenarios by which this can all unravel, its also very important to make the point that a working democracy is going to deliver a much better future. its going to represent us. its going to deal with the problems that are ahead of us. its going to make sure that this country continues. its going ...

That moment was the first among the many in her political career. to say that could be for that speech, she became the first black person since reconstruction to win a seat in a texas state senate. it was during her time there as president pro tempore, that you also served as the first black female governor for a day, when the governor and lieutenant governor were both lieutenant governor were both out of the state on government business. jordan would go on to serve as the first black woman to r...

The first black woman to represent texas in congress, serving three terms in the house. but her illustrious career started in a very unassuming way. registering people to vote. in 1960, while volunteering on jfks presidential campaign, jordan managed to get out the vote program in houston. and it is that part of jordans legacy thats inspiring another young woman from texas in her push to expand voting acts across the state. taylor coleman is a democratic strategist was decided to live out of her...