Rodney K. Nickens Jr., J.D.

One year ago I filed to run in Chesapeake with no infrastructure, no operation, and no guarantee it would work. We built it anyway. This is the real story of what we built and why Virginia needs year-round organizing. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/rodney4vir…

Kristen Clarke did not leave the Justice Department quietly. She left, took the general counsel position at the NAACP, marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday in March, and then sat down to explain precisely what was done. The cases her division spent years building — carefully constructed voting rights enforcement actions — were "withdrawn from the courts, dismissed without basis, without any justification offered to the public." No explanation. No legal rationale offered. Gone. She documented what replaced the people who built those cases: "reckless, sloppy work." Missing filing deadlines. Typos in court filings. An official who accidentally revealed a federal civil rights probe in a social media post. "Its ranks are now being filled by people who are inexperienced, who don't know what they're doing, who've never enforced federal laws before." The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department is the unit that enforced the Voting Rights Act, pursued discriminatory redistricting, and brought cases against jurisdictions that systematically blocked minority voters. Clarke calls it "nothing more than a shadow of its former self." She is now general counsel at the organization that will litigate against the department she built. The person who wrote those cases is now the person who will try to bring them back in court. That is not a footnote. That is the next chapter.

Virginia, if you’re ready to stop Republicans in their scheme to rig the midterms, vote YES on the redistricting referendum. Early voting is now open until Saturday, April 18, so find your polling place at IWillVote.com.

RT if you miss having a Vice President who was respected around the world.

CNN poll: Trump now has the worst net approval rating among independents of any president in recorded polling history. 10 points worse than Nixon right before he resigned. Nixon resigned. Trump is at -45 with independents. The coalition that decides American elections has decided.

There it is. While families can’t afford day care, health care, or even their rent, Donald Trump is willing to spend your money instead on a never-ending war in the Middle East.

Basically cutting anything that has to do with Black people

🚨 🇺🇸 Breaking: An hour after announcing his resignation, the US Army Chief of Staff says: "A madman will lead the great US military to ruin."

they love to talk about Mamdani and rent freezes and free childcare. Both were policies Kamala ran on. She also had a housing plan to build 3 million properties, that was called the most aggressive housing plan since FDR. But I guess that’s what “centrist” run on.

Everyone MVP Kamala Harris is back & you know what that means!! She is walking into 2028 like this to win the 2028 nomination & we are electing her!! She is a boss & those other candidates can pack it up!! 🔥 #KamalaHarris2028 is coming!!! 💯👀 🎥: Thedemocrats

RT if you miss having a President with empathy

I don’t want to be stuck with Donald Trump for another three years. He must be removed before he absolutely destroys our great country. Repost if you agree.

Joe Biden is being seen on planes and trains on the daily and becoming a star in TikTok. Amazing.

NEW: New polling reveals a slim majority of Virginians favor Democrats’ redistricting plan that aims to win the party up to four more seats in Congress and counter GOP gerrymanders in other states. Early voting is ongoing, with election day coming up April 21. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/vi…

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Local coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit to Phoenix, AZ today. She stopped by a local restaurant (Huarachis Taqueria) for dinner with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego. 🎥: FOX10 News

Hegseth wasted $15M on ribeye steaks, $7M on lobster, and $98K on a grand piano — while Trump spent $400M on a ballroom, millions on private jets, and profited over $1.4B off the presidency. All while saying they don’t have enough money for your healthcare, child care or really anything for you.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. No one is coming to save us. Once people realize this we can lock in

Al Sharpton on Kamala Harris 2028: “I wouldn't ignore the fact that she’s absolutely a potent force in the Black community,” Sharpton told Playbook. “I do not have any idea whether she's going to try to go again, but I think she's due all the respect for what she did, and the fact that she got more votes than any presidential candidate in American history, other than Trump. I think she has been ignored, and we're going to raise that at our convention.” politico.com/playbook

AOC just exposed the whole play: Keep America divided so they can loot the economy, gut healthcare, and funnel billions into ICE and surveillance contracts for companies like Palantir

The General's are gone. The AG is gone. We started a war. Gas is up. Healthcare is up. Prescriptions are up. The rich are richer. The poor are poorer. Protesters have been killed. Service members have been killed. The law is a suggestion. The Constitution is a memory.