The forgotten history of La Matanza in Texas

Above: Texas Rangers parade down Elizabeth Street in Brownsville, circa 1916. Photograph: Courtesy Robert Runyon Photograph Collection. Life and death on the border: effects of century-old murders still felt in Texas. Many reporters have described the recent mass shooting in El Paso, Texas as the worst modern-day massacre of Mexican-Americans in American history. The qualifier … Read more

Donald Trump failed the moral test of leadership today

Remember when Barack Obama’s longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made incendiary remarks about the United States and its treatment of blacks in sermons? A video included him saying, “God damn America” and characterizing the Sept. 11 attacks as “America’s chickens … coming home to roost.” Oh my God, the conservative media entertainment complex went batshit … Read more

Call Congress back in session to address white supremacist terrorism in America

FBI Director Christopher Wray recently testified before a Congressional hearing that White Supremacists are a major cause of domestic terrorism. Most domestic terrorists come from the white supremacist, anti-abortion, anti-government, and militia movements. Last Sunday, a gunman opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, an annual summer festival in the city of Gilroy, California, located … Read more

BREAKING: Trump retreats on adding a citizenship question to the Census, but reveals the next GOP voter suppression tactic

The media is focused on the obvious: Trump backs away from census citizenship question, direct agencies to hand over citizenship information to Commerce: President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday directing the Commerce Department to obtain citizenship data through means other than the US census, dropping a controversial plan to include a citizenship question … Read more