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DeSantis embraces ‘left-wing stuff’, by Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

As extreme weather caused floods in Kentucky, collapse of the water system in Jackson, Miss., and the savage destruction of Central Florida—to say nothing of fires and drought and a growing water shortage in the West—we ought to agree on two simple realities: America faces a growing challenge from both catastrophic climate change and a growing infrastructure deficit that is putting lives and communities at risk.

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A question of justice, by Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

In 1838, in a shameful chapter of American history, U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott forced tens of thousands of Cherokee Indians – one of the “Five Civilized Tribes” that had embraced the customs and language of white settlers – to march 1,200 miles to what was designated “Indian Territory” across the Mississippi (centered in what is now Oklahoma).

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Democracy should not be a partisan issue, by Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

While the United States champions democracy across the world, our own democracy is under siege. Nothing is more fundamental to democracy than the right to vote – yet there is no explicit guarantee of the right to vote in the U.S. Constitution.