U.S. Senate
Angela Alsobrooks, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester Achieve Historic Firsts Winning U.S. Senate Seats
Angela Alsobrooks and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester are the first women and first Black women to be elected to the U.S. Senate in their states.
Hill Harper Announces Run For Vacant Michigan Senate Seat
Hill Harper wants to ditch Hollywood for Washington D.C.
Ruben Gallego Announces Run For Kyrsten Sinema’s Senate Seat
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tom Williams / Getty Congressman Ruben Gallego has officially announced that he will run for Senator in Arizona, challenging current Senator Kyrsten Sinema. On Monday (Jan. 23), the Democratic member of the House of Representatives announced that he intends to run for Senator in the state of Arizona in 2024. Ruben Gallego released a video of himself addressing a group of veterans in the town of Guadalupe, saying: “You’re the first group of people that are hearing this besides my family. I will be challenging Kyrsten Sinema for the United States Senate, and I need all of your support.” Gallego, who is of Colombian and Mexican descent, released an announcement video in English and Spanish afterward. “As a Marine, I never back down from a fight and in the Se...
Coke or Crack?: DOJ Revises Drug Case Rules To Combat Racial Disparities
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Pete Marovich / Getty The Department of Justice is now moving to right a historic wrong by instructing prosecutors to eliminate racial disparities in cases in drug cases at the behest of U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. On Friday (Dec. 16th), Garland issued directives to federal prosecutors to pursue the same charges and establish equivalent sentencing for both cocaine powder and crack cocaine. The current law sees people who are convicted of possessing 28 grams of crack cocaine receive a mandatory sentence of five years in prison. That same sentence is only given to those who are convicted of possessing nearly twenty times that amount in the powdered form of cocaine. The previous situation highlighted how Black and Latinx defendants were unfairly g...
Sen. Raphael Warnock Defeats Herschel Walker In Georgia Senate Runoff
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 10 hours ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first...
Sen. Raphael Warnock Defeats Herschel Walker In Georgia Senate Runoff
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 10 hours ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first...
Trump Blasts “Loser” McConnell For Condemning Fuentes Meeting
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty Donald Trump is extremely angry with Mitch McConnell, ripping the congressman who had criticized his meeting with white nationalist Nick Fuentes last week. Former President Trump was asked to respond to comments from Senate Minority Leader McConnell during an interview with Fox News Digital on Tuesday (November 29th). McConnell stated his opinion in a broad way on the pre-Thanksgiving dinner Trump had with Ye aka Kanye West and Fuentes last week in a press conference earlier in the day. “Let me just say again, there is simply no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy,”, the senator from Kentucky said to reporters. He continued: “That would apply to all of the leaders in the party who will be seeking offices.” “M...
Race Expert Newt Gingrich Says Herschel Walker Is Better “African American” Over Sen. Warnock
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty An attempt by Newt Gingrich to endorse Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker over Sen. Raphael Warnock wound up being deeply offensive. As the runoff election to decide who will occupy the Senate seat from Georgia approaches, many on the right wing are lending support to the GOP’s candidate Walker. Former House Speaker Gingrich, who also represented Georgia, went on conservative personality Charlie Kirk’s show to endorse Walker over the incumbent Democratic Senator Warnock with an eye-raising opinion. Gingrich expressed that despite both candidates being Black, he felt Walker stood out more because of his business acumen and struggles with mental health. “I think that Herschel Walker has the courage, the integrity to be a...
Jamal Bryant Gives Fiery Sermon Blasting Herschel Walker, Goes Viral
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Pastor Jamal Bryant laid into Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker in a recent sermon that has gone viral for its blistering tone. On Sunday (Oct. 30), Bryant began his sermon before his congregation at Newbirth Baptist Missionary Church in Atlanta with a decidedly firm tone as he spoke of the GOP’s candidate running against current Senator Raphael Warnock. “They thought we was so slow, that we was so stupid, that we would elect the lowest caricature of a stereotypical, broken Black man…. “ he began. “Since Herschel Walker was 16 years old, white men been telling him what to do, telling him what school to go to, where to live… where to pay for abortions, where to buy a gun, and you think they not gon’ tell him how to vote?” Br...
GOP Senator Implies He Wants To Bring Back Segregation In Response To Roe V. Wade Decision
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty White conservatives stay telling on themselves on Twitter—and then pretending the racist sh*t they said wasn’t racist. Former President Barack Obama posted a simple tweet joining most Americans in condemning the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade, which ends constitutionally protected abortion rights. “Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans,” Obama wrote. Related Stories In response, Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) shared Obama’s post with a caption that naturally led people to believe this man wanted to bring back seg...
Cap’n MAGA: Herschel Walker Falsely Claims He Was A Cop
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty Georgia Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker is once again facing scrutiny after making another false claim—this time, stating that he was once an officer with law enforcement and the F.B.I. According to reports, the former Heisman Trophy-winning running back claimed that he once worked for the Cobb County Police Department in Georgia during a speech he made in 2017. His campaign claimed that he occupied the position of “honorary deputy” there as well as in three other counties. When contacted, the police department said it had no record of him working there. Related Stories The former football star endorsed by former President Donald Trump also made another false claim, stating that he was an agent with ...
Cap’n MAGA: Herschel Walker Falsely Claims He Was A Cop
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty Georgia Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker is once again facing scrutiny after making another false claim—this time, stating that he was once an officer with law enforcement and the F.B.I. According to reports, the former Heisman Trophy-winning running back claimed that he once worked for the Cobb County Police Department in Georgia during a speech he made in 2017. His campaign claimed that he occupied the position of “honorary deputy” there as well as in three other counties. When contacted, the police department said it had no record of him working there. Related Stories The former football star endorsed by former President Donald Trump also made another false claim, stating that he was an agent with ...
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