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Virginia Republican assistant attorney general resigns amid January 6 social media posts

Government, National, News, Politics, Stacey M. Brown, Stacy Brown / By aframnews

Monique Miles, the Republican deputy attorney general for Virginia, has resigned after facing a firestorm of controversy when photos of her appeared on social media applauding insurrectionists during the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Miles’s office didn’t become aware of the images until Thursday, February 10, a spokesperson said. The social media posts …

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Jan. 6 Insurrection a year later. What if they were Black?

National, News / By aframnews

By: Roy Douglas Malonson January 6, 2020 marked a day of dishonesty and treason as the nation watched violent criminals attack and occupy the Capitol building. This act of domestic terrorism was met with seemingly zero repercussions against the insurrectionists, but instead with politicians and right-wingers blatantly lying about the events that occurred that day …

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Democrats failure at federal level causes catastrophic losses in Virginia, elsewhere

National, NNPA, NNPA Newswire, Politics, Stacey M. Brown, Stacy Brown / By aframnews

By: Stacy M. Brown Election night proved as much an indictment on current Democratic leadership and the party’s inability to pass meaningful legislation. It also was a show of strength by Republicans as they continue to unite after former President Donald Trump’s resounding loss in the 2020 election cycle. In a state that President Joe …

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January 6, 2021: The Day when history rhymed

Columnists, Commentary, Editorial, Opinion / By aframnews

History, like a human life, is benchmarked by watershed-seminal events that either reset the compass of men or nations towards loftier plateaus or into deeper trouble. The election campaign of 1864 was viewed in its time as one of those watersheds in America’s young life… The United States was split int two, gripped in a …

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Virginia Republican assistant attorney general resigns amid January 6 social media posts

Jan. 6 Insurrection a year later. What if they were Black?

Democrats failure at federal level causes catastrophic losses in Virginia, elsewhere

January 6, 2021: The Day when history rhymed

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