The Latest Breaking News from Justin Jones

Across the country, the illogical priorities of the right have become more and more glaring. And nowhere is this worse than in Tennessee, where conservatives have banned books and drag shows but have done nothing to protect kids from what is now their most likely cause of death: gun violence.…

GOPers funded by Koch Industries, which is owned by the conservative Koch family and has worked to loosen gun laws

Commissioners in Memphis are scheduled to decide whether to return a Black Democrat to the Republican-led Tennessee House

Despite the claims of politicians and the media, the expulsion of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson is far from ‘unprecedented’

Justin Jones says a Republican lawmaker told him he was asked by leadership to file the resolution to expel him

Rep Justin Jones was reinstated by Nashville’s metro council earlier this week

Their expulsion over a gun reform protest has attracted national attention.

State leaders reportedly threatened local funds needed to run schools if Jones and Justin Pearson are reinstated

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All that Tennessee Republicans achieved with the expulsion of two duly elected Democratic Party members of the Tennessee legislature was to provide raw material for social media-fueled outrage, help the Democratic fundraising arm and turn a pair of progressive young Black legislators into national political figures.

The removal of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee legislature last week, for disrupting proceedings in the state House of Representatives during protests of inaction on gun violence, dispensed with racial symbolism and dog whistles. It was a raw racial drama, an overt and aggressive complement to the racial realities…