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Commentary: Tennessee Republicans can’t stop progress

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.…

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Koch backs Republicans behind expulsions

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

Salon

2nd Black lawmaker could be returned to Tennessee House

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

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Removing Black lawmakers is voter suppression – and the US has done it for centuries

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

The Guardian - US

A Grateful Dead drag tribute band are playing a show in protest at Tennessee’s recent drag ban

Grateful Dead drag tribute band Bertha claim to be the freak result of a mix-up between DNA from Jerry Garcia's severed finger and Woodstock's infamous brown acid

Louder

Tennessee governor calls for ‘red flag’ law and stronger background checks after gun control protests

Days after GOP lawmakers expelled two Democratic officials over gun control protests demanding urgent reform, the state’s Republican governor is calling for a more-expansive ‘order of protection’ law

The Independent UK

ESPN projects Hendon Hooker as most likely pick for Vikings at No. 23

A predictor model from ESPN has Tennessee QB Hendon Hooker with the highest odds to be selected at 23rd overall by the Minnesota Vikings.

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Reinstated Tennessee lawmaker reveals conversation with Republican who forced him out over gun protest

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

The Independent UK

As shootings hit close to home, govs wrestle with next steps

Two weeks after one of his wife’s closest friends was killed in a Nashville school shooting, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday called for legislation that would keep firearms away from people who could harm themselves or others

The Independent UK

One in five Americans have lost a family member to gun violence

Both the Kentucky and Tennessee governors have lost close family friends in mass shootings in the past two weeks.

The Independent UK

Economy and Society, April 11, 2023: Tennessee joins open letter opposing ESG

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

Ballotpedia

Tennessee Republican accused of calling Democrat expelled over gun protest a ‘baboon’ in 2020

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

The Independent UK

Titans’ NFL draft history with No. 41 overall pick

A look at the three players the Tennessee Titans have taken at No. 41 overall in the NFL draft in franchise history.

USA Today Sports Media Group

What's next for the Tennessee House lawmakers who were expelled

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

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Should the Raiders avoid Tennessee QB Hendon Hooker?

Salon

Justin Jones reinstated amid GOP threat

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

USA Today Sports Media Group

2023 NFL Draft: Hendon Hooker scouting report

Hooker is one of the most polarizing prospects in the draft

Tribune News Service

Francis Wilkinson: Tennessee politics and US gun policies are both warped by racism

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…

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Chicago Tribune

Editorial: The alarming rise of extremist anger solves nothing

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

Black lawmaker who was expelled reinstated to Tennessee House seat

The Nashville city council voted unanimously to send Justin Jones back to the Legislature after he was ousted with a colleague last week. He immediately took the oath of office.

The Independent UK

Judges block Tennessee move to cut Nashville council in half

A panel of judges has temporarily blocked a new requirement passed by state Republican lawmakers that would cut the Democratic-leaning city of Nashville’s Metropolitan Council in half, from 40 members to 20

Al Jazeera

Expelled Nashville lawmaker returns to Tennessee legislature

The Metro Nashville Council has voted unanimously to reappoint Justin Jones, 27, to his seat in the state legislature.

Tribune News Service

Black lawmaker Justin Jones reinstated to Tennessee House after GOP expulsion

Nashville’s metro council voted Monday to reinstate Tennessee state lawmaker Justin Jones, who was expelled from his elected position last week by a Republican supermajority.

WEKU

Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones returns to Capitol after Nashville Council reinstates him

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, who was expelled from the state House last week alongside former Rep. Justin Pearson of Memphis, was reinstated to his seat Monday on an interim basis.

The Independent UK

Nashville votes to reinstate Justin Jones, Tennessee legislator expelled by Republicans for gun protest

Fellow expelled lawmaker could be sent back to state legislature as soon as Wednesday

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