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'We Can Shock the World': Kentucky Progressive Charles Booker Considers US Senate Run

Kentucky Democrat Charles Booker formed an exploratory committee to consider running against for the U.S. Senate in 2022. (Photo: Charles Booker/YouTube)

'Say Her Name': Rallies and Marches Mark One-Year Anniversary of Breonna Taylor's Killing

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Tamika Palmer, mother of Breonna Taylor, and others stand with their fists up during a memorial protest in Jefferson Square Park on March 13, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky.

"This is not a celebration. This is the anniversary of something that should not have happened."

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McConnell Headed Back to US Senate, But Will Reviled Republican Remain Majority Leader?

Common Dreams staff

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) talks with reporters following the weekly Senate Republican Policy Committee luncheon in the U.S. Capitol November 28, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The Kentucky Republican fends off challenge from centrist Democrat Amy McGrath.

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Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Speaks Out, Accusing AG Cameron of Misrepresenting Proceedings

Julia Conley, staff writer

A judge ruled that grand jury records regarding the Taylor case should be...

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"He's So Proud of How Little He's Done": Watch McConnell Laugh When Confronted on Covid Inaction

People gather at Breonna Taylor's makeshift memorial in an area activists have renamed Injustice Square Park in downtown Louisville on September 26, 2020 to protest a Kentucky grand jury's failure to charge any police officers for the March killing of Taylor. (Photo: Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Kentucky AG Ordered to Release Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Tapes After Juror Demands 'Full Story and Absolute Truth'

'The Whole Damn System Is Guilty as Hell': Protests Erupt After No Officers Charged for Killing Breonna Taylor

A view of a memorial to Breonna Taylor in Jefferson Square Park in downtown Louisville, Kentucky prior to the September 23, 2020 announcement of the results of a grand jury inquiry into the police officers involved in the killing of Taylor (Photo: Jeff Dean/AFP)

'Property More Valuable Than Human Life': No Charges Against Officers for Killing Breonna Taylor

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at Times Square in New York City on August 9, 2020 to call for justice in the case of Breonna Taylor. (Photo: Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

'We Must Not Lose Focus': Louisville To Pay $12 Million to Family of Breonna Taylor, But Officers Not Yet Charged

U.S. Senate candidates Andrew Romanoff of Colorado and Charles Booker of Kentucky were defeated in Democratic primary races in June.

Sunrise Movement Says Wins by Corporate Democrats Like McGrath and Hickenlooper Must Be 'Moment of Reckoning' for Progressives

'A Very Strong Run,' But Booker Falls Short to Establishment-Backed McGrath in Kentucky Primary

Potential Political 'Earthquake' Brewing as Booker Takes Lead Over McGrath in Kentucky

'We Are On the Verge of Something Big': Late Booker Surge Against McGrath Leaves Kentucky Primary Too Close to Call

'What Voter Suppression Looks Like': Do NY and Kentucky Primary Issues Foretell a Disaster for November?

Residents cast votes at St. Paul Methodist Church November 5, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Voting Rights Advocates Warn of Impending 'Disaster' in Kentucky After Bid to Increase Slashed Number of Polling Sites Fails

If Defeated by Booker in Democratic Primary, McGrath Urged to Hand Over Surplus Millions to Topple McConnell

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Accountable.US

Senator McConnell’s Not-So-Skinny Relief Package For Coal and Mining Special Interests Failed For A Reason

MoveOn.org

New Ad Campaign, Banned by Gannett-Owned Outlets, Calls out Senators for Putting Profits Before People in the Coronavirus Relief Negotiations

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

Working People Win Big in Virginia and Kentucky

Together Frankfort

Kentucky Poor People’s Campaign Shut Out of State Capitol Second Week in a Row

Food & Water Watch

New Analysis Reveals Martin County Water Crisis a Perfect Storm of Coal Industry Power, Mismanagement and Disinvestment

ACLU

Court Grants Request That Keeps Kentucky’s Last Abortion Clinic Open

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Carl Gibson

Booker's Loss Was Devastating. But We Can't Lose Sight of Defeating McConnell

Alan Minsky

If You Want Joe Biden to Govern More Like FDR Than Jamie Dimon, Vote for Bernie Sanders on Tuesday in New York and Kentucky

Chris Kromm

Southern States Take Up Fight For Bold Democracy Reforms

Hayley Farless

Supreme Court’s Newest Move on Abortion Approves Torture for Pregnant People

Sarah Lazare

Kentucky Miners Are Blocking a Coal Train for Back Pay. We Talked to One About a Just Transition.

Alexa Kolbi-Molinas

Alabama Is the Most Explicit Example of What's Been Happening to Abortion Rights for Decades

Jeff Bryant

Will Teacher Uprisings Change Democrats?

Jamila Michener

How Trump’s Medicaid Restrictions Will Stop People From Voting

Juliette Verlaque

Why I Help Escort Women to the Doors of Kentucky’s Last Abortion Clinic

Mary Bottari

Koch Astroturf Army Cheers Union Busting in Kentucky