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President Donald Trump announces that he will declare a national emergency in order to build a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border without funding from Congress during a press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 15, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump Declares National Emergency at Border to Obtain Wall Funding

by WI Guest Author February 15, 2019October 31, 2020

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the El Paso County Coliseum on Feb. 11, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. Trump continues his campaign for a wall to be built along the border as the Democrats in Congress are asking for other border security measures. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

D Kevin McNeir, Politics

Was Trump’s ‘Last Stand’ in El Paso Foreshadowing of 2020 Game Plan?

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor February 13, 2019October 31, 2020

A security guard stands on the observation deck of the Old Post Office Tower in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 11, 2019. While thousands of National Park Service employees are on furlough and parks and sites are closed across the country due to the partial federal government shutdown, the General Services Administration — which leases the building and tower to the Trump International Hotel — was able to find money to pay park rangers to stay on the job. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

National, Stacy M. Brown

Government Shutdown Hitting Blacks, People of Color the Hardest: CBC

by Stacy M. Brown January 16, 2019October 31, 2020

Lavette Lightford and Lori Mac, members of the National Treasury Employees Union, particpate in a Jan. 10 march in D.C. against the government shutdown. (Barrington M. Salmon/TriceEdney News Wire)

Government Shutdown’s Impact Felt Well Beyond Federal Employees

by WI Guest Author January 15, 2019October 31, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an address on border security in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. Trump demanded Congress provide billions more for border security in a prime-time address to the nation, stopping short of declaring a national emergency and giving little indication of a quick end to a paralyzing political dispute over his proposed wall on the Mexican border. Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/Pool via Bloomberg

EDITORIAL: Trump’s Weak Appeal to Blacks on Border Wall

by WI Guest Author January 9, 2019October 31, 2020

Migrants view a live televised speech by President Donald Trump on border security at a shelter for migrants on January 8, 2019 in Tijuana, Mexico. Tijuana continues to house migrants hoping to cross the border into the U.S. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

EDITORIAL: Are Americans Being Held Hostage for a Wall?

by WI Guest Author January 9, 2019October 31, 2020

Donald Trump

Politics, Stacy M. Brown

Trump Speech Ridiculed by Dems

by Stacy M. Brown January 9, 2019October 31, 2020

Donald Trump

Op-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: A Petulant President Shuts Down Government and Insults Working People

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. January 2, 2019October 31, 2020

The Smithsonian National Zoo Main gate is closed to the public on Jan. 2, 2019, in Washington, D.C. With the new Congress scheduled to start on Jan. 3, Congressional Democrats and Republicans have not come to a bipartisan solution to President Donald Trump's demands for more money to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Federal Shutdown Lurches On; Trump Meets with Leaders of Congress to ‘Make a Deal’

by WI Guest Author January 2, 2019October 31, 2020

Courtesy of ACLU via Facebook

Trump Likens Border Fight to Wall Around Obama Compound

by WI Guest Author December 31, 2018October 31, 2020