Southern Progressives

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — “If I hadn’t been a girl, I’d have been a drag queen.” Dolly Parton has uttered those words famously and often. But if she really were a drag queen, one of Tennessee’s most famous daughters would likely be out of a job under legislation signed into law by Republican Gov.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S.

As I noted a couple of weeks ago, the GOP-controlled North Carolina House of Representatives voted to expand Medicaid to nearly 600,000 state residents under the ACA, nearly a decade after they could have done so. This was actually the second time the NC House voted for Medicaid expansion; last year both the state House and the GOP-controlled state Senate passed different versions of the bill...but were unable to rectify the differences between the versions, and another year went by without expansion being signed into law. Thankfully, it looks like this time it's actually going to happen: Senate leader Phil Berger, joined by Speaker Moore and senior lawmakers on health care, announces the House and Senate have reached an agreement on Medicaid expansion. #ncga #ncpol pic.twitter.com/uqCLcPY8gH — Avi Bajpai (@avibajpai_) March 2, 2023 Speaker Moore says the legislature’s agreement on Medicaid expansion comes after months of discussions with different stakeholders in the health care industry. He says the legislature is glad to reach a “fiscally prudent” agreement on expansion. pic.twitter.com/QjuZUUaO39 — Avi Bajpai (@avibajpai_) March 2, 2023 Moore says this agreement was reached last night and finalized this morning.

The Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators wants Rep. Paul Sherrell to be punished for saying the state should return to “hanging from a tree."

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