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Kaia Hubbard at CBS News:

Washington — Party leaders and rising stars will address delegates in Chicago this week as the Democratic National Convention gets underway, with speeches honoring President Biden's time in office while celebrating a new name atop the ticket.  

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Speakers for the 2024 Democratic National Convention

Three presidents, leaders in Congress and other prominent members of the party are expected to address the convention this week as Democrats gear up for November's election. 

Though the full speaker schedule for the entire week has yet to be released, convention officials confirmed the speakers for Monday:

Minyon Moore, convention committee chair

Jaime Harrison, chairman of the Democratic National Committee

Brandon Johnson, mayor of Chicago

Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota

Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois

Rep. Robert Garcia of California

Labor leaders Lee Saunders (AFSCME); April Verrett (SEIU); Brent Booker (LiUNA); Kenneth Cooper (IBEW); Claude Cummings Jr. (CWA); Elizabeth Shuler (AFL-CIO)

Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow

Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul

Shawn Fain, president of the United Automobile Workers

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York

Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic nominee

Rep. James E. Clyburn of South Carolina

Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland

Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas

Rep. Grace Meng of New York

Women from states with abortion restrictions: Amanda and Josh Zurawski; Kaitlyn Joshua; and Hadley Duvall

Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky

Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia

Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware

First lady Jill Biden

Ashley Biden

President Biden

The speakers list for Monday's opening session of the #DNC2024 is out, with President Joe Biden and FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden as the headlining speakers this evening.

Other notable speakers: DNC Convention Committee Chair Minyon Moore, DNC Chairperson Jaime Harrison, Former FLOTUS and former Senator Hillary Clinton, Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood, UAW President Shawn Fain, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

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Chicago native Minyon Moore advised Biden on nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. http://ow.ly/al7l104QzEY

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Democratic National Committee to Begin Leadership Rebuilding Effort

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will take the first steps toward rebuilding its leadership on Thursday afternoon. A subgroup of the DNC, the Rules and Bylaws Committee, will meet in Washington to establish the guidelines for electing a new party chair, who will succeed Jamie Harrison.

This meeting will set the stage for the upcoming leadership race, which comes amid the party's self-reflection on the weaknesses and challenges faced by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris during their bids for the White House. The process is expected to address procedural details, such as the scheduling of candidate forums—mini-debates that may be broadcast live—and the voting and balloting processes for the election.

The current Rules and Bylaws Committee, led by Minyon Moore and Jim Roosevelt Jr., will oversee the process until February 1, when the DNC’s 447 members are scheduled to elect a new chair. Candidates will have just eight weeks to present their case to the committee.

Currently, five men have declared their candidacies for the role: Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party; former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley; New York state Senator James Skoufis; Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler; and former Department of Homeland Security staffer Nate Snyder. Additional candidates may join the race as the year progresses.

To qualify for the upcoming candidate forums, each candidate must secure at least 40 endorsements from DNC members. Behind the scenes, the candidates are organizing, launching campaigns, and working to secure the nearly 230 votes needed to win the election.

Among the front-runners, Martin has significant experience as a vice-chair of the DNC and chair of the DFL. He has already secured over 100 endorsements from DNC members. Wikler, a popular figure with broad support across the party, has also garnered key endorsements, including from centrist groups like Third Way and progressive organizations such as MoveOn.

The DNC chair race is expected to play a key role in shaping the direction of the party as it prepares for future elections.

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Helping Harris on her way to the White House is a proven duo

'I'm betting on the American people and the voters,' Minyon Moore has said in the past. One of Kamala Harris's top advisers has one last week to get Americans to vote for the first female president in the country's history.

A woman is running for President of the United States after eight years. Kamala Harris was nominated by the Democratic Party after the resignation of Joe Biden, for whom she served as vice-president.

Her campaign, which in recent months has caused many a Republican to wrinkle his forehead, is being run by two women: Minyon Moore and Sheila Nix.

Who are the key advisers working to ensure that Harris defeats Republican nominee Donald Trump on 5th November?

Decades ago, the Democratic Party made it a point to make its leadership more reflective of its voter base, i.e., to bring women and minorities into the club of older white heterosexual men.

Minyon Moore, now a 66-year-old Chicago native, took up the program. She has worked for the Democrats for forty years. She never ran for office herself, gave speeches or basked in the limelight much, but she helped pave the way for other women and members of minorities to get it all.

Early in her career, she was more of an activist than a professional election manager. Her first experience was as an adviser to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988.

Moore was successful in his service. An underrated civil rights activist with Native American and African American ancestry who was by no means a traditional politician, he finished third in his first primary, and second four years later.

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Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson, Chair of the Democratic National Convention Committee Minyon Moore, Chair of the Democratic National Committee Jaime Harrison, Executive Director of the Democratic National Convention Committee Alex Hornbrook, and CEO for the United Center Terry Savarise attend the reveal of the podium in advance of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in…

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This Passage Describing the Meltdown at a Pro-Biden Debate Watch Party Is Priceless

Democrats are going to continue reeling from Joe Biden’s abysmal debate performance last Thursday night, where former President Donald Trump dog walked the aging Delaware liberal to the point where you did feel a little bit bad for him. But then you remember that feelings are irrelevant here, and we need to destroy this man politically to save the country. To quote James Carville, when your opponent is drowning, throw him an anvil, not a life jacket. Trump did that but there was no anvil. It wasn’t necessary. He simply let Biden drown on his own volition. 

Trump’s evisceration of Biden is hardly a secret for most, but liberal America is coping especially hard. There’s no excuse for it. We saw it numerous times. There are polls to that effect. Those surveys are likely worse now. The combination of arrogance and anti-Trump bias is a deadly political speedball that’s left progressives overdosing and in need of Narcan. In Los Angeles, CNN reported on what could be described as a total meltdown among attendees, which included elected Democrats and Hollywood elitists. Jane Fonda was reportedly brought to tears (via CNN): 

Multiple Democratic officials and operatives, some of whom are affiliated with alternatives and those who are not, rage that Biden has demonstrated too much of an ego to have bowed out before. The president’s argument that he was the Democrat best able to beat Trump, several said, has now been turned on its head and they are left feeling he’s the option least able to beat Trump.  They say the president’s inner circle who have been running the campaign and prepared him for the debate – and who told some privately ahead of Thursday night that the prep had gone well – are either not being honest or are not capable of steering him either toward an exit or a recovery. At a LGBTQ fundraiser in New York City on Friday night, one attendee said some of the conversations even turned against Jill Biden, with the deep love for her as the quirky reluctant political spouse quickly curdling into exasperation that she is not willing to make the move that would lead to them leaving the White House.  Even as minds turn to a list that includes Harris, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Whitmer, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and even relatively new Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, none have gone public with anything but words of support for Biden. They worry about being called traitors. They worry that it might make Biden dig in more.  A debate watch party in Los Angeles on Thursday night happened to feature Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff, Pritzker, Whitmer and Beshear. There were other high-profile attendees – by a few answers in, Rob Reiner was screaming about losing and Jane Fonda had tears in her eyes, according to people in the room. 

The lengthy piece also expounded upon a hypothetical of an open convention, where Vice President Kamala Harris pulls a Brutus. Yet, there’s messy identity politics that leech through this scenario, even if far-fetched. Donna Brazile was quoted wondering how all these white Democrats could be placed ahead of the VP regarding these candidate replacement talks [emphasis mine]: 

The vice president’s “I’m not going to spend all night with you talking about the last 90 minutes when I’ve been watching the last three-and-a-half years of performance,” which people in her orbit say she came up with on the fly herself, has since been picked up by campaign operatives in addition to the first lady.  Harris would have other advantages too. A top outside political adviser, Minyon Moore, was months ago named the official in charge of convention proceedings, and others like her former chief of staff Tina Flournoy and Brazile have key committee roles too. Nor are her supporters shy about making their opinions known.  In an interview, Brazile said that her reaction to the calls that she has been getting since the debate with people inquiring about other candidates is: “How the f**k are you going to put all these white people ahead of Kamala?”

Brazile coming in like a “hot sister” again on that one but taking communications cues and advice from Harris is another sign that this party got broadsided, and they don’t know what to do because, yeah; Joe Biden is mentally declining.

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New from St. Martin’s Press, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. Featuring Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore, with Veronica Chambers.

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Impossible to not feel exhilarated listening to each one of these women about their epic journey. Now, imagine them together —all at one table! So lucky to spend time with all of them yesterday.

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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a lawsuit this week against a national Black Lives Matter charity for failing to fork over information about its finances.

The lawsuit is part of an investigation Rokita launched against the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation in February that is seeking to determine whether the embattled charity violated Indiana state law by deceiving donors and misapplying its assets.

“Protecting Indiana consumers from this house of cards is critical,” Rokita said in a statement Thursday. “There are concerning patterns of behavior from this organization, and we will do what it takes — including this lawsuit — to get to the bottom of it.”

BLM ACCOUNTING GIMMICK FURTHER DELAYS DISCLOSURE OF ITS $60M BANKROLL

The foundation claimed to have raised $90 million in 2020 in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing, but the charity has yet to file an IRS Form 990 disclosing what it did with the funds. The charity was exposed in early April for trying to conceal its cash purchase of a $6 million Los Angeles mansion with donor funds in October 2020, which a watchdog group alleged could be a violation of IRS charity laws.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has also yet to announce publicly who has been in charge of the charity since its co-founder Patrisse Cullors resigned in May 2021 amid the scrutiny of her own real estate purchases. However, the group did disclose in filings to California and New Mexico in February that Bill and Hillary Clinton insider Minyon Moore and the law firm run by Democratic lawyer Marc Elias had taken up key roles with the charity.

And in February, the foundation shut off its ability to raise funds amid legal threats from California and Washington over its lack of financial and operational transparency.

Rokita sent a civil investigative demand to the charity on Feb. 23 that requested the charity to disclose all of the property it owns in Indiana, as well as produce a general ledger showing all payments and the recipients of those payments that the charity has made since January 2020.

The foundation did not respond by Rokita's March 25 deadline, he said in his lawsuit Tuesday. The attorney general's lawsuit requested state courts to compel the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation to comply with his records request.

“There are many Indiana stakeholders and donors who have been impacted by these allegations. This lawsuit will allow for a court to swiftly and efficiently resolve the state’s request for information,” Rokita said.

He added that the foundation could be barred from future fundraising in Indiana if the charity fails to comply with his demand.

Cullors, who was in control of the foundation while it raked in $90 million in 2020 and spent $6 million on its Los Angeles mansion, said during an event in early April that she finds it "triggering" whenever she hears terms such as IRS Form 990, which is the document charities are required to disclose to the public detailing their financial activities.

She added that activists suffer trauma and their lives are put at risk when their charities are required to disclose publicly what they did with their tax-deductible donations.

"This doesn't seem safe for us, this 990 structure — this nonprofit system structure," Cullors said. "This is, like, deeply unsafe. This is being literally weaponized against us, against the people we work with."

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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris‘ senior staff is shaping up to be a proper representation of the voters who are largely credited for her and Joe Biden‘s historic election. Not only are the top three staffers Black but they are also women, a combinatory nod to the group often called the backbone of the Democratic Party. The last addition to Harris’ staff is Tina Flournoy, who was formally picked on Tuesday to be the vice president’s chief of staff. The transition for Flournoy shouldn’t be too difficult since that’s the same role she’s been working in for former President Bill Clinton. Flournoy has also had stints as a senior adviser to Democratic National Convention Chairman Howard Dean and as an Assistant to the President for Public Policy at the American Federation of Teachers. Her bio on the website for Georgetown University — where she graduated from law school – detailed her extensive experience working on behalf of Democrats in positions that include: “traveling chief of staff to 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee, Senator Joseph Lieberman, Finance Director for the Gore 2000 Presidential Campaign and Deputy to the Campaign Manager in the 1992 Clinton/Gore Presidential Transition Office and in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. Flournoy also served as General Counsel for the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Prior to joining the Convention team, Flournoy was Counsel for the DNC under Chairmen Paul Kirk and Ron Brown.” According to journalist Yashar Ali, Flournoy is part of a group of Black women Democratic operatives and friends who call themselves “the Colored Girls.” They include Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry and Minyon Moore. Ali reported Flourny’s hiring first. Flournoy is expected to work closely with Ashley Etienne, who was named as Harris’ chief communications director. Like Flournoy, Etienne has a wealth of experience working for Democrats, including being the special assistant to President Barack Obama and the cabinet communications director at the White House. She was also a spokeswoman for Nancy Pelosi from 2012-2014. (SWIPE LEFT) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIdlhkVgGRA/?igshid=fggsgy12gf58

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Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes for NBC News:

Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t performing well in softball interviews as her sugar high faded in September and early October. But if she wanted to expand her support — and she needed to — she would have to expose herself to tough questioning. That was particularly important with men—specifically young men—who were not buying what she was selling. The obvious answer: Joe Rogan. A late-1990s sitcom star turned bro-with-a-brain podcaster, Rogan boasted a subscriber base that amounted to a total eclipse of the genre’s universe, with nearly 15 million signed up just on Spotify. His 2018 interview with Elon Musk, during which the Tesla and SpaceX founder smoked pot and sipped whiskey, garnered tens of millions of views on YouTube and crashed the next-generation car company’s stock.  The vast majority of Rogan’s guests and listeners were white men, presenting Harris with a potentially golden opportunity to prove her mettle by walking into the lion’s den. On October 11, Harris deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty, the aide in charge of digital strategy, made the first Zoom call to start negotiating with Rogan’s reps. He did not know what to expect. These might be juiced-up, UFC-looking supplement people, he thought. He was surprised—perhaps a tad disappointed—to find out that Rogan’s associates were more like Hollywood agents. In that vein, they outlined the podcaster’s conditions for an interview: no staff in the studio, no topic restrictions, and Harris would have to sign a waiver. 

There was one more item in the small print: Harris would have to come to Austin, Texas. Rogan’s reps said that might be negotiable, but he had only once done an interview with an out-of-studio guest. That was leaker Edward Snowden, who was wanted in the United States at the time. Along with fellow Harris campaign advisers Stephanie Cutter and Brian Fallon, Flaherty offered up that Harris would be happy to talk about social media censorship, weed, and other issues they thought would be of most interest to his listeners. From their perspective, it was a suggestion of possible topics, not an exhaustive or exclusive list. That’s not what Rogan wanted to talk about. “Joe just wants to talk about the economy, the border, and abortion,” one of his reps said, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.  [...]

For all of former President Donald Trump’s work to reach apolitical voters through podcasts, YouTube, and other outlets, Harris positioned herself to score a coup by grabbing the biggest megaphone of them all. If she did, she would be exploiting a rift between Rogan and Trump.

Rogan had called Trump a “man baby” and a “threat to democracy” in 2022, vowing not to interview the former president. At the time, the beef was just one more sign of the social stigma attached to Trump after the January 6 assault on the Capitol, said one longtime Trump adviser. But when Rogan appeared to endorse independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in August, Trump fired back on the Truth Social media platform: “It will be interesting to see how loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the next time he enters the UFC Ring??? MAGA2024.,” Trump wrote. At the same time, Rogan was hardly Mr. Popular inside Harris’s camp. Her brother in law, Tony West, longtime adviser Minyon Moore and others argued against putting Harris on the podcast, especially after her first venture into politically tough terrain—an interview with Fox’s Bret Baier in the middle of the Rogan negotiations—bombed. There was no telling what Rogan might ask her or how he would treat her. Plus, his “antiwoke” crusade had made him a pariah on the hard left. They were overruled by O’Malley Dillon’s crew, but not because the concerns were considered invalid. “Even for those of us who were in favor of it, it was a close call,” said one of the Harris advisers involved in the back-and-forth. [...]

For many Democratic operatives outside the campaign, the October 22 announcement that Harris would hold a Houston rally felt like a palm-to-face moment. She was going to lose Texas, by a lot, and a visit would not force Trump to spend his limited campaign money there.

Her aides scheduled the rally for a Friday night in the fall — October 25 — in Texas! It was as if no one on her team knew that the night reserved for high school football was more sacred than Easter in the state. Campaign adviser David Plouffe responded to the criticism publicly, explaining that Harris wanted to shine a spotlight on a place where she believed Trump’s anti-abortion policies had done the most damage to women’s health. Only a few people knew the real reason: the whole Houston rally was built to put her in proximity to Rogan. The ongoing negotiations on that were touch-and-go.  Flaherty had called his Rogan contacts on October 18, before the rally was set. “We could do Friday, the 25th,” Flaherty said.

[...] In this wild hand of Texas Hold ’Em, Harris aides thought they had one more ace to play. Beyoncé was in Houston and willing to perform at the rally. “The plan changed like 20 times that day, and they landed on her singing ‘Freedom’ a cappella before Harris walked on stage,” said one person familiar with the back-and-forth between the campaign and Beyoncé’s team. As consolation prizes go, a Beyoncé performance ranked pretty high. She was a bigger star than Rogan — a bona fide global diva — and “Freedom” was the campaign’s theme song. But Beyoncé would not give Harris the potential benefits of a Rogan interview: demonstration of her willingness to go outside her comfort zone and connection to a new audience. Worse for Harris, Beyoncé didn't perform. She would speak. But she would not sing. No Rogan. No “Freedom.” The campaign kept its poker face, but it had played out a losing hand. Trump spent three hours with Rogan in an interview that instantly went viral. The contrast amounted to a “traumatic event,” said one Harris aide, “that I will never forget.” But it wasn’t quite over. Rogan would later blame the missed connection on Harris and accuse her of refusing to talk about marijuana, even though her platform included legalization.

According to the FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House book by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes set to come out April 1st, Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris attempted to schedule an interview with Trump endorser Joe Rogan in order to stem the tide of young men defecting to either the couch or to Donald Trump. Alas, Harris didn’t get to be interviewed by Rogan, and thus she lost the election on November 6th in a heartbreaker that will reverberate.

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Black Women Save Politics

Black Women Save Politics

Author: Micha Green / Source: afro.com

By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com

Politics aren’t for the faint of heart- and, according to the new book, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics,” it’s taken some of the strongest people around to keep politicians and parties in tact- Black women.

Described as the “four most powerful African-American women in politics,”…

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Donna Brazile, Others Are the Black Women Who Helped Make History Original article in The Root Whether seen or unseen, black women have always had a hand in the American political system.

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USC Women’s Basketball Goes Back To The Future

USC Women’s Basketball Goes Back To The Future

Minyon Moore led the USC Trojans to a 47-44 victory over Washington State in the first-round Of The Pac-12 Tournament.

Moore scored 16 points on 6–11 FG, including 2-2 from 3PT range.

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