"Strom is the most venerable of institutions here." In a political career that spanned ... Leader Trent Lott declared at Thurmond's 100th birthday party that voters of Mississippi were proud ...

Sen. Cory Booker has expanded upon his historic Senate floor speech from last month into an upcoming book. “Stand” will be ...

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“We are in a state where, again, the Democratic Party should own up ... It surpassed the record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act for 24 hours and 18 minutes ...

Strom Thurmond’s moral character and the shamelessness of his hypocrisy, it’s how the white segregationist from South Carolina dedicated his too-long political career advocating for laws that ...

Strom Thurmond’s notorious 24 ... media fluency stands in stark contrast to her party’s leadership. With her youth, charisma and political savvy, Ocasio-Cortez has mastered the modern ...

The previous record was held by a raging racist named Strom Thurmond, who stood for over ... This wasn’t political theater. It was an urgent call to action. Booker, like others in staunch ...

An adrift Democratic Party received ... the painful political times of my parents, what that generation did is not just point at the unacceptable segregation of people like Strom Thurmond, of ...

Strom Thurmond protesting the Civil ... who has some ambitions for 2028 and to be a leader of the party," said Rob Alexander, a political science professor at Bowling Green.

Strom Thurmond ... Members of Thurmond's family did not return calls from The Post and Courier seeking comment on the record being surpassed. The S.C. Democratic Party said Booker had a winning ...

Breaking Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest Senate speech in history was just one of the things Sen. Cory Booker accomplished on Tuesday. Portions of his 25-hour-and-five-minute speech ...