Four Tennessee House Districts are up for election Thursday. While it’s not an election year for most state representatives, two expulsions, one death and a resignation led to special elections this summer.
Reflecting on the People’s Plaza protests, three years later
In this episode, guest host Steve Haruch speaks with people who participated in the People’s Plaza protest and what has changed since then.
There’s an important deadline coming up for Davidson County voters this week
Voters hoping to register for the primaries for the District 52 special election have until the end of business Tuesday. The seat must be filled after the Republican General Assembly expelled Democratic Rep. Justin Jones.
Nashville and Memphis created police oversight boards seeking accountability. Now Tennessee’s Republican supermajority is abolishing them.
Nashville and Memphis have been running independent, civilian-led police oversight boards — but those groups will be abolished after a legislative vote Thursday.
Tennessee Three receive invitation to visit the White House
Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin J. Pearson and Justin Jones are expected to head to the White House next Monday to visit with President Joe Biden.
After expulsions, Tennessee Democrats are relishing new momentum, while Republicans retreat
The world now knows them as the Tennessee Three. But just a few weeks ago, not many people outside of the state knew of Democratic Reps. Justin Jones, Justin J. Pearson and Gloria Johnson.
Memphis council votes to send Justin J. Pearson back to Tennessee House
Less than a week after Republicans expelled him from the state House after leading a protest in the legislature calling for gun law reforms, Justin J. Pearson gets his seat back.
Justin Jones is reappointed to Tennessee House seat, just days after expulsion
At least 30 members of Nashville’s Metro Council have released statements declaring their intent to vote Jones back into the District 52 seat. He will need a simple majority of the 40-member council to reclaim it.
What the expulsion of two representatives tells us about Tennessee
In this episode, we speak to local community leaders about the impact of the expulsion of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson from the Tennessee legislature, and ask the question if the state is sliding into fascism.
Black leaders call out hypocrisy and racism after vote to expel Jones and Pearson from Tennessee House
Last week, two young Black Democrats were expelled from the state legislature for breaking decorum rules while protesting for gun control on the house floor. Black leaders across Tennessee — and beyond — are calling out the expulsions as racist.