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Aisha K. Staggers

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Prince fan and Writer featured in NY Review of Books, HuffPost, Paper Magazine, MTV News, etc. Author of the upcoming book, "The Infallibe Fannie Freeman." Co-host Primetime Saturday w/Aisha & LaLa! Find my work on Medium. No DMs unless I know you.

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Aisha Khalilah Staggers on Instagram: "For my people ✊🏾: I saw this and it was a reminder to me of the women who toiled in back rooms, doing the hard work to liberate our people. They are The Establis... 1 likes, 0 comments - akstaggers on March 4, 2026: "For my people ✊🏾: I saw this and it was a reminder to me of the women who toiled in back rooms, doing the hard work to liberate our people. They are...

I shared this on my IG and what it meant to me: www.instagram.com/p/DVeBP-ujX7...

04.03.2026 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We should be like other countries and have a set period longer than just a day and a short period of early voting.

04.03.2026 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love this! Real ones since 1959!

04.03.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Group of Black elders are β€œthe establishment”

Group of Black elders are β€œthe establishment”

🎯

04.03.2026 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

This is why "progressives" hate Black people.
It's impossible to win the presidential primary & primaries in certain states/CDs without strong support from Black voters.
They hide behind code words like neoliberal, BlueMAGA & "establishment," but like in 2020, they eventually show their true colors.

04.03.2026 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1

Yep. These folks and their bigotry is not going to stress me out. Hatred is bad for the skin, bad for your health.

04.03.2026 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the mantra when you are a Black voter, period.

04.03.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Goodnight folks...the racism is racisming...

04.03.2026 06:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Actually, you ARE assuming. You assumed I hadn't read her book. I read her book the weekend it came out.

I know how one's perception of things can change from the publication of a book and months after its release having agented a few books.

But, I also know where Black women are NOW.

04.03.2026 06:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My sisters, maintain your peace on Wednesday. β€οΈπŸ™πŸΎβ€οΈβœŠπŸΎ.

It is not worth your energy, frustration or time.

They don't own our struggle and.can no longer co-opt our labor. Pour into yourselves, let self preservation be your protest.

04.03.2026 06:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is assuming she wants it. Why anyone would think she would want to run again in this country after how Dems literally scapegoated her after 2024 is insane "majority" thinking! It's also the reason Michelle Obama would never...

04.03.2026 06:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm getting racism from both tonight.

04.03.2026 06:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yup.

04.03.2026 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, isn't she the person in charge? How does she not know when the order to remove him would come from her?!

04.03.2026 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WATCH β€” @senpeterwelch walks through a no-bid $143,000,000 contract that went to @KristiNoem’s spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin’s husband’s company that had just been formed.

She should be impeached for this outrageous scandal alone.

Yet it’s barely a blip in this corrupt regime.

04.03.2026 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 12020    πŸ” 4846    πŸ’¬ 548    πŸ“Œ 316

Sec of State doesn't handle that in TX, it's actually the local precincts that do
There's a lot of reporting on how they screwed that up. It isn't on the candidates.

04.03.2026 06:08 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Another reminder of why I had to overcome back home to Connecticut.

04.03.2026 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, they think they have an option the rest of us don't?!

04.03.2026 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Billionaires don't want billions bc they want a luxurious, happy life. That's not what billions buys. Exquisite luxury for life is what $100M buys.

Billions buy something very different: Control over other people.

The wealth tax is an issue of fundamental freedom and functional democracy.

04.03.2026 05:30 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

This part.

04.03.2026 06:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The crazy part is, most of the toxicity and bigotry I've witnessed is from liberals outside of Texas. I've yet to have a conversation with a local Talarico supporter.

04.03.2026 05:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And they'll say AFTER the fact "what? Why? We needed your numbers to show up!" And not "we need/value you" DURING the race

04.03.2026 05:41 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

The funny thing is that they think these folks aren't ready for their antics 🀣. These folks survived the Bernie Bros and their racist BS in 2016 AND 2020! We deal with racism 24/7, 365 days a yr and 366 in a leap yr. There's nothing they can do we haven't had to endure from p who lack originality.

04.03.2026 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How about you drop that ai bullshit where you found it and get with some real creatives?

04.03.2026 05:42 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Texas is close to not being a functioning democracy

It’s the hardest place to vote because Republicans have put impediments in place based on totally bogus vote fraud concerns - that they just make up

The courts have become complicit in this effort

What we’re seeing in Texas now is a disgrace

04.03.2026 04:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2236    πŸ” 738    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 28

That's been what I'm most bothered by. A good chunk of the identity politics leftists would LOVE to continue to ignore racism politically while Republicans lean in on it politically.

04.03.2026 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why are so many people acting like any of this is normal?

2 hours of voting ballots are being held and probably won’t be counted.

People literally had their right to cast their vote taken away and alleged democrats are taking victory laps because Black Voters were disenfranchised?

04.03.2026 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 310    πŸ” 177    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 7

Why should they do more work for him in the general than he did to get their votes in the primary? I listen to Black talk radio and A LOT of Black Texans have been calling for months asking him to do as more outreach to them. They felt he did more to reach Independents and disaffected Republicans.

04.03.2026 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

White Texans, it is WILD that Black people are saying "ok, we hear you, we will vote for you, but we aren't going to be doing the voter outreach" and y'all are taking it as "they said they won't vote and want us to fail". Your expectation of Black labor is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here.

04.03.2026 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 173    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 9

They're also now the Epstein class...

04.03.2026 05:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0