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All the Celebrities Behind Michelle Obama’s When We All Vote Initiative

Michelle Obama has described her When We All Vote initiative as a non-partisan effort to boost voter registration among all Americans. But the project, which is also aggressively pushing voting by mail, is backed by a slew of left-wing Hollywood and sports celebrities whose past public statements have been anything but non-partisan.

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Clinton Raises Cash at Justin Timberlake’s House

Hillary Clinton continued her West Coast fundraising trip Tuesday afternoon at the Los Angeles home of pop star Justin Timberlake and his wife, Jessica Biel, where the Democratic presidential candidate sat for lunch with A-list celebrities and Hollywood power players.

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Surprise, Surprise: Shonda Rhimes’s ‘Scandal’ Lazily Paints Donald Trump as Sexist, Vulgar Xenophobe

Shonda Rhimes’s hit TV show Scandal often utilizes ripped-from-the-headlines storylines to propel its political drama. An episode earlier in this fifth season explored the undercover Planned Parenthood videos and featured a montage in which the show’s main character, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), undergoes an abortion set to the hymn “Silent Night.”

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Diversity: ABC Taps First Black Woman to Run Broadcast Network

ABC entertainment president Paul Lee resigned Wednesday after reportedly losing a power struggle with Disney-ABC Television Group chairman Ben Sherwood. The network’s top drama development chief Channing Dungey has been named as his successor. Dungey becomes the first black female

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