REPUBLIKLAN?

The GOP obstructions are reportedly becoming more obvious that it is increasingly clearer for every American to register and vote.

As Americans celebrate Juneteenth. 156 years later, a legacy of slavery and all the great-grandchildren of racism are still making news headlines.

Juneteenth is about to become a federal holiday after it passed overwhelmingly in the House of Representatives The bill passed unanimously in the Senate. As Senate Bill 475, the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act passed with 415-14 votes.

The legislation recognizes June 19, 1865, the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned slavery was ended, as a public holiday. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had freed all enslaved African Americans in rebel states two and a half years earlier. 

The 14 no votes were cast by these #GOP members of #Congress. They include: 

• Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala. 
• Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. 
• Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn. 
• Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis. 
• Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif. 
• Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala. 
• Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C. 
• Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas 
• Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz. 
• Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.
• Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont.
• Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas
• Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
• Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga.