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Valentina Gomez, whose campaign for Missouri secretary of state has consisted of homophobic stunts and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, was eviscerated on social media.
The federal holiday marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free.
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"Its so easy to be normal and nice," the newspaper's editorial board wrote. "Hawley picked a different path."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
To hear some Republicans tell it, Juneteenth is really the celebration of conservatives' undoing of slavery caused by Democrats. I know. Just bear with me.
Jones called out Monday's post after he was briefly expelled from the state legislature by his Republican colleagues earlier this year.
Critics give the Missouri senator a blunt fact-check on Twitter.
Lincoln's order, which declared slaves freed in Confederate-controlled states, has been only temporarily displayed as part of the Archives annual Juneteenth celebration.
Americans across the country are observing the relatively new Juneteenth federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery after the Civil War.
"While the holiday itself does symbolize a step toward freedom, it simultaneously represents pain, blood and sacrifice."
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