Campaigning is now an industrial operation, concentrating on large population centers. But, ignoring rural areas cost Democrats dearly. A candidate in Mississippi shows what it really takes to gain votes in rural America.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
DeSantis was always a rage-hampered little man, but now that he’s been humiliated on the national stage and his presidential aspirations squashed like a palmetto bug, he’s only gotten angrier. And he’s taking it out on Florida.
The Electoral College system essentially identifies the states where malicious people who want to alter or undermine the election results should focus their energies.
We may laugh at Republicans arguing Black people can never be true citizens, but militia-style white supremacist Christian nationalist rightwingers take this sort of thing very seriously.
The architects of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, Steven Miller and Ken Cuccinelli have laid out a second term that would expand the use of executive authority to carry out mass deportations and curtail legal immigration.
President Biden was right about the GOP’s threat to democracy, and it is intrinsic to the American story. But, as Kamala Harris and Tim Walz know, freedom is a word that rings deeply in our psyches and has since the American Revolution.
The Georgia Republican leadership that handed control of the state election board to Trump’s pitbulls have been too intimidated by their far-right base to take that control away and put it back in responsible hands.
Republican attacks on the academic world are hollowing out Florida’s public universities.
Oil barons are bankrolling the Trump campaign because Donald Trump promised to deliver their policy 'wish list' which will make them even richer.
Many members of Congress have embraced styles of communication that effectively undermine not just their opponents but the very democratic systems that give legitimacy to their own positions of status and power.
A review of Project 2025's training videos shows that 29 of the 36 speakers have worked for Trump in some capacity—on his 2016-17 transition team, in the administration or on his 2024 reelection campaign.
Republicans must go to court to take away your gun, but they can take away your vote without even informing you.
It’s not Bill Barr‘s first time playing cover-up for a Republican president who committed crimes that rise to the level of treason against America.
Whether Kamala Harris will be an effective president is a matter for the voters to decide in a few months. But as a legal matter, she is absolutely eligible to hold the office.
As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared—to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with MAGA loyalists—remain.
Georgia Republicans handed three of the five positions on their State Election Board to people who refuse to acknowledge that Joe Biden carried Georgia in the 2020 elections.