In spite of the fact that he found no evidence of widespread voter fraud, Ohio's Republican Secretary of State is removing many thousands of voters from the rolls who in all probability would vote for Democrats.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
The idea that a former president would weaponize people’s pain for his failing campaign is totally on brand for this rapist-felon-conman-grifter who lies as easily as he breathes.
El Jefe DeSantis is an outlier in the abortion battle. Most Republicans, especially former President Donald Trump, have been running away from anything to do with reproductive justice as if they were set on fire.
This election offers us two distinct choices: a leader and movement of unity and optimism, seeing the best of who we can be together, or a leader and movement that runs on half of the country silencing, eliminating, or hurting the other half.
For the record, praising Nazism is not “what men do.” At least it’s not what decent, caring, honest, hard-working, patriotic, family men do. None of it.
Election deniers are running for election administration jobs in some states. What would it look like to make changes they want to see?
Project 2025 pushes out Arizona's system for diverting public school funding to private operations. The implications for students and public schools and the communities that rely on them are disastrous.
Congressional Republicans push to keep drug prices sky-high, defying voters, and fueling corporate greed.
Trump's Republican Party is caught up in a web of violence they themselves have carefully knitted.
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.
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.