Tag: 2018 midterm elections
How Trump’s going to steal the 2020 election: Palast with KPFA’s...
Stacey Abrams has teamed up with veteran investigative reporter and voting rights advocate Greg Palast in order to help her ongoing lawsuit over voters who were purged from Georgia’s voting roles in the months before the 2018 midterm elections.
Greg Palast sues Georgia’s Brian Kemp for purging 340,000 from voter...
Georgia secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp has overseen the removal of more than 340,000 current Georgia residents from voting rolls.
Climate deniers on the ballot in 2018
DeSmog is taking this opportunity to highlight some of the top climate science deniers currently running for office in the U.S.
Two weeks before midterms, Trump attacks democracy with ‘one of the...
Clarke argued that the president's tweet is clearly part of an ongoing right-wing effort to "promote fear and incite law enforcement to action in ways that could chill voter participation this midterm election cycle."
Professor predicts record-breaking voter turnout for 2018 midterm election
"It's probably going to be a turnout rate that most people have never experienced in their lives for a midterm election."
Citizenship through the eyes of those who have lost the right...
At least 6 million U.S. citizens cannot vote in the United States because they have been convicted of a felony.
A record-breaking number of females running for House in 2018 midterm...
With a total of 309 females who have filed candidacy papers to run for the House, it surpasses the record of 298 set in 2012.
Record number of scientists to run in 2018 election to combat...
“The sheer number is really astonishing ... science is and always should be above politics."
Koch brothers pledge to spend $400 million on 2018 midterm elections
The Koch brothers, one of America's wealthiest families, pledged to spend their money "on campaign contributions and policy initiatives."
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Trump administration threatens media licenses and treason charges over Iran war coverage
Critics warn FCC pressure on broadcasters and presidential threats of treason charges represent a dangerous escalation against press freedom during an active military conflict.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America – if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.
Neocon nightmare: Americans flee Iraq as US embassy is hit and oil ports are...
Now that the US is again involved in a major war in the region, Iraq tilts to Washington’s enemy, Iran.
Million-dollar earners stop paying into Social Security for 2026
Recent polling indicates significant public support for reform, with approximately 71 percent of voters favoring a tax increase on wealthy Americans to guarantee the program's solvency.
Democrats’ last major obstacle to defeating MAGA for good
If all Americans regardless of their political beliefs, racial backgrounds, and economic standing were required to serve together and learn from each other to achieve a goal as a cohesive unit, it could be what helps future generations heal from the division that’s plaguing our political system.