Tag: elections
Corporate PACs and industry trade groups steered over $108 million to...
Most of the corporate PACs spread money around with little discrimination.
The highly-revealing election dogs that didn’t bark, isolating howling, blowhard election...
Baseless election denial delusions make former Joe McCarthy or Nixon backers look downright reality-bound.
Trump’s ever more bonkers alibi charade parade to escape jail
"Maybe, just maybe, before I die I will admit the real truth: the Devil made me do it.”
Grassroots organizing in red states is at the heart of abolitionist...
One of the biggest struggles for abolitionists right now is for organizers to really believe in their own power to enact the world of abundance and safety that is a necessary part of an abolitionist future.
Suicidal Rethugs gift Dems by reducing elections to absurdly simple choices:...
Dems should simply repeat, “Do you want Trump in charge when the next global disease event strikes”?
Minnesota Senate passes Democracy for the People Act—prohibits foreign-influenced corporate spending...
The bill, which garnered 80 percent of Minnesota voters' support, according to a statewide poll conducted in November, will head to the governor's desk, who pledged to sign it.
Why the repeal of anti-union laws in Michigan boosts workers nationwide
Michigan's victory represents the latest in a string of victories for workers mobilizing to build strength across the country.
The one thing that would make elections better for everyone
Ranked choice voting makes elections less painful, less expensive, and can help make our government more inclusive and responsive to what people actually want.
Future heat wave?
Count on this, too: climate change on its present course ever upwards is going to become the true inflation of the future, as well as an issue, possibly the issue, in any election season.
3 lies Republicans are using this election
They involve crime, inflation, and taxes. But here are the facts.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.