Tag: elections
How to develop movement candidates and win rural governing power
In elections, we are facing setbacks locally and more broadly. A bold new experiment in West Virginia offers lessons for long-term success.
More suicidal GOP gaffes as McConnell scolds corporations: Forget fair elections...
What if refusing to challenge the most onerous election obstacles hurts corporate bottom lines, the ultimate wickedness?
Our elections are being rigged
Republican lawmakers are stealing our electoral process in broad daylight.
Three things the U.S. must do to prevent future election violence
I’ve spent my entire career on peacebuilding after conflict. Here’s how we avoid becoming a failed state.
Blatant double standard in US media reporting on rigged elections in...
Take a stand and defend the vote on Election Day.
What our November elections could look like
In other words, looking to the fall, record numbers of voters will be casting mail-in ballots. But sizable numbers of voters will still be looking to vote in person.
‘Democracy for sale’: Cambridge Analytica & big tech’s history of manipulating...
“So was Facebook responsible for Donald Trump getting elected? I think the answer is yes.”
US election meddling extends to Britain
In a recording leaked to the Washington Post, Pompeo assured a group of Jewish leaders in Britain yesterday that the U.S. government would “push back” against Corbyn becoming prime minister.
Hillary’s call for Chinese meddling in 2020 is no joking matter
China already interfered with a presidential election once on behalf of Democrats.
Election-meddling follies, 1945-2019
In the case of election meddling, however, this country just joined a moiling crowd of the interfered with – and largely by us.
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Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Community organizer slams ‘fascist ICE agents’ after arrest of US citizen documenting raids
ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.
The FDA let substandard factories ship these medications to the US
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013.
Israel accused of assassinating five Gaza journalists in targeted airstrike
Al Jazeera calls deadly strike on press tent “blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom” as press freedom groups warn of pattern of killings and smear campaigns against reporters in Gaza.