Tag: elections
New polls show anti-Trump isn’t enough to beat GOP
The latest numbers tell us a lot about the limits of denouncing Donald Trump without offering much more than a return to the old status quo.
Tip was right
Will voters awaken in California’s 49th? Will there be a wave of Democrats to replace the corrosively corrupt Republicans in a Congress stuck on stupid?
Three elements coalescing to send Trump and Republicans into a crushing...
It’s time for America to, once again, become the government of, by and for the people.
Close call in Illinois’ third district should be a wake up...
Newman’s insurgent campaign should be a wake up call to both centrist and right-leaning Democrats.
Anti-Empire Report #156: Shakespeare said it best
The Russian-interference indictment is predicated, apparently, on the idea that the United States is a backward, Third-World, Banana Republic, easily manipulated.
Amid tensions, Italians set to go to the polls
The national election scheduled for March 4 could see a breakthrough moment for the country’s new right, but fear and anger are building up.
How we’re fighting to save democracy from bribery and gerrymandering, one...
In Pennsylvania, the democratic system isn’t broken. It’s dead.
Attorney linked to Trump campaign pleads guilty to lying to investigators
The same day that Mueller’s office indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, Alex Van Der Zwaan was criminally charged with lying to federal investigators.
Joe Arpaio promoted his GOP Senate candidacy with a publication that...
The anti-immigrant Joe Arpaio has a long history of racist and corrupt actions.
2017 elections bring hope for the future
It is too soon to say, but there is one year until the midterms, and many of us are waiting with bated breath.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.