Tag: midterm elections
Warnock defeats Walker in Georgia, giving Democrats 51-49 Senate majority
"Democrats can do a lot more with 51 Senate seats."
Why Raphael Warnock’s reelection could tip the balance for America’s economic...
“He’s there to work. He’s not there to make the backdoor deals. I wish we could have more senators like that.”
Big midterm victories that give me hope for the future
Friends, regardless of the overall outcome of the midterms, have no doubt: progressives are the future.
Democrats didn’t win—they simply held the line
Yes, it was a relief that increasingly fascist Republicans didn’t sweep the midterms. But our democratic standards cannot fall so low as to accept a split Congress.
US midterms: 42 new voting laws since 2021 risk undermining confidence...
The ability to exercise one’s democratic choice by participating in free and fair elections should not be up for debate.
The unbearable opportunism of right-wing fear-mongering
What evil to bash good elections—while pushing scams and insurrections.
3 lies Republicans are using this election
They involve crime, inflation, and taxes. But here are the facts.
In Nevada County, a harbinger of the chaos that election deniers...
A hand count has been halted. Most voters won’t use computers to vote.
Hand count halted in Nevada county as court rips pro-Trump official
Voters in Nye County, near Las Vegas, could tip the balance in close state and federal contests.
Election denial like a Nile crocodile
Will Trumpers “make ‘merica great”/ By bashing what voters legitimate?
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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.