Monday, March 24, 2025

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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Resistance is alive and well in the United States

In fact, our research shows that street protests today are far more numerous and frequent than skeptics might suggest.

Millions face delays as Trump administration ends Social Security phone verification

A new policy eliminating phone verification for Social Security benefits threatens to overwhelm field offices, cut off vulnerable recipients, and accelerate efforts to privatize the system.

U.S. denies French scientist entry over anti-Trump text messages

Trump administration, free speech, academic freedom, border security, France, scientific research, political censorship, U.S. immigration, CBP, FBI, diplomatic relations.

New state-of-the-art aluminum smelter to increase aluminum production and cut emissions

The Green Aluminum Smelter project, led by Century Aluminum Company, will have the ability to emit 75 percent less climate pollution than the existing aluminum production facilities.

Is America lurching from hard-to-govern to ungovernable – besieged by vengeful, federalist-hating oligarchs?

It’s now federalism (not the economy), stupid! The hard-right “revolution” IS being televised.