Saturday, October 31, 2026

Tag: voter registration

Trump removes entire election commission months before midterms

The bipartisan agency responsible for voting-system certification and federal election guidance has been left without a single commissioner as the November elections approach.

Gov. Greg Abbott boasted that Texas removed 6,500 non citizens from...

The Republican governor said the Texas secretary of state’s office was turning over nearly 2,000 of those characterized as non citizens to Attorney General Ken Paxton for investigation because records showed they had a voting history.

Netanyahu delays evacuation of sick Gaza children to UAE amid rising...

Israeli Prime Minister’s decision leaves 150 Palestinian children stranded in Gaza amid cross-border attacks.

Surge in voter registrations counters Republican efforts to restrict ballot access

Vote.org registers over 100,000 new voters as GOP legislators introduce stringent voting laws.

Professor predicts record-breaking voter turnout for 2018 midterm election

"It's probably going to be a turnout rate that most people have never experienced in their lives for a midterm election."

Voter registration is inherently racist

And several other reasons that the midterm elections are testing how far some states can go in disenfranchising certain voters.

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The entrance of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington.

McMahon plans $43,279 in office furniture as Education Dept shrinks

Senators Baldwin and Murray asked the Education secretary to cancel the purchase. The department says her current furniture does not fit its new office space.
Voters stand at voting stations in a polling place.

In a Country That Needs Heroes, Here Are a Few Standouts This Election Season

“Right now, the United States is unhappy enough to need a lot of heroes.”
Protesters carry Palestinian flags and signs at a demonstration in Berlin.

Rape as a Tool of Empire: Cornell, Palestine, and the Silence of Western Feminists

“In both cases, their perpetrators and assailants can leave the crime scene unscathed, with their hands clean.”
Blue entrance of the Karnes County Civil Detention Center with metal benches outside

ICE lists 36 detainee deaths in fiscal 2026, most since 2018

The agency's own page shows 29 deaths by mid-April and seven more through Aug. 23; DHS has said the size of the detained population explains the rise.
The Meta sign at the company's headquarters. Photo: Nokia621 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion over misleading privacy statements

A jury found 43.9 million violations tied to Cambridge Analytica, and the judge cut a roughly $219 billion maximum to $25 billion