Tag: voter suppression
Oregon Governor Kate Brown pushes expanding vote-by-mail to counter GOP voter...
Oregon was the first state in the country to institute voting by mail and to establish automatic voter registration in an effort to “ensure access to this very fundamental right.”
“This is voter suppression”: 198,000 Georgia residents were illegally purged from...
“I think it’s quite interesting and coincidental … that many of them on that list are African American voters.”
Native American voters could decide key senate races while battling intense...
Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have pledged to recognize the tribe, if elected.
Massive lines in Georgia on first day of in-person voting exemplify...
“We’re becoming desensitized to unacceptable burdens on the franchise,” one political scientist said. “People died for this right. [It] shouldn’t take hours to participate in our democracy.”
A rigged judiciary leads to rigged elections: Ari Berman on Barrett...
“[Trump] wants a justice who will rule his way on the vote count, no matter what the facts or the law actually says.”
No democrats allowed: A conservative lawyer holds secret voter fraud meetings...
“That kind of closed-door session, where a head of the Civil Rights Division is secretly speaking about enforcement with partisan state officials, is unprecedented."
Trump and DeJoy’s main objective: To incapacitate the US Postal Service
What we need now is to see a plethora of other states joining in these lawsuits that are charging Trump and DeJoy with deliberate voter suppression.
Responding to voter suppression, understanding manipulated elections
Voter suppression has gotten more sophisticated in recent elections.
You can fight voter suppression–Here’s how
It’s easy to get angry or worried and throw your hands up, but there is something you can do right now.
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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.