Tag: voters rights
‘We teach, we vote!:’ 10,000 teachers rise up against Republican legislature...
Led by the grassroots group SC for Ed, teachers from across the traditionally deep red state took personal days to stage the walkout.
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.
Are you on the list?
Even if a person is eligible, their names could be on the voter purge list after research from the Brennan Center for Justice in New York confirmed an upward trend of voter roll purges as the midterm elections are fast approaching.
New poll indicates Democratic women are most motivated voting group ahead...
Experts are hoping that the group "most motivated" to vote above all others will "form the battle lines for this fall’s midterm elections."
Meet Crystal Mason, the black Texas mother facing 5+ years in...
Crystal Mason cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election despite having a past felony conviction for tax fraud that prevented her from voting.
West Virginia teachers help vote out longtime foe of state’s unions
The teachers handed Republican state Sen. Robert Karnes his defeat as many participated in the GOP primary.
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Trump reverses water bottle ban in national parks
The 2011 “Water Bottle Ban” gave national parks the allowance to prohibit the sale of plastic water bottles, which helped reduce park...
Texas judge convicted of bribery and obstruction
“No one – especially a judge – is above the law.”
550,000 acres on fire in Alaska in latest sign of the climate crisis
Alaska's fires show the footprints of climate change in multiple ways.
Logic for progressives: an interview with Professor Ben Burgis
Ben Burgis, an author and professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, is on a mission to make progressives more effective in confronting the right with good arguments, whether...
For-profit company makes $750 per day, per immigrant child yet maintains deplorable conditions
For $750 a day a child could stay in a suite at Trump's Washington hotel.