Tag: voting rights
Michigan initiatives clash on how to stop GOP’s election deniers
Competing state constitutional amendments go to different lengths to enshrine voting rights and target anti-voter legislation and court rulings.
America, a nation teetering on the edge
The kind of question we the people of America should be asking ourselves, “Can we get along? Why is it that we can’t get along?”
Why the voting rights struggle is a tipping point for American...
E.J. Jenkins vividly recalls the day his mom worked a voter registration drive at a grocery store in Gary, Indiana, and followed...
Should we disrupt the Democratic Party or try to take it...
“There are all sorts of things that have to be done in electoral politics, but movements have a distinctive contribution to make in order to create substantial democracy.”
Some Florida and Arizona Republicans show how to counter 2020 election...
Developments in two swing states showcase how election records can be used to debunk disinformation and provide more transparency of vote counts.
Biden demands end of filibuster to pass voting rights
"President Biden was clear in his call for eliminating the filibuster to pass voting rights, and we're grateful... But he can't rest this call at the feet of the Senate and walk away."
200+ groups to Democrats in Congress: No holiday recess until you...
“Our democracy is under attack across the country, and Senate Democrats must do whatever it takes—right now—to get these critical voting rights bills signed into law.”
Nearly 200 activists arrested in DC demanding passage of voting rights...
“We are here today to send a message that President Biden must take action now to ensure the promise of our democracy and protect our freedom to vote.”
Vote back better
Why then is America, a country noted for its pride (many might say arrogance), slipping so precipitously in our basic functions?
Cosmic hypocrisy: Unqualified embrace of its VA win exposes GOP’s whopping...
Virginia results are bad news for the Democrats, incredibly bereft at effective messaging, but where's good news for the Trump fanatics, exposed nationally as indefensible liars and election manipulators?
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The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.