Tag: voting
‘We never made it to the polls’: Police in North Carolina...
“We believe that this interaction, this interference from local authorities, has obstructed our marchers from not only lifting up our First Amendment rights to protest, to speak out, but also our rights to vote.”
As Trump spouts last-minute lies, top Pennsylvania officials make clear: ‘Election...
Pushing back against President Donald Trump's baseless claim on the eve of Election Day that Pennsylvania's vote-tallying process is vulnerable to "unchecked...
Why I’m voting Green in 2020
We need to vote for candidates who represent and are part of the popular movements so we advance the causes of economic, racial and environmental justice.
The US presidential election might be closer than the polls suggest...
On the one hand, this year’s election seems to have historically low levels of undecided voters. But offsetting this is tremendous uncertainty about turnout and whose votes will be cast and counted.
Older voters, especially Republicans, need to think before they vote
Is saving Social Security still your number-one issue?
Convention? What convention? It’s a coronation
We are in the midst of an existential political crisis, one that too many Americans blithely shrug off because they do not—or cannot—believe the kind of power seizures, purges, and police-state repression that has happened in many other countries can ever happen here.
Trump and crony Postmaster’s attack on the USPS threatens nation’s rural...
Postal service cuts are bad for public health...
Responding to voter suppression, understanding manipulated elections
Voter suppression has gotten more sophisticated in recent elections.
Mail-in voting does not cause fraud, but judges are buying the...
Indeed, the opposite is true — voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud.
Where the post office goes, so goes America
The post office won’t disappear if you hand-deliver your ballot this year.
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
F is for Failure and Fascism
On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building
A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.