• The Republicans Who Want American Carnage

    Calls for the National Guard to stop campus protests are not about safety.

  • Republican Voter Rolls Continue to Grow

    Today is the final day West Virginians can register to be eligible to vote in the May 14 Primary Election. If the trend continues, the final numbers before the election will show that Republican registration will have grown, while Democratic registration will have declined or remained static. Currently, 40.3 percent of all registered voters are

  • Arizona Republicans Growing Voter Registration Advantage

    Republicans in Arizona are growing their voter registration advantage, data from Arizona’s secretary of state reveal.

  • Granderson: Republicans aren't protecting elections. They don't want democracy

    The next time Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stands in front of a microphone to talk about election integrity, I want you to remember this: Nearly a third of voters in Louisiana are Black, and yet Black voters had control over less than 20% of the state’s congressional districts. White voters make up less than 60% of the electorate yet had control over more than 80% of the power. When the Democratic governor vetoed attempts to suppress the Black vote, the Republican state Legislature overrode the...

  • Republicans Say It Aloud: They Want to Raise the Retirement Age

    The following piece by Harold Meyerson appeared in The American Prospect. Can Republicans keep building their support among working-class voters? Not if the Republicans have anything to say about it. Earlier today, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) released its recommendations for the fiscal 2025 budget. Among its particulars was a real working-class winner: raising the retirement age… Source

  • Age, sizzling sun couldn’t deter these elderly voters

    Age, heat don’t deter them from setting examples. Underscoring that age can’t be a barrier to their civic responsibility, several senior citizens braved challenges to cast their votes on Friday. The sweltering heat too did little to deter them from doing so.Among tens of seniors who went out and got inked, TOI spoke with a handful across polling stations. Srinivas R, 82, a resident of HBR Layout and a retired employee of the survey department, has not missed a single election in his lifetime....

  • Bannon says House Republicans secretly want Trump to lose

    Steve Bannon, former President Trump’s 2016 campaign executive, railed against House Republicans on Monday, claiming that they “want MAGA to go away” and wish to see the former president lose his 2024 White House bid. “Why does [Rep. Jim] Jordan [R-Ohio] not have a criminal conspiracy investigation— from Fani Willis in Georgia to ‘Big Tish James’

  • Biden wants voters to know Trump thinks football is 'boring as hell'

    The Biden campaign has been putting out some amazing ads in the last month to remind voters of just how awful Donald Trump was in the White House and would be again. He was terrible on COVID, one ad points out. He’s dreadful on abortion, another reminds us. And then there’s this new digital ad on what is surely Trump’s greatest offense to American tradition: He thinks football is “boring as hell” and “nobody cares about” it. NEW AD: Trump says football is “boring as hell” and “nobody...

  • Prosecutors want a reversal after a Texas woman's voter fraud conviction was overturned

    Prosecutors in Texas asked the state’s highest criminal appeals court on Thursday to reverse a ruling that overturned a Fort Worth woman’s voter fraud conviction and five-year prison term for casting an illegal provisional ballot

  • Steve Bannon attacks House Republicans, says they want Trump to fail

    Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon slammed House Republicans as unsupportive of former President Donald Trump and accused them of wanting to see him lose the November election.

  • Climate advocates want to solve their 'biggest problem' in the US: Turning out voters

    In battleground states, environmental activists like Dr. Emily Church are canvassing on behalf of the Environmental Voter Project in an effort to turn out people

  • Trump Promised Plans To Flip Black And Latino Voters. Republicans Are Waiting To See Them

    Donald Trump says he wants to hold a major campaign event at New York’s Madison Square Garden featuring Black hip-hop artists and athletes. Aides speak of Trump making appearances in Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta with leaders of color and realigning American politics by flipping Democratic constituencies. But five months before the first general election votes […]