Category: Elections
The Wide Angle: Is Reality Making a Comeback?
by Dave Troy | Nov 18, 2022 | Elections, Politics, The Wide AngleIt’s always healthy to guard against premature optimism, but reality may be making a comeback. Cryptocurrency markets are cratering; Russia has surrendered Kherson; Elon Musk is melting down at Twitter; and President Biden and the Democrats delivered the best midterm performance since President Kennedy. I’ve been watching these trends as a single networked phenomenon, and […]
Road Map for a Constitutional Coup: The Republican Plan for Legislative Nullification of the Popular Vote for President
by Jonathan M. Winer | Oct 4, 2021 | Elections, PoliticsIt has now become clear that the efforts of Donald Trump and his supporters to overturn the 2020 elections were a multi-front attack. The newest revelations have further detailed the scheme devised by conservative lawyer John Eastman to convince Vice President Pence to overturn the election results on January 6, 2021, the day the House […]
Amid Widespread Hunger and Poverty, Republicans in Alabama Divert Covid Relief Funds to Donors
by Barbara Koeppel | Oct 12, 2020 | Coronavirus, ElectionsNow in its seventh month, Covid-19 still snakes across America. It first attacked densely packed, blighted areas like New York City and Chicago, along with prisons, immigrant jails, meat slaughterhouses, and nursing homes. It then swerved south and west—again to heavily populated areas in Florida, Texas, and Arizona. In all these areas, frontline “essential” workers […]
Republican Poll Tax Declared Unconstitutional By U.S. Judge
by Andrew Cohen | Jun 15, 2020 | ElectionsThe federal trial judge who stood up for the voting rights of ex-offenders in Florida last month crafted a shrewd ruling designed both to highlight the weakness of the state’s arguments and to insulate his conclusions as much as possible from the conservative judges who will review the case. But more than that, U.S. District […]
P.O. Boxes, Gender, Ford, Kansas (Really?), Felons, Suburbs, Exact Matches—These Midterms Had It All
by Hamilton Fish | Jan 14, 2019 | Elections, PoliticsNovember’s midterm elections served up a revised portrait of our political landscape, with harbingers of hardening political fault lines and clues to the future direction of the country. The national map was remade by the introduction of new pockets of blue in places where before there had been only, or mostly, red. To Democratic National […]