Thursday, January 2, 2025

Tag: elections

Corporate PACs and industry trade groups steered over $108 million to...

Most of the corporate PACs spread money around with little discrimination.

The highly-revealing election dogs that didn’t bark, isolating howling, blowhard election...

Baseless election denial delusions make former Joe McCarthy or Nixon backers look downright reality-bound.

Trump’s ever more bonkers alibi charade parade to escape jail 

"Maybe, just maybe, before I die I will admit the real truth: the Devil made me do it.”

Grassroots organizing in red states is at the heart of abolitionist...

One of the biggest struggles for abolitionists right now is for organizers to really believe in their own power to enact the world of abundance and safety that is a necessary part of an abolitionist future.

Suicidal Rethugs gift Dems by reducing elections to absurdly simple choices:...

Dems should simply repeat, “Do you want Trump in charge when the next global disease event strikes”?

Minnesota Senate passes Democracy for the People Act—prohibits foreign-influenced corporate spending...

The bill, which garnered 80 percent of Minnesota voters' support, according to a statewide poll conducted in November, will head to the governor's desk, who pledged to sign it.

Why the repeal of anti-union laws in Michigan boosts workers nationwide

Michigan's victory represents the latest in a string of victories for workers mobilizing to build strength across the country.

The one thing that would make elections better for everyone 

Ranked choice voting makes elections less painful, less expensive, and can help make our government more inclusive and responsive to what people actually want.

Future heat wave?

Count on this, too: climate change on its present course ever upwards is going to become the true inflation of the future, as well as an issue, possibly the issue, in any election season.

3 lies Republicans are using this election

They involve crime, inflation, and taxes. But here are the facts.

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Exclusive prayer for $100K: Trump’s Inauguration Committee faces criticism over ‘pay-to-pray’ event

Trump’s inauguration committee faces scrutiny for exorbitant ticket prices to interfaith prayer event.

Bernie Sanders’ nine-point plan to overhaul America’s healthcare system

Bernie Sanders unveils bold plan to reform U.S. healthcare and address inequality.

15 dead and dozens injured after terrorist attack on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street

Tragedy strikes Bourbon Street as terrorist attack claims lives on New Year’s Day.

Billionaire wealth hits $10 trillion as Sanders warns of oligarchic rule

As the world’s wealthiest accumulate unprecedented riches, concerns mount over the impact of wealth inequality on democracy and society.

War Is Making Us Poor

The book presents unmistakable proof of the mess our country is in, and it points the finger at rampant, accelerating militarism.