It’s a scary time we’re living in when a sitting president calls neo-Nazis “good people” and openly praises the slaveholding Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the state where Ulysses S. Grant was born.
Things are dark in America right now. I’m not going to enumerate the reasons why. You know. I know. For just one minute though, let’s try to look forward.....to 2020.
In August, Madison, WI state Assembly candidate Shelia Stubbs was confronted by police while canvassing voters in a majority white neighborhood, according to The Cap Times. A resident called the police on her as her 71-year-old mother and 8-year-old daughter waited in a car nearby.
Today is the New York Democratic primary for state government offices, including the contentious primaries for governor and attorney general, and in what’s becoming a familiar theme in one of the largest states in the country, it appears that Democratic primary voters are having a hell of a time voting.
Days after racist robocalls targeting gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum reached Florida voters, another attack on a candidate is spreading misinformation. In Texas, where the race between Senator Ted Cruz and challenger Beto O’Rourke remains close, O’Rourke’s supporters reported receiving suspicious text messages…
After seven years in office, widely hated Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today that he won’t seek reelection. “As much as I love this job and will always love this city and its residents, I’ve decided not to seek re-election,” he said at a press conference. “This has been the job of a lifetime, but it is not a…
By a tally of 326-70, the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party voted Saturday to endorse Keith Ellison for state attorney general, allowing Ellison to access party fundraising and other resources, the Star Tribune reported.
78,300 transgender voters will face significant barriers to casting their votes in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a new report covered by NBC News.
The election is over, but Michigan state Senate District 1 is still dealing with the fallout from comments made by Democratic Rep. Bettie Cook Scott about her opponent, Rep. Stephanie Chang. Last Tuesday, Chang won the election with 49 percent of the vote, while Scott trailed in third place with 11 percent.
After a week of uncertainty and misgivings over Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s potential role in a recount in the Kansas governor primary, incumbent Governor Jeff Colyer has officially conceded the Republican race. Kobach currently leads by 110 votes. Colyer, who was lieutenant governor for seven years, has…
Days after the Kansas gubernatorial primary election, only 191 votes separate incumbent Republican Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer from his challenger, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, and things are getting very tense.
In “yes, people really are this ridiculous” news, a Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives was recently caught on video taking down his primary opponent’s campaign fliers and replacing them with his own. On Tuesday, the victim, Raymond Blacklidge, filed a report against the perpetrator, Jeremy…
On Tuesday, voters cast their ballots on a number of pressing issues and some extremely-good-to-absolutely-evil candidates. But there was one particular issue on the ballot that could help shape the future of the Democratic party, the age old question: Is Weezer good?
On Tuesday night, former Michigan State Representative Rashida Tlaib made history. Tlaib won the Democratic primary election in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District. She will run unopposed in the general election, and is thus set to become the first Muslim woman—and the first Palestinian-American woman—to ever be…
At a Republican campaign rally in Ohio on Saturday, accused sexual predator Donald Trump hugged and lavished praise on Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, who is accused of ignoring the sexual assault of dozens of athletes by a former physician at Ohio State University, when Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach in the…
Progressives in Michigan scored a hard-fought victory today when it was announced that a proposal to create an independent redistricting commission will be on the ballot this November, according to a report from The Detroit News.
Voters in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District already had plenty of reasons to oust Republican Rep. Jason Lewis in November’s midterm elections. Now, CNN has unearthed more disgraceful comments Lewis—who is sometimes referred to as a “mini-Trump”—made as a conservative radio host from 2009-2012 and in subsequent…
The California Supreme Court has decided to block an initiative that would put to a vote an idea to split the state into three. The proposition will no longer appear on the ballot this November.
Here’s a rare bit of non-terrible news: Boston’s non-citizens may soon get to vote in local elections, the Associated Press reported.
Following a trip this week to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton made the rounds of Sunday news talk shows to normalize President Donald Trump’s upcoming summit with the leader behind attacks on U.S. elections.
