During the busiest periods, the process will slow due to COVID-19’s constraints. For the estimated 50 million Americans who will vote at a polling place this fall, delays and long lines will likely surface sooner ...
Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will not attend the Democratic convention in Wisconsin. Schools and work have turned to virtual settings during the COVID-19 pandemic, so it should come as no surprise ...
“Stepien has less than four months to turn the Trump campaign around. A large focus will be toward securing battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.” President Donald Trump made a drastic change to ...
“For the President to threaten federal funding in the midst of a pandemic over a state exercising its authority to run elections in a safe and legal manner is inappropriate and outrageous.” President Donald Trump ...
By looking at elections around the globe and glimpsing at political maneuvering in the United States, a grim picture of anti-democratic political brinkmanship emerges. As the United States inches closer to the 2020 presidential election ...
“Either they will have to brave the polls, endangering their own and others’ safety. Or they will lose their right to vote, through no fault of their own.” In a 5-4 ruling along partisan lines, ...
“We need you to step up and stop the State of Wisconsin from putting hundreds of thousands of citizens at risk by requiring them to vote at the polls while this ugly pandemic spreads,” pleaded ...
“This is about making sure that we’re able to conduct our democracy while we’re dealing with a pandemic.” COVID-19 has already disrupted several Democratic primary elections, forcing some states to postpone the contests until May. ...
With moderates Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg bowing out and endorsing Joe Biden, will the political establishment capture more voters than the grassroots energy behind Bernie Sanders? After Joe Biden’s massive victory in South Carolina, ...
In a 224-194 party-line vote, Democrats brought workers’ rights to the political forefront as the election season ramps up. The US House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at bolstering the power of labor unions ...
He was heard in the call explaining what he would have to do to get into the race to stop “the possibility of Bernie Sanders taking down the Democratic Party — down whole.” The Democrat ...
“Our military is the finest military on earth, but we should stop asking our military to solve problems that cannot be solved militarily.” There were high expectations heading into the latest Democrat Presidential Debate with ...
Despite originally promising to forgo super PACs, former Vice President Joe Biden has opened his 2020 campaign to funding from a number of questionable big donors. Joe Biden’s campaign late Friday released the names of ...
2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is receiving heavy criticism for hiring a call center that uses prison labor which can pay as little as $20 a month. Multibillionaire presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg hired a contractor ...
“No presidential candidate is going to get taken seriously on climate change if they’re funded by and taking advice from current and former fossil fuel executives.” Former Vice President Joe Biden is not going to ...
The defense firm Honeywell International, which received $1.3 billion in defense contracts during the 2018 budget year, has given $1.3 million to candidates for the 2020 elections. (By MapLight) Major Pentagon contractors have been the ...
“We’ve made more progress in the past five years than I’ve made in the previous 50,” Charles Koch told supporters last year. (By Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) The Charles Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity ...
Deval Patrick “didn’t just make a lot of money; he made a lot of money helping a Republican billionaire rip off the black middle class.” Former Bain Capital managing director and former Massachusetts governor Deval ...
Bloomberg’s entry reflects a growing fear among billionaires that Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Sen. Bernie Sanders will win the Democratic primary and enact higher taxes if elected president. The New York Times reported on Friday ...
A GOP incumbent governor won’t admit defeat. Elsewhere, new voting systems underperform. The unofficial outcomes from Tuesday’s 2019 elections are a looking glass into what may unfold next year, especially when the results are close ...
Greg Walden’s decision to not run for reelection puts the number of retiring House Republicans at three times that of Democrats, sparking rumors of another ‘Blue Wave.’ Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, an 11-term lawmaker ...
The spin focused mainly on the economy and health care. (By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, D’Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald, Angelo Fichera and Chelsey Zhu, FactCheck.org) Summary We found several false and misleading claims in the October Democratic presidential debate: ...
At a campaign rally in Minnesota, Trump doubled down on his anti-immigration rhetoric and the same divisive tactics that brought him to the White House in 2016. President Trump gave his first official campaign rally ...
While some celebrate Bernie Sanders’ and Elizabeth Warren’s fundraising success as a positive sign for progressive politics, the money is still rolling in for Donald Trump. Progressives Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren led ...
The impeachment inquiry into President Trump has spearheaded a call for unity within the Republican Party, raising the stakes for the upcoming presidential election. After seemingly surviving the Mueller investigation, it is now Ukraine that ...
Wealthy donors such as CEOs, executives and attorneys are mostly sticking with three Democratic presidential candidates. (By Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) Wealthy donors have an abundance of options to choose from in the loaded ...
“We are not like any other political show on television…” “The Circus” first premiered in 2016 as a docu-series on Showtime to follow the historic presidential campaign then. It’s now entering its fourth season, following ...
“The good news, as I more or less alluded to, is that there are a number of presidential candidates that have released very strong democracy reform platforms.” Citizen Truth spoke with Adam Eichen of Equal ...
“Millions of voters looking for a conservative alternative to the status quo deserve a chance to hear alternate ideas aired on the national stage.” President Trump’s three Republican primary challengers wrote a joint opinion column ...
Was the Republican win in North Carolina a positive sign for Trump’s 2020 hopes, or was the slim margin of victory a sign Trump is losing support in a historically Republican area? Republican Dan Bishop ...
Sanders and Warren may not intend their criticisms of Russia and China to justify record Pentagon spending, but the military-industrial complex is seizing on it for precisely that purpose. Among the frontrunners in the Democratic ...
Dark money groups have spent more than $1 billion on independent expenditures since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. FEC decision. (By Anna Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) A new “dark money” group ...
“Without unions, there will be no institution in American politics advocating for policies that benefit the vast majority of Americans who do not own capital.” Sen. Bernie Sanders released a new plan on Wednesday that ...
“In a free and open democracy, the government doesn’t use taxpayer resources to keep itself in power. That’s what authoritarian dictatorships do.” Workers at a Royal Dutch Shell plant in Pennsylvania were reportedly ordered to ...
“But for them to go under oath and say that theses blacklists don’t exist, well employees like me are able to just search through the internal search engine of the company and see that they ...
The Partnership for America’s Health Care Future has always opposed Medicare for All. But lately it’s been going after moderate healthcare proposals, too. (By Jessica Piper, The Center for Responsive Politics) A group of major ...
Wall Street will play big in the 2020 election, whether as a financial backer or as a topic of debate. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg have emerged as Wall Street donors’ clear favorites ...
“Let’s call this what it is: legalized looting — looting that makes a handful of Wall Street managers very rich while costing thousands of people their jobs…” – Elizabeth Warren on the private equity industry. ...
“Lloyd Blankfein said Goldman Sachs does ‘God’s work.’ Is that what he called it when Goldman Sachs made millions pumping up the cost of food for starving people across the world?” Sen. Bernie Sanders and ...
With Mitch McConnell’s approval ratings in his home state hovering near 33%, can Amy McGrath bring an end to the over 30-year reign of long-time Senator? (By Karl Evers-Hillstrom and Jessica Piper, the Center for Responsive ...
“We need an honest debate on this, where people can actually show what they intend to do rather than offer bromides and bumper-sticker comments in 60 seconds.” The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is facing outrage ...
“The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate,” wrote the late senator. Senator and presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar spoke of John McCain’s disapproval of President ...
“I was the underdog in everything I’ve been near, and I’m not saying that with any hubris. Any time I get in a race, I get in it to win.” New York City’s Mayor Bill ...
“But we got a second problem in this country and it’s greed. People didn’t get addicted all on their own, they got a lot of corporate help. They got a lot of help from corporations ...
“America was built on the idea that power should not be concentrated in any one person, because we are all fallible.” After Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes published a New York Times op-ed calling to break ...
“I care deeply about our country and what’s happening to it. And the world, the environment and everything that’s going on.” Comedian and talk show host Ellen Degeneres recently told “Variety” magazine that she plans ...
“Uber says it can’t pay its drivers more money, but rewarded its CEO with nearly $50 million last year.” – Elizabeth Warren on Lyft, Uber strike A Lyft and Uber strike was held worldwide and ...
“Food is no longer valued for its ability to sustain life, but only for its ability to generate profits.” Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a sweeping and comprehensive plan to transform American agriculture on Sunday, centered ...
“This is the spirited commitment to bold climate action that young people are looking for in our next president.” Last Wednesday, Beto O’Rourke pledged to refuse campaign contributions of over $200 from fossil fuel companies, ...
“There comes a point and a time in which the courts have to intercede to protect constitutional rights.” Last Thursday, in a court case about gerrymandering, federal judges in Michigan unanimously struck down 34 of ...
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