First Monday In October: An Activist Radical Republican SCOTUS Is A Threat To Democracy

It’s the first Monday in October, and you know what that means: SCOTUS is back in session. The Supreme Court announced last Wednesday that the public will be allowed back into the courtroom when the new term begins on Monday, for the first time since it imposed pandemic-related restrictions in March 2020. Supreme Court will … Read more

Civil Rights Leaders Meet With President Biden At The White House About The Threat Of White Supremacy

Civil rights leaders warned about the dangers white supremacy poses to the US following a meeting with President Joe Biden last week. Bloomberg News reports, Civil Rights Leaders Warn of Threat From White Supremacy: “White supremacy activity is a danger to our democracy,” Derrick Johnson, CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored … Read more

GQP Voter Suppression Vigilantes Get An Assist From Partisan Right-Wing Sheriffs

Update to QAnon Queen Sen. Kelly Townsend Calls On GQP ‘Vigilantes’ To Spy On Early Voters (excerpt): The QAnon Queen and white Christian Nationalist, Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Apache Junction, called on “vigilantes” to spy on people who deposit early ballots in ballot drop boxes for elections later this year, imploring them to use hidden cameras and … Read more

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Arizona Sued (Again) For Jim Crow 2.0 Violations Of The Voting Rights Act

Arizona has a long, sordid history of voter suppression, and it has only gotten worse Since Chief Justice John Roberts, who spent his legal career working to destroy the Voting Rights Act to make America safe for wealthy white Christian males who are Republicans, finally succeeded in gutting the Voting Rights Act with Shelby County … Read more

Democracy In Danger: The GQP Is Recruiting ‘An Army’ Of Election Deniers To Subvert Elections – Part II

Politico special report, ‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections: Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide an inside look at a multi-pronged strategy to target and potentially overturn votes in Democratic precincts: Install trained recruits as regular poll workers and put them in direct … Read more