Above Image: Charles and David Koch, and Leonard Leo. h/t Slate. Christopher Rufo and the right-wing Manhattan Institute for Policy Research have rebranded critical race theory into an appeal to white identity politics. But they are using this new scare word for an ulterior motive. It is the latest attempt by right-wing billionaires to use race … Read more
Election law expert Rick Hasen in an essay a the New York Times explains The Supreme Court Is Putting Democracy at Risk: In two disturbing rulings closing out the Supreme Court’s term, the court’s six-justice conservative majority, over the loud protests of its three-liberal minority, has shown itself hostile to American democracy. In one case, … Read more
Above: Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s name will live in infamy on this Supreme Court decision (see the Kagan dissent). Remember, he wants to run for U.S. Senate next year. He should never hold a political office ever again. The final two decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term today gives new urgency to passing … Read more
“Dark money” groups tied to Donald Trump’s inner circle and backed by people who have spread baseless lies about the 2020 presidential election appear to be playing a key role in funding the Arizona Senate’s GQP sham “fraudit.” It is a Trump Campaign made for TV (OANN) production, getting an assist from Arizona Republican Sedition Party … Read more
New polls, commissioned by End Citizens United / Let America Vote Action Fund and conducted by Global Strategy Group and ALG Research released last month, show that the For the People Act (H.R. 1, S. 1)––which would protect Americans’ freedom to vote, stop billionaires from buying our elections, and put in place ironclad ethics reforms––is … Read more