New political science research suggests Republican control over state government is correlated with large and measurable declines in the health of a state’s democracy. Zach Beauchamp reports at Vox, Study: Republican control of state government is bad for democracy: The paper, by University of Washington professor Jake Grumbach, constructs a quantitative measure of democratic health at … Read more
The Washington Post editorializes Arizona Republicans’ desperate crusade to find nonexistent voter fraud: Arizona Senate President Karen Fann (R) says she is determined to “ensure the integrity of the vote” in her state. Which is supposedly why, five months after Election Day, following multiple credible audits that found no hint of substantial fraud, she insists … Read more
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun Will Bunch writes Georgia governor signed a voter suppression law under a painting of a slave plantation: Sometimes America’s legacy of white supremacy is hiding in plain sight, literally. When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a hastily passed voter … Read more
Georgia state troopers arrested Democratic state Rep. Park Cannon on Thursday after she knocked on Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s statehouse office door as he was signing a controversial elections bill into law in a closed-door ceremony. Georgia legislator arrested, pulled out of state Capitol as governor signs voting law: Video of the incident shows Cannon, who … Read more
Arizona Republican Sedition Party Chair Kelli Ward should lawyer up now because Dominion Voting Systems will get around to your worthless ass soon enough. They are not after your money, they are after discovery into the greatest right-wing conspiracy plot of all time – trying to overturn the results of the U.S. election with “Big … Read more