Late on Sunday night, on a Memorial Day weekend when most Americans were distracted, the Texas Lege tried to pass the most anti-democratic, Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression bill in the nation. EXPLAINER: How Texas Republicans aim to make voting harder. (Texas is already the most difficult state in the country to vote, it is … Read more
President Joe Biden visited Tulsa Oklahoma today to honor the victims of the 1921 Race Massacre against Black Americans. During his address after he toured the Hall of Survivors (of the Tulsa Massacre) where he acknowledged that it took one hundred years for a United States President to come “and acknowledge a truth of what … Read more
By now I think I have made myself abundantly clear that I think Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is a naive fool who is putting the very survival of our American democracy at risk by appeasing a radicalized anti-democratic insurrectionist GQP with his version of Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time,” insisting that he can negotiate … Read more
The Washington Post editorializes today, Arizona is now ground zero in Republicans’ war on voting: Undeterred by the backlash to Georgia’s new anti-voting law, Arizona Republicans have made their state ground zero in the party’s spurious efforts to question the 2020 election results and restrict voting. First, they insisted on running a chaotic “audit” of … Read more
End Citizens United Action Fund is out with a new report, The Dark Money Assault On Voting Rights (excerpt): THE BACKDROP During the Trump Administration, Republican operatives raised at least $250 million in dark money contributions to help push through more than 200 conservative judges to the federal bench, including many who had records of … Read more