So!
It’s February.
The groundhog saw its damn shadow.
But you know what that means …
Another six weeks of legislative sessions!
Kidding, kidding. State legislative session dates don’t actually …
An election board in a rural Georgia county held a meeting on Wednesday intended to slash the number of polling locations in the county from seven to one, in effect suppressing the vote in a county …
As the mountains of documents are gathered and combed through by the House committee investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election, mounting evidence is proving …
As someone who recently moved from California to Georgia, I’m horrified but not in the least bit shocked by recent comments from Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Her latest comes via Twitter, …
It’s difficult to determine why Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a Duke University School of Medicine grad, believed that legal voting by Democrats somehow equated to stealing elections, but according to a …
Retired Army Col. Phil Waldron, who authored the extensive PowerPoint presentation explaining how Republicans could overthrow the elected government of the United States, is now seeing the …
As things stand right now, Republicans are heavily favored to take control of the House in the 2022 midterm elections. This isn’t because of dissatisfaction with Democratic results, or because a …
Recently, beloved Sesame Street character Big Bird went on television and social media to promote COVID-19 vaccines. For anyone who has been conscious for at least a few years, celebrities—especially …
by Sravya Tadepalli
This story was originally published at Prism.
On Tuesday, a record number of voters cast their ballots using ranked-choice voting, a system that allows voters to rank candidates in …
On Wednesday, at a campaign rally event which was billed as a “press conference” (sans the press), speaking to an audience filled with people that chanted “Let’s Go Brandon,” Republican Florida Gov. …
It hasn’t even taken a full year for the effects of a caustic Georgia voting rights law to start to impact voters—and one in particular has a larger following than many. Journalist Rickey Bevington, …
An unidentified Virginia voter had his big moment to articulate his opposition to critical race theory in public schools with the political comedy pair The Good Liars, and to say the least, he fumbled …
In Pennsylvania, incorrect Spanish-language instructions for when to vote were sent out to 17,000 prospective voters in Berks County ahead of Tuesday’s key municipal elections in the state.
First …
As early voting takes place in Virginia’s Nov. 2 elections, The Washington Post reports that Republican “poll watchers” are turning out in droves to, well, watch the polls. …
Stacey Abrams has given us so many reasons to love her, she could really stop now, but thankfully she hasn’t. Now the voting rights organization Fair Fight, which was launched by Abrams, has announced …
Former President Barack Obama made a trip to Newark, New Jersey on Saturday to urge New Jersey residents to re-elect Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy mainly because the Republican challenger, Jack …
Welcome to another recap of The Brief! Joining hosts Markos Moulitsas and Cara Zelaya this week were guests Marcus Bass, deputy director for the North Carolina Black Alliance, and La’Meshia …
Former President Donald Trump couldn’t help himself on Saturday. He again disgraced the state of Georgia with his presence at one of his “Save America” rallies, this one held at the Georgia …
There’s no denying it: The Donald Trump era exposed serious deficits in our democratic process. While the For the People Act and numerous other state and federal proposals aim to fix them, the biggest …
By Williesha Morris
One week after the country’s most restrictive abortion ban was signed into law in Texas, the state has passed another piece of …
