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2 months, 1 week ago

Suddenly, the Electoral College Is Posing a Problem for Trump

Slate

Americans of color are apparently moving to the right. Although all three groups still heavily favor Harris, Trump appears to making real inroads, campaigning for nonwhite support to erode his opponent’s edge among groups at the heart of the Democratic coalition. Nonwhite voters are distributed inefficiently—for purposes of the Electoral College’s arbitrary geography—in states that are highly unlikely to put …

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6 months ago

Rep. Byron Donalds, his gigantic Jim Crow myth and a forgotten fact about Black voters

Raw Story

As we celebrated Juneteenth last week, a political argument is brewing about the legacy of the Jim Crow era. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — Black people have always been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted conservatively,’ Donalds told the audience Tuesday.” Critics listed a myriad of horrors from the Jim Crow era, from …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Farrukh Dhondy | UK Labour in fix: Dilute ULEZ or allow London to breathe bad air?

Deccan Chronicle

“The crow came upon a lead bullet He knew he shouldn’t swallow it The bullet shot out from its gun So fast he couldn’t follow it. This crow was known for flying straight The bullet had parabolic flight We can spot the crow as the crow flies The bullet’s speed mocks human sight…” From Aesopgol Fables, by Bachchoo Electoral predictions …

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1 year, 5 months ago

What Is No Labels’ Plan for 2024? Wrong Question.

Slate

This is part of Two Bad, a series exploring Americans’ lackluster enthusiasm for the 2024 election and the problem of the third-party candidate. No Labels plans to run its own presidential candidate in 2024 if it decides the major parties’ nominees are, quote, “unacceptable”—a determination that it says could apply to a rematch between Biden and Donald Trump. It was …

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2 years, 3 months ago

America is finally waking up to the fascist danger: Let's hope it's not too late

Salon

For the last six years or so, most Americans — especially white Americans — were in denial about the monster rampaging across the country. In the other ear were Donald Trump, the Republican fascists and their allies, assuring them that everything would be fine and good because the Trump movement was fighting for "real Americans" like them. Democratic voters say …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Jim Crow lives again: Florida and Mississippi turn back the clock on voting rights

Salon

Some 130 years ago, white lawmakers gathered in Jackson, Tallahassee, Richmond and other state capitals across the former Confederacy and rewrote their state constitutions to enshrine white supremacy. Over the last week, Mississippi and Florida have offered modern-day examples of Jim Crow-era voter suppression that endures to this day — enacted by state legislatures, enabled by governors with White House …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Texas Lawmakers Sound The Alarm: Senate Dems Lack Urgency On Voting Rights

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― Texas Democrats who left the state to prevent Republicans from passing new voting restrictions continued a public campaign in Washington, D.C., this week to convince federal lawmakers to pass sweeping voting rights legislation. Six of the Texas Democrats who left their state to block a new voting restrictions bill gathered at the Martin Luther King …

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54 years, 11 months ago

National Review Comes Out Against Democracy, Explicitly

Slate

In the last week-plus, the nominally intellectual right-wing publication National Review has run three separate articles arguing that voting shouldn’t be easier to do, because if it is, stupid, ill-informed people will do too much of it. His argument was that given “the median cultural superiority of White over Negro,” it was only appropriate to prevent Black people from joining …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Biden blasts new Georgia voting laws as civil rights group sue

Al Jazeera

The new voting restrictions, signed into law on Thursday, are drawing widespread criticism from Democrats across the US. In a statement on Friday, Biden described the law, which the state’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed on Thursday after the Republican-dominated legislature passed it, as “Jim Crow in the 21st Century”, referring to the laws once used to suppress the vote …

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3 years, 9 months ago

‘Autocratic. Anti-Democratic. Anti-American’: Schumer launches blistering attack on GOP bills targeting voting rights

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said lawmakers will revive …

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Suddenly, the Electoral College Is Posing a Problem for Trump

Rep. Byron Donalds, his gigantic Jim Crow myth and a forgotten fact about Black voters

Farrukh Dhondy | UK Labour in fix: Dilute ULEZ or allow London to breathe bad air?

What Is No Labels’ Plan for 2024? Wrong Question.

America is finally waking up to the fascist danger: Let's hope it's not too late

Jim Crow lives again: Florida and Mississippi turn back the clock on voting rights

Texas Lawmakers Sound The Alarm: Senate Dems Lack Urgency On Voting Rights

National Review Comes Out Against Democracy, Explicitly

Biden blasts new Georgia voting laws as civil rights group sue

‘Autocratic. Anti-Democratic. Anti-American’: Schumer launches blistering attack on GOP bills targeting voting rights