A voter wears an “I Voted” badge after placing a ballot in a drop box in Los Angeles last week. Officials say members of the Republican Party have illegally placed unauthorized drop boxes in some locations. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images A voter wears an “I Voted” badge after placing a ballot in a drop box in Los Angeles last week. Officials say members of the Republican Party have illegally placed unauthorized drop boxes in some locations. Mario Tama/Getty Images Unauthorized election ballot drop boxes have been found across California — in Los Angeles, Orange and […]
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Seth Meyers spent several minutes Monday morning exposing the blatant hypocrisy of Republican senators trying to jam through President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee when they wouldn’t even allow a vote on President Obama’s four years earlier—all while admitting the entire exercise won’t have any effect whatsoever on their behavior “Now look, I get that highlighting their hypocrisy is mostly pointless,” the Late Night host said. “Hypocrisy only matters if you have shame. They don’t. Mitch McConnell certainly isn’t capable of feeling shame. He looks like a haunted wooden doll you’d find at an estate sale and has the same level of […]
The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee filed lawsuits recently against New Jersey and Nevada to prevent expansive vote-by-mail efforts in those states. These high-profile lawsuits make the same argument that Republicans have made in many lesser known lawsuits that were filed around the country during the primary season. In all of these lawsuits, Republicans argue that voting by mail perpetuates fraud—an argument President Donald Trump makes daily, on various media platforms. Yet, study after study has shown that there is no basis for these claims. Indeed, the opposite is true—voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud. Twitter has […]
Tuesday’s second night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention hammered home the notion that the party of Joe Biden is a big tent. Big enough to hold the Bernie revolutionaries, national security nerds, avowed centrists, the McCain family, Medicare for All advocates, teachers, people who miss the Kennedys, nurses, beautiful Soul Cycling grandmas, and Bill Clinton’s remaining fan. All of these people would rather hang out in the big tent of the Democrats than squeeze into the sweaty clown car of Trump’s GOP. Like Night One, Night Two was an experiment in trying to make Zoom calls between strangers interesting. But […]
Two key witnesses in Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) probe into corruption allegations involving presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son Hunter are unlikely to appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee before the 2020 presidential election even if subpoenaed, according to an individual familiar with the matter and another individual with knowledge of the probe. Johnson, the chair of the Senate committee, is leading two separate but related investigations, one into the origins of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and one into Joe Biden’s former dealings in Ukraine and Hunter Biden’s financial relationship with […]
Republicans have erupted over overwrought fundraising appeals from House GOP’s campaign arm, with a spokesman for the group countering that critics of the strategy just need a hug. Dramatically phrased fundraising appeals are not new for either party. But pro-Trump pundits say the National Republican Congressional Committee has gone too far with “urgent” text message pitches warning that supporters are on the verge of letting the party down, saying the pitches talk down to the party’s potential donors. “Hey @NRCC – WTF is wrong with you?” right-wing columnist Kurt Schlichter tweeted on Sunday, as part of an ongoing series of complaints […]
The GOP’s ‘Southern Strategy’ Shows How White Supremacy Fuels Class Exploitation By Peter Montague, Truthout. July 20, 2020 The GOP’s ‘Southern Strategy’ Shows How White Supremacy Fuels Class Exploitation2020-07-202020-07-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/anti-racist-protester-raises-fist-in-protest-of-confederacy-e1595271277739.jpg200px200px Above photo: Anti-racist protesters raise fists toward supporters of the Confederacy at the Alamance County Courthouse at a rally with the Burlington-Alamance March For Justice and Community in Graham, North Carolina, on July 11, 2020. By Logan Cyrus / AFP via Getty Images. Starting in the early 1970s, the Republican Party began to draw voters away from the Democrats by appealing to racism and racial anxiety in the electorate; Republicans called it their “Southern Strategy.” By 2000, with […]
The 2020 election cycle is on pace to be the most expensive in the nation’s history. But there’s one major political spender that’s been largely missing in action: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. As the main advocacy arm for corporate America, the Chamber traditionally has few competitors when it comes to wielding power in the nation’s capital. Its headquarters sit across Lafayette Square from the White House as a perpetual reminder to the occupant inside that Main Street is watching. And when it comes to the Hill, few entities have shown a better ability to shape legislation, in part because of […]