(TeleSur) – Georgia’s voting laws have come under scrutiny in the hotly contested race for governor. Georgia officials have expunged 107,000 people from voter registration rolls, an APM Report investigation finds. The state’s electoral board has purged an estimated 107,000 voters from the system, largely for not voting. Georgia’s “use it or lose it” law […]
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The Kavanaugh Hearings Just Won’t Leave Me Alone
( Tomdispatch.com) – It’s been three weeks since Dr. Christine Blasey Ford gave her testimony before the nation and I’m still struggling to move on. As talk turns toward the impending midterms, I find myself mentally pushing back against the relentlessness of the news cycle as it plows on, casting a spell of cultural amnesia […]
Dear Elizabeth Warren: Run for President, Challenge the Blob and End the Wars
Boston (Tomdispatch.com) | – Senator Elizabeth Warren 317 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. Dear Senator Warren: As a constituent, I have noted with interest your suggestion that you will “take a hard look” at running for president in 2020, even as you campaign for reelection to the Senate next month. Forgive me for saying […]
How Guantanamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings
(Tomdispatch.com) – Amid the emotional hubbub over the predictable confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, there has been a largely overlooked casualty: the American judiciary. It’s not the end result alone — his addition to the highest bench in the land where he will sit for life — that promises to damage the country, but the unprofessional, […]
Sen. Warren Calls on Trump to Pay $1 mn. to Charity as her DNA shows Native Ancestry
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Trump: SecDef Mattis, ‘Sort of a Democrat’ Could be Leaving Cabinet
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What Happens in Vegas may Swing the Senate Blue
San Francisco (Tomdispatch.com) – It’s what campaigners say every November, I know, but this year’s election really is as important as it gets. Will U.S. voters choose to halt the progress of Donald J. Trump’s slow-motion coup? Or will the tide just continue rolling over us? So much depends on what happens in Nevada — […]
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