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Group trying to gain official party status warned against misleading voters
Maine’s secretary of state has sent a cease-and-desist letter to national organization No Labels, expressing concerns that it has confused voters who think they are signing a petition but instead are enrolling in a new party. Maine’s secretary of state has formally warned a national organization that is trying to form a new political party […]
Millennial GOP candidate wants to raise voting age to 25. Some young Republicans fume
Vivek Ramaswamy, 37, says, ‘When you attach greater value to the act, we will see more 18-to-25-year-olds actually vote than do now.’ Others disagree. Vivek Ramaswamy, a millennial Republican running for president who would be the youngest to ever hold the job, descended on this key early state this week touting a provocative proposal to raise the […]
There is reason to believe that George Santos’s treasurer does not exist
There is reason to believe that Rep. George Santos’s treasurer does not exist and that Santos’s committees are violating the law by raising and spending money without a treasurer, according to a complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington with the FEC. Andrew Olson, Santos’s listed treasurer, is not and has […]
Anonymous Releases GOP Crime Stats
Anonymous has just released a GOP Crimes video that shows just how corrupt the GOP is. According to Anonymous: In today’s 20 highlighted #RepublicansAreTheProblem we have a lot of assault, battery, spousal abuse and sexual assault Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. https://twitter.com/AnonOpsUnited2/status/1656314254759174144?s=20
There’s only one way to fix gerrymandering (and it’s not through the courts)
In an about-face last week, with a newly elected Republican majority, the North Carolina Supreme Court cleared the way for the Republican-controlled state legislature to further gerrymander its state and congressional districts, reversing a recent ruling. New maps will likely transfer four more House seats to Republicans (for a total of 11 of 14), despite the state’s nearly […]
Republicans want Manchin to bow out, fearful that he may have one more trick up his sleeve
Republicans’ best option for unseating Sen. Joe Manchin: Pray that he retires first. The longtime West Virginia Democrat might be the most endangered member of his party heading into 2024. But Republicans still see the contest against him as treacherous. Manchin is a West Virginia institution who has repeatedly defied the odds in a deep-red state. […]
Kari Lake’s lawyers slapped with $2,000 sanction for pushing election conspiracy theories in court
Lawyers for failed pro-Trump Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake have been hit with sanctions by the Supreme Court of Arizona for pushing a conspiracy theory that 35,000 extra ballots were added to the voting rolls of Maricopa County, reported The Arizona Republic on Thursday. “Attorneys for Gov. Katie Hobbs and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, both Democrats, sought […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin Says He Will Spend This Month Deciding on Senate Run
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, will spend the rest of the month deciding whether he will run for U.S. Senate, in what is already shaping up to be a crowded primary battle to replace outgoing Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin. “After five months of chemo, I am taking the month of May to seriously investigate the 2024 […]
Judge Rejects Montana Lawmaker’s Effort to Return to House Floor
A judge ruled on Tuesday against a Montana legislator who had sought a court order allowing her to return to the House of Representatives after she was barred during an escalating standoff over her remarks on transgender issues. The lawmaker, Representative Zooey Zephyr, was ousted from the Republican-controlled chamber last week after making impassioned comments against a ban […]
Latest arrests in Rensselaer County voter fraud case ensnare top GOP figures
Three Rensselaer County officials with close ties to the ruling Republican Party were indicted last week on federal charges as part of an investigation into ballot fraud. Now, the current and former mayors of the city of Rensselaer are weighing in. According to the U.S. Attorney, Richard Crist, James Gordon, and Leslie Wallace were arrested […]
Texas Republicans want power to overturn local elections over mishaps at the polls
Legislation set to pass the Texas Senate would give Gov. Abbott’s appointed Secretary of State authority to order new elections in Harris County. The Texas Senate has passed legislation to allow Gov. Greg Abbott precedent-setting power to overturn elections in Harris County, in order to punish local officials for running out of ballot paper at some polling sites […]
Gov. Jay Inslee announced today he does not plan to seek a fourth term
“We’ve made Washington a beacon for progress for the nation. I’m ready to pass the torch.” Gov. Jay Inslee announced today he does not plan to seek a fourth term. Inslee was most recently re-elected in 2020, making him only the second Washington state governor to serve three consecutive terms. “Serving the people as governor […]
Sen. Ben Cardin won’t seek reelection, creating rare Senate vacancy
U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin says he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a nearly 60-year run in Maryland politics and creating a scramble to fill a rare vacancy in the closely-divided Senate. “It’s time,” the 79-year-old Democrat told The Baltimore Sun in an interview at his Pikesville home in advance of his anticipated announcement Monday. […]
Trump’s Gift to the 2024 Race: The Punch-Down Primary
With Donald Trump holding a commanding lead on the rest of the 2024 GOP field, you’d think everyone else would focus on the frontrunner. And with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis being the only Republican within striking distance of Trump, you’d think the former president would train his attention on him. But there’s a dynamic developing […]
Second Firm That Trump Hired Found No Voter Fraud And Now They Are Talking To Jack Smith
No, there wasn’t any election fraud going on, and the election fraud that did happen was some infinitesimal that the ones caught doing it were the seniors in The Villages who were all voting for Trump. They in fact voted twice. But that effort wasn’t enough to swing anything towards Trump. So, the BIG LIE […]
Ex-Bush Aide Rips Republicans Over What They’re Doing Wrong For 2024
David Frum delivered a stark prediction for the GOP. David Frum warned that the GOP faces “electoral disaster again” if frontrunner presidential candidate Donald Trump becomes the party’s 2024 nominee. Frum, a speechwriter in President George W. Bush’s administration, suggested in his latest column for The Atlantic that Republicans are “doing everything wrong” ahead of next year’s election. Focusing on Trump’s “personal […]
Biden announces 2024 reelection bid: ‘Let’s finish this job’
President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish this job” and extend the run of America’s oldest president for another four years. Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a second term, is betting his first-term legislative achievements and more than 50 years of […]