Texas Republicans fire the latest salvo in their war on voting
Texas Republicans have recently amped up their efforts to undermine the democratic process by advancing a barrage of legislation aimed at locking in their control over state government. These bills...
View ArticleNorth Carolina legislature careening toward Floridification
After Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure restoring voting rights to formerly incarcerated people, the state legislature passed a workaround requiring felons to pay all fees, court...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest for Weds, May 3, 2023 (Kremlinology edition)
This is an open thread where everyone is welcome, especially night owls and early birds, to share and discuss the happenings of the day. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the...
View ArticleObscure House committee setting stage for coup in 2024
A relatively obscure House committee is setting the stage for a 2024 coup, and—as you might expect—2020 election deniers are orchestrating the project. This time, the plot begins inside the...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Thom Tillis- 2023 Update
On this date in both 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled the U.S. Senator from North Carolina, Thom Tillis, who first got his Senate seat back in...
View ArticleLeague of Women Voters foils Trumpist voter suppression scheme in Pennsylvania
The League of Women Voters blocked a right-wing voter roll purge plot that would have disenfranchised thousands of Pennsylvania citizens.The League today announced that Judicial Watch, an extremist...
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Canvassing in OH & NC: 2 States where Re-districting in '23 may determine...
Weather remains a guiding factor into when we start knocking on doors in a new or returning state. Especially in an off-year (it is not an “off” election year in Virginia, New Jersey, Kentucky etc),...
View ArticleRepublicans can now take control of running elections in Texas' biggest blue...
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has signed two bills that single out the largest county in Texas—a Democratic stronghold home to one in six Texans—by allowing state Republicans to potentially take over the...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Charles Perry- 2023 Update
On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of Texas State Senator Charles Perry, who we noted that...
View ArticleNC Republicans strip Dem governor of powers because “partisan bias”
In a subtle shift, Republicans have stopped talking about “voter fraud” in favor of “confidence in elections.” At the same seminar, they practiced saying “without partisan bias” in front of a mirror...
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Celebrating Hope Springs Volunteers for their Voter Outreach Efforts in Black...
Today is Juneteenth, a reminder of how difficult the struggle is for minorities to become fully American, the ongoing attempt to live in equality with the white emigrants from Europe. Volunteers from...
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Summer Starts a Busy Voter Contact Season: GA, NC & FL Weekly Canvass Report
We got rained out in Central Florida (which means, the forecast was rain). I seem to always start out with the weather because it is our biggest concern before we start cutting turf for the next...
View ArticleSupreme Court rejects radical GOP theory that would shred curbs on...
The Supreme Court rejected a radical argument put forth by North Carolina Republicans that sought to give nearly unfettered power over federal elections to state legislatures, with Chief Justice John...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Ron DeSantis- 2023 Update
It was on this date in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled former Florida Congressman and current Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, who...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Terry Burton
Welcome to what is the 1218th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discussing former Mississippi State Senator Terry Burton, who served District 31 of...
View ArticleRed Alert : July 10th. Abortion Rights, Workers Wages and Democracy Itself in...
Special elections in Ohio held in the heat of Summer have an extremely low turnout. That usually means about 8% of registered voters, regardless of when it takes place. Will 8% of voters determine...
View ArticleDeSantis' policies wound Florida's economy as conventioneers flee
Florida has one thing going for it. People want to go there. From 2020 to 2022, some 622,476 Americans left their home states to settle in the Sunshine State. In total numbers, Florida outpaced Texas...
View ArticleDeSantis' voter suppression efforts have a chilling effect on Florida...
The Guardian recently did a deep dive into the chilling effect some of Florida’s new election regulations are having on voter registration. And if we still had a functioning Supreme Court, you might...
View ArticleHouse GOP pushes voting restrictions, Democrats join forces behind new voting...
The fluid Republican concept of “states’ rights” has struck again in the House, this time on voting rights, or to be more precise, restricting voting rights in the name of election “reform.” As with...
View ArticleThe REAL Fraudsters: The Republican Conspiracy to Rig the Vote (PART II)
This weekend, another excellent article by Thom Hartmann clearly laid out the insidious and systematic Republican plan to supplant democracy with an authoritarian state based upon elements of...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Brian Kemp- 2023 Update
On this date in both 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published our original profile of the man who was the Secretary of State of Georgia, and who is...
View ArticleDouble Take on Double Election in Georgia: Jonesboro
By Michelle Sanchez, CASA in Action Regional Voter Engagement ManagerI did a double take when Jonesboro, which is a 25-minute drive from Atlanta, announced its double election day. The Jonesboro City...
View ArticleStates As Laboratories of Fascism: Voter Suppression
(Author’s note: I obtained a good bit of this information through a conversation with Bard. As we’ve learned, large language learning models do make mistakes and, occasionally, make things up. I...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: John Faircloth- 2023 Update
On this date in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled John Faircloth, a former police chief of Fair Point, North Carolina who first ran for...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: GOP bill radically changes voting rules, Gov....
NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREADSunday, August 20th, 2023WEEKLY EDITION #430This blog is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. This weekly platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics a...
View ArticleElection Integrity - Virginia style - a local republican committee - they're...
I came across the minutes of a local Virginia republic committee meeting minutes from this summer(2023).I decided to share the content of the election integrity section to give a boots on the ground...
View ArticleDeSantis' redistricting map in Florida is unconstitutional and must be...
A Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution and is prohibited from being used for any future U.S. congressional elections since it diminishes the...
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CNN Has A Good Article On "Crooked Coffee" County, GA And Republican Efforts...
While searching for the latest on the criminal activities of Coffee County Republicans involved with the break in and dissemenation of voter data, I found an article by CNN that does a deeper dive into...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Cindy Hyde-Smith- 2023 Update
On this date in 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, who served in the Missouri State Senate...
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Periodic Report on Hope Springs FREE Voter Photo ID Drive in Georgia &...
In North Carolina, Hope Springs from Field PAC organizers choose to end canvassing this year in order to concentrate on our Voter Photo ID project. Essentially, organizers were spending more time...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Burgess Owens- 2023 Update
On this date one year ago, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, first profiled Burgess Owens, the sitting U.S. House Representative for Utah’s 4th Congressional District who once played safety...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Matt Fariss
Welcome to what is the 1246th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Matt Fariss, who was using all the GOP’s Tea Party momentum to first get...
View ArticleVirginia Democrats are under attack by Republican controlled local government.
Once again, Democratic Candidates in Chesapeake Virginia need your help. During the last two years we have watched the threat of the Youngkin agenda become a reality. Youngkin has focused on defunding...
View ArticleNorth Carolina GOP uses gerrymandered supermajority to take over election...
North Carolina Republicans have used their gerrymandered supermajorities to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes of two bills that threaten voting rights and election integrity ahead of next...
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GOP Voter Suppression Never Sleeps: Monday Early Voting Volunteer Reports...
I did another stint as an Early Voting Poll Greeter in Arlington yesterday for the Arlington County Democrats. Local service is important, even if i am not that involved with the local party. We have...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Frank "Issue 1" LaRose (R) Quietly Purged Over 26K Ohioans From The...
In case you missed this:xOhio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) canceled 26,000+ voter registrations in the state 6 days after Ohioans began receiving ballots for the upcoming election. The move...
View ArticleMississippi has a history of voter suppression. Many see signs of change as...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A few years ago, Tiffany Wilburn just didn't see the point in voting any longer.Her children didn't have proper school books, health insurance was expensive and hard to get,...
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Ohio, Issue 1 & Election Protection: A Post-Election Report
Hope Springs from Field PAC volunteers started knocking on doors in June 2022 and, almost immediately, organizers heard concerns from them about Voter and/or Election Protection. Volunteers tend to be...
View ArticleFighting Voter Suppression 2.0
By Andrea Miller, Center for Common GroundDemocracy had some big wins on November 7, 2023! In Virginia, voters chose representatives who will protect the state’s voting laws and keep abortion safe and...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Greg Abbott- 2023 Update
In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” posted profiles of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who in our first profile, we discussed his three...
View ArticleThe REAL Fraudsters PART TWO: MAGA's Ongoing Efforts to START THE STEAL
Around this time, a year ago, I wrote of the many ways in which the Republican/MAGA Party had gone about trying to rig the vote in their favor,including error plagued voter purges, the distribution of...
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Trump asks supporters to 'guard the vote' in Democratic cities; We know the...
Donald Trump is telling his supporters to “go into" Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta “to "guard the vote" in 2024.” More than a year out, he’s already trying to intimidate voters in major...
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Voter/Election Protection Week continues as we flush out more data from this...
Yesterday, i wrote about how Donald Trump is directing MAGA supporters to “go into” Democratic cities to “to "guard the vote" in 2024,” and one of the steps Hope Springs from Field PAC is preparing to...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence is another threat to democracy
Do you need evidence that dead people voted in an election in which your preferred choice for dictator lost the popular vote by millions of votes and the Electoral College by a few dozen electors, but...
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The Fight to Protect the Voting Rights of the Democratic Base Continues
The new year did not start off as we expected. On January 2nd, an Obama-appointed federal judge ruled that True the Vote’s challenge of thousands of voters’ Right to Vote in the Senate runoff...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Mike Turzai
Welcome to what is the 1281st original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Mike Turzai, the former Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Dan Huberty
Welcome to what is the 1284th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Dan Huberty, a former member of the Texas House of Representatives who was...
View ArticleThe Great 2024 Voting Purge Has Begun - Can Anything Be Done?
Other than last Sunday’s revelation that Saudi Arabia and Russia have begun manipulating oil availability to create high gas prices to kneecap Biden this fall, the most under-reported story of the week...
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Voter Suppression: We Can't Just Put It Behind Us (w/ a Note about Arizona...
First, a word about Arizona. Something happened last night that has never happened before. We had volunteers “sign up” for Saturday’s canvass before the announcement email even went out. My favorite...
View ArticleSo, Hillary Clinton Was Cheated
On Monday 15 April 2024, the State of New York will commence its trial against Donald Trump on the accusation of falsifying business records. (A copy of the filing is available on documentcloud.org...
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