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New England Cherishes Its Local Elections. Many Disabled Voters Are Locked Out.

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Kate Larose will not be able to participate in Vermont’s Town Meeting Day. Vermont is home to one of the oldest and most cherished forms of local election in the country: town meetings, a day-long form of deliberative democracy that reads as the antidote to authoritarianism. It’s the kind of American tradition the White House […]

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Can James Talarico Convince Democrats He’s the Fighter They Need?

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If you ask a bunch of James Talarico supporters when they first heard about the 36-year-old Democratic candidate for US Senate, more often than not they will begin to describe a video. It was on TikTok or YouTube or Instagram. It was sent to them by a friend, or a family member—maybe even someone from […]

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Jesse Jackson Told Me Why He Really Ran for President

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Word of the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson’s death last week transported me back to the summer of 1987, when I was the editor of Mother Jones, and met him in person for the first time at the start of his second campaign for the presidency. One of his generation’s greatest orators, he blended Bible verses […]

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“Who the Fuck Are These Men?”

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By nightfall, people all over America had seen the footage. It was barely a month into President Donald Trump’s second term, and a team of black-clad private security officers was violently dragging a woman out of a Republican town hall meeting in Idaho. One agent mumbled that things would get “a hundred times better” if […]

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How the NAACP Signed Up to Abolish ICE

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In the summer of 1956, Martin Luther King, Jr. took the stage at the NAACP’s 47th annual convention in San Francisco. Speaking at the precipice of the Civil Rights Movement, King cautioned that “the guardians of the status quo are always on hand with their oxygen tents to keep the old order alive.” Over the […]

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Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar Joins House GOP to Pass Voter Suppression Bill

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Experts and watchdog groups slammed the bill, which would also require states to share voter information with DHS.

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How Project 2025 Is Reshaping Our Country

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During the 2024 presidential campaign, a conservative playbook emerged. Created by the Heritage Foundation, this 900-plus-page document was a roadmap written for a future conservative president. And while some Republicans tried to distance themselves from Project 2025, the authors and the concepts they wrote about have been embraced by President Donald Trump. Journalist David A. […]

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The FBI’s Fulton County Raid Was Based on Debunked Claims By Election Deniers

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On Tuesday afternoon, the FBI finally released a court-ordered affidavit showing the basis for its January raid seizing nearly 700 boxes of ballots and voting records from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia. A judge signed off on the raid after the FBI alleged “evidence of a commission of a criminal offense” relating to […]

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The UK’s Anti-Migrant Right Is Surging. Local Elections Will Test Their Power.

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As the anti-immigrant Reform UK Party has risen in the polls, the Labour Party has co-opted some of its toxic policies.

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Trump Says He’ll Only Accept 2026 Midterms If He Deems Them “Honest”

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Trump’s comments on Wednesday come just days after he called on Republicans to “nationalize” state-managed elections.

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Bannon Calls for ICE to Engage in Voter Intimidation During the Midterms

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“You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” former Trump strategist Steve Bannon said.

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