The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a televised debate in Southfield, Mich., on Monday. Robin Buckson / Pool – Detroit News Aug. 4, 2026, 10:58 PM PDT / Updated Aug. 4, 2026, 11:02 PM PDT By Henry… Continue reading
If we are vigilant, he won’t pull it off. by Robert Kuttner July 28, 2026 (Prospect.org) In-depth reporting that cuts through the noise. Sign up for The American Prospect’s free newsletters here. Free and fair elections this November should produce a Democratic wave, mass repudiation of Trump, and the possibility of a new… Continue reading
A United States Postal Service mail collection box is seen on a street in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on July 27, 2026. (Photo by Marcin Golba/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Postmaster General David Steiner has said that USPS would not deliver ballots in states that don’t hand over their voter rolls… Continue reading
on Jul 31, 2026 02:35 amAlexandria Jacobson, Investigative Reporter – Raw StoryStephan: Like all fascists the lower Trump’s approval the greater his manipulation of the electoral system. I think Trump knows that if Democrats take the majority in both houses he will immediately be impeached as will J.D. Vance. Less probable,… Continue reading
A close-up view of a billboard advertising DraftKings ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026 on June 10, 2026, in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images) Democratic Rep. Summer Lee said the new spending was yet another reason “it’s time to get money out of politics.” Stephen… Continue reading
Election workers process mailed ballots in Riverside, California on June 1, 2026. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul/MediaNews Group/The Sun via Getty Images) A majority of the three-judge appellate panel called part of the president’s March executive order “an unprecedented federal incursion into states’ exclusive power to determine voter eligibility.” Brett Wilkins… Continue reading
24 July 2026/SF Politics/Leanne Maxwell (SFist.com) More than a third of the 148,000 rejected mail-in ballots from California’s June primary were discarded because they were postmarked late, which experts largely attribute to a recent change in the US Postal Service’s postmarking policy. As the Associated Press reports, nearly 150,000 California… Continue reading
Home / Connect / Ring the Alarm Bells: The Ten Rules of Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook Authoritarianism isn’t down the street or around the corner — it is here right now. We are at the most perilous moment for our democracy since the Civil War. We now have all three ingredients of a strongman state in the United States: … Continue reading
US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Michigan Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) greet the crowd after El-Sayed spoke at The People v. The Powerful rally at the Detroit Opera House on July 18, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images) “When the stakes… Continue reading
If you take President Donald Trump at his word, there is good reason to doubt that he was legitimately elected. That’s the inescapable conclusion from Trump’s prime-time speech Thursday regarding U.S. elections, which he called “catastrophically” vulnerable to manipulation and “worse than any Third World country.” Trump declassified evidence that… Continue reading
