A voter places their ballot in a mailbox in Everett, Washington on July 30, 2020. (Photo by Cindy Shebley/flickr/cc) “These mail-in ballot restrictions threaten to disenfranchise millions of eligible voters who rely on mail voting to participate in our democracy,” said one advocate. Brett Wilkins Aug 27, 2026 (CommonDreams.org) A… Continue reading
Absentee ballots were prepared to be mailed at the Wake County Board of Elections on September 17, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images) “This is yet another example of this administration’s unlawful overreach,” said Rhode Island’s attorney general. Jake Johnson Aug 26, 2026 (CommonDream.org) A coalition… Continue reading
August 25, 2026 (Prospect.org) MEYERSON ON TAP Will the Republican justices OK Trump’s efforts to winnow the midterm electorate?Yesterday’s ruling doesn’t foretell where they’ll go, but their Republican bias is an established fact.Yesterday, the six Republican justices on the Supreme Court—those mischievous scamps!—opened the door just a crack to President… Continue reading
SF Politics/Jay Barmann Published Aug 24, 2026 · SFist.com California and a group of other states have lost one skirmish with the Trump administration on the Supreme Court’s shadow docket regarding ballots by mail, with the court essentially saying the states can’t sue because they haven’t been harmed yet. President… Continue reading
They don’t wantyou to vote. They’re doing it in broad daylight, in your face. Your own government has come up with six new ways to stop you from voting. Watch our short videos. We tell you how they do it and we tell you what you can do about it…. Continue reading
An organization that released public election polling in recent weeks withdrew the results of two surveys, revealing that it had fabricated the polls as part of a “short-term social experiment” meant to expose how quickly false information could spread. One of the surveys released by the group, Median Strategies, claimed… Continue reading
Invited, undefended, unpunished, and rewarded: what independent researchers can still measure has doubled in a year, and the instruments that would measure the rest no longer exist. Christopher Armitage Aug 19, Christopher Armitage from The Existentialist Republic (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Publisher’s note on sources and standards This report… Continue reading
If you wanted to rig political prediction markets, this is exactly how you would do it. by David Dayen August 19, 2026 (Prospect.org) Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass spent last week touting a poll released on Thursday from an unknown company called Median Strategies showing her leading challenger Nithya Raman in her re-election… Continue reading
COOPER ON TAP (Prospect.org) August 12, 2026 2018 was a historic blowout for the Dems. This year, primary turnout is much higher. It was a mixed bag for the left in Tuesday’s primary elections. In Wisconsin, DSA candidate Francesca Hong, who was far ahead in the polls and expected to… Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Movements: US The media is propping up “centrist” analysts warning voters that the progressive and democratic socialist candidates winning elections are “unelectable.” But they’re not disclosing that those analysts are funded by billionaires and mega-corporations. by Adam Johnson August 12, 2026 (therealnews.com) Matt Bennett, Jonathan Cowan, and… Continue reading
