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Trump’s potential actions would likely require him to invoke wartime or emergency powers, such as carrying out mass deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law, or quelling unrest under the Insurrection Act, an 1807 law that allows a president to deploy the military domestically and against U.S. citizens.
The brief does an incredible job outlining how Trump and his cronies wielded targeted harassment, threats, and incitement to violence strategically all through their attempt to overthrow the election.
The hours and days immediately after voting ends could offer foreign adversaries like Russia, Iran and China or domestic extremist groups the best chance to mess with America’s decision through disinformation.
Democrat Tim Walz did his best countering with facts and Trump’s actual extremist track record.
It’s a practice known as ballot gathering – or ballot harvesting — that’s been a source of national controversy over the years.
Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and their right-wing following continue to use the death of Aiden Clark to spew racism and sow division. Nathan Clark and his wife Danielle won’t accept it.
Long before the debate, Trump disparaged Black immigrants. In 2017, he reportedly said that Nigerians lived in “huts” and Haitians “all have AIDS.” The following year, he labeled Haiti, African nations, and El Salvador “shithole countries.”
Trump has repeatedly said he was proud to help overturn Roe v. Wade by appointing conservative justices during his term in office.
Republican officials continue to falsely accuse, harass, intimidate, and even prosecute voters of color. This is quintessential voter intimidation.
Election offices and those who run them have been targets of harassment and even death threats since the 2020 presidential election, primarily by people acting on former President Donald Trump’s lies that the election was stolen from him through widespread fraud or rigged voting machines.
As the number of true swing states and congressional districts dwindles nationally, Allegheny County had 25 municipalities where Biden and Trump were within five percentage points of each other in 2020.
Raging Chicken Media’s Kevin Mahoney and Editor Cyril Mychalejko launch the Bucks County Beacon’s new weekly hour-long live broadcast each Friday at noon.
“I trust Donald Trump, not the government,” said a 38-year-old Republican from Gulfport, Mississippi. “That’s it.”
“Trump’s handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don’t think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own,” said Harris spokesman Brian Fallon.
A lawyer with longstanding ties to Republican candidates and causes went to court to argue that the Secretary of State’s office was wrong to reject West’s paperwork.
“Our constitution is founded on a system of checks and balances. It’s really essential for that to work, that the executive not be above the law,” said Common Cause Pennsylvania’s Philip Hensley-Rubin.
The author of “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation” joins Editor Cyril Mychalejko on the latest episode of The Signal.
The only good thing about a malignant narcissist is that they frequently telegraph what they are going to do—even brag about it.
They are certain the 2020 election was stolen, just like some of them are certain there are demon portals over the White House.
A conversation with Death Penalty Action Co-founder and Executive Director Abe Bonowitz.
While Project 2025 doesn’t clearly define what it considers pornography, this ambiguity allows Christian Nationalists to selectively weaponize it against the usual targets, such as sex education in schools, LGBTQ+ themed library books, or even a sex advice column in a magazine.
The Republican VP nominee’s politics of blame were never meant to help the working class, writes Elizabeth Catte, author of “What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia.”
The Justice Department has policies to prevent investigations from being politicized, especially during an election year. The inspector general’s report highlights how breaches of these policies can snowball into false and exaggerated claims of election fraud.
Donald Trump has a history of failing to protect workers’ safety, rights, and wages. His anti-worker record will only worsen if he’s granted another term in the White House.
In the closing months of a presidential election, this book is a valuable tool for understanding what drives too much of our contemporary politics.
From JD Vance to Project 2025, how Peter Thiel and a guy who wants the U.S. to be a monarchy (really!) are driving Trump’s MAGA agenda.
In addition, only 21 percent of Americans think Trump is honest, 34 percent think he has the right vision for the country, and just 38 percent think he is capable of handling a crisis. How is this not a bigger media story?
The right-wing Ohio Republican, who opposes abortion rights and backed Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, is a former venture capitalist who portrays himself as a champion of the working class.
The Conversation Politics Editor Naomi Schalit spoke with University of Massachusetts, Lowell, scholar Arie Perliger to provide insights from his study of political violence and assassinations.
“Voting rights. Civil rights. LGBTQ rights. Women’s rights. Not just access to abortion. Access to contraception. All of those things are on the ballot,” said Newsom.
A roundup of analysis from The Associated Press, Mother Jones, The Nation, The Guardian, and Common Dreams.
Congress should use taxes to generate new revenue from Wall Street firms and executives and to curb excessive CEO pay, unproductive short-term financial speculation, and wasteful stock buybacks.
State law requires recounts in tight races. Will that happen this year?
Many of last election’s fake electors now face criminal prosecution, which may serve as a deterrent.
A refresher on what motivates Trump’s MAGA Coalition – and the America they want.
He does a masterful job of toggling between the local story of Southlake and the big picture nationally in the right’s war on public education.
Trump’s conviction is not proof that the criminal justice system works. The joy and disbelief we may be feeling is because it was never intended to ensnare people like him.
Since Pennsylvania introduced no-excuse mail voting in 2020, thousands of ballots have been rejected over missing dates, signatures, or other mistakes. A successful legal challenge could have a profound effect.
In her new book “Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace,” Elizabeth Neumann both sounds the alarm about the dangers of Christian Nationalism and offers tools and suggestions on how to help those who have fallen down this dark rabbit hole.
Christian nationalism is a threat to both democracy and Christianity. The gaslighting is just a strategy designed to advance that threat.
