How Pennsylvania Judges Facing Retention Ruled on Key Election Cases
September 3, 2025
The judicial races have become more partisan following court battles over mail voting and redistricting.
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Democrats cast more mail-in ballots than Republicans, and Democrats in the past have supported counting ballots that trip over what they view as meaningless clerical requirements in state law.
“Despite some efforts to undermine confidence, including unfounded claims of 'cheating' in Philadelphia, our election process proved strong, transparent, and efficient,” said Committee of Seventy CEO Lauren Cristella.
Republican Dave McCormick led incumbent Bob Casey by 29,000 votes as of Wednesday, a gap of just 0.43%.
Despite the lessons of history, a new round of doomsayers are ready to write the Democrats’ obituary in 2024.
Bucks County’s election board voted to count more than 400 mail-in ballots that lack a correct handwritten date on the outer envelope — something that Republicans are challenging and have opposed repeatedly in court.
“Here in Harrisburg, in the 'People’s House', we held onto the people’s majority, because we’ve been delivering for the work of the people,” said PA House Speaker Joanna McClinton.
Trump has railed against offshore wind turbines spoiling the view from a golf course he owns in Scotland.
Pennsylvania’s red shift in the 2024 election wasn’t isolated to the presidential race.
The AP says there are an estimated 109,000 ballots yet to be counted.
How the Democrats failed to connect with voters, and what outcomes will be in Trump's new term.
A message from rural America to Democratic Party elites.
The margin between candidates is currently at .5%, with more votes to be counted.
The battleground state contest pads Republicans’ majority in the Senate, which they wrested from Democratic control this week.
Trump’s win is a definitive rebuke of the direction of the Democratic Party at a national level.
A roundup of all the election results in Bucks County.
Pennsylvania Democrats Attract Some Buzz in the Party’s Bid to Take Back the US House
September 2, 2025
Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti, 45, is viewed by party operatives as a rising star in Pennsylvania. She will try to unseat Republican freshman Rep. Rob Bresnahan.
The Average CEO Now Makes 632 Times More Than a Typical Worker
September 1, 2025
CEO pay has risen nearly 35 percent since 2019 in absolute terms, while their median worker pay hasn’t even kept up with the U.S. inflation rate.
Active Clubs Are White Supremacy’s New, Dangerous Frontier
August 29, 2025
These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture.
Could Pennsylvania’s Budget Impasse End Up in Court?
August 28, 2025
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
