After Trump’s Project 2025 Denials, He Is Tapping Its Authors and Influencers for Key Roles
November 24, 2024
The blueprint for a hard-right turn in America appears to be the roadmap for Trump’s second term.
Elections
In a 393 word statement on his Speaker Vote, Fitzpatrick didn’t even have the courage to inform his constituents who he voted for, not mentioning Jordan’s name once, let alone explain why he voted for the MAGA Ohio congressman.
“The threat is real and the stakes are high,” said Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates Executive Director Signe Espinoza.
“Pennsylvania has become an increasingly large focus point for extremists who have found that by targeting school boards they are able to impose a political agenda on to a lot of people,” said Education Voters PA Executive Director Suasan Spicka.
Voters have an opportunity to steer the community away from the ugly divisiveness introduced by Moms for Liberty, Paul Martino, and outside groups.
Just because a woman is on the ballot for Pennsylvania Supreme Court doesn’t mean she will protect women’s rights.
The CBSD Fair Votes map incorporates voter roll data, in addition to population, and provides voters with the ability to vote for a school board director every other year.
New Pennsylvania Project CEO Kadida Kenner said the new measure “will undoubtedly help to close the voter registration gap, especially in communities of color where the gap is the most pronounced.”
Pennsylvania high schools play an important role in registering first-time voters, but could be doing more by actively supporting in-school voter registration drives.
Amid ongoing attacks on democracy and the state’s electoral process, organizations like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters are focused on ensuring that voters are well-informed, engaged, and actually voting in local elections.
Thirty-three percent of all eligible Black men in Pennsylvania are not registered to vote. This needs to change.
Bob Harvie and Diane Marseglia, lifelong residents of Bucks County, are running for reelection as County Commissioners. We spoke with them about why they are running and why this election is so critical.
The 2024 primary is currently set for April 23, late in the presidential primary season and in conflict with Passover.
CBSD Fair Votes presented the most comprehensive map that heeds the Free and Equal Elections Clause and incorporates population and voter data, while providing voters the ability to cast ballots every two years.
PA's Department of State reaches agreement after advocates raised concerns in 2019 with a new voting machine that glitched and compromised voter privacy in its first year.
Democracy and voting rights can either be protected, or gutted, in the state’s high courts.
Feds Accuse Trenton Police of Pattern of Unconstitutional Brutality and Stops
November 23, 2024
A report by federal prosecutors offered example after example of brutality and constitutional violations, many of which disproportionately impacted Black people and Latinos in this city of almost 90,000 residents.
Media Analysis: NPR’s ‘Balance’ Serves to Normalize Trump’s Highly Abnormal Cabinet Picks
November 22, 2024
The incredibly lopsided “balance,” lack of actually diverse viewpoints, and dubious fairness and accuracy displayed in the network’s nomination coverage reveals what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is really going for with the new oversight it installed, writes FAIR’s Julie Hollar.
Interview: The Democratic Party Needs a Generational Change in Leadership, with Daily Beast Columnist Rotimi Adeoye
November 22, 2024
“The American people have said that the Democratic Party of right now is not what they want,” the Bucks County native told Editor Cyril Mychalejko.
ACLU and Ramsingh Legal Ask Federal Court to Order Souderton Area School District to Stop Targeting Critics and Stifling Free Speech
November 21, 2024
The district “has engaged in a pattern of conduct designed to silence its critics,” said ACLU of Pennsylvania Deputy Legal Director Sara Rose.