I pray that this week concludes more peacefully than it did at the Tree of Life Synagogue the last week of October 2018, writes Squirrel Hill neighborhood resident Sue Berman Kress.
Republican officials continue to falsely accuse, harass, intimidate, and even prosecute voters of color. This is quintessential voter intimidation.
“I am tired of watching meanness, bigotry and recreational cruelty be the worldly witness of our faith,” said Rev. Lee Scott, Presbyterian pastor from Butler, PA.
Voting rights advocates say it’s clear that the timeliness of mail-in ballots is determined by when they are received in county elections offices and not the date on the envelope.
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.
The program allows families to apply for lawful temporary legal status without having the remove the applicant from the U.S. while waiting for permanent resident status. DHS estimates the program would benefit 550,000 noncitizen spouses and stepchildren.
Republican state lawmakers just won’t let it happen.
The Bucks County Beacon spoke with Americans United for Separation of Church and State’s Rachel Laser about Project 2025 and Christian extremists’ efforts to take away our freedoms.
The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) recently released data indicating that Pennsylvania’s 580,000 Latino voters could impact the national, as well as state races.
These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture.
“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.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
