As winning even Texas drifts into the realm of possibility, the Biden-Harris campaign is making a last-minute play for the state with a three-city visit from Kamala Harris to Fort Worth, Houston, and McAllen. As The Dallas Morning News points out, however, gaining a Texas victory on the presidential level is probably not the top […] More
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers hammered the chief executives of Twitter, Facebook, Google and one another at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, with Republicans claiming the companies were suppressing conservative views while Democrats accused their colleagues of holding a “sham” hearing for political gain. For nearly four hours, members of the Commerce Committee pelted Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, […] More
The news is even worse for Trump in Georgia and North Carolina as both states have been changed to tilt Democratic. Inside Elections has moved both Georgia and North Carolina to tilt Democratic: 🚨In the race for president, @InsideElections is making the following ratings shifts: TEXAS moves from Tilt Republican to TOSS-UPNORTH CAROLINA moves from […] More
Marcial, right, a Cuban immigrant, holds up a sign up to passing drivers at a pro-Trump event in Miami last month.Noah Lanard/Mother Jones For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Before Annette Collazo could introduce herself, the Cuban man whose door she’d just knocked […] More
Rep. Cheri Bustos of Illinois, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee scoffs at that notion. “I don’t think too many people would have thought that at the beginning of this cycle, but we are playing deep into Trump country,” she told the Times, noting that the combination of “a third of a billion dollars” […] More
ATLANTA — Jon Ossoff may not have known it, but a possible key to victory in his Georgia Senate race had just pulled up beside him in a dingy black van. Mr. Ossoff, a 33-year-old former journalist who is seen as one of Democrats’ brightest hopes in year when Georgia could be crucial for the […] More
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), in an op-ed for Fox News, claimed Democrats “ignore reality” when they focus on Russian interference in American elections. “Ever since the Democratic National Committee server was hacked during the 2016 election campaign, ‘Russian disinformation and interference’ has been the shiny object that Democrats and the mainstream media have used to bamboozle the […] More
The Supreme Court decision on Monday barring the counting of mail-in ballots in Wisconsin that arrive after Election Day was not a surprise for many Democrats, who had pressed for it but expected to lose. But a concurring opinion by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh set off alarms among civil rights and Democratic Party lawyers, who […] More
The letter to Bachelet, the former Chilean president who along with her mother was once interrogated and tortured by the government of dictator Augusto Pinochet, identifies “egregious human rights abuses perpetrated” by the U.S. government’s federal enforcement agencies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and its private contractors. Legislators in particular detail “extremely disturbing allegations […] More
Amy Coney Barrett is now a sitting member of the United States Supreme Court. Her journey there was quite disgraceful. Despite numerous United States senators promising that they wouldn’t vote on a justice during an election year, they somehow managed to confirm her in mere weeks. And as they commonly do, Republicans have been quick […] More
Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, a professor of public policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, believes the negative impact of the court’s decision on Democrats may have been reduced by the educational campaigns mounted this year by the party and voting rights organizations, including the Milwaukee Urban League and Alpha Kappa Alpha, the sorority of Senator Kamala […] More
Former Vice President Joe Biden has made a late-stage play for Texas in the hope of bringing to fruition his party’s longtime dream of flipping a once reliably red state. Local Democrats have set their sights lower on the ballot: They’re hoping to pick up nine seats in the Texas House of Representatives, enough to […] More
