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Oct 23 2022
News
Early vote surges, but Dems worry about the map
THE ELECTION — 16 days left until Election Day. … 7,460,734 early votes already cast as of 10:37 a.m. Sunday, per the United States Elections Project.
NYT: “Voters Stick to Pandemic-Era Habits, as Early Turnout Surges,” by Nick Corasaniti: “In North Carolina, absentee ballot requests are up 114 percent compared with requests in 2018, according to the board of elections. And in Florida,
Politico
Feb 06 2023
Perspectives Blog
When Biden Gives a Campaign Speech
From the CenterJoe Biden is giving a campaign speech this week.
Technically, the president has not yet officially announced his campaign for a second term in office, but for all practical purposes, this week’s State of the Union address will kick off a re-election effort that will continue through next November.
To be fair, every speech given by every first term president is
Dan Schnur
Dec 20 2022
News
Jan. 6 committee just made history. How will history judge it?
The Jan. 6 committee seems to have aimed its work at history, rather than the short-term political cycle. On Monday, it made some of its own, for the first time recommending that a former president be prosecuted on criminal charges.
The congressional Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, which held its final public meeting Monday, was in
Christian Science Monitor
Sep 19 2022
News
House eyes vote on a new bipartisan bill to prevent another Jan. 6
A bipartisan duo on the Jan. 6 committee on Monday rolled out legislation aimed at preventing future attempts to overturn elections, and House leaders are eyeing a vote as early as this week.
The Presidential Election Reform Act, unveiled by Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., centers on overhauling the Electoral Count Act, an archaic law that governs the counting of
NBC News (Online)
Jan 17 2023
News
U.S. Supreme Court enabled racial gerrymandering in South Carolina
(Reuters) - After the 2020 Census, South Carolina’s Republican-led legislature assured Democratic lawmakers and the public that they would carry out a fair and transparent process to redraw the state’s seven Congressional election districts. A year earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had decided for the first time that partisan gerrymandering is lawful, permitting lawmakers to manipulate electoral
Reuters
Jan 17 2023
News
Watch Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sworn in for third term
AUSTIN – Greg Abbott will be sworn in to his third term as Texas governor on Tuesday on the steps of the Capitol and is expected to lay out his vision in an inaugural speech before lawmakers, lobbyists and members of the public. The Republican has a renewed lease on the office after winning his most competitive re-election against Democrat Beto O’Rourke and as questions swirl over whether he
The Dallas Morning News
Jan 17 2023
News
Texas Governor, Lt. Governor to be inaugurated for third terms today
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick will be sworn in on Tuesday morning for their third terms in office, in a series of celebratory events throughout the day. Abbott will be sworn in again as governor at 11 a.m. at the Texas Capitol. His third term comes after decisively defeating Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke in the 2022 midterm elections by
KXAN News
Jan 17 2023
News
For Black voters, great expectations of America’s lone Black governor
An author, combat veteran and former nonprofit chief, Moore will be sworn in Wednesday on the steps of the Statehouse, just blocks away from Annapolis City Dock, one of the Chesapeake region’s earliest slave ports, and where author Alex Haley’s Kunta Kinte, who was captured in Gambia in 1767, was sold into slavery. He becomes the first Black governor in Maryland, the third to be elected in the
Washington Post
Nov 16 2022
Opinion
America Deserves Better Than Donald Trump
Donald Trump, twice impeached for seeking to undermine the integrity of the 2020 presidential election, says he is running for president again in 2024.
His new campaign has begun with the same ugliness, lies and chaos as the last, but it poses even greater dangers to American democracy.
Mr. Trump and his supporters can no longer pretend to be good-faith participants in the
New York Times (Opinion)
Jan 20 2023
News
Lawmakers seek new court hearings on voter ID, redistricting
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders announced Friday that they’re asking the state’s highest court to reconsider decisions on redistricting and voter identification. North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore noted in a news release that GOP lawyers are asking justices to revisit decisions made under a previous Democratic majority. Republican jurists regained a
Tulsa World