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On Monday 15 April 2024, the State of New York will commence its trial against Donald Trump on the accusation of falsifying business records. (A copy of the filing is available on documentcloud.org ...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Now that congressional maps are likely finalized for the 2024 elections, we know that the House battlefield will be even more tilted toward Republicans this year than it was in 2022. This state of ...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 07:24 AM PDT
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Each day, Wisconsin Dems wake up, stretch, find coffee… and realize once again that our state legislative maps are no longer rigged for permanent GOP control.� We live in a democracy now. It ...
by Ben Wikler
49 comments
on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 07:00 AM PDT
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The petitioning period in New York State initially kicked off this year without any clear districting lines, putting candidates and voters in a situation of uncertainty. And this is not the first time. This scenario not only places politicians in a...
by IndiePundit
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 03:31 PM PST
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Republicans are a shrinking minority party, but have growing political power. We have been sliding into Republican minority rule for decades, and are nearly at a point where Republicans can take all government power without majority support and hold it...
by khaavren
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 01:09 PM PST
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With early voting having started across the country for several positions and primaries, not just presidential primaries, I’m one of the people who suddenly find themselves in a newly gerrymandered district with no Democratic candidate to vote for. I...
by Huntress77
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 12:45 AM PST
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Democratic legislators in New York unveiled a new congressional map on Tuesday, but it's a far cry from the aggressive gerrymander that many were expecting—and many partisans were hoping for. According to data from Dave's Redistricting App, the new...
by Stephen Wolf
121 comments
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 10:07 AM PST
with 103 Recommends
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It took thirteen years to reach this week—but we did it. You did it.�
Fair maps are here.�
The long, dark night of Wisconsin’s partisan ultra-gerrymander is, at long last, over.�
The new ...
by Ben Wikler
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 07:00 AM PST
with 33 Recommends
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The long, dark night of ultra-partisan gerrymandering is over, and a new day for democracy now dawns in the Badger State. The stroke of Governor Evers’s pen today marks the end of the shameful period that began in 2011, when Republican lawmakers—bound...
by Ben Wikler
53 comments
on Mon Feb 19, 2024 at 08:36 AM PST
with 264 Recommends
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Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signed new legislative districts into law on Monday to replace gerrymandered Republican maps that the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down in December. If the court signs off on the new maps,...
by Stephen Wolf
85 comments
on Mon Feb 19, 2024 at 08:13 AM PST
with 311 Recommends
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Columbia, SC- Rep. Marvin Pendarvis has introduced an anti gerrymandering bill in the SC House of Representatives which would create a citizens board from both major parties and minority parties to draw up plans for the State's legislative and...
by wjhamilton29464
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on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 08:12 AM PST
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There’s been a lot of Gerrymandering going on recently, most notably by the GOP, but the Democrats don’t exactly have clean hands either. Basically, the party in power tries to stay in power by whatever means necessary. I’ve often thought that...
by freemab
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 07:06 AM PST
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by Marilyn W. Thompson
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by ProPublica
71 comments
on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 02:59 PM PST
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Via Rollingstone. Former South Carolina Governor and current presidential candidate Nikki Haley insisted on Tuesday that America has “never been a racist country,” before claiming she had experienced racism in her own life. Speaking to Fox News the...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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Donald Trump says a lot of stupid shit. He also says a lot of mean shit. Well, in this case, the shit he said was both stupid and mean. rumble.com/… Former President Donald Trump told his supporters to attend Iowa caucuses even if it literally kills...
by Frank Vyan Walton
194 comments
on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 09:34 AM PST
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A federal judge has imposed new legislative districts in North Dakota after Republican lawmakers refused to comply with an order to fix maps that the court previously found had discriminated against Native American voters. On Monday, U.S. District...
by Stephen Wolf
12 comments
on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 11:26 AM PST
with 150 Recommends
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“Small government” is the antithesis of the creeping authoritarianism that can be readily seen within the Republican Party Republicans have claimed to favor “small government” for decades, but their policy positions contradict that assertion. Ronald...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 05:53 AM PST
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It’s Festivus in Wisconsin, my friends! The Festivus Pole (Wisconsin-made, with a very high strength-to-weight ratio) sits in display on the first-floor balcony level of the Capitol rotunda, offering grievance-airing via text to all and sundry. Well,...
by AnnieJo
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on Sat Dec 23, 2023 at 12:25 PM PST
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Almost immediately after Janet Protasiewicz was elected to Wisconsin’s Supreme Court last April, flipping it to a liberal majority, Republican leaders threatened to impeach her if she didn’t ...
by Charles Jay
40 comments
on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 02:15 PM PST
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A top North Dakota Republican said there would be "no way" for lawmakers to craft new legislative districts by a court-imposed Friday deadline, marking the third time this year that a GOP-led state has ignored a court order to draw maps that comply...
by Stephen Wolf
122 comments
on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 09:34 AM PST
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