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'A Great Loss for Palestine': Veteran Diplomat and PLO Leader Saeb Erekat Dies of Covid-19 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hailed Erekat—who served a quarter century as the occupied state's chief negotiator—as "our dear brother and friend, the great fighter." Read more |
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'If Biden Wants to Be FDR, He Should Immediately Cancel Student Debt': President-Elect Urged to Go Big " Young people voted for Biden in record numbers—he owes us this one." Read more |
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'Biden Must Not Appoint a Single Corporate Lobbyist, Lawyer, or Executive' to Top Posts, Say Progressives. 'Not One.' "Why would we want a return to normalcy? We need a vision for the future, not a return to the past." Read more |
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Lindsey Graham Admits That Making Voting More Accessible Renders GOP Victories Impossible The senator's comment, said one journalist, "is not something that is said by a person who actually wants to represent people in a democracy." Read more |
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'Naked Political Ploy': Outrage—and a Top DOJ Official Resigns—After Barr Memo Aims to Bolster Baseless Trump Fraud Allegations AG William Barr, said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, "is a corrupt Trump henchman who should have been impeached months ago. If he cared one shred about our democracy, he’d be focused on the peaceful transition of power instead of doing the bidding of a wannabe dictator." Read more |
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Lawyers Can't Reunite 666 Seized Migrant Children With Parents—121 More Than Previously Believed The children were separated from their families under the Trump administration's widely condemned "zero tolerance" immigration policy. Read more |
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'Exactly What We Want to See': Overhaul Expected to Strengthen Power of Congressional Progressive Caucus These "really crucial changes," said one advocate, "are setting the Congressional Progressive Caucus up to be the power brokers everyone needs them to be if Congress is going to deliver on literally any issue." Read more |
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'A Dangerous Attack on Our Democracy': McConnell Backs Trump's Refusal to Concede to Biden "There is no decisive pool of 'illegal' ballots, and Republican Party messaging on this score is at best a cynical attempt to delegitimize a decisive presidential defeat." Read more |
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'Now Do #TarSands': TD Bank Urged to Go Further on Climate After Nixing Arctic Projects "It no longer makes business sense for banks to back polluting projects, and those that plan for a low-carbon future will prosper in the economies of tomorrow." Read more |
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From Police Violence at Home to Killing Civilians in Unending Wars Abroad, US Faces Human Rights Reckoning at UN An ACLU leader urged the incoming administration to "take bold actions on day one to reverse President Trump's harmful policies." Read more |
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Biden Urged to Be #ClimatePresident by Taking These 10 'Game-Changing' Steps in First 10 Days in Office "Don't let anyone tell you that Biden's hands are tied on climate action without the Senate." Read more |
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99% of Green New Deal Co-Sponsors Won Their Races This Cycle: Analysis "Saying progressive policies held Democrats back from expanding their House majority/taking the Senate just doesn't hold water with data available so far." Read more |
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'Far Past Time' to Abolish the Electoral College, Progressives Say as Colorado Approves National Popular Vote Compact "Our nation spent a stressful four days wondering who our next president would be, despite the clear fact that Joe Biden won the popular vote by millions." Read more |
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Trump GSA Appointee Accused of Sabotaging 'Peaceful Transfer of Power' by Refusing to Sign Off on 'Critical' Transition Document "While there will be legal disputes requiring adjudication, the outcome is sufficiently clear that the transition process must now begin," urged the nonpartisan Center for Presidential Transition. Read more |
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'We Need a #PeoplesVaccine': After Hopeful Findings From Pfizer, Campaigners Demand Suspension of Patents "This is a race against time and we cannot allow the pursuit of profit to triumph over human need," said Heidi Chow of Global Justice Now. Read more |
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'Historic Day': Jubilation as Evo Morales Returns to Bolivia One Year After Military Coup Twelve months after being driven into exile by right-wing forces, socialist former president Evo Morales was "received by the very social movements who defeated the coup and restored democracy." Read more |
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With Covid-19 Cases Surging, Experts Urge US Public to Re-Double Efforts to Stop Spread—and Temper Expectations for Pfizer's Vaccine " The public needs to know that the best way to prepare for this vaccine is to wear a mask." Read more |
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'Many Workers Will Suffer': Days After Election, Trump Quietly Freezes Wages of Farm Laborers "The Trump administration is trying to get a lot of stuff like this out the door ASAP." Read more |
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'Truly Unconscionable': In Desperation Mode, Trump Planning to Hold Rallies and Display Obits of Supposedly Dead Voters "Refusing to concede and launching a bunch of lawsuits is one thing. Staging big rallies to gin up his supporters against the president-elect seems like an order of magnitude worse." Read more |
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A Memo to the GOP, Wall Street, Joe Biden, and All Democrats: 'No, Mitch McConnell Is Not the 46th President' "President Biden will be under no obligation to hand Mitch McConnell the keys to his Cabinet," progressive groups argue. Read more |
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'Concede and Get the Hell Out': Anger Grows as Trump Refuses to Admit Defeat "You lost, you miserable self-entitled infantile f**ker," said famed American novelist Stephen King. Read more |
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Democrats Taking Cues From John Kasich? Ocasio-Cortez "Can't Even Describe How Dangerous That Is" "Progressive policies do not hurt candidates," says the New York Democrat. "Every single candidate that co-sponsored Medicare for All in a swing district kept their seat. We also know that co-sponsoring the Green New Deal was not a sinker." Read more |
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'Great News for Progressives Around the World': International Applause After US Voters Fire Donald Trump "It's time to get back to building bridges, not walls." Leaders from around the world congratulate the Democrats, but say much damage done by Trump requires repair. Read more |
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Jubilant Celebrations Outside Trump White House, Nationwide After Biden/Harris Victory "The fight isn't over. But man, this feels good right now." Read more |
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'Every. Single. One.': Ocasio-Cortez Notes Every Democrat Who Backed Medicare for All Won Reelection in 2020 The same cannot be said for those more centrist lawmakers who continue to defend the nation's increasingly unpopular for-profit healthcare system. Read more |
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As Street Parties Erupt Over Historic Biden Victory, Trump Substitutes Concession With 'This Election Is Far From Over' The new lameduck president showed no sense of irony, hypocrisy, or self-awareness at all as he accused Biden, who has repeatedly over the last four days urged for all the ballots to be counted and for the nation to be patient, of claiming his win prematurely. Read more |
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'Nightmare Coming to an End': Vanquishing Donald Trump, Joe Biden Wins US Presidential Election "We, the voters, decided this!" Read more |
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No You Didn't Win, Mr. President, Not Even Close: Trump Effort to Steal Election, Sow National Chaos Is Taking Place in Broad Daylight On Saturday morning, the U.S. president falsely claimed he "won this election, by a lot." The only legitimate, fact-based response to that must be: No, you didn't . Read more |
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'We're Gonna Win,' Says Biden as Nation Awaits Official Confirmation of Vote Totals "We don't have a final declaration of victory yet," said the Democratic nominee, "but the numbers tell us it's clear." Read more |
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'I Mostly Listen': Offering Blueprint for Democrats, Green New Deal Champion Chloe Maxmin Unseats Powerful GOP Incumbent in Rural Maine "I don't show up and talk about myself," says Maxmin, who this week unseated the state's Republican Senate Minority Leader. "I really try and listen and make sure that the voices that I hear are reflected in our campaign." Read more |
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Fine Print of RNC-Trump "Election Fraud" Fundraising Shows Half the Money Can Go to Pay Off Existing Campaign Debt The president's suits, said one law professor, look less like a legal strategy and "more like public relation stunts meant to create a false impression that the election is filled with improprieties and fraud." Read more |
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Researchers Thought It Would Be At Least 30 Years Before Arctic Ice Time Capsule Was Found. It Took Just Two. "Meanwhile many people in high places are still in denial about the reality of climate change. How much proof do we need?" Read more |
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'This Is a Grave Crime': Rep. Ilhan Omar Condemns Israeli 'Ethnic Cleansing' After IDF Destruction of Palestinian Hamlet Dozens of Bedouins—including 41 children—were left homeless after occupation troops bulldozed their community to the ground on Tuesday. Read more |
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Ocasio-Cortez Dismisses Centrist Attempts to Blame Left for Dem Losses, Calling on Party to Listen to Progressive Demands "The whole 'progressivism is bad' argument just doesn't have any compelling evidence that I've seen." Read more |
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Armed Suspected QAnon Supporters Arrested Over Alleged Plot to Attack Philadelphia Convention Center Local police and the FBI launched an investigation after two men with unlicensed guns who drove from Virginia were arrested near a site of the ongoing vote count in the 2020 election. Read more |
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To Trump's Threat That Biden Will Ban Fracking, Climate Campaigners Say, 'Yes, Please' "Joe Biden can prove himself to be the leader these precarious times require." Read more |
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As Trump Melts Down, Biden Campaign—Verging on Win—Says It Will Be 'Perfectly Capable of Escorting Trespassers' From White House Biden teetering on victory as latest vote counts continue to lean toward Democratic challenger. Read more |
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'Trump Is Trying to Steal the Election and Wall Street Is Silent': Corporate Executives Urged to Condemn President's Attacks on Democracy Stop the Money Pipeline coalition pressures executives at major banks, insurance companies, and asset managers to call out his behavior. Read more |
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As Centrist House Democrats Attack Medicare for All, Fox News Poll Shows 72% of Voters Want 'Government-Run Healthcare Plan' "If you actively campaign against majority opinion on healthcare during a pandemic, don't be surprised that voters don't like it," warned one journalist, looking ahead to runoff races in Georgia. Read more |
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Greta Thunberg Tells Trump to 'Chill, Donald, Chill' After Unhinged, Lie-Filled Ballot Tirade "Donald must work on his Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend!" Read more |
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'They Had One Job and They Blew It': Progressives Fire Back as Centrist Democrats in House Blame Left for Election Failures "Don't blame myself and others who are fighting for issues that matter to our communities," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Read more |
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"I'd Put the Heads on Pikes": Former Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Calls for Beheading of Fauci and FBI Chief "Former top White House aide is advocating for the murder of two government officials for being disloyal to Donald Trump." Read more |
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'Hopefully Amy Coney Barrett Will Come Through': Trump Legal Adviser Admits Campaign Is Pining for Supreme Court Rescue "The GOP is telling the nation, on cable television, that it installed its 6-3 Supreme Court majority in order to steal elections. Believe them." Read more |
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Stop the Vote? Count Every Vote? For Trump, That Depends on Whether He's Winning or Losing the State The president's flailing lawsuits, hypocritical inconsistencies, and glaring lies were fodder for critics in politics, the press, and entertainment. Read more |
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'This Is All Anti-Democratic Trash': Trump Spews More Election Lies From White House as Counting of Votes Continues One journalist called it "the most dishonest speech he has ever given." Read more |
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'A Major Victory': Federal Court Smacks Down FDA Approval of 'Frankenfish' "The absolute last thing our planet needs right now is another human-created crisis like escaped genetically engineered fish running amok." Read more |
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Calling Trump's Repeated Election Lies 'Dangerous' to Democracy, Watchdogs Urge Twitter to Suspend His Account "Twitter has a duty to ensure that its platform is not used to attack the foundations of our democracy." Read more |
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With World's Eyes on US Election, Israel Bulldozes West Bank Village in Biggest Single Demolition in 10 Years The razing of Khirbet Humsa—which left dozens of people homeless—"can only be considered an act of ethnic cleansing against the indigenous Palestinian population," said one human rights group. Read more |
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Omar and Tlaib Credited as 'Major Factors' in Securing Biden Victories in Minnesota and Michigan "You get what you organize for," said Rep. Ilhan Omar. "Direct voter contact wins elections," added Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Read more |
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With Control of Senate at Stake, Eyes on Georgia With Possibly Two Races Headed for Runoff As races tighten for Democrats in the now crucial state, which party controls the U.S. Senate might not be known until January. Read more |
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Amid Deadly and Intensifying Pandemic, Kushner-Owned Company Moves to Evict Hundreds of Tenants "We don't need slumlords running our country—we need to cancel rent and ensure that housing is a human right." Read more |
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'Just Don't Let Them Touch Anything': Vote Counting Resumes in Pennsylvania Alongside Observers From Trump Campaign "It's undemocratic. It's pathetic. And it won't work," Sen. Elizabeth Warren said of the president's attempts to stop the counting of ballots. Read more |
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'Gross Abuse' of Power, Says International Election Observer About Trump Lies of US Voter Fraud "Baseless allegations of systematic deficiencies, notably by the incumbent president, including on election night, harm public trust in democratic institutions," the delegation concluded. Read more |
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Over 700 Protesters Arrested in Minneapolis, NYC During "Count Every Vote" Demonstrations Protesters blocked an interstate highway in Minneapolis and took to the streets of Manhattan, where some were violently arrested by NYPD officers. Read more |
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Success of $15 Minimum Wage Measures 'Huge Win for the Working People' of Florida and Portland, Maine Progressives say the victory in the Sunshine State, which President Donald Trump won, "ought to provoke some major soul-searching in the Democratic Party." Read more |
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Stoking Chaos, Trump Campaign Lies to Supporters That It Has Won Pennsylvania as President Tweets 'Stop The Count!" The president's campaign has been peppering its email list with outrageously false claims of victory and telling them that Democrats are stealing the election. Read more |
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'This Is a Tsunami... Pay Attention': With All Eyes on Election Results, Experts Horrified as Covid-19 Hits New Record "I dreaded this day... Historic and unprecedented abandonment of the American people." Read more |
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'Bernie Called It': Pre-Election Video of Sanders Warning Trump Would Try to Steal the Vote Goes Viral "Now, in this unprecedented moment," Sen. Sanders said on Wednesday afternoon, "is the time to reaffirm our belief in democracy and to give states the time they need to count every ballot so that the will of the American people is heard." Read more |
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Arizona Officials Vow to 'Continue Our Job' Counting Votes as Trump Backers—Some Armed With AR-15s—Gather at Local Election Building "All of us are committed to a fair and efficient count of all votes," Maricopa County officials said. Read more |
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'This Is Disturbing': Trump DOJ Claims Armed Feds Are Allowed to Inspect State Vote-Counting Locations Vowing not to be intimidated by the possibility of armed federal agents showing up at ballot-counting sites, Pennsylvania's attorney general said: "Nothing is going to stop the counting of these legal ballots." Read more |
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Trump Roundly Ridiculed by Activists, Artists, and Others After Lying About Swing State Landslide Prominent Twitter users claimed everything from a full head of hair to "the Commonwealth of Bradley Cooper" in refuting the president's latest lies. Read more |
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Standing United Against Trump's Threat to Democracy, Protesters From Coast to Coast Urge Officials to 'Count Every Vote' "Right now, election officials are continuing to count millions of votes across the country, Biden is ahead in the Electoral College and the popular vote, and the outcome of this election will be decided by the voters, not Donald Trump." Read more |
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As Michigan Called for Biden, Trump Supporters Condemned for Chanting 'Stop the Count!' at Detroit Ballot Center The president's campaign filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania to temporarily halt the tallying of votes in both battleground states. Read more |
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Gideon Concession to Collins Dashes Democratic Hopes to Oust Reviled Maine GOP Senator The four-term Republican's win follows her much-maligned vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Read more |
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One Thing Very Certain After Election Day: 'Coronavirus Spreading Like Wildfire' The U.S. is "entering the most concerning and most deadly phase of this pandemic... leading to increasing mortality," warned Dr. Deborah Birx earlier this week. Read more |
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As Wisconsin Called for Biden, Trump Campaign Baselessly Cries 'Irregularities' and Demands Recount "While the counts are still continuing, our position remains the same: we feel good about what we are seeing," said Biden's campaign manager. Read more |
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'Every Vote Must Be Counted': Democracy Defenders Face Off Against Trump Lies About Election Results "Politicians do not get to decide whose votes will count and whose votes won't count. We choose our politicians, they do not choose us." Read more |
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Race to the Bottom Continues for Workers as Uber, Lyft Win Prop 22 Passage After Historic Money Dump One advocacy group called the measure's passage "a huge win for companies whose whole business model is premised on decimating workers' rights." Read more |
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Lincoln Project 'Epically Failed,' Say Progressives as Trump Wins Bigger Share of Republican Voters Than in 2016 "Turns out there were no 'Biden Republicans.'" Read more |
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'Taking Sledgehammer' to Failed US Drug War, Oregon Votes to Decriminalize Narcotics as Five States Legalize Marijuana "Huge night against the War on Drugs." Read more |
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As US Officially Quits Paris Accord Amid Election Uncertainty, Progressives Say 'Make This Disastrous Decision Temporary' "The U.S. exit from the Paris agreement is a shameful act and is especially cruel at a time when the world is reeling from devastating disasters worsened by climate change." Read more |
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With McConnell-Led GOP Poised to Hold Senate, Progressives Fear 'Disastrous' Obstruction as Covid Spreads and Planet Burns "Joe Biden could be elected president, but without the Senate, there's a massive risk that he becomes a failed president unable to appoint any judges or enact any progressive policies." Read more |
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'We're Ready to Mobilize': As Trump Moves to Steal Election, 500+ Demonstrations Planned to Protect the Results "We expected Trump and Republicans to try every trick in the book to cling to power. Join the movement to stop a constitutional crisis." Read more |
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Biden Campaign Condemns Trump False Victory Claim as 'Naked Effort to Take Away the Democratic Rights of American Citizens' "If the president makes good on his threat to go to court to try to prevent the proper tabulation of votes, we have legal teams standing by ready to deploy to resist that effort. And they will prevail." Read more |
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"He Doesn't Decide... We the People Do": Trump Denounced for False Election Night Claim of Victory "We must count every vote, and prepare for what's coming," warned one progressive activist. "This is a crucial moment to defend democracy from fascism at home." Read more |
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While World Awaits Presidential Result, Progressive 'Squad' Expands in the House The four congresswomen are joined by Jamaal Bowman and Mondaire Jones, both of New York, along with Missouri's Cori Bush and Marie Newman in Illinois. Read more |
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McConnell Headed Back to US Senate, But Will Reviled Republican Remain Majority Leader? The Kentucky Republican fends off challenge from centrist Democrat Amy McGrath. Read more |
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'Haul Louis DeJoy in Front of a Criminal Grand Jury': Outrage After Postal Service Misses Court-Ordered Election Day Deadline "It's how we all thought they would do it. It's what they said they wouldn't do. And it's exactly what they are doing." Read more |
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FBI Investigates Robocalls Aimed at Suppressing Turnout as State Officials Pledge Vigilance Against Attacks on Voting Rights "Don't believe the lies! Have your voice heard!" tweeted Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel after voters in Flint were hit with robocalls claiming they should wait until Wednesday to vote. Read more |
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You Mean 'Publicly Complicit,' Says AOC Over GOP Being 'Publicly Silent' About Trump Election Threats "This is exactly the problem," added Rep. Pramila Jayapal. "Republicans who are silent are enabling all this behavior and we will not forget that." Read more |
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'To Ensure That No Ballots Have Been Held Up,' Federal Judge Orders Sweeps of USPS Facilities, Rushed Delivery of Mail-In Votes "If one solitary ballot goes undelivered, DeJoy should be ordered to show cause as to why he should not be held in contempt," said one legal analyst. Read more |
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With $340 Million in Loans Soon Coming Due, Deutsche Bank Could Seize Trump Assets If President Defaults: Report The German bank, according to sources who spoke with Reuters , is angling to cut ties with the U.S. president. Read more |
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'First I Was Scared... Then I Just Got Angry': Eerie Blue Dots Painted Outside Democrats' Homes in California The police, said one resident who reported the markings, "wanted to make sure it wasn't a water line or a utilities thing. They said, 'No, this is definitely not.'" Read more |
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'Our Chance to Set Things Right': Here Are The Best 'Get Out the Vote' Messages Out There "It's about voting on behalf of our community, our society, our country, and most importantly, to restore our democracy." Read more |
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What's the Plan If Trump Tries to Steal the Election? Here's the Plan "Trump is trying to steal the election, more blatantly than any previous president, and providing a clear preview of how Republicans would move to further erode democracy if given another four years in power." Read more |
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Election Security Experts Warn of Voter Intimidation as 'Trump Train' Caravans Plan to Pass Through Polling Sites Vehicular rallies near polling stations represent a type of voter intimidation that "we haven't seen in our prior federal elections," said one scholar. Read more |
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Greta Thunberg Tells US Voters on Election Day Their Choice 'Will Affect Countless Generations to Come' "Every election is a climate election." Read more |
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Calling Biden Victory Over Trump Step One, Sanders Says US 'Must Not Go Back to Business as Usual' During final get-out-the-vote rally before Election Day, the Vermont senator said "we must have the courage to think big, not small." Read more |
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As Trump Spouts Last-Minute Lies, Top Pennsylvania Officials Make Clear: 'Election Will Not End' Until All Ballots Are Counted "Donald Trump can tweet, and he can pout, and he can make whatever statements he wants to make. But this election will not be over here in Pennsylvania until we can deduce the will of the people." Read more |
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Civil Rights Group Bashes 'Highly Politicized' Trump DOJ Election Monitoring Plan "This plan appears to be nothing but a thinly-veiled effort to deploy federal government personnel to communities in so-called 'battleground states.'" Read more |
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'Huge Victory for Texas Voters': Federal Judge Rules in Favor of 127,000 Drive-Thru Ballots "This is what democracy looks like," said one ACLU lawyer. "Our justice system did its duty today to ensure voting rights are protected and our democracy remains intact." Read more |
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ACLU's Closing Argument: 'Everyone Should Be Able to Vote, and Everyone’s Vote Should Be Counted' The national civil liberties group says that it "is at the ready to act swiftly and use all of the tools and resources at our disposal to protect the vote." Read more |
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Shell Oil Asked What People Are Willing to Do to Reduce Emissions. 'I'm Willing to Hold You Accountable,' Said Ocasio-Cortez "They're showing you RIGHT HERE how the suggestion that individual choices—not systems—are a main driver of climate change is a fossil fuel talking point." Read more |
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Warning 'Wannabe Fascists,' Philly DA Says People Dressing 'Up Like G.I. Joe' to Intimidate Voters Will Be Prosecuted "If you want to dress up like a G.I. Joe and claim you are protecting the polls when we all know what you're really doing is intimidating voters, you're getting locked up," said Larry Krasner. Read more |
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Citing Potential for Election-Related Violence, Australia and New Zealand Update Warnings Against Travel to US "Take precautions to keep safe during the election season." Read more |
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'Our Agenda Is on the Ballot': On Election Eve, Sanders Joins Other Progressive Leaders for Final Get Out the Vote Rally "Our progressive values are on the ballot—and the progress we're fighting for isn't possible under a Trump presidency." Read more |
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Warning of 'Dark Days Ahead,' Historians of Fascism Stress 'It Is Not Too Late' to Avoid Descent Into Authoritarianism "We believe that unless we take immediate action, democracy as we know it will continue in its frightening regression, irrespective of who wins the American presidency," the scholars warned. Read more |
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'We Plan to Stay Relentless': After Pepper-Spray Attack by Police, NC Poll Marchers Vow Return on Election Day "This constitutes interference with our most fundamental civil rights—the right to protest and the right to vote." Read more |
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Turning White House Into a 'Fortress'? Federal Agents to Install 'Non-Scalable' Fence Just Before Election Day "Does this feel like preparation for a peaceful transfer of power?" Read more |
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Warning Against Trump 'Coup' Attempt, 15,000+ Sign Petition Urging US Military Leaders to Refuse Any Order to Interfere in Election "The public very much needs media outlets and prominent officials, including the Secretary of Defense, to state clearly that the president's use of the military to interfere in the election will not be tolerated." Read more |