Big donors who supported the insurrection and the election denial that inspired it are spending to influence this year’s races.
Category: voting rights
Report details how Big Lie-promoting MAGA Republicans are moving closer to seizing control of elections
The voter suppression bills passed by GOP-controlled state legislatures all over the U.S. are being slammed by Democrats for making voting more difficult by reducing or eliminating early voting or discouraging the use of mail-in ballots. But as bad as those things are, something much more sinister and nakedly authoritarian is coming from MAGA Republicans in 2022: an effort to take control of the administration of elections, making it easier for them to simply throw out election results if they don’t like the outcome. And if the results of the 2022 midterms put enough “Stop the Steal” Republicans in control of elections, they may have a chance to do exactly that in 2024.
The Coming US Elections: An Interview with Greg Palast
Greg Palast is an investigative journalist who has written for the BBC, the Guardian, Rolling Stone, the NYT, and other publications. He is the author of
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Starbucks’s Multimillion-Dollar Anti-Union Effort May Have Backfired
Successful Starbucks unions inspired more baristas to self-organize despite the company’s intimidation tactics.
Source: Starbucks’s Multimillion-Dollar Anti-Union Effort May Have Backfired
Will the Independent State Legislature doctrine literally mean the end of democracy? | Salon.com
How the right turned a fringe constitutional theory into a brutal political weapon that could lock in GOP power
Source: Will the Independent State Legislature doctrine literally mean the end of democracy? | Salon.com