Democrats should speak more “like normal people” and examine their language, liberal think tank Third Way said in a memo. The Democratic Party is scrutinizing its messaging, platform, and candidates that it’s marketing to Americans after a decisive 2024 election loss. Third Way, in a memo addressed to “All Who Wish to Stop Donald Trump […]| Washington Examiner
In the run-up to the 2024 presidential elections, social media influencers misrepresented a feature Google introduced in 2017.| Snopes
Nearly six months after Election Day, North Carolina's election for a seat on the state Supreme Court remains the last uncertified race in the country.| WUNC
Some extremists celebrated Grok’s responses. Andrew Torba, founder of the hate-filled forum Gab posted a screenshot of one of the Grok answers with the comment “incredible things are happening.”…| East Bay Times
The Republican presidential field has narrowed two days before the New Hampshire primary, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ending his campaign and endorsing Trump on Sunday. This makes former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley the only remaining candidate for the GOP nomination aside from Trump. Lisa Desjardins has been speaking with voters in New Hampshire and joins John Yang to discuss the latest.| PBS News
The 2024 race for the White House will take up a lot of time, attention and money over the next 11 months. But as Lisa Desjardins explains, other votes at the state level next year could significantly influence the presidential campaign and our day-to-day lives.| PBS News
Nikki Haley on Saturday questioned whether Donald Trump is mentally capable of serving as president again after he repeatedly seemed to confuse her with former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a campaign speech.| PBS News
The letter to the FBI, Attorney General Merrick Garland, special counsel Jack Smith and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency asks for a federal probe and a risk assessment of voting machines used throughout the country.| PBS News
The safeguards that attempted to counter the bogus claims the last time are eroding, while the tools and systems that create and spread them are only getting stronger.| PBS News
As crime data again becomes a flashpoint in the presidential campaign, experts push for better national statistics.| The Marshall Project
What Trump has given to America is not what we wanted—we didn’t even know what to want—but what we needed: a vision of greatness.| The American Mind
A Colorado U.S. postal worker has pleaded guilty to trying to rig the 2024 election, according to prosecutors who announced they reached a deal that may involve prison time. The absurd case involved Vicki Stuart, a 64-year-old former employee of the U.S. Postal Service who on Monday admitted to forgery and identify theft in an […]| Trending Politics Conservative News and Commentary
The list of security challenges keeps growing for election officials preparing for the 2024 presidential election. Many of the concerns from four years ago persist.| PBS News
Look, I know there is a deluge of unthought pieces all jumping on the post-election fallout train. So out of respect for your time and mine I will keep this extremely short and to the point. There …| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
The tariffs amount to an average tax increase of nearly $1,200 per US household in 2025.| Tax Foundation
Now that the 2024 Presidential election cycle is in the past, the discussion that occurs every election cycle of whether pollsters “missed the mark” with regards to the Presidential election results is worth bringing up now. Let’s look at the data to evaluate whether or not pollsters “got it wrong” again.| JMC Enterprises of Louisiana/JMC Analytics and Polling
It’s 2024, yet Democrat governors believe it is the early 1960’s (or 1860’s) and they are somehow no longer bound to follow federal law or obey the President of the United States, to whom the Constitution gives the power to enforce federal law. Back in 1962, two Democrat segregationist governors attempted to defy the 1954 […] The post Democrat Governors Channel George Wallace; Set to Impede Federal Immigration Enforcement first appeared on CATHOLICS 4 TRUMP.| CATHOLICS 4 TRUMP
I decided that this article was very sorely needed, as I have encountered some Traditional and Conservative Catholics who are making it a badge of honor to either not vote in the coming presidential election, or else proudly advocating throwing our votes away on third party candidates with no chance of winning. In past years […] The post The Catholic Moral Obligation to Vote for Donald Trump on November 5th first appeared on CATHOLICS 4 TRUMP.| CATHOLICS 4 TRUMP
Trump signed a blizzard of executive orders (EOs) over the last week. Some are vicious and cruel (rolling back protections for transgender people), others are blatantly unconstitutional (ending bir…| Unsolicited Feedback
NBC News is reporting that at least six Republican Senators are balking at the idea of confirming Pete Hegseth, a veteran of the War on Terror and current host at Fox News who has been nominated to lead the Department of Defense by President-elect Trump. Since Hegseth was announced as Trump’s nominee, he has been […]| Trending Politics Conservative News and Commentary
From the standpoint of those who favor freedom and constitutional government, the new presidential administration will be better than the last, but lasting change will require adoption of constitutional amendments proposed by a convention of the states. The post Some Constitutional Takeaways from the 2024 Presidential Election first appeared on Independence Institute. The post Some Constitutional Takeaways from the 2024 Presidential Election appeared first on Independence Institute.| Independence Institute
Executive Summary Coloradans have several options to try to address rising property taxes in 2024. The state legislature passed SB24-233 with bipartisan support at the end of the 2024 legislative session. Voters could choose to keep SB24-233 or eschew the bill for either or both Initiatives 50 and 108. Despite being a better alternative The post 2024 Property Tax Reform: The Choices Before Colorado Voters first appeared on Independence Institute. The post 2024 Property Tax Reform: Th...| Independence Institute
In a very-low-turnout election Tuesday, SF voters handed Mayor London Breed a couple of victories on police powers and drug screening for welfare recipients, while an affordable housing bond she abandoned is still too close to call.| SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
The FrameLab Book Club is launching in 2025! First on the list: “The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics” by Dr. George Lakoff. Nearly 400…| George Lakoff
I could not help but notice that my neighbor’s new* tree – a redbud – is offering a heart if I care to pause and notice. which of course I do. I also notice the beautiful shading …| mere-et-filles
It happened. Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris. A twice-impeached convicted felon who has promised to act as a dictator will return to the White House in 2025. There’s no way to sugarcoat this ni…| George Lakoff
President-elect Trump may want to impose tariffs to encourage investment and work, but his strategy will backfire. Tariffs will certainly create benefits for protected industries, but those benefits come at the expense of consumers and other industries throughout the economy.| Tax Foundation
By Christina Lewis ~ As Americans prepare to head to the polls on Nov. 5, some voters are putting their money where their mouth is by placing bets on the election’s outcome. With less than a week l…| PA Pundits International
# Shaun Scott is headed to the Washington State House. Jessica Bateman is headed to the state senate. Alexis Mercedes Rinck won a Seattle City Council seat, and Ryan Mello is the new Pierce County Executive. All were endorsed by The Urbanist.| The Urbanist - Examining urban policy to improve cities and quality of life.
Gov. Polis said he is deploying state resources to complete the process of securing voting systems in affected Colorado counties.| Colorado Newsline
Michigan's part-time clerks, who are trained every four years and have limited resources in running elections, are at a breaking point.| Stateline
Lawmakers will need to pursue fiscal responsibility as they address the tax law expirations, but fiscal responsibility requires finding sound ways to pay for spending priorities. Tariffs don’t make the cut.| Tax Foundation
# Passage of Seattle's transportation levy was all but assured Tuesday night, after initial returns showed two-thirds of voters in support.| The Urbanist - Examining urban policy to improve cities and quality of life.
# Progressives are off to a fast start in Washington state early returns. All four Republican-backed statewide initiative repealing progressive legislation are in trouble. Urbanist-endorsed Shaun Scott and Alexis Mercedes Rinck are up big, and urbanist Ryan Mello has a lead in the Pierce County Executive race.| The Urbanist - Examining urban policy to improve cities and quality of life.
U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Virginia for removing voters from rolls within 90 days of this year’s elections. Virginia’s League of Women Voters and the Virginia Coalition for Immigrants Rights have filed a similar suit. Earlier this week a federal judge ordered the Youngkin administration to release the names of affected voters as part of discovery in the League of Women Voters case and officials had to comply by Wednesday.| Virginia Mercury
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate emphasized that voters listed as potential noncitizens have not been removed from state voter rolls.| Iowa Capital Dispatch
Iowa is among 26 states supporting Virginia's effort to remove 1,600 people from voter rolls without proving each is a noncitizen.| Iowa Capital Dispatch
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain locked in a tight race according to public polling,.| Georgia Recorder
States Newsroom reported on positions taken by Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump.| Georgia Recorder
Final days of 2024 presidential campaign dominated by "garbage" insults, swing state rallies and doubts about election fairness.| Georgia Recorder
Before the polls close on Nov. 5, the U.S. Justice Department Wednesday reiterated its efforts to protect voters’ access to the ballot box.| Georgia Recorder
Former First Lady Michelle Obama hosts voting rally in Atlanta, Georgia ahead of Nov. 5 presidential election.| Georgia Recorder
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, with the White House as her backdrop, gave what she called her closing argument Tuesday.| Georgia Recorder
Kamala Harris campaigned at a Puerto Rican restaurant in Pennsylvania at nearly the same time Hinchcliffe said “floating island of garbage.”| Georgia Recorder
Vice President Kamala Harris is slated to deliver what the campaign her “closing argument” Tuesday night at the Ellipse in Washington.| Georgia Recorder
Columnist Jay Bookman laments the coarseness that has entered political dialogue in the U.S. in the past decade.| Georgia Recorder
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance came to Atlanta Saturday to make the case for his running mate, former president Donald Trump, in the frenzied final stretch of a tight presidential race against Vice President Kamala Harris.| Georgia Recorder
The initiative would make Washington’s long-term care program, and paying the tax that funds it, voluntary for state residents.| Washington State Standard
The election just a day away, and the contrast between Donald Trump's and Kamala Harris's campaigns is as stark as ever.In the last few weeks, Trump has successfully demonstrated the incredible range of his campaign, from his McDonald's and garbage truck events to electric rallies like the recent on...| Glenn Beck
If Donald Trump is elected to a second term as president, many things will change. Glenn predicts that we will no longer be on a direct path to global war, the bureaucracy will be cleaned up, many illegal immigrants will be deported, the nonstop lies will end, migrant crime will go down, and the gov...| Glenn Beck
Another Trump presidency may be right around the corner. Perhaps his primary economic policy point this campaign has been his favorite word: “tariffs.” According to Alan Rappeport, an economic policy reporter for The New York Times, Trump has considered instituting between 10 and 50 percent tariffs on all imported products, a 60 percent tariff on […] The post Taxing the Constitution: Are Trump’s Proposed Tariffs Legal? appeared first on Starting Points.| Starting Points
A U.S. Senate debate attended Tuesday by two of three Indiana candidates covered a wide range of topics without GOP frontrunner Jim Banks.| Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita gave wide-ranging comments, including about an inquiry into Hoosier voter registrations, on Thursday.| Indiana Capital Chronicle
Officials are examining the citizenship status of about 585,000 registered Hoosier voters — more than one in 10 residents on the voter rolls.| Indiana Capital Chronicle
Attorney General Todd Rokita Rokita has positioned himself as a "fighter," while challenger Destiny Wells has proposed a restrained approach.| Indiana Capital Chronicle
According to an incident report from the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, a suspect hit an elections clerk on his way out of the voting booth.| San Antonio Report
In this final post exploring the results of the “Reimagining Political Leadership: The Outlook of Young Americans” survey focused on the political attitudes of Americans between the ages of 18 and 35.| Close Up Foundation
They say Project 2025, a game plan for a GOP presidency, aims to get rid of public sector unions.| capitalandmain.com
With only two weeks until the election, voting advocates, candidates, parties and community organizers are making last-ditch efforts to rally people to vote across Arizona.| Arizona Mirror
In the November election, Arizona voters will decide whether to open up the state’s primary elections to include all voters and candidates, or to fortify the status quo with closed, partisan primaries.| Arizona Mirror
In a move that underscores the high stakes of Arizona's legislative elections, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee announced today it will pump nearly $1 million into targeted races across the state, adding to the $8.5 million that’s already been spent by outside groups in a handful of key districts.| Arizona Mirror
Votes will be counted for an open primaries ballot initiative that has been the subject of whiplash-inducing court challenge, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled just 31 days before the election.| Arizona Mirror
Local election offices are using mapping software to improve the transparency of their processes and to encourage more people to go vote.| StateScoop
Introduction Early voting is underway in Louisiana (and concludes on Tuesday, 10/29), and the end is in sight. Currently, 21 states are undergoing in person voting, and Election Day just over two weeks away. Given that we’re going into the final stretch of the campaign, what has been going on (from a polling perspective) with […]| JMC Enterprises of Louisiana/JMC Analytics and Polling
Introduction We are in the midst of election season now; in fact, people are already voting in 44 states – that we know about, and Election Day is just over three weeks away (in person early voting starts in Louisiana next Friday). Given that we’re going into the final stretch of the campaign, what has been […]| JMC Enterprises of Louisiana/JMC Analytics and Polling
After two years of actively participating in militia, 'the infiltrator' is dropping 13 gigabytes of 'internal, secretive communications,' says "APIII and other paramilitary groups provided the muscle" for voter intimidation. A new set of leaks from inside the Telegram chats of the American Patriots Three Percent militia group (AP3 or APIII) reveal a sprawling network buzzing with activity.| UNICORN RIOT
When the poll participants were asked to list the three most important qualities they look for in a political candidate, they listed a motivation to serve others as the highest priority.| Close Up Foundation
Ray Fair at Yale runs one of the oldest models to use economic data to predict US election results. It predicts vote shares for President and the US House as a function of real GDP growth during th…| Economist Writing Every Day
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge said that a ballot proposition to end partisan primaries in Arizona will have votes cast for it counted after all.| Arizona Mirror
A ballot proposition to end partisan primaries appears to have thousands of duplicate signatures, putting it below the threshold to be placed on the ballot. But what that means for voters remains to be seen.| Arizona Mirror
Your Atlanta Civic Circle summer interns have returned for the last time to share politically themed podcast recommendations. We’ve chosen podcasts that| Atlanta Civic Circle
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday ordered a nonprofit led by Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s wife to repay $132,000 in federal funding following a scathing review.| WUNC
The agency found a long list of missing documents required to administer a federally funded food program for child care centers, as well as claims filed for payment for centers that apparently hadn't requested or received money.| WUNC
While Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s wife told her nonprofit’s clients that she was shutting down because of her husband’s campaign for governor, she told a state agency a different story.| WUNC
Welcome to modern journalism. Water is wet. Sky is blue. Trump is a fascist.| Chronicles
How effective are memes and pop culture in political campaigns?| Atlanta Civic Circle
Democratic senator Bob Casey has criticized Republican challenger Dave McCormick over his past role at the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. But Casey spoke highly of the investment firm's offerings when he served as a top Pennsylvania official overseeing the commonwealth’s pension funds, which brought on Bridgewater to great benefit "both to retirees and to our economy as a whole," according to Casey.| freebeacon.com
California lawmakers and former police officers who served during Kamala Harris’s tenure as a Golden State prosecutor called out the vice president for presenting herself as a “tough on drugs” prosecutor, saying her record tells a different story.| freebeacon.com
Vice President Kamala Harris (D) is receiving some blowback from conservatives after wearing earphones while exiting the VP motorcade and entering Air Force Two, alleging she did so to avoid questions from the press.| Texas Politics
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) On Sept. 6, 2024, Judge Juan Merchan postponed Donald Trump’s New York witch hunt sentencing until after the 2024 election. 🚨BREAKING: Judge Merchan DELAYS Trump Hush Money Trial sentencing to November 26 pic.twitter.com/GVI6h5G4lG — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 6, 2024 Fox News reported that Trump’s sentencing date is now scheduled […]| Headline USA
The legal fight is over the use of "Electric Avenue" in a campaign video.| Deadline
Trump has embraced tariffs as he appeals to working-class voters who oppose free-trade deals and the outsourcing of factories and jobs.| Monterey Herald
The proposal can help Harris show her support for entrepreneurs even as she’s called for higher corporate tax rates.| Daily Democrat
Social media users are misrepresenting a years-old video of Vice President Kamala Harris to falsely claim that the Democratic presidential nominee has threatened to censor both X and Musk.| Times Herald Online
With the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that now requires potential voters to provide proof of citizenship with their state-created voter registration forms, Indigenous voting rights advocates want Indigenous people to know that they can still register to vote as tribal citizens.| Arizona Mirror
Polls show that Americans strongly favor renewable energy and moving to carbon neutrality. But, alas, it's not a priority issue for most.| Legal Planet
Fox News host Jesse Watters is under fire for a sexist remark that U.S. military generals would "have their way" with Kamala Harris.| NewsOne
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National political party conventions are carefully orchestrated rituals with a singular goal: to promote party unity in support of the party’s nominees in a presidential election.| Washington Jewish Week
Riding high on the recently completed Democratic National Convention and the enthusiasm that has propelled her to a lead in the national polls, Vice President Kamala Harris is launching a campaign to mobilize Generation Z voters on 150 campuses across battleground states| Arizona Mirror
After months of stalling, a judge has for a second time ordered Kari Lake and her husband to hand over documents to Stephen Richer that pertain to her defamatory statements about the Maricopa County Recorder.| Arizona Mirror
Texas megachurch pastor Landon Schott announced on social media Monday that if someone votes for a Democrat, they are not a Christian.| The Roys Report
The 2024 election could be the most consequential in history—literally out of this world, if the latest rumors are to be believed. In a scenario that sounds more like a sci-fi blockbuster than real…| The Crustian Daily
Streamers can choose from among 37 local television stations.| Times-Standard
Democrats nationwide are attempting to make former President Donald Trump synonymous with Project 2025, an expansive plan to reconstruct the federal government under a Republican administration. And that narrative is trickling down to the Nevada Senate race.| American Journal News
Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her party’s nomination for president Thursday evening, pitching her candidacy as an opportunity for the nation to move forward, rather than accept a dark future she said would follow a second election of her Republican opponent| Arizona Mirror
W.J. Astore The Last Best Hope of America? It’s convention week for the Democrats, which brings me to concerns expressed by a couple of loyal readers. They tell me I’m being too hard on Kamala Harr…| Bracing Views
Minnesota’s first family is landing in the national spotlight.| The Ukiah Daily Journal
Michael Steed is set to speak at an event during the Democratic Convention in Chicago. But Steed’s history of looting union members' pockets through shady stock buyback schemes means he should have no place in the Harris-Walz Democratic party.| Revolving Door Project
The Democratic National Convention begins on Monday in Chicago, a little less than a month after President Joe Biden ended his campaign for reelection and catapulted Vice President Kamala Harris toward the Democratic presidential nomination.| GZERO Media