Ariana Figueroa, Missouri Independent In Colorado, an error in early October involving voter registration postcards that were mailed to non-citizens in the state morphed into a conspiracy theory about voter fraud. In Iowa, voters in late September received phone calls spreading misinformation about how they could vote, with Iowans falsely told they could cast …
Read More »‘Biden Is Right’ That ‘Democracy Itself’ Is at Stake in Midterms
Progressives responded to President Joe Biden‘s Wednesday night speech by agreeing with his warning that “democracy itself” is at stake in the November 8 midterm elections. “Biden is right,” declared a statement from the advocacy organization Stand Up America. “With less than a week until Election Day, President Biden sounded …
Read More »Control Of U.S. Senate Still A Guess Ahead Of Midterm Elections
Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent Democrats and Republicans have just a handful of frantic days left to convince voters who should control Congress before voting in the Nov. 8 midterm elections ends. The two political parties are spending millions on campaign ads and mailers in the dozens of toss-up races that …
Read More »Abrams, Kemp Sharpen Attacks On Abortion, Crime In Last Debate Before Midterm Election
Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams sparred over abortion access and other key issues in the last debate before Georgia voters finish casting their ballots in this year’s midterm election. Most notably, a lengthy exchange during WSB-TV’s debate led to the most substantive discussion …
Read More »Judge Rejects Lawsuit To Stop Groups Surveilling Drop Boxes In Arizona
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror A federal judge in Phoenix denied a bid to shut down efforts by a group that has been surveilling drop boxes in Maricopa County, saying that it would violate the First Amendment rights of the watchers. Two separate lawsuits have been filed aiming to stop extremist …
Read More »Election Deniers Already Are Disrupting the Midterm Election
Two years of sustained disinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election are causing disruptions and instability as early voting for the midterm election continues in most states. In Arizona, people who believe the lies of former President Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was …
Read More »Two Lawsuits Filed To Stop Intimidation At Ballot Drop Boxes In Arizona
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror A federal lawsuit by the League of Women Voters of Arizona is aiming to stop extremist groups from surveilling dropboxes in Maricopa and Yavapai and counties. The nonprofit Protect Democracy Project is representing the League of Women Voters of Arizona in the case. It seeks to …
Read More »Progressives Warn of Federal ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law If GOP Wins Midterms
Julia Conley, Common Dreams In addition to a nationwide abortion ban, the extension of tax cuts benefiting the wealthy, and the shredding of the social safety net through cuts to Medicare and Social Security, progressives this week are warning of another consequence of a potential takeover of Congress by the …
Read More »Val Demings, Marco Rubio Sparred On Stage Over Abortion Rights, Immigration And More
Issac Morgan, Florida Phoenix Incumbent GOP Sen. Marco Rubio sparred on stage Tuesday night with Democratic U.S. House Rep. Val Demings in the only scheduled televised debate before the general election in less than a month. Both candidates for the U.S. Senate in Florida went back and forth on a variety …
Read More »Brian Kemp, Stacey Abrams Square Off In Georgia Governor Debate
Stephen Fowler, GPB News In a rematch four years in the making, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams shared a stage Tuesday night and presented starkly different views of Georgia’s future if they were to be elected. Education and crime dominated discussions during the hourlong Atlanta Press Club …
Read More »Georgians Set First Day Early Voting Turnout Record In Biggest Test Yet Of 2021 Election Overhaul
Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder On Monday, thousands of Georgia voters descended upon early voting sites like the Smyrna Community Center on a record-setting first day of early voting in the high-stakes midterm election looming on Nov. 8. Across Georgia, some voters waited in long lines and the state’s voter registration …
Read More »Debating Empty Podium, Warnock Blasts No-Show Walker: ‘He Is Not Ready’
Sen. Raphael Warnock on Sunday blasted his Republican opponent Herschel Walker—represented at the Atlanta debate by an empty podium to the Democratic incumbent’s left—for lying about his “well-documented history of violence” and opposing student debt relief, prescription drug price reforms, and other popular policy moves. “I think Herschel Walker, if …
Read More »Biden Pitches To The Middle Class In Advance Of Midterms
Jacob Fischler, Kansas Reflector President Joe Biden at a community center in Portland, Oregon Saturday promoted Democrats’ efforts to bring down health care costs, in a visit to a normally Democratic state three weeks before midterm elections that will determine control of Congress for the next two years. Speaking on …
Read More »Ron Johnson Booed and Laughed At in Debate With Progressive Challenger
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson repeatedly faced laughter and boos from the audience gathered at Marquette University on Thursday for the final debate between the two-term GOP incumbent and Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin‘s key U.S. Senate race. With less than a month to go before the November midterms, …
Read More »The Battle For Control Of Congress: Abortion, Inflation, Crime And Biden
Jennifer Shutt, Alaska Beacon Members of Congress are fanning out to every district in the country, leaving the wonky floor debates on Capitol Hill behind for the campaign trail in advance of the crucial Nov. 8 midterm elections. Democrats are fighting to hold their razor-thin majorities in the U.S. House …
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