Bear with me for a moment, but to understand the conservative case for preserving the guardrails of democracy, one has to understand the M1 Abrams main battle tank. Introduced in 1980, it was the most powerful land warfare vehicle ever devised by the mind and industry of man.Source: An Upgrade, not a Rebuild....
Lea este artículo en español. From the editor: A change was made to this story after publication. Please see the explanation at the end of the story.Source: Force multipliers: How one donor network is pushing the envelope on California campaign money....
Andrew Yang—an entrepreneur, a policy celebrity, and a proud nerd—recently co-founded Forward, America’s newest political party.Source: Andrew Yang Thinks Three Parties Aren’t Nearly Enough....
New Hampshire’s attorney general announced on Thursday that the state had arrested the publisher of a local weekly newspaper in Londonderry earlier this week, alleging she illegally published political ads without properly disclosing them to be ads.Source: New Hampshire AG Arrests Small-Town Newspaper Publisher Arrested for Improper Ads....
LAS VEGAS (AP) — As parts of rural Nevada plan to count ballots by hand amid misinformation about voting machines, the Nevada secretary of state’s office on Friday approved regulations for counties to hand count votes starting as soon as this fall’s midterm elections.Source: Amid fears of voting machines, Nevada approves hand counting....
Some more stories from the failed recall effort against L.A. District Attorney George Gascon, including a UC Berkeley IGS poll suggesting that voters were in favor of the recall 41-20%.Source: California: Continued fallout from failed LA D.A. recall....
An unredacted tax return filed by Nikki Haley’s nonprofit shows that the group’s funders include a wealthy New Jersey family and some of the GOP’s biggest donors. Many of the GOP’s biggest donors are among those who funneled anonymous contributions to former U.Source: Document reveals identity of donors who secretly funded Nikki Haley’s political nonprofit....
The primaries in Florida and New York this week marked the final major nominating contests of 2022, and the country’s attention is now poised to shift to the general elections that will determine control of Congress for the next two years. Primaries for both parties stretching from March through this week offered up some key…Source: Five takeaways from a bruising...
Stuart Thompson writes about online information flows. The election dashboards are back online, the fact-checking teams have reassembled, and warnings about misleading content are cluttering news feeds once again.Source: To Fight Election Falsehoods, Social Media Companies Ready a Familiar Playbook....
Alaska held its top-four primary on August 16. For U.S. House, Republican Tara Sweeney finished fourth with 3.71% of the vote, thus entitling her to appear on the November ballot. But on August 23, she withdrew.Source: Tara Sweeney, Alaska U.S. House Candidate Who Placed Fourth in Primary, Withdraws; Libertarian Who Placed Fifth Now Qualifies for General Election....
