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On March 6, a coalition of progressive candidates backed by the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America took over the leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, sweeping all five party leadership positions in a contested election that evening. Whitmer, who had been chair of the Clark County Democratic Party, was elected chair. The incumbents had prepared for the loss, having recently moved $450,000 out of the party’s coffers and into the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s account. The DSCC will put the money toward the 2022 reelection bid of Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a vulnerable first-term Democrat. While Whitmer’s...

Republican leaders are eyeing a House vote on a stopgap spending bill next week that extends government funding through Nov. 20 — up to the Friday before Thanksgiving — according to five GOP officials granted anonymity to describe the talks.

In a significant legal decision, the South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that had prevented the Department of Justice, under former President Donald Trump, from accessing the state’s voter rolls. This reversal marks a critical development in the ongoing debates over voter registration and election integrity in the United States. Leading the charge in these efforts is Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who is actively working to identify and eliminate ineligible and illegal voters from state databases, a move that has sparked considerable discussion and controversy. The ruling is expected to have wide-reaching implications for election-related...

Turn out by Republicans was whopper lol, 95,000 fewer Republican votes than 2024

ATLANTA – A federal judge has upheld a portion of a controversial 2022 Georgia election law dealing with absentee ballots. In a 50-page ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee declared that the state had a “compelling governmental interest” in restricting the distribution of absentee ballot applications by third-party voting rights activists. He ruled that the state was justified in enacting restrictions aimed at “reducing voter confusion, enhancing voter confidence and increasing electoral efficiency.” The absentee ballot restrictions were part of a broad overhaul of Georgia election procedures the Republican-controlled General Assembly passed in 2021 after Democrat Joe Biden carried...

Former employees at Minocqua Brewing Company's Madison tap room question how the brewery's political Super PAC, Minocqua Brewing Company Super PAC, uses donations, saying employees were paid from the PAC despite doing no work for it. Brewery owner Kirk Bangstad, has raised more than $2 million since the PACs creation to support liberal political causes. The $2 million raised by the Minocqua Brewing Super PAC represents a small fraction of Super PAC spending in Wisconsin, where such organizations spent $49 million on the state's most recent Supreme Court race alone. However, former employees say some of those funds went toward...

...When Trump and his MAGA base questioned the elections, it was erroneous. When Democrats do it — well, they might have a point!...

The diversity-visa jihadi has rolled over the Democrats’ audacious plan to win a no-strings amnesty for millions of young DACA illegals during the Christmas budget fight by using activists and skewed polls to bluff and intimidate GOP leaders.That power-grab was first blocked by President Donald Trump’s October 8 demand that any amnesty complies with his poll-tested list of immigration principles. On Nov. 1, he dramatically stepped up the pressure, telling the media directly that he wanted a quick end to the diversity visa lottery and chain migration: So we want to immediately work with Congress on the Diversity Lottery Program, on terminating it,...

Talk about being bad to the bone! A California woman is facing jail time after she allegedly registered her dog to vote and cast ballots on her pooch’s behalf not once — but twice. Sixty-two year-old Laura Lee Yourex allegedly registered her dog, Maya Jean Yourex, to vote and cast ballots under the dog’s name in the 2021 gubernatorial recall election and 2022 primary election, The Los Angeles Times reported, citing the Orange County district attorney’s office. Only the 2021 was ballot was accepted, according to the report.

Democratic Socialist of America members — including New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — should leave the Democratic Party and create their own, Rep. Tom Suozzi said. “Zohran Mamdani and other Democratic Socialists should create their own party because I don’t want that in my party,” Suozzi, a Democrat, said of the far left policies on CBS New York’s “The Point” show with Marcia Kramer that aired Sunday. Suozzi — whose third congressional district includes parts of Queens as well as Long Island — also said he hopes “he [Mamdani] doesn’t win” the mayoralty because...

Well, this would be an interesting development... According to POLITICO, the Mayor of New York, Eric Adams, has been offered a job in the Trump administration as a reward for dropping out of the New York City race. It would make a lot of sense, as Adams is the lowest-performing candidate in a crowded race in which it sure looks likely that Zohran Mamdani has the inside track. Trump, as we all know, is both emotionally and financially invested in the well-being of New York, and a Mamdani mayoralty could make a Bill de Blasio term look as if the...

Four candidates and two reserves from the right-wing AfD political party in Germany have dropped dead within 13 days of each other — just before elections, according to reports. The Alternative for Deutschland candidates were set to appear on ballots in North Rhine-Westphalia on September 14. Officials said no foul play is currently suspected in any of their deaths, the BBC reported. Ralph Lange, 66, Wolfgang Klinger, 71, Stefan Berendes, 59, and Wolfgang Seitz, 59, all kicked the bucket within two weeks of each other, the European Conservative reported. Two reserve candidates also died over the same period. German officials...

When President Donald Trump sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last month, the topic was the weighty issue of ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But at one point, Trump took a provocative diversion into domestic politics. Zelensky noted that, in his country, the law doesn’t allow for elections during periods of martial law.

A local and national leader of the Hispanic community, Domingo Garcia, said he may run for Congress in North Texas. "We're looking at it," the former Dallas City Council Member, Mayor Pro Tem, and Democratic State Representative, who also recently served as National President of the League of United Latin American Citizens, said. Garcia said he may enter the race for the newly drawn 33rd Congressional District in Dallas. "I'm setting up an exploratory committee to look at running if the maps stay as they are," Garcia said during an interview at the AFL-CIO Labor Day Breakfast on Monday morning.

You’ve got to hand it to her; no one in America has worked harder than Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to earn the title of the nation’s dirtiest election official. Benson UOCAVA Online Voting On September 22, 2024, we warned of a shocking plan by Democrats to steal the upcoming general election. In the 2000 presidential election, a mere 629 votes separated the race between George W. Bush and Al Gore in Florida. When the absentee overseas votes finally arrived, George W. Bush was able to take the 537-vote lead from Al Gore and win the presidency. On...

The president will be hard pressed to come up with a work around for the Constitution on this one. President Donald Trump declared his intent to sign a new executive order – this time, on voter ID. Polls show it’s a popular idea, sure, but popular doesn’t equal constitutional. And while one could argue that any order a president signs is something like functionally legal until a court rules otherwise, this one seems like a stretch.Trump Loves Voter ID, and So Do Americans“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive...

US President Donald Trump says he will issue an executive order to require voter identification from every voter. “Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!” Trump says on Truth Social. “Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military,” he adds.

Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe said Friday that he is calling Missouri lawmakers into a special session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts as part of a growing national battle between Republicans and Democrats seeking an edge in next year’s congressional elections. Kehoe made the announcement just hours after Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans gain five more seats in the 2026 midterm elections. It marked a win for President Donald Trump, who has been urging Republican-led states to reshape district lines to give the party a better shot...

Yesterday, President Trump announced that he and his various campaign groups, including his Super PACs, have raised an unprecedented $1.5 billion dollars for the coming 2026 mid-term elections. This is all part of his campaign strategy to hold both the U.S. House and Senate. Of course, the former chamber, where the GOP currently has a 220 to 215 edge, is the one that is really in danger of flipping. Remember, this strategy includes: 1) push GOP redistricting; 2) minimize retirements; 3) spend big; 4) take primary challengers off the table; 5) raise gobs more money; 6) ramp up recruiting; and...

This is my very first solo post after years on Free Republic. Please forgive me and let me know if I got some of the "must haves" wrong. I Just received this email from a family memberand it's content absolutely terrifies me. I can't believe that real US citizens believe this poop, nor that our military gives up their time and freedoms and put themselves in harms way to defend such opinions. When elections are stolen, history shows crowds flood the streets. Trump plans to crush the protests before they even begin… Monday night, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker came right...