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On Sunday, thousands of supporters of Brazil’s right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in the capital of Brasília in opposition to the results of its

Targeting the ruling BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said in a democracy if one person is made a god, it will not be democracy, but will become an autocracy. He called on all sections of the society, especially SC/ST and other weaker sections to unite for safeguarding the […]

Even outside of potential threats of violence, other barriers to equal participation contribute to the blunting of Black political participation on both sides of the ballot box.   “You’re going to find more accessibility issues in Black neighborhoods,” explains Huddleston, who I worked alongside as a poll monitor in Huntsville, Alabama on Election Day 2022. And, […]

At Foreign Policy, we leave most of the reporting on U.S. domestic politics to others. But 2022 once again made clear why foreign policy begins at home. The November midterm elections were long expected to be a disaster for Democrats on Capitol Hill, with indirect effects on everything from aid to Ukraine to China policy […]

Charlene Mitchell, First Black Woman to Run for U.S. President, Dies …  Democracy Now! Source link

This commentary is by Narain Batra, a media and First Amendment scholar affiliated with the diplomacy and international program in the graduate college at Norwich University. He lives in Hartford. Joy to the world! Freedom is rising. On Dec. 6, we saw another embodiment  of what the American dream is made of: A woman once […]

The opening brief in Moore v. Harper, an extraordinarily high-stakes election case that the Supreme Court will hear December 7, is one of the least persuasive documents that I’ve ever read in any context. And I’ve read both Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, and Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal. Moore is also potentially the

It wasn’t just Democratic candidates who were victorious after taking a stand against those who falsely assert that Trump won in 2020. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican who pushed back on Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results in his state, won reelection easily. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), who is retiring, said […]

In the closing days of her campaign, Rep. Elaine Luria stood on a wooden porch in a far-flung part of her newly drawn district, microphone in hand and a 7-year-old Black girl at her side, to make her final case for what is at stake in the midterm elections. SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) — In the […]

SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) — In the closing days of her campaign, Rep. Elaine Luria stood on a wooden porch in a far-flung part of her newly drawn district, microphone in hand and a 7-year-old Black girl at her side, to make her final case for what is at stake in the midterm elections. The . […]


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