Kay Hagan Wins Debate Amid Her Republican Opponent’s Multiple Blunders
Kay Hagan solidified her small lead when she won last night’s debate.
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Kay Hagan solidified her small lead when she won last night’s debate.
On Monday, the Seventh Circuit handed Wisconsin’s vote suppressors a victory with a ruling that is to law, what Fox is to news.
So far, Greg Abbott has used his power as Attorney-General of Texas to obstruct the release of documents that would shed light on Governor Rick Perry’s oversight of Texas Enterprise Fund and its mishandling of millions of Texas taxpayer dollars. However, the demand for answers increases from a variety of sources, including Wendy Davis and…
Today marks an important day for marriage equality in the United States as the Supreme Court refused to review several circuit court rulings that strike down state bans on same sex marriage.
As Republicans reduce early voting hours, they make a seemingly logical argument.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear a case brought by Texas that seeks to limit the use of statistics in housing fairness cases.
The Supreme Court decided on Thursday that it will hear two election law related cases this term, the potential of redefining the meaning of free and fair elections.
As of Tuesday, the Republican candidate for Attorney-General in Arkansas is no longer a registered Arkansas voter. It turns out that Leslie Rutledge registered to vote in Arkansas, DC and possibly Virginia. Of course, Rutledge claims the Democrats did it’. They’re targetting her! Republicans are being persecuted! According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Pulaski County Clerk, Larry…
In a 2-1 decision, the Federal Appeals Court for the Fourth Circuit granted a temporary injunction to restore same day registration and out of precinct voting in North Carolina.
Greg Abbott’s shady relationship with the Texas Enterprise fund is catching up with him.
During a debate with her Democratic opponent, Bruce Braley, Joni Ernst told the audience she is an independent leader, then recited Tea Party talking points on everything from “personhood” amendments to privatization of Social Security.
The Koch brothers controlled branch of the Supreme Court of the United States, granted Jon Husted’s wish to uphold the Republicans restrictions on early voting in Ohio. From a legal perspective, there is room to suggest that since Husted “only” rolled back early voting by a week, it isn’t a big deal. In fact, there…
Tea Party Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado is spending his seven week paid vacation “behind the scenes” urging military generals to resign in protest of President Obama’s policies.
During the past week, hundreds of students in Colorado were protesting conservative efforts to infuse their ideology and religion in textbooks for an advanced high school history class.
Although advocates of marriage equality were victorious in two Supreme Court cases, the court avoided giving a direct answer to the central question of marriage equality.
Illinois Republicans are stooping particularly low with their support for a candidate who admitted she was registered to vote in two states and voted in both states during the 2008 and 2012 election cycles.
On Monday, a U.S. District Court heard closing arguments in the case that challenges the most militant and vicious vote suppression law in America.
The fact that Greg Abbott refuses to denounce his surrogate’s position and lack of concern about victims of incest and rape speaks volumes.
With his latest political ad, Greg Abbott is showing all the signs of a panicked candidate. The ad is filled with talking points that have been debunked by facts and fact checkers.
The GOPT continues to use hate fests to broaden its base beyond its billionaire investors and people who believe the propaganda on Fox.
Everyone was willing to protect Ray Rice because he is such a valuable football player.
Since a Virginia jury convicted Bob and Maureen McDonnell on multiple corruption charges, many commented on the message the verdict sent to corrupt politicians.
On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Peter Economus blocked the Republican Party’s attempt to suppress the vote in Ohio.
On Thursday, the Department of Justice plans to announce it will conduct a civil rights investigation of the Ferguson Police Department.
As we get closer to the mid-term election, we long for the times when preparing to vote was a matter of volunteering for a voter registration drive, working for a candidate’s campaign, familiarizing ourselves with the issues.
The murders of Steve Sotloff and James Foley remind us just how flawed the Bush Administration’s decision to go to war in Iraq was.
In a much needed victory for women in Texas, a Federal Court struck down the Lone Star State’s version of a TRAP law.
This time, an Austin judge dealt a devastating blow to Greg Abbott’s campaign against public education
Mitch McConnell is a man on the run from a disastrous week for the Republican Party.
The right wing war on education continues. One of the most active organizations in the right wing’s fight against Common Core is the Home School Legal Defense Association. On the surface, this does not make sense. Why should the HSLDA a group for home schooling parents, care so much about standards that don’t apply…
Every day the headlines contain a few stories about gun related deaths.
Gallup has super bad news for Republicans who rely on low voter turnout to win elections.
While Michael Brown’s family and friends gathered for his funeral on Monday, Fox continued down the Reich wing brick road of blaming Michael Brown for his own death.
Amid the signs of a return to normalcy in Ferguson, it’s tempting to just move on to the next story.
Since it is election season and the GOP’s attempt at re-branding was a flop, they are focusing on what they do best – spreading lies and misinformation. The NRCC has been busy creating news sites. They look like they could be new sites, but the content reads like something you’d see in a political ad or on Fox
The Tea Party sharks in North Carolina are chomping at the bit for an impeachment show at the expense of the State’s Attorney-General, Roy Cooper.
This study by the National Commission on Voting Rights proves that pre-clearance stopped voter discrimination laws, not a sudden enlightenment on the part of pre-clearance states, especially those in the South and Southwest.
Even though the odds of a restrictive voter ID law actually fixing anything are 31 in a billion, a judged appointed by Dubyah allowed the worst version of a bad law to remain in effect for the 2014 election.
On Monday, Federal Court Judge Myron Thomas ruled Alabama’s sham women’s health law, AL HB27, is unconstitutional.
Greg Abbott is trying to fix the damage of his history of neglecting the needs of Texans now that he needs the votes of Texas women.
A Florida Court lowered the boom on State Republicans with an order for a special session to revise the State’s existing unconstitutional electoral map.
Throughout efforts by the Senate Intelligence committee to investigate the Bush Administration’s war crimes, the committee faced one obstacle after another.
Even with changing the rules on voter ID which the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld with a bit of tweaking, vote suppressors need more ways to intimidate voters.
On Saturday, Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr., who normally sits on the Federal Bench in New York, struck down DC’s gun law which restricts possession of these deadly weapons to the home.
Paul Ryan, apparently thought of as the great Republican policy wonk, released his “new” anti-poverty plan on Thursday.
Mandatory gun zones and making marksmanship a mandatory requirement to advance in school are just a couple of the NRA’s newest gimmicks to maintain our lead as the country with the most guns, albeit in a fewer hands.
Thursday will be the fifth anniversary of the last time minimum wage workers got a raise.
An inevitability of war is those responsible for starting it will go to extremes to absolve themselves of responsibility for the war’s consequences.
Take one Greg Abbott add some Koch money and you get policies that put Koch profit over the safety of people in Texas.
While Republican controlled states continue to do all within their power to make voting more difficult for people more likely to vote Democrat, GOP contenders still need substantial support from women.
In Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Inc. the Supreme Court ended its flirtation with unanimity and ruled 5-4 in favor of corporate theocracy.
Sanity has definitely left the building when the Party of Unitary Executive President George W. Bush tries to make the case that Barack Obama has abused his powers under the Constitution.
It is impossible to overlook the fact that women’s reproductive rights have been systematically eroded with personhood amendments, TRAP laws and rape insurance mandates.
The SCOTUS’ decision to strike down President Obama’s recess appointments to the NLRB in NLRB v. Noel Canning gave us another reason to vote in November.
In a unanimous ruling the Supreme Court decided, “The police generally may not, without a warrant, search digital information on a cell phone seized from an individual who has been arrested.
Mitch McConnell is in big trouble when even reliable conservatives reject his plan to repeal a federal prevailing wage law (the Davis-Bacon Act) to pay for the Brent Spence Bridge replacement.
The Congressional Romper Room’s day got worse with a very mixed and ultimately narrow SCOTUS ruling that gave a tiny green light to polluting for profit.
With children fleeing violence and poverty in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador; there is a humanitarian crises in our border states.
In a ruling on attorney’s fees related to a redistricting case, a Federal Court Judge dealt Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott two doses of humiliation.
CNN doesn’t want to deal with the undeniable connection between the GOP, Tea Party, Fox News, and elements of the Neo-Nazi movement.
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court upheld a federal rule banning “straw purchases” of guns.
Texas Republicans want to “fix” the economy by getting rid of NASA, the air force, the Federal Aviation Administration and every other government agency established after 1776.
Emerging facts about the couple responsible for the Las Vegas shooting spree not only confirm the reality of domestic terrorism, but the fact that there is a large network of money and media enablers behind it.
It’s another shooting in which the debunking of the NRA’s slogan about good guys and guns is debunked again amid more death at the hands of gun crazies.
When Eric Holder announced that the DOJ is bringing back its committee on Domestic Terrorism, right wing hypocrisy on terrorism was on full display.
Erin Bilbray, the Democratic candidate for Nevada’s third district is in a high stakes fight with Tea Party incumbent Joe Heck over a war that Heck denies he is waging.
When Richard Clarke discussed the Drone program with Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, he raised issues that warrant serious discussion.
Bernie Sanders reacted to Eric Shinseki’s resignation while speaking to veterans in Burlington Vermont on Friday with sadness and later in a statement posted on his website.
According to Virginia State Senator Richard Black, Syria’s tyrannical leader Bashar Assad is a great defender of religious freedom.
On Tuesday, The Supreme Court condemned as unconstitutional a Florida law that effectively weakened protections against imposing the death penalty on people who are intellectually disabled by limiting assessments to a fixed number on an IQ test.
Ethical double standards when it comes to Tea Party Republican Joe Scarborough is one of the reasons MSNBC is losing its audience.
Greg Abbott, the Republican candidate for governor of Texas continues to show voters that he is ethically challenged.
On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a new policy underwhich the DOJ will record statements made by people in Federal custody electronically.
Thanks to U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Leitman John Conyers, the second longest serving member of the House of Representatives, is back on the ballot for his Michigan seat.
Republicans depend on the big money of Sheldon Addelson, the Koch Brothers and other corporatist billionaires. However, the GOP’s biggest financial resource is the secret money funneled through political action groups masquerading as social welfare groups aka 501 c 4 groups.
During a Q&A at one of his book hawking sessions, Rick Santorum told his audience that he still opposes contraception but he wants the government to pay for it and give it out to whoever wants it so that he won’t have to bow to Caesar.
Now that the courts are smacking down the ALEC inspired vote suppression laws, Republicans are test marketing various escape routes.
The latest Republican “star” to find themselves in the midst of a corruption scandal is New Mexico governor, Susana Martinez.
Voting Rights advocates in Pennsylvania declared victory on Thursday, after Governor Tom Corbett announced he will not appeal a January court ruling that quashed one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the country.
Alison Lundergan Grimes strong campaign continues to win over voters as Mitch McConnell’s last worst nightmare is eclipsed by the next one.
Greg Abbott’s battle with 600 school districts over draconian budget cuts is proving insurmountable in his attempt to brand himself as a pro education candidate.
In another victory for voting rights, U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Adelman struck down Wisconsin’s restrictive voter ID law.
The Daily Beast reported on Sunday that Secretary of State John Kerry warned if Israel and the Palestinians don’t reach a peace agreement, Israel could become an Apartheid state. Is his prognosis correct?
Texas Republican Greg Abbott’s education policy roll-out would be hilarious if not for the fact that his policies will hurt so many children’s future. As telling of his character is his refusal to distance himself from the law-breaking welfare cowboy, Cliven Bundy and his racist remarks.
On Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole announced that Debra Leff will replace outing Pardons Attorney, Ronald L. Rodgers and he elaborated on the plans to reform the clemency process in prepared remarks.
By admitting that Republicans exaggerate about voter fraud to justify their vote suppression strategy, Paul will raise the ire of his base who share Bundy’s belief that African Americans are “better off” disenfranchised and as property.
Now that the policy is on the record, the Davis campaign is investigating Abbott’s ties to businesses that would benefit from a policy of standardized tests for four year olds.
Wendy Davis’ Republican opponent is planning to hold a press conference to unveil his education policy at a school district that lost the equivalent of 118 teachers because of the public education cuts Abbot continues to defend.
Wendy Davis highlighted the contrast between her inclusive pre-K program and Greg Abbott’s policy of restricting access to children who fit Charles Murray’s model of children most likely to succeed.
Tea Party Republicans have their eye on the Senate for many reasons – with the power to appoint another Scalia or Thomas chief among them.
Now that the Supreme Court has paved the way for a billionaire tsunami of cash most of which will benefit the Republican Party, we can look forward to full disclosure of the candidates and political causes that money is buying, right?
Despite protests by students and faculty, the powers that be at the College of Charleston in South Carolina appointed confederate apologist and Lt. Governor Glenn McConnell to be the college’s next president.
If there is any doubt that Koch inspired Republican policies would be a disaster for America, one need only look to North Carolina, where you can see the results of these policies in real time.
Wendy Davis exposed Greg Abbott’s ties to a PAC with an offensively sexist name as the latest example of Abbott’s disrespect for women in his policies and in his choice of associates.
What does Greg Abbott’s reliance on Charles Murray for his education policy and the specific provision of standardized testing for four-year-olds have in common?
On Sunday, Dr. William Lewis Corporon and his fourteen year-old grandson, Reat Griffen Underwood, were killed by neo-Nazi Frazier Glenn Cross. Dr. Corporon died in the parking lot behind the Kansas City Jewish Community Center. Reat died a while later in the hospital. They were at the community center because Reat was going to audition…
When President Obama spoke about voting rights on Friday, he pointed out that the severity of the Republican Party’s attack on voter rights is the most serious it has been in the past 50 years.
Based on documents that were released, and obtained by Pro Publica, the more likely motive for Issa’s obsession was a desire to intimidate the IRS into granting Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS tax exempt status.
Protecting your vote entails knowing a bit more about the tricks and traps Republican legislators have set up since that ruling.
In a video released on Monday, Vice President Joe Biden described voting rights as the crowned jewel of civil rights.