NBC News: Former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election fueled anger among Republicans who flocked to local-level GOP chapters in hope of playing a greater role in future elections.Now, some leaders of those grassroots outfits say… Continue reading

Here’s a take on campaign finance you don’t often see. I was reading Evan Osnos’ new book, Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury, and came across this surprising story, as Osnos recounts it: In the 1990s, the Gangster Disciples, with… Continue reading

A deep dive on this issue from Rachel Cohen for the American Prospect: Democrats passed the DISCLOSE Act through the House in June 2010, but fell one vote short of breaking a Republican filibuster in the Senate. Democrats were united… Continue reading

Here they are: Here’s What Congress Can Do to Keep the Next Trump from Stealing an Election, Washington Post, Sept. 29, 2021 The Legal Minds Who Tried to Overturn the Election for Trump Are Being Welcomed Back Into Polite Society,… Continue reading

Here is a list of opeds and commentaries wrote in 2020: Barr’s Undermining of the Election is Downright Dangerous, CNN Opinion, Sept. 17, 2020 Democrats May Not Trust the Election Results if Trump Wins, Wash. Post, Sept. 10, 2020… Continue reading

WSJ: Educational efforts like this have taken on a new urgency in Florida and around the country as many supporters of former Republican President Donald Trump continue to question his election defeat. As skepticism about the election… Continue reading

WaPo: Two election workers who counted votes for the 2020 presidential election filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday against the parent company of One America News, senior staff at the far-right TV network and Rudolph W. Giuliani, who served… Continue reading

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Should Fulton County prosecutors decide to advance a case against Donald Trump, a key factor they must prove is that the former president knew his conduct was unlawful as he sought to overturn the 2020 election… Continue reading

WaPo: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is focusing intently on Donald Trump’s actions that day as it begins to discuss whether to recommend that the Justice Department open a criminal investigation into the former… Continue reading

CNN: President Joe Biden says he supports making an exception to the Senate filibuster rules in order to pass voting rights legislation.”If the only thing standing between getting voting rights legislation passed and not getting passed is the filibuster,… Continue reading

Just Security: One of the most vexing questions about Jan. 6 is why the National Guard took more than three hours to arrive at the Capitol after D.C. authorities and Capitol Police called for immediate assistance. The Pentagon’s restraint… Continue reading

Politico reports.

Politico: Georgia Republicans have wasted no time making Stacey Abrams’ 2022 gubernatorial bid all about 2018.In ads, speeches and op-eds, the GOP is hearkening back to Abrams’ first campaign for governor, emphasizing her final speech, which she said was… Continue reading

AP: Elections officials in Oregon are seeking more information to determine whether former New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is eligible to run for governor.Kristof announced his candidacy last October and on Monday officially filed paperwork to run as a… Continue reading