Tag: gerrymandering

Republicans know most Americans find their policies odious, so in order to win, they cheat through voter I.D. laws, voter suppression, and plain old policies designed to...

While the mainstream corporate media was busy this week warming up the 2020 presidential beauty pageant pundit machine, the new Democratic majority of the 116th Congress wasted...

As we all know, election night 2016 effectively ended when Pennsylvania was called for Donald Trump by the narrowest of margins--a mere 44,000 votes...

Two months ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shot down one of the most brutal gerrymanders in the nation. The court found that when the...

Of the many gerrymandered congressional maps produced by Republican-controlled state legislatures after the 2010 census, one of the worst came from Pennsylvania. By any standard,...

Let's not sugarcoat what happened on Tuesday night in Virginia's statewide elections. The Republicans suffered an absolute massacre. A number of late polls suggested...

This week SCOTUS heard oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, the case out of Wisconsin that may finally see the Court do a little legal...

In his last State of the Union address, former President Barack Obama said we need "to change the system to reflect our better selves."...

The Supreme Court is once again stepping in to determine whether an electoral procedure as old as the republic violates the Constitution. Monday, the nation's highest court announced...

Georgia's 6th congressional district has long been considered a classic affluent suburban district in the South--that is, a district where Democrats usually get shot....

It's been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for the North Carolina Republican Party. On Monday, the State Board of Elections ordered...

Gerrymandering is such a pretty word ? with such an awful meaning. Basically it is a?method that politicians use to?manipulate voting areas into sick...

Some have coined the late Senator Barry Goldwater the " Godfather of Conservatism." Senator Goldwater was very outspoken in his disdain with the influx...

Today's Republican leadership has no serious commitment to the republican form of government (and, thus, they are not "republicans" with a lower case "r");...

Last month I wrote an article about how Texas labor laws adversely impact employee rights. I attempted to identify the ?right-to-work? moniker as an...

When we're questioning the Republican War on Women, are we ignoring the bigger picture? ? In 1973 The Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade...