Election Reform

I Will Be a Poll Worker November 6th—Will You?

Harvey Wasserman: Two more years of Trump control over both Houses of Congress, the White House, the judiciary and so many state and local governments could easily mean the end of any popular voice in the way our nation is run.

Our American Character and You the Voter

Tom Hastings: We can take the first steps back from the ledge very soon, on November 6, election day, if we might like to regain our balance, our democracy, our power as citizens.

The Shaky Case That Russia Manipulated Social Media to Tip the 2016 Election

Gareth Porter: The idea promoted by the NYT’s Shane & Mazzetti that the Russian government seriously threatened to determine the 2016 election does not hold up when the larger social media context is examined more closely.

Will the Trump GOP Strip and Flip America’s 2018 Election…

Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis: This year just voting will again not be enough. Progressives MUST become poll workers, bring voters to the polls, monitor vote counts after the balloting, and refuse to concede close elections.

California Voters Midterm Self-Defense Manual

Mimi Kennedy: This year, voting provisional has bad consequences due to a 2017 CA law, AB 840, that exempted the computer count of provisional ballots from our state’s mandatory hand-audit.

Andrew Janz Mounts Vigorous Campaign Against Trump Lapdog Devin Nunes

Eric A. Gordon: The partisan Nunes is considered by many to be Trump’s Number 1 lapdog in Congress. He voted against the DREAM Act, for Trump’s wall, to dismantle Medicare and privatize Social Security, and to slash taxes for corporations and the rich.

Code Red Alert to Democrats

Brent Budowsky: This is not a moment for complacency or easy talk of blue waves. It is a moment for bold and maximum action and turnout based on a powerful and urgent sense of opportunity and danger.

How Important Are the Midterms? Pretty Important

Lance Simmens: Trump either is incapable of discerning fact from fiction, or truth from lies, and wanders wildly from positions that contradict any notion of visionary thinking.

Why I’m Betting on Millennials, This November 6th

Robert Reich: Unlike their grandparents – boomers who were involved in civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights, the anti-Vietnam War movement – most young people today don’t remember a time when political action changed America for the better.

Anti-Trump Movement Can’t Take Seniors’ Vote for Granted

Eric A. Gordon: Nationally, Donald Trump took 53 percent of the 50-plus vote, compared with Hillary Clinton’s 44 percent. There wasn’t a significant difference in voting patterns between voters ages 50-64 and those 65-plus.

The 2018 Election So Far

Steve Hochstadt: The unprecedented success of female and minority candidates among Democrats comes from efforts to turn out voters who were absent in 2016.

Katie Porter Battles Right-Wing Republican in Orange County

Eric A. Gordon: Porter and her fellow Democratic challengers aim to send an unmistakable message to the nation: “We’re looking to win not 23 seats, but 33—or 43.”

America’s Future Depends on California’s Election Integrity

Mimi Kennedy: Our polarized politics make battlefields of elections. And those battles are increasingly decided late in the day, on absentees and provisionals.