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  1. theguardian.com/environment/20. Now, why should that be, @thegreenparty? Could it be that #Labour know that if they go ahead & approve #Jackdaw & #Rosebank the #voters of #HolbornandStPancras will punish them - rightly so! - & elect @ZackPolanski? Those voters aren't stupid - they know what the Labour #Government is planning, & that the #LabourParty can't be trusted on the #climate!

  2. theguardian.com/environment/20. Now, why should that be, @thegreenparty? Could it be that #Labour know that if they go ahead & approve #Jackdaw & #Rosebank the #voters of #HolbornandStPancras will punish them - rightly so! - & elect @ZackPolanski? Those voters aren't stupid - they know what the Labour #Government is planning, & that the #LabourParty can't be trusted on the #climate!

  3. theguardian.com/environment/20. Now, why should that be, @thegreenparty? Could it be that #Labour know that if they go ahead & approve #Jackdaw & #Rosebank the #voters of #HolbornandStPancras will punish them - rightly so! - & elect @ZackPolanski? Those voters aren't stupid - they know what the Labour #Government is planning, & that the #LabourParty can't be trusted on the #climate!

  4. theguardian.com/environment/20. Now, why should that be, @thegreenparty? Could it be that #Labour know that if they go ahead & approve #Jackdaw & #Rosebank the #voters of #HolbornandStPancras will punish them - rightly so! - & elect @ZackPolanski? Those voters aren't stupid - they know what the Labour #Government is planning, & that the #LabourParty can't be trusted on the #climate!

  5. theguardian.com/environment/20. Now, why should that be, @thegreenparty? Could it be that #Labour know that if they go ahead & approve #Jackdaw & #Rosebank the #voters of #HolbornandStPancras will punish them - rightly so! - & elect @ZackPolanski? Those voters aren't stupid - they know what the Labour #Government is planning, & that the #LabourParty can't be trusted on the #climate!

  6. Callais Decision Rapid Response Call
    Thu 30 APR 7pm CT
    La. v Callais opens the door for states to gerrymander Black & Brown majority districts out of existence. We expect more GOP-led states to follow suit for 2027 + 2028 elections. Join the call, join the fight: mobilize.us/nokings/event/9475 #NoKings #Gerrymandering #Elections #Voters #Disenfranchisement #SCOTUS

  7. 2025 #Elections : #Voters Came Out in Record Numbers to Defend Key #CivilLiberties Issues Across the Country

    Across the country, voters took to the ballot box to make their voices heard on Tuesday. The results overwhelmingly demonstrate that voters want leaders who will push against the #Trump administration’s cruel policies and abuses of power and work to make life better for the American people.
    #2025elections

    aclu.org/news/voting-rights/20

  8. The Morning: Democrats’ big night – The New York Times

    By Sam Sifton

    Good morning. Last night was a big one for Democrats.

    From left, Mikie Sherrill, Zohran Mamdani and Abigail Spanberger. 

    A rebuke

    Zohran Mamdani, 34, will be the next mayor of New York City, the youngest in more than a century. The democratic socialist will also be the city’s first Muslim mayor. Abigail Spanberger will be Virginia’s first female governor. In New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill cruised to victory in a governor’s race that polls had projected would be neck and neck.

    And in California, voters passed a ballot measure to redraw the state’s maps in Democrats’ favor, which is likely to yield as many as five House seats for the party next year.

    Turnout was extraordinary: The New York mayor’s race drew more than two million voters, almost double the 1.1 million people who voted for mayor four years ago. The New Jersey governor’s race topped three million votes for the first time.

    As my colleague Lisa Lerer wrote, the results showed that Democrats — beaten soundly in all seven presidential battleground states just a year ago, losing control of the Senate and failing to win the House — can still accomplish the most important goal in politics: “They can win. And win big.”

    The results amounted to a loud rebuke of President Trump’s first year back in office. A year ago, he won the White House on promises to fix the economy. Yesterday, his party’s losses showed the high political price that a party in power can pay when voters are still feeling squeezed.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Morning: Democrats’ big night

    #AbigailSpanberger #democracy #DemocraticParty #MikieSherrill #November2025 #Rebuke #RebukeOfTrump #StopTrump #TheNewYorkTimes #Turnout #Voters

  9. #VisuallyImpaired #voters sue #NewHampshire over changes to #Absentee #BallotAccess

    The plaintiffs say the new law will deter some voters with #disabilities from participating in the democratic process at all, even after they have registered to vote

    By Steven Porter Globe Staff, Updated August 21, 2025, 9:30 a.m.

    "Three people with visual impairments are suing New Hampshire officials to challenge the constitutionality of a law that will soon tighten #PhotoID requirements for voters seeking an #AbsenteeBallot.

    "The plaintiffs — Adele Robertson of #ExeterNH, Daniel Frye of #ConcordNH, and Regina Wilson of #BrentwoodNH — allege the new law, known as #SenateBill287, will impose a significant burden on every #AbsenteeVoter statewide.

    " 'And, in some cases, these burdens will entirely prevent voters from exercising their #RightToVote,' their lawsuit states.
    Under the new rules imposed by #SB287, voters will be required to either bring a photo ID to their local election officials to request an absentee ballot in person, or submit a copy of their ID or a notarized signature along with their application.
    While proponents said the legislation will better protect election integrity, critics said the changes will add barriers that disproportionately impact #seniors, voters with #disabilities, and those living in #rural parts of the state."

    Read more:
    bostonglobe.com/2025/08/21/met

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/DWXKG

    #VoterDisenfranchisement #DisabilityRights #USPol #NHPol #AbsenteeVoting #USElections

  10. #Maine rejects #JusticeDepartment’s request for all #voters’ personal info, list of election officials

    Secretary of State #ShennaBellows' responded to the request by telling the DOJ to "go jump in the Gulf of Maine."

    by Dylan Tusinski, July 29, 2025

    AUGUSTA — "Maine is denying the U.S. Department of Justice access to its voter registration records, state officials said Tuesday, rejecting an unprecedented request for sensitive voter data that the Trump administration has now delivered to all 50 states.

    "A letter late last week to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and signed by Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General Michael Gates claims Maine had roughly 11,000 voters with duplicate registration. It requested the state’s entire voter registration list dating back to November 2022 'to ensure that ineligible voters are being removed.'

    "The state has 14 days to respond to the letter dated July 24.

    "Bellows, who is also a Democratic candidate for governor, said in a press conference Tuesday the Trump administration is overstepping its bounds, empowering false narratives and 'trying to change the topic away from the Epstein files.'

    " 'Article 1 of the Constitution places the states — not President Trump, not the federal government — in charge of federal elections,' she said. 'The DOJ doesn’t get to know everything about you just because they want to.'

    "Bellows’ office is coordinating with Maine’s Office of Attorney General to draft a formal response, she said.
    The Maine Republican Party has previously claimed widespread voter fraud across the state, but a subsequent investigation by Bellows’ office concluded this month and found those claims were baseless. Just because someone is registered to vote in two different towns doesn’t mean they intended to vote twice. Often, it simply means that they moved between elections.

    "A spokesman for Maine Senate Republicans declined to comment on the DOJ’s request or Bellows’ response. Other Maine GOP officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.

    "In addition to #VoterRegistration information, the DOJ also has requested the names of local election officials as well as information about noncitizens, felons, and deceased people’s alleged participation in Maine elections following President Donald Trump’s repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.

    " 'Please provide a description of the steps that Maine has taken, and when those steps were taken, to identify registered voters who are ineligible to vote as well as the procedures it used to remove those ineligible voters from the registration list,' the DOJ’s letter reads.

    "The DOJ has not publicly said why they are seeking voter records across the country. Asked about the request to Maine and other states, spokesperson Pierson Furnish replied in an email 'No comment.'

    "The first Trump administration similarly made requests to view all Americans’ voter information in 2017. Then-Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said at the time he would release voters’ names, ages, residences and districts with the government, as allowed by Maine law.

    "The American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU] of Maine said the DOJ’s actions both now and then are part of 'a clear pattern of intimidation' and applauded Bellows’ refusal to share voters’ information.

    " 'This letter also fuels #FalseNarratives that sow distrust in our elections. Maine elections are safe, secure, and accessible, and that’s why Maine consistently has some of the highest voter turnout,' said Samuel Crankshaw, the group’s communications director. 'Our government should focus on helping more people exercise their fundamental rights.'

    Maine’s voter turnout is reliably high compared to other states and more Mainers voted in 2024 than in any election before, according to state voting data.

    "The Justice Department initially reached out to swing states like #Michigan, #Arizona and #Wisconsin, where local election clerks have reported federal agents requesting broad access to the states’ #RegistrationRolls and #VotingMachines.

    Now, Bellows said all 50 states have received similar letters. #Maine, #Minnesota and #NewHampshire are the only states to have rejected the requests so far."

    Read more:
    pressherald.com/2025/07/29/mai

    Archived version:
    archive.md/K91De

    #District13 #MaineResists #MinnesotaResists #NewHampshireResists #Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #GovernmentOverreach #BigBrother #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  11. What #Katie #Britt’s misleading, melodramatic speech revealed about the Republican Party

    The question for the #evangelical #voters who make up much of the Republican base is
    -- how much more politics can #outweigh #morals in the name of whatever conservatism even means anymore?

    Politico reported Monday that an evangelical group is 🔸spending north of $60 million🔸 to get a twice-impeached, repeatedly indicted former president back in the White House,
    so perhaps that is our answer.

    The whole “moral majority” movement in conservative politics always involved #theatrics and #cosplay.

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took it to a new level by deploying Hunter Biden’s sexting photos during a House committee hearing.

    And now the future of the Republican Party is sitting in a kitchen purporting to speak honestly with voters of faith while telling a lurid lie for political purposes.

    latimes.com/opinion/story/2024

  12. #WA state capital gains #tax raises needed 💲💰💲 but #Republicans have bought themselves a #BallotMeasure to repeal it

    I saw their professional sig gathering operation at the doorway of #Tacoma #Costco & other places that don't usually allow petitions 🙄😒

    #Tacoma & #WaState #Voters gotta
    🚩🚩 #NIX2109 🚩🚩
    #2024Election

    washingtonstatestandard.com/br