All posts in September 2020

As we close in on the final month of the 2020 campaign season, Republicans are pulling all the levers to stem another blue tidal wave this November. From Republican-led state legislatures doing their part to create confusion and lay the groundwork to challenge ballots (read more about that here) to Donald Trump and his surrogates launching a…

The decision as it stands is a victory in this fight against the administration’s glaring sabotaging of the census, which has gone as far as throwing its own officials under the bus in order to rush the count. “The plaintiffs sought to stop the Trump administration’s plan to force the Census Bureau to shorten the 2020 count…

The problem, according to Lisa Deeley, the Democratic chairwoman of Philadelphia’s election board, is the court’s ruling that ballots must be inserted in an extra “secrecy envelope” that goes inside a larger envelope used to mail ballots back. Any ballot received without the secrecy envelope would not be counted, and the voters who sent them…

The clashes have occurred in a limited radius spanning several blocks around a federal courthouse in Portland, and most of the protesting has been peaceful, as it has been nationwide. But Trump has sought to scare white suburbanites into voting for him by playing up isolated instances of violence and casting them as the norm rather…

That $2.2 trillion, Pelosi pointed out earlier this week, is even a harder limit than it was weeks ago because inaction from the White House and McConnell’s Republican Senate has made the need even greater. Where Democrats are absolutely not budging right now is $900 billion in state and local aid for the next two years.…

Elsewhere in Virginia, the lines were just as long. Take a look at Richmond. x There may be 6+ weeks until Election Day 2020, but early voting in Virginia actually starts today — and there are dozens of voters in line to vote in person even before the building here in Richmond, VA opens pic.twitter.com/LchWhknggp…

That statement from Trump should have made it obvious that he wasn’t really attempting to do anything about the crisis that was sweeping across the nation. Apparently it was obvious. As Kerry Eleveld pointed out in June, until that day Trump had held a net positive rating with college-educated white women. He went negative after that appearance,…

Same with Arizona’s Martha McSally and Colorado’s Cory Gardner. Not reading or paying any attention to any news at all has become quite fashionable among Republicans. If you haven’t read it or listened to the tapes with your very own ears, it didn’t happen. At least that’s Texan John Cornyn’s take. He said he didn’t…

Thomas Fuller and Christopher Flavelle at The New York Times report: If climate change was a somewhat abstract notion a decade ago, today it is all too real for Californians. The intensely hot wildfires are not only chasing thousands of people from their homes but causing dangerous chemicals to leach into drinking water. Excessive heat warnings…

Domestic terrorist Marjorie Taylor Greene. Donald Trump’s “future Republican star,” QAnon adherent Marjorie Taylor Greene, who got a special invitation, posted a direct threat to sitting members of Congress on Facebook Thursday. She posted a photo of herself holding a rifle next to a composite picture of Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ilhan Omar…