Political Wire: “A local Republican Party leader in North Carolina threatened to get a county elections director fired or have her pay cut unless she helped him gain illegal access to voting equipment,” Reuters reports. “The party official, William Keith Senter, sought evidence to support false conspiracy theories alleging the 2020 election was rigged against former U.S….
The Rot at the Heart of the GOP, Exemplified by Kentuckian Mitch McConnell, Continues to Degrade America
LA Times: “There’s a rot at the core of the Republican Party, and neither the party nor the country will heal until it’s excised. The latest evidence of that malignancy comes in a New York Times report about the Jan. 6 insurrection and how GOP congressional leaders responded in the immediate aftermath. The shock and revulsion reflected…
Report from the Front Lines of the Battle of America’s School Boards
Watauga Watch: “It’s happening all over North Carolina let alone the rest of the nation — the Trumpist movement to take over school boards and hound out “cultural diversity” or diversity of any kind (among other things). It’s happening in Watauga County, which is why the School Board primary on May 17 is so crucial…
No Charges Against MS Police Who Fired Thirty Times Into Vehicle, Shooting and Killing 3 Month Old
Sun Herald: “A Harrison County grand jury found no criminal wrongdoing by law enforcement in the May 3, 2021, death of La’Mello Parker, a 3-month-old shot in the back during a Interstate 10 police pursuit. La’Mello was kidnapped in Louisiana earlier that day by Eric Smith, who shot the infant’s mother and her nephew. New…
FL Conservatives Use Their Control of Government to Punish Disney for Expressing It’s Political Views
FL Politics: “The Battle of Reedy Creek could be the Gettysburg of America’s culture war crusades. Today, in the first wave of the battle, the Florida Senate dutifully passed the demands by General Robert E. DeSantis to attack and dismantle Disney’s land holdings in Orlando. Even for Floridians, Reedy Creek is obscure; a small, strange…
“Prosecutor drops all charges against Pamela Moses, [TN woman] jailed over voting error”
The Guardian: “A Memphis prosecutor has dropped all criminal charges against Pamela Moses, the Memphis woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register to vote. Moses was convicted last year and sentenced in January. She was granted a new trial in February after the Guardian published a document showing that had not been given…
“Mark Meadows Was Registered to Vote in Three States”
Political Wire: “Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows “was simultaneously registered to vote in three different states — North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina,” the Washington Post reports. “This is the latest in a series of revelations about election-related behavior by Meadows that appear to contradict his and his party’s rhetoric on election integrity.”’
“The Extreme Bias Of Florida’s New Congressional Map”
FiveThirtyEight: “On Thursday, the Florida Legislature finally caved to DeSantis’s wishes and passed one of his proposed congressional maps — the last major piece in the national redistricting puzzle. And befitting DeSantis’s national reputation (and ambitions), it is a dream map for partisan Republicans, single-handedly adding four new Republicans to the U.S. House of Representatives. But while DeSantis’s…
“In Polarized Texas, Rare Accord: A Hispanic Mother Shouldn’t Be Executed”
NY Times: “In less than a week, Texas is set to execute Melissa Lucio, a mother of 14 who was convicted of murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter more than a decade ago. The execution would be the first of a Hispanic woman in Texas, and it has drawn widespread attention — from…
“For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy”
NY Times: “As Devon Henry and his construction team take down the last remnants of statues that long dotted this former capital of the Confederacy, they have developed a grim game. Random passers-by, some in vehicles, others on foot, often make known their disapproval of Mr. Henry’s work — so often, in fact, that Mr….