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A veteran GOP attorney has devised a plan to give her party an edge in the 2024 election: make the voting process much more difficult. Longtime legal strategist Cleta Mitchell outlined the scheme Saturday during the Republican National Committee donor retreat in Nashville, where she presented a 50-slide PowerPoint titled, “A Level Playing Field for 2024.” The Washington Post obtained audio from the […]
Apple’s runaway slave flick Emancipation will no longer be filmed in Georgia following the state’s new restrictive election law, Deadline reported on Monday. The film’s star Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua released a joint statement following the announcement explaining why they decided to move the movie’s production from Georgia. “At this moment in time, the Nation is […]
On Friday, Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over claims that Dominion helped rig the 2020 election. The Associated Press reports that Dominion has argued the right-wing cable news channel targeted the company with a series of misleading or straight-up false claims of election fraud after Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden. […]
Donald Trump may be going down swinging, but these punches are merely flails of desperation. On Sunday, Trump hopped on Twitter to combat reports claiming that Joe Biden is the president-elect of the United States. Although he admitted to Biden winning the election, Trump quickly followed this comment with claims of voter fraud and a […]
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, as the likelihood of a second term began to fade, President Donald Trump prematurely announced a victory for himself in a way that Jake Tapper from CNN unflinchingly called “undemocratic, false, and premature.” And while we await the final certified tallies, we now know, days after the election, […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders quite accurately predicted how the 2020 election would quickly become poisoned by a deeply depressing false narrative built on continued attempts at disparaging wholly valid mail-in ballots. During an interview with Jimmy Fallon in October, as many have since revisited amid the ongoing Trump-centered fuckery of the election, Sanders explained that the […]
Vote tallying in Fulton County, Georgia has been delayed after a pipe burst in the room holding the county’s mail-in ballots. According to officials who spoke with Atlanta Journal-Constitution, none of the ballots were damaged. Fulton County is Georgia’s most-populous, with Atlanta inside its borders, and its votes matter greatly in determining the way that Georgia swings in the presidential […]
By all estimates, the 2020 general election has already shattered records for voter turnout. With more than a week left before the election, millions of Americans have braved hours-long lines and deceptive tactics to cast their ballots early. With so much build-up and even more at stake on the first Tuesday of November, it is […]
Like many of you, Frank Ocean wasn’t impressed by Tuesday night’s presidential debate. Toward the end of the event, the singer-songwriter took to Instagram to share a few thoughts on Donald Trump and Joe Biden‘s much-anticipated face-off. Frank posted an Instagram story that suggested he was bored with the unusual situation, but stressed the importance of getting Trump […]
With the world in dismay for various reasons, EMPIRE and its artists have come together for a collaborative project that will hopefully raise awareness about these issues. EMPIRE announced that it would be releasing its EMPIRE Presents: Voices for Change, Vol. 1 collaborative album. The goal of this project is to shine a light on the troubles […]
