Analysis shows Trump losing ground with independent voters. What does this mean for future elections? #USElections #IndependentVoters
Read more: https://ndpost.org/politics-news/us-politics-news/independent-voters-shifting-away-from-trump-an-analysis/
#uselections
Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral contest
Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday conceded to Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary election for New York City mayor, setting up the 33-year-old to win the party's nomination in the heavily Democratic city.
Tomorrow will be another big day for local elections in the U.S., including the mayoral primaries for Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and a little town called NYC. Plus, a legislative special election in New Hampshire, and the possible comeback of Anthony Weiner. @taniel breaks down all the races so far and to come in June for @bolts
https://flip.it/mlRoo1
#Politics #USPolitics #USElections #NYC #AndrewCuomo #ZohranMamdani #NYC #NYCMayor
Is this the same WaPo that didn't have the gumption to print Ann Tellnaes' cartoon of Jeff Bezos and a cabal of billionaire media/social media/tech celebs (Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong — and Walt Disney Company mascot Mickey Mouse!) bootlicking at trump's feet?* Wonder what changed.
*https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
#USpol #USpolitics #USelections #OpEd #dystopia #military #USArmy
And then there's this -
Trump's Plot Against the 2026 Elections
#Trump #USA #uselections #theatlantic #journalism
Trump's tough immigration stance puts Democrats in a bind! Balancing civil liberties and border security is key for the party. #ImmigrationDebate #USElections
https://ndpost.org/politics-news/us-politics-news/trumps-stance-on-immigration-protests-creates-political-challenges-for-democrats/
https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP98-Elections3.mp3
FDR led the US and the World out of the Great Depression, and success in WWII. Harry Truman followed suit but the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution formally set term limits on US Presidency. The JFK-Nixon election of 1960 was very close and Nixon refused to contest the results to keep America's image on the global front, intact. LBJ saw the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which led to the South leaning Republican. After a scandalous 2nd Presidential term for Nixon, Jimmy Carter took office on a platform of love and trust.
2026 U.S. Senate Overview (June 2025)
🚨 2026 U.S. Senate Overview (June 2025) 🚨
As we gear up for the elections, key races to watch include competitive seats in battleground states! 🗳️ Expect a mix of incumbents defending their spots and new challengers emerging. Stay informed & engaged!
#USElections #Senate2026 #PoliticalUpdate
via Robert Johnson's favorite articles on Inoreader https://ift.tt/Ge4WJys
June 02, 2025 at 08:24AM
"Gets worse before it gets better" doesn't do nearly enough to describe the current situation —
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rjr6nfdzrfngjgc34jjyty6a/post/3lpnj3vzkgs25
#USpol #USpolitics #USelections #ElectionConsequences #ElectionsHaveConsequences
#Trump order targets barcodes on #ballots. They’ve long been a source of #misinformation
Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder seeking to *overhaul* how #USelections are run includes a somewhat obscure reference to the way votes are counted. Voting equipment, it says, should not use ballots that include “a barcode or quick-response code.”
Those few technical words could have a big impact.
#law #ElectionLaw #ConspiracyTheories #Disinformation
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-qr-codes-eaa28de62e54463dff116f09e09f7686
"The library with one door in Canada and the other one (now closing) in the US" - EL PAÍS English
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-05-11/the-library-with-one-door-in-canada-and-the-other-one-now-closing-in-the-us.html
#Canada #UnitedStates #US #geopolitics #USpol #USpolitics #USelections #ElectionsHaveConsequences #ElectionConsequences
Analyst @ShaqaleZak argues a #Trump 2.0 admin could be a "breakthrough" for #Somaliland's recognition, citing #Geostrategic advantages & potential to counter #China's influence in the #HornOfAfrica. #Africa #USElections #Geopolitics
https://saxafimedia.com/debating-trump-2-0-africa-somaliland/
The effect of #voters #suppression on the 2024 #USelections It was all documented. #GregPalast figured out #KamalaHarris would have won #dumptrump
youtu.be/t3PM15wCVn0?...
EXCLUSIVE: DID TRUMP STEAL THE...
As Canadians Vote, Trump Revives Call for a 'Cherished 51st State' in Bold Election Message
#CanadaElection #DonaldTrump #Cherished51stState #CanadianSovereignty #USElections
https://eng.harbouchanews.com/2025/04/as-canadians-vote-trump-revives-call.html
According to #TheHumanistReport, a #TrumpExecutiveOrder allows #DOGE to take power away from state and local governments.
Postal services in some areas of the USA are unreliable, so it makes sense to have a grace period when it comes to returning election ballots — at least, that’s been the case for a number of years in around half of the states across the political spectrum. @bolts reports on how that’s changing. “This past March alone brought news that two states … will repeal their grace periods; that conservative federal judges are on the brink of killing grace periods in two other states; and that Trump, who for years has falsely alleged rampant mail-voting fraud, wants to pressure the rest of the nation to reject every mail ballot that arrives after polls close,” writes Alex Burness.
https://boltsmag.org/restrictions-on-grace-periods-for-mail-ballots/
#USPolitics #Voting #VoterSuppression #ELections #USElections #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
https://mstdn.social/@carrieberry/114310663939048358
h/t @Ruth_Mottram
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114312315914825080
#WomensOpportunities to #vote stifled / challenged if we're not careful. #USelections #HandsOffHerVote
One piece of good news yesterday regarding the Wisconsin Supreme Court judge election.
What Is A #PollTax? Definition and Examples
By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022
Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished #BlackPeople and often #PoorWhitePeople, unable to afford the tax, were denied the #RightToVote.
"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved #BlackAmericans from voting. Although the #14thAmendment and #15thAmendment [s] gave Black men full #citizenship and #VotingRights, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, #SouthernStates quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892.
"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former #Confederate states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.
"The southern states also enacted #JimCrowLaws intended to reinforce #RacialSegregation and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.
"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the #24thAmendment to the #USConstitution declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections.
"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:
'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'
"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.
"The #VotingRightsAct of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.
"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."
https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130
#VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #USHistory #TwentyFourthAmendment #FourteenthAmendment #FifteenthAmendment #VoterRights #LiteracyTests #USElections #VoterSuppression #BlackAmericans
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