A judge in Georgia has invalidated several new election rules, including requirements for a “reasonable inquiry” before elections are certified, hand-counting ballots on election night, and more access for partisan poll watchers. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox Jr. declared the rules on Wednesday “illegal, unconstitutional and void” after the rules were passed by […]
The FBI quietly revised the U.S. crime statistics to show an increase in violent crime. An investigation by RealClearInvestigations found that the FBI updated its 2022 crime statistics in September, showing that rather than a 2.1% drop in violent crime as originally reported, the United States actually experienced a 4.5% rise in violent crime. The […]
Vice President Kamala Harris asserted that it is “clear” that former President Donald Trump is “increasingly unstable and unhinged” during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania where she is courting Republican voters ahead of the November election. Harris, using a line she has recently started implementing, also argued that the former president is seeking “unchecked power” […]
Former President Donald Trump continued his appeal to the Polish American community by honoring a Polish Catholic priest who was murdered by the communist Polish security services. In a post on his Truth Social, later reposted on his X account, Trump commemorated Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, whose death anniversary is on Saturday. He shared pictures of […]
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) joined nine other Republican governors this week in calling on the Supreme Court to uphold a Tennessee law banning cross-sex hormone treatments for minors. “South Dakota’s kids are our future, and I will always stand up for the next generation of South Dakotans,” Noem said in a statement Tuesday after joining […]
For more than 20 years, Republicans have maintained control in Texas’s legislature, but Democrats believe they have a chance to win back some ground, seeing one county as key to ending the GOP’s dominance in the Lone Star State. Tarrant County, home to Fort Worth, is the last red county in which a major metropolitan […]
Ten House Republicans, led by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), argued on Wednesday to an appellate court that the House’s pandemic-era proxy voting rules were unconstitutional and pointedly accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of flip-flopping his position on them. The lawmakers made the arguments in an amicus brief, authored by Mountain States Legal Foundation […]
Millions of voters across the United States will vote by mail this year. The COVID-19 pandemic greatly shifted how voting was conducted in 2020. In the 2016 and 2018 elections, roughly a quarter of all voters used a mail-in ballot. In the 2020 elections, about 46% of voters voted by mail. In the 2022 midterm elections, 35 million mail-in votes, about […]
A judge barred the Alabama secretary of state from moving forward with a program designed to clear noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls, saying in an order on Wednesday that the program violated federal law and had a high error rate. Judge Anna Manasco said that when Secretary of State Wes Allen, an elected Republican, deactivated more than 3,200 […]
St. Cloud, Minnesota, is still seeking payment for holding a rally for former President Donald Trump after the Trump campaign missed the payment deadline. The central Minnesota city sent a second invoice to the Trump campaign after it missed the Oct. 10 deadline to pay for about $209,000 in city services used for a July […]
