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Political Violence: The fate of the nation and the soul of America rests in the hands of voters this midterm

Political Violence: The fate of the nation and the soul of America rests in the hands of voters this midterm

Posted by | Nov 8, 2022

“Anecdotal data point,” conservative commentator Tom Nichols tweeted on November 2, “Had lunch with an old friend, a fellow former [Republican] (but not in politics or media or anything) and he said that things feel different after the Pelosi attack. Not sure why. I feel the same thing; not sure that it’ll matter, but have that same sense.” Perhaps it is the echoes of lawyer Joseph Nye Welch, who in 1954 on television confronted Joseph McCarthy as the Wisconsin senator shredded people’s lives by accusing them of being communists: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged...

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Undermined trust: Why faith in nonpartisan election officials is not enough to protect voting results

Undermined trust: Why faith in nonpartisan election officials is not enough to protect voting results

Posted by | Nov 8, 2022

By Thom Reilly, Professor & Co-Director, Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University As the U.S. moves closer to the 2022 midterm elections, a sizable number of Americans express a lack of confidence in the accuracy of the vote count. That distrust is built largely on the widespread – and false – assertion that Donald Trump was re-elected in the 2020 presidential election, and that Joe Biden’s win was based on fraud. Despite the 2020 election being the most secure in American history, and the courts and U.S. Department of Justice uncovering...

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The Republican Legacy: Decades of evidence proves the catastrophic failure of so-called Reagan Revolution

The Republican Legacy: Decades of evidence proves the catastrophic failure of so-called Reagan Revolution

Posted by | Nov 5, 2022

The 1970s were a pivotal decade, and not just because it saw the end of the Vietnam War, the resignation of Nixon, and the death of both the psychedelic hippie movement and the very political (and sometimes violent) SDS. Most consequentially, the 1970s were when the modern-day Republican Party was birthed. Prior to that, the nation had hummed along for 40 years on a top income tax bracket of 91% and a corporate income tax that topped out around 50%. Business leaders ran their companies, which were growing faster than at any time in the history of America, and...

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Voter Fraud: How an election lie has been used as a political weapon against our Democracy since 1964

Voter Fraud: How an election lie has been used as a political weapon against our Democracy since 1964

Posted by | Nov 4, 2022

Will we be governed by representatives we elect, or people put in office by angry mobs storming capitols? Nations have to figure out how they are to be governed. Most of recorded history tells the story of kings, popes, priests, lords, and barons who ruled through violence and imposed themselves on their people rather than the people selecting them. Ultimately, as we all learned in high school civics, you can have a government chosen democratically with a free and fair vote or you can have a government chosen through brute force and violence. There really are not any other...

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Campaigning on conspiracy theories: How the political ideology of White Nationalism mainstreams racism

Campaigning on conspiracy theories: How the political ideology of White Nationalism mainstreams racism

Posted by | Nov 2, 2022

By Sara Kamali, Professor, Creative Writing, University of California San Diego In September 2022, President Joe Biden convened a summit called “United We Stand” to denounce the “venom and violence” of white nationalism ahead of the midterm elections. His remarks repeated the theme of his prime-time speech in Philadelphia on September 1, 2022, during which he warned that America’s democratic values are at stake. “We must be honest with each other and with ourselves,” Biden said. “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent extremism that threatens the...

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Milwaukee Press Club holds panel discussion on the impact of Latino votes in the midterm election

Milwaukee Press Club holds panel discussion on the impact of Latino votes in the midterm election

Posted by | Nov 1, 2022

The power Latino voters could demonstrate in the November 8 midterm elections was the topic of a panel discussion at a Milwaukee Press Club on October 26. The subject is a complex. Increasing economic prosperity, immigration reform and access to education are issues that continue to motivate Latino communities in Milwaukee. Yet there is also what some panelists called “the myth of the monolithic Latino voter.” A reductionist idea that casts one of the city’s most influential voting blocks in a one dimensional light. For panelist Paru Shah, an associate professor of political science at UW-Milwaukee, the complexity of...

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