Musk Celebrates Far-Right Win in Germany
The world's richest man just celebrated the victory of a party that would abolish the right to asylum in the country where his greatest fortune was built. "Well done!" — Elon Musk, after the AfD won t…
Tag: elections (16 articles)
The DOJ Hired a Convicted Election Hacker
The Department of Justice has quietly hired a convicted election hacker to oversee election "integrity," and in the fall it will put a thousand monitors at polling places across the country. "The Unit…
Trump's Chaos-by-Design Blueprint to Subvert the Midterms
A former homeland security chief of staff says the Trump administration is building a blueprint to seize ballots in swing states, paralyze election certification, and weaponize chaos if the midterms g…
DNC Buried the Chapter That Exposed Its Own Rot
The Democratic Party commissioned a post-mortem of its own defeat, then buried the one chapter that actually explained what went wrong. "An emerging critique of Democratic decision-making is there are…
Trump Spends 70% of His Brain on Construction
An 80-year-old president has spent the better part of his second term acting as his own architect, designer, and interior decorator while the country he was elected to lead faces a war, economic anxie…
Mullin Threatens Prison for Election Officials Who Defy Trump
The head of the Department of Homeland Security has drawn a line in the sand: obey his election demands or face prison. "Those individuals can also be held accountable by fines, by penalties, and even…
Trump Own Documents Disprove His Election Theft Claims
The president released documents meant to prove the election was stolen. The documents prove the opposite. "Ratcliffe's description of the analytical finding here is misleading, and this kind of inacc…
The President Stole the Documents to Steal the Election
The president declassified intelligence to prove the election was stolen. The documents proved nothing. But every career analyst who touched those files is now on notice. "We have deliberately massage…
Trump Goes After ABC and NBC Licenses After Speech Snub
trump, fcc, media, first amendment The president threatened to strip broadcast licenses because two networks refused to air his speech. "Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses." — …
DOJ Loses in Court, So It Threatens Election Officials
The Justice Department has been shut out of every courtroom it has entered. So now it is sending threats by mail. "Any election officer, including the chief election officer of the state, who knowingl…
Trump Empties the Election Commission
With four seats empty and a midterm election three months away, the only federal agency devoted to elections has been left with no one in charge. "The guardrails Congress placed on this agency are cle…
Trump-Backed Paramilitary Lawyer Wins Colombia Election
trump, colombia, elections, latin america A US president publicly endorses a foreign candidate who represents paramilitary clients, then celebrates his narrow victory as though it were a personal win.…
Trump Needs Aides To Google His Enemies
Trump's Staffers Can't Keep Up With A President Who Keeps Forgetting Things A president who once built his brand on knowing every deal, every name, and every angle now needs aides to Google the people…
Jan. 6 Rioter Hired for Sensitive Pentagon Counterterrorism Role
A man who broke into the Capitol to stop an election certification now works in a Pentagon office that plans hostage rescue missions. "I am ashamed because I will always be part of this disgrace. Janu…
Trump Pressured a Governor Into Freeing His Martyr
A convicted felon who breached her county's election systems is back on air claiming voting machines flip votes, exactly two weeks after a Democratic governor folded to presidential pressure and let h…
The GOP Dirty Tricks Machine: How a Republican Operative Built a Fake Progressive Super PAC to Sabotage Democrats
A Republican operative who manages hundreds of millions for the House GOP's main super PAC quietly launched a "progressive" political action committee that spent over $3 million rigging Democratic pri…