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Desis On The Ballot: Seema Kanani for Milpitas City Council
Seema Kanani is a mother, licensed clinical social worker, frontline healthcare worker, and labor leader raised in Milpitas with nearly two decades of experience advocating for working families. Having attended local schools and now raising her own children in Milpitas, she outlines her candidate platform in this interview, highlighting safe neighborhoods, housing affordability, and smart…
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Trump won’t rule out the Insurrection Act before the midterms. Take him seriously
In a meandering, and at times bizarre, interview with Time Magazine, President Trump refused to rule out declaring a national emergency or using the Insurrection Act in the lead-up to the midterm elections. “I’m not committing to anything,” he told Time Magazine. But what is the Insurrection Act? Sending in the troops Initially created to…
Trump wants you confused about mail-in voting. Here’s what’s actually true.
The facts are these: almost none of Trump’s proposed changes to how we vote have gone into effect or gotten the green light from the courts.
Desis On The Ballot: Seema Patel for San Mateo City Council (District 3)
A 13-year San Mateo resident, Planning Commissioner, and mother, Seema Patel is running for the San Mateo City Council. She prioritizes housing affordability and cost of living, safe streets and parks, and sustainable infrastructure paired with fiscal responsibility. She is running because she wants all families to have the same opportunity her family had to…
Who’s afraid of Democratic Socialists? Not voters
The middle of the road no longer works in a political environment where voters’ choices are often between conservative madmen and the same old political grifters and octogenarians who run every cycle.
Black Women Are Sounding the Alarm About Voting Rights and America’s Future
Is the nation – from institutions to lawmakers — investing in the needs of Black women voters? A new, nonpartisan poll by The Highland Project and brilliant corners Research and Strategies that surveyed 700 participants found the answer is “overwhelmingly no.” The report focused on what researchers define as “the fulfillment gap,” whether Black women…
Why the Dems need a strategy beyond not being Trump
Democrats are raising a lot of money right now, and funneling these dollars into the grassroots should be critical.
Black politics needs more than better voting maps
We are not claiming that voting isn’t important, or downplaying the fact that Republicans are racially motivated in their redistricting plans for Congress, state legislatures, and local governments. That is obvious. Nor do we discount the activists of the 1960s, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the right to vote. Rather, we believe…
Are we still living in a free country? Voters of color brace for November
In a free country, no one should fear voting. But are we still living in a free country?
OpEd: Trump, Xi and the rise of America’s “autocratic democracy”
By Emil Guillermo Last week, Trump served China’s President Xi a state dinner while American democracy got left overs. And the biggest takeaway from last week’s summit is hard to […] The post OpEd: Trump, Xi and the rise of America’s “autocratic democracy” appeared first on AsAmNews.
The problem with the white vote
While white people who lean Democratic clearly don’t want Trump, things get a little more questionable when you start talking about the white vote in general.
Your vote is free, but the election isn’t. Who’s really funding the midterms?
Corporations, tech billionaires, and even foreign countries are funneling money into our elections via proxies with patriotic- sounding names, hoping to sway the races for God knows who.
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