Voters in Deep Red South Dakota Approve Medicaid Expansion
Defying their right-wing political leaders, South Dakota voters on Tuesday authorized a constitutional modification to increase the state’s Medicaid program beneath the Inexpensive Care Act, a transfer that may lengthen public medical health insurance protection to round 45,000 low-income folks. With Tuesday’s vote, which presently sits at 56% in favor of the modification and 44% […]
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Abortion Rights Win in Several Statewide Ballot Initiative Contests
On Tuesday, voters in a number of states moved to guard abortion rights within the midterm elections. Three states — Michigan, Vermont and California — had pro-abortion measures on the ballot alongside common midterm election contests. Montana and Kentucky had anti-abortion measures on the poll, which voters seem to have rejected. In Michigan, the newly […]
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Summer Lee, Others Score Decisive Wins in Triumphant Night for Progressives
Election evening was a triumph for a handful of progressive U.S. Home candidates throughout the nation who clinched decisive victories regardless of, in some instances, fierce anti-progressive campaigns waged in opposition to them. Pennsylvania’s Summer season Lee, Florida’s Maxwell Frost, Illinois’s Delia Ramirez, Texas’s Greg Casar and Vermont’s Becca Balint are both vastly forward of […]
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Did Gerrymandering Prevent Democrats From Winning Georgia and Ohio?
Georgia Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and his opponent Republican Herschel Walker will doubtless head to a runoff if neither candidate wins 50% of the vote wanted to win the election outright. Warnock was in a position to seize extra white and rural votes than Stacey Abrams, who misplaced to Georgia’s incumbent Republican Governor Brian Kemp, […]
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Voters Rebuked Trump’s Bid to Seed the US Political System With MAGA Loyalists
Whereas it’s not but clear which celebration will management Congress, the 2022 midterm elections yielded substantive losses for a few of the extra excessive candidates served as much as voters by the MAGA motion. In Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano was delivered a thumping defeat by voters angered at his presence within the January 6 mob and […]
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Dr. Oz Lost Pennsylvania Over Weak Abortion Messaging: Pro-Life Leader
Mehmet Oz’s failure to seize a Pennsylvania Senate seat is due, partly, to his refusal to place on abortion in a “mature, deliberative and principled method,” a serious pro-life chief stated on Wednesday. Susan B. Anthony Professional-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser applauded these candidates who aggressively outlined their very own stances on abortion, defined their […]
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Arizona Races Too Close To Call Heading Into Wednesday
Two closely-watched races in Arizona have but to be referred to as. GOP candidates Blake Masters for Senate and Kari Lake for governor had sparked hopes amongst conservatives predicting a “crimson wave” within the midterm elections, however because the night progressed on Tuesday, outcomes remained elusive. For a lot of the night Democratic gubernatorial candidate […]
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In Memoriam: William Rivers Pitt (1971-2022)
William Rivers Pitt (1971-2022)Ayo Walker / Truthout William Rivers Pitt was Truthout’s lead columnist and senior editor. He died on September 26, 2022, on the age of fifty. In his twenty years at Truthout, Will chronicled and analyzed the political problems with the day, from George W. Bush’s administration and the wars in Iraq and […]
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“What’s Elon Doing?” Jamaal Bowman Says of Twitter Issues on Election Day
As Twitter’s new proprietor, billionaire Elon Musk, faces intense criticism for his dealing with of the social media big and inspiring voters to assist GOP congressional candidates, U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Tuesday revealed that he spent hours making an attempt to publish an Election Day video from his marketing campaign account. “Why isn’t Twitter […]
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Michigan Votes Yes on New Controversial Voting Rules
EAST LANSING, Michigan – Michiganders voted “sure” to an election-related modification to their state structure. The modification, referred to as Proposal 2, handed with greater than 58% of the vote. “I’d prefer to thank the thousands and thousands of Michigan voters who stated, ‘Sure’ to Proposal 2 which protects the basic proper to vote […]
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