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As Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to the region, the window of opportunity for a political resolution has slammed shut. At least for now.

Since losing the Georgia governor's race in 2018, the Democrat has launched the voting rights campaign that's active in 18 battleground states ahead of this year's election.

El primer ministro de Haiti, Ariel Henry, dijo el martes que planea celebrar un referendum para modificar la Constitucion del pais antes de febrero, y que

Neon Nettle - Biden Sought to End Protections for Americans Trapped Abroad before Taliban Takeover - White House memo shows Biden admin moved to dismantle protections for citizens overseas

Bee Nguyen helped Democrats win Georgia. Her next goal: Becoming the state’s top elections official. Nguyen announced her candidacy for Georgia secretary of state on May 4, becoming the first major Democrat to enter the 2022 race Bee Nguyen. (Kevin Lowery; Washington Post illustration) (Kevin Lowery) Anne Branigin For Bee Nguyen, the past few years have been busy. The nonprofit director turned state representative ascended to public office in 2017, after Stacey Abrams, then a state repres...

Neither Democrats nor Republicans have any incentive to build confidence in the electoral process.

by Buzzflash [ Editor’s Note: Greg Palast is a muckraker in the old context, the kind we use to see in the big city news rooms before those publications had the kibosh put on them via loss of advertising by major companies. This trend was eventually traced back to the advice of people friendly with a small country in the Mid East, the ad agencies that handled the major accounts. The threat of losing an account like General Motors had instant effect. Georgia, and the Atlanta metro area had bu...

Carmen Forman The Oklahoman Gov. Kevin Stitt’s third year in office will serve as a fresh start for the Republican who closed out the last legislative session at odds with leaders of Oklahoma’s Legislature. Forced to respond to the worst health crisis in modern history, the pandemic, budget woes and tension between the governor and legislative leaders derailed most of Stitts policy agenda last year. The tension came to a head when Stitt vetoed much of the proposed state budget, which the ...

By Reuters Staff 4 Min Read With just weeks until the state’s Jan. 5 Senate runoff election, posts on social media say that voting rights activist and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said, “We don’t need farmers when we have grocery stores.” The quote is fabricated. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS Examples of posts making this claim can be found here , here, here and here . The recent posts, misspelling Abrams’ name as “Stacy”, were flagged as part of Facebook’s...

Second Federal Judge in One Day Dismisses Georgia GOP Attack on Absentee Voting in Senate Runoffs Adam Klasfeld © Provided by Law & Crime Democratic Senate candidate Reverend Raphael Warnock looks on as US President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally to support the Democratic Senate candidate in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday. For the second time in one day, a federal judge in Georgia rejected a Republican-led challenge against absentee voting in the Peach State’s r...