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We’ll begin the 2022 Dano Awards for Glaring Public Stupidity with a new and updated trophy. It’s of a bearded guy in a dunce cap holding a lighted joint.

The state lawmaker and staunch segregationist. when he lost his house race in 1958, data showed that black voters had turfed him out of office. and after he won back his steet -- seat in 1964, he had the negro voting block. see how this works? if georgia lawmakers take the suggestion and change the threshold for winning office, they wouldnt be fixing a bunch of problems caused by their own law, they could toss out an electoral relic of jim crow in the process. who said irony wasnt also comedy? t...

The new law is intended to safeguard gay marriages if the U.S. Supreme Court ever reverses Obergefell v. Hodges.

Former state Rep. Steve Braun, who led the Indiana Department of Workforce Development and sought to represent a portion of Northwest Indiana in Congress, has died.

Lagos State Lawmaker, Mr Olayiwola Olawale who died on Tuesday afternoon will be buried at 1:00pm, Wednesday (today) , the Lagos State House of Assembly has said.

They may still lose control of the house but theyre potentially going to pick up a seat in the senate, and it is all the result of what white house officials described to me as part of their one-two punch here. they knew heading into the midterm election year that the historical trends for a presidents party in the midterm were rough and given the economic data, that inflation, the scarring that resulted from of course covid-19, that a difficult climate was faced and likely to be more difficult....

What the democrats might have planned. along those lines, we learned that a top election official in milwaukee has been fired for allegedly obtaining ballots through fraudulent means and sending them to republican state lawmaker. yet now senator johnsons now trying to use the incident to make his own case. omar jimenez joins us with the latest. what about this milwaukee elections official? >> yeah, anderson, so this was the deputy director of the milwaukee commission, kimberly zapata. she allege...

Deputy defector of the milwaukee commission. she allegedly got a military balance for a fake voters through a public site called my vote, and sent them to a republican state lawmaker. that state representatives that these ballots were all addressed to a woman name hollywood. different last names. someone who did not and had never lived at this particular address and while the specific motive isnt known at this point. the executive director of the commission says that she believes that since fire...

Democrats to make it easy to cheat. we want to make it easy to vote but hard to cheat. >> it is unclear what he means by what democrats have planned but over in milwaukee a now former deputy elections official was fired after it was announced yesterday that she allegedly obtained military ballots for fake voters through a state run website and sent them to a republican state lawmaker. that lawmaker then turned it over to law enforcement. and while the specific motive isnt know, the executive dir...

Democracy. like i said, we are going to come through for america. but we do need help and we need all eyes and all hands on deck. >> we will be watching very, very closely across america to what happens to arizona. thanks for being with us, we appreciate it. chris mays is the democratic nominee for arizona attorney general. youre watching velshi across america live from phoenix. a new sweeping book ban is in effect for public schools, it could have grave consequences for everyone but, especially...