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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 built itself up quite a reputation as a modern progressive city. While I was living there in the mid 8...

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 Stitt's policy agenda last year. The tension came to a head when Stitt vetoed much of the proposed state budget, which the GOP-led Legislature quickly overturned in a historic rebuke. In an extensive interview with The Okl...

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 efforts to combat misinformation. Seth Bringman, a spokesman for Abrams, told Reuters: “Rather th...

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 runoff election now underway. “As the parties are aware, federal courts are courts of limited juris...