Tag: midterm elections
It’s No Coincidence That the Midterms Turned the Blackest Parts of America Red
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Abortion Pills Will Be the Next Battle in the 2024 Election
The next front is rapidly emerging in the struggle between supporters and opponents of legal abortion, and that escalating conflict is increasing the chances that the issue will shape the 2024 election as it did last November’s midterm contest.
President Joe Biden triggered the new confrontation with a flurry of recent moves to expand access to the drugs used in medication abortions, which now account for more than half of all abortions performed in the United States. Medication abortion involves
Conspiracy Theories Aren’t the Only Thing Motivating Far-Right Voters
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Bringing in a Diverse Pool of Voters Works—I Saw It for Myself
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American Authoritarianism Isn’t Going Away
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Reverend Barber’s Pastoral Letter to the Democratic Party
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bishop William J. Barber, II wrote this open pastoral letter to the Democrats following the midterm elections. Next week, TheNation.com will publish his letter to Republican leadership.
In Vermont, Voters Could Make Abortion a Constitutional Right
Democratic Megadonors Sit On Sidelines Amid GOP Spending Blitz
Republican super PACs have massive fundraising and spending advantages over their Democratic counterparts entering the final weeks of the 2022 midterm elections. But the GOP’s edge among the mega-donor class is likely to go further in their efforts to win the House than in the battle for the Senate.
Democratic Senate candidates, who are mainly able to build national brands among the type of liberals who pour small donations into the party’s online coffers, built up sufficient war chests to
What’s At Stake for Young Voters
EDITOR’S NOTE: In what many are calling the most consequential midterm elections in a lifetime, the November ballot will decide all 435 voting seats in the House of Representatives as well as the majority of statehouses and state assemblies coast to coast.
The stakes are higher than ever with the future in the
We Still Need Electoral Organizing
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