121 | No news item, just up-vote if you suddenly wish Apocalypse theology were true and we could all be cursed to walk 7 years of hell on earth for being atheists instead of what we're actually getting. |
105 | Twitter finally bans Trump's account. |
88 | Joe Biden will be the 46th President of the USA. Trump concedes grace- ha! Who are we kidding? |
88 | Democratic candidate Doug Jones defeats Roy Moore in Alabama's special election for the United States Senate. |
75 | Hillary Clinton said she will not be running for President in 2020. |
75 | Theresa May warned us about a coalition of chaos, propped up by religious fundamentalist extremist terrorist sympathisers. She just didn't say that she'd be trying to lead it. |
62 | In yet another very polarized election in South America, Chile elects its youngest ever president, leftist Gabriel Boric, who defeated the Augusto Pinochet bootlicker José Antonio Kast in the runoff election. |
61 | A new WSJ poll suggests that overturning Roe v. Wade made voters more likely to support abortion rights. Not only that, but voters ranked abortion as having made them more likely to vote in the 2022 midterm elections than inflation did — and voters ranked abortion as their #3 most important issue. Also, Catholic voters are now almost 60% in favor of abortion rights in all or most cases — despite the Catholic Church being anti-abortion. |
60 | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a young Democratic Socialist, defeats incumbent Joe Crowley in the primary for an important New York house seat. |
59 | Macron wins French election in landslide victory |
57 | Facebook bans Trump on its platforms at least until the end of his term. |
56 |  In a recorded call, Trump urges Georgia's Secretary of State to "find" more Trump votes |
56 | The Senate confirmation of Electoral College votes is interrupted and the Senate evacuated when an angry mob of Donald Trump supporters storm the Capitol. |
55 | Nathan Larson, Virginia independent congressional candidate admits he’s a pedophile to reporter in phone interview. Among other things wants to legalize incest and child pornography. He also had a 3 year old daughter who is, thankfully, not in his custody anymore. RationalWiki veterans may remember him as Tisane. |
52 | Leftist candidate Lopez Obrador wins the Mexican presidency in a landslide. |
50 | Thailand opposition crushes military parties in election rout |
49 | In a very hostile political climate, four Conservative candidates have been suspended ahead of the local elections. One for antisemitic and AIDS jokes; one for calling for returning the death penalty to execute homosexuals; one for claiming the Labour Party spreads STIs, and one for complaining that racial slurs aren't acceptable anymore. |
48 |  And the moment you all have been waiting for: John Fetterman defeats that quack Mehmet Oz. |
47 | Brazil's runoff election between Luiz Inacio da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro has started. In current live results. Lula is barely leading over Bolsonaro. Update: Lula defeats Bolsonaro |
46 | Cubans to vote in a national referendum on whether to protect gay rights, including gay marriage. No polling has been done on the issue, however it can be roughly ascertained that the measure will succeed, in part due to state media strongly backing it. The Catholic Church is opposed, and some anti-government Cubans want to use disapproval votes to signal disapproval of the government in general. Update: It passed, 67% to 33%. |
46 | Outgoing Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, is now demanding that votes in the election should be invalidated after losing to Lula. Update: Court rejects Bolsonaro's attempt to overturn the Brazilian election, fines his party 4.3 million US dollars for asking in "bad faith". |
46 | UK election results: Tory collapse leads to hung parliament. |
45 | Lauren Boebert, the QAnon-loving, gun-toting freshman GOP Congresswoman, who allegedly live tweeted Nancy Pelosi's position, during the recent Capitol terrorist attack, has had her Twitter account locked. |
44 |  Polls have indicated that both Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock have won by a knifepoint, the two Georgian seats in the Senate. If so the Senate would flip to Democrat control. |
43 | Add YouTube to the list of platforms that have banned Trump. |
43 | Social Democrats win most seats in German election, which will most likely put an end to 16 years of Conservative control |
43 |  Katie Hobbs defeats Kari Lake, giving another election denier a humiliating loss. This also breaks a Republican trifecta in the state. |
43 |  SCOTUS rules that Alabama's congressional map is an illegal racial gerrymander. |
42 | Brazil's military has released a report stating there is no evidence of election fraud. |
41 |  Trump requested Milwaukee County recount comes back, reveals that Trump gave them $3 million just to find 132 more votes for Biden. Good thing Wisconsin got paid up front. |
41 |  The entire staff of the Nevada Democratic Party resigns (and takes all the funds) after the DSA slate won in the leadership election, after spending the entire campaign accusing the left of seeking to divide the party |
41 | Democrat Conor Lamb won in a major electoral upset in a deep-red district. |
41 | A Democrat has won a Missouri state house seat in a district Trump won in a landslide. |
40 |  Dominion Voting Systems sues Trump lawyer Sidney "Kraken" Powell for $1.3 billion in damages. |
40 | Rudy Giuliani facing a $1.3 billion defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems. |
40 | Mike Lindell, Jan 2021: "I want [Dominion] to sue me. Please. Because I have all the evidence, 100%. I want all the American people and the world to see the horrific things that these machines are capable of."
Mike Lindell, Apr 2021: umm, so, Dominion sued me I don't want them to sue me judge can you dismiss it plz plz plz
Judge Carl Nichols, now: Nope. Motion to dismiss denied. |
40 |  Florida judge strikes DeSantis' gerrymandered map, siding with Black voters |
40 | Scott Walker loses his bid for a third term as Governor of Wisconsin. |
39 | More than half of Republican Party voters, 53 percent, said they think Donald Trump is currently the "true president" of the United States, not Joe Biden, a new poll shows. |
39 |  Hyper-partisan audit finds that Biden won Maricopa County by 360 additional votes. However, multiple election experts have stated that the numbers are made-up, so the results should still be taken with a grain of salt. |
39 |  Cortez Masto wins the Nevada senate race, meaning Democrats retain control of the Senate. |
39 | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan trails the opposition by more than 10 points ahead of an election in Turkey in May. |
39 | The Democrats narrowly take back the House while the GOP expands its majority in the Senate. A list of firsts for women in the 2018 midterm election. |
38 | Voters in six states handed eight transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming candidates victories in state legislative elections (including in Kansas and Oklahoma). |
38 | Trump's lawyer, Lin Wood, decides to bolster his chances of having his petition before SCOTUS heard, by accusing Chief Justice Roberts of being a murderous paedophile. |
38 | Donald Trump dismisses as "fake news" the idea that he is going to start a new party and strongly hints that he will run for President again in 2024. And the lying bloody git still insists he won the November 2020 election. |
38 |  Federal judge imposes a restraining order on "Clean Elections USA", a conservative group operating in Arizona that believes that massive voter fraud swung the 2020 presidential election, from carrying weapons near voting areas, or videotaping and doxxing voters suspected of being "mules" carrying multiple ballots on social media, on the grounds that it is basically a textbook case of voter intimidation. |
38 |  Colorado votes to legalize psilocybin, aka "magic mushrooms". It is the second state to do so after Oregon. |
38 | The GOP-controlled House is off to a great start as Kevin McCarthy has failed fourteen votes for Speaker, leaving the legislature in limbo. Here's why 21 Republicans are refusing to support him. For those wondering, the last time the House failed to elect a Speaker was in 1923, almost exactly 100 years ago. Update: McCarthy has officially been elected as Speaker of the House on the 15th vote. |
38 | On the same day, Ecuadorians voted on a referendum and decided against oil drilling in one protected part of the Amazon Rainforest. |
38 | Ballot count makes it official: right-wing PiS government loses its parliamentary majority in Poland to a coalition of centre-right, liberal, and leftist parties. |
38 | A US federal court has ruled that Republican gerrymandering in Wisconsin is unconstitutional. |
37 | Setback for woo-pushers and dangerous COVID denialists: According to a study, misinformation about election fraud fell by 73% after social media crackdown on QAnon and assorted crooks |
37 | Islamists suffer crushing defeat, while the liberal party won the most seats. |
37 | Ken Akamatsu, a manga artist, wins a seat in the House of Councillors election, on a campaign focused on freedom of speech, better working conditions and copyright protections for manga artists |
37 | New York Times obtains tax records of Donald Trump showing he could have gotten away with not paying any taxes... for 18 years. Update: Trump aides Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani double down, claiming that the NYT exposé is a "very good story" showcasing the "genius" of Mr Trump and "this kind of economic genius is a lot better for the United States than a woman". |
37 | Democrat Kyrsten Sinema wins the Arizona Senate race. |
36 | Mississipi voters approve a new flag to replace Confederate-themed state flag |
36 | Judges are handling out spankings to lawyers representing Trumpist attempts to show fraud - "I regret to inform you that your submission is defective," |
36 | Members of the electoral college vote, with Joe Biden surpassing the 270 votes required to win the presidency. |
36 |  Colorado voters have passed a ballot measure funding free school meals for all public students by raising taxes on people making more than $300,000 per year. |
36 | Nancy Pelosi to stand down as leader of House Democrats. |
36 | Trump has made millions from Saudi Arabia while criticizing Clinton for taking Saudi money. |
36 | Cambridge Analytica was also involved in the 2013 and 2017 Kenyan elections. |
36 | Maine will be testing ranked voting in statewide elections. |
35 | In a bizarre Oval Office meeting, Rudy Giuliani, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, and chief of staff Mark Meadows had to talk Trump out of appointing Sidney "Kraken" Powell as a special counsel to investigate his election loss, and implementing disgraced general and QAnon fanboy, Michael Flynn's plan to use the military to keep him power. When Rudy has to be the voice of reason... |
35 | "Lawyers" Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, along with Fox News hosts Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro, named as defendants in $2.7 billion defamation suit, brought by election technology company Smartmatic. |
35 |  Gavin Newsom wins the recall election |
35 |  LibDems win the North Shropshire by-election - a seat the Tories have held consistently since the 1830s - in a massive 34% swing. |
35 | Brazilians go to the polls for the first round of general elections between eleven candidates, including right-wing nationalist/populist incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, and leftist former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. If none of the candidates receive over 50% of the vote, there will be a runoff election on October 30th between the top two candidates (likely Bolsonaro and Lula). Update: It seems that there will be a runoff election. Lula is in a slight lead with ~48% of votes while Bolsonaro received ~43%, outperforming polls. |
35 |  Warnock defeats Walker in the Georgia runoff, meaning the Democratic majority in the US Senate will grow to 51-49. This also makes it likelier that Georgia's 2020 election results weren't a fluke for Democrats. |
35 | 
Edgars Rinkēvičs is elected as president of Latvia, making him the first openly-gay president of a post-Soviet country. |
35 |  Federal court rejects Alabama's congressional map and will draw new districts to boost Black voting power. |
35 | Donald Trump’s director of African-American outreach has an ominous warning for all who dared to criticize the Republican presidential nominee: “Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump. It’s everyone who’s ever doubted Donald, who ever disagreed, who ever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.” Then blames Obama's jokes about Trump's Birther investigation for Trump's candidacy. |
34 |  Ohio lawmakers still can't draw a congressional map that doesn't break the state constitution... They've sent the map drawing task back to the Ohio Redistricting Commission, after lawmakers failed to devise and approve a suitable map by Sunday, 6 February, the deadline set by the Ohio Supreme Court. |
34 | Biden's current plan to get re-elected: oppose GOP book bans, support abortion rights, and defend Social Security. The fact that these stances poll very well seems to be the main reason why they were selected as a primary focus. Those who have watched voter priorities polling should know that he will need a broader economic message too, however. |
34 | Democrats have overperformed in 2023's special elections so far. |
34 |  Ohio voters reject the GOP-backed Issue 1, which proposed that a 60% majority would be required for any future ballot issues that would amend the state constitution. This was part of a larger attempt to sabotage future ballot issues regarding abortion. |
34 | Borowitz: "Republicans Urge Replacing Man Who Hates Women with Man Who Hates Women and Gays" |
34 | After weeks, if not months, of shouting how the election is rigged against Trump, a Trump supporter in Iowa has been arrested for voting for Trump twice. |
34 | Georgia is still insisting that its elections are fine, despite one precinct's turnout for its primaries being 243%! |
34 | Laura Kelly, a Democrat, has bested Trump-backed far-right candidate Kris Kobach in the race for Kansas governor. |
33 | Donald Trump has fucking Coronavirus. UPDATE: Joe Biden tests negative |
33 | News outlets are beginning to call the election for Joe Biden |
33 |  Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) is due in court today to defend her eligibility to hold office against a charge that she has breached the 14th amendment - if you take an oath to defend the constitution you are inelgible for office if you then engage in insurrection and rebellion.... and she'll have to testify under oath against penalty of perjury.... which might be interesting given her lack of practiice at speaking truthfully anywhere else. |
33 | Leftist Gustavo Petro wins Colombia's presidential election, becoming their first leftist president and beating Hitler follower Rodolfo Hernández. |
33 |  A Maricopa County Superior Court judge, appointed by Arizona's GOP governor, has thrown out Kari Lake's legal challenge to her 2022 election loss. Lake's team alleged that some ballot printers temporarily running low on ink proved widespread fraud and called to overturn the election. |
33 | Ralph Northam defeats Republican opponent Ed Gillespie for the seat of Governor of Virginia. Trump's reason for why Northam won was predictable: "Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for." Meanwhile, Danica Roem is elected Virginia's first openly transgender legislator, defeating a homophobic opponent in the race. |
33 | Right wing populist Norbert Hofer finally concedes the Austrian presidential election, making Alexander Van Der Bellen the first Green Party head of state |
32 |  Voter fraud in Pennsylvania! Registered Republican moron Ralph Thurman tried to vote twice, the second time pretending to be his registered Democrat son while "disguised" with a pair of sunglasses. |
32 |  Lindsey Graham faces formal ethics complaint, for seeming to try and interfere with the Georgia election result. |
32 | General Services Administration clears Biden to receive transition access and funding as "apparent winner" of the election. |
32 | Slovenia's 3-term, Trump-loving, nationalistic Prime Minister, Janez Janša, defeated by liberal Freedom Movement, which only formed in January. |
32 |  Laura Loomer has lost the primary for Florida’s 11th U.S. House district. Update: She is now refusing to concede defeat and has claimed voter fraud. |
32 |  In a major upset, Democrat Mary Peltola defeats Sarah Palin in the special election for Alaska's at-large House district. |
32 |  Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota have ballot measures for voters to consider legalizing recreational marijuana. |
32 | The big story from Tuesday's primaries: Andrew Gillum, the Bernie Sanders-endorsed progressive mayor of Tallahassee, scored a major upset victory in the Florida Democratic gubernatorial primary, bucking a trend of the state party nominating centrists for Governor who inevitably go down in defeat to the Republicans. Less surprising: the hard-right Ron DeSantis won the Republican gubernatorial primary, and wasted no time throwing racist dog whistles at Gillum (who is black). |
31 |  SCOTUS denies Texas's complaint in the Texas v. Pennsylvania, et al. lawsuit. (PDF) |
31 | A Qanon believer who tried to beat Mike Johnson in Louisiana has been arrested for possession of child pornography. |
31 |  A bunch of Trump supporters in Arizona attempted to submit their own 'Certificate of ascertainment ' for Trump to the National Archive, ahead of the official AZ electors; genuinely thinking if a bunch of idiots just make their own and send it in first, that supersedes the official one. Given the fact that a notary associated with the group, was also dumb enough to notarize their document, they're likely going to be in deep trouble. |
31 |  The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an editorial calling on Senator Ron Johnson to either resign or be expelled. He asked for space to respond, which he was provided - along with footnotes providing context and pointing out his lies. |
31 |  Republican nutjob, and Confederate wannabe, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, says people shouldn't be allowed to vote on a Sunday, because the US currency says "In God We Trust." |
31 | Ohio Supreme Court strikes down R gerrymander in a huge win for the left. Alternate source for those afflicted with "This content is not available in your country/region." |
31 |  A ballot measure in Oregon would require people who want to buy a gun to pay a fee, take a safety course, submit fingerprints, and pass a background check to obtain a permit. It would also ban high capacity (meaning more than 10 rounds) magazines. |
31 |  Illinois voters approve a amendment to the state constitution banning laws interfering with collective bargaining and unionizing. |
31 |  A huge upset — Democrat Marie Glusemkamp Perez defeats Republican Joe Kent in the race for Washington's third district, which had been considered safe for Republicans. The original incumbent was Jaime Herrera Beutler, who had voted to impeach Donald Trump, but she was primaried by Kent, who has ties to white nationalist groups. |
31 | Several Fox News pundits seem to be wondering if the network's repeated attacks on early voting have backfired on the GOP. |
31 |  Ron DeSantis's biggest donor threatens to cut off funds if he doesn't become more moderate. Mere hours later, DeSantis states that claims the 2020 election was stolen are "unsubstantiated". |
31 | Carly Fiorina breaks the record for shortest-ever VP run, as Ted Cruz drops out. The anointed one has been defeated. |
31 | "Disorganization and sheer incompetence within the Trump campaign." |
31 | Bernie Sanders stood a better chance of defeating Donald Trump compared to Hillary Clinton. As a matter of fact, in a recent MSNBC forum, Sanders managed to earn the support of Trump voters. (Autoplay video) |
31 | Former coal executive Don Blankenship, who served a year in prison for safety violations in a 2010 disaster that killed 29 miners, loses the West Virginia GOP Senate primary after a bitter, racially charged campaign. He was such an awful candidate that even Trump urged voters to reject him. Predictably, he blamed "the establishment" for his loss. |
31 | The Californian Democratic Party snubs five-term US Senator Feinstein in favor of endorsing democratic socialist challenger Kevin de Leon. |
31 | At a certain point, one has to wonder if the phrase "voter fraud" is going to be the Republican party motto, as Roy Moore asks for an investigation even as Doug Jones' win is certified. |
31 | A Democrat wins a Kentucky House seat where Trump won 72% of the vote. |
30 | In Turkey's local elections, results have indicated a loss for President Erdoğan's AKP. It has lost the mayoralty of the capital Ankara, to cross-party opposition candidate Mansur Yavaş. Plus, it is in a tight race for the mayoralty of the county’s largest city and economic capital Istanbul, between AKP’s Binali Yıldırım, and the opposition CHP's Ekrem İmamoğlu. If the CHP wins Istanbul, it would be the first time in over fifteen years and a massive blow to the president. |
30 | Israel to hold fresh election in September as Netanyahu fails to form coalition |
30 | Only one racial bloc showed solid support for Donald Trump's re-election bid |
30 |  At least 35 Capitol police officers are under investigation for their role in the January 6th terrorist attack on Congress. |
30 | Former Israeli Labor Party Leader Izhak Herzog is the new President of Israel. |
30 | As part of a lawsuit by a former Dominion Voting System employee, an internal memo was made public that reveals the Trump campaign was aware that their "rigged election" claims were bullshit |
30 | Mitch McConnell is worried about the GOP's chances of taking the Senate this year due to dogshit quality Senate candidates. |
30 |  Maryland votes to legalize recreational cannabis, making it the twentieth state to do so. |
30 |  Voters in Alabama, Tennessee, and Vermont voted to amend their state constitutions to outlaw slavery as a criminal punishment. Louisiana voted to retain prison slavery. Update: Oregon has abolished prison slavery as well. |
30 | Right-wing PiS party appears to have just lost their majority in parliament to the three main opposition parties, based on exit polling. Rest in PiSS. |
30 |  Ohio voters vote to enshrine abortion rights in the state consitution and also to legalize recreational cannabis, becoming the 24th state to do so. |
30 | Sick of these liberal media Shillary lies from pollsters, Breitbart runs its own poll, so there! ... Clinton comes out five points ahead of Trump. |
30 | A company controlled by Donald Trump secretly conducted business in Cuba during Fidel Castro’s presidency despite strict American trade bans that made such undertakings illegal. (Autoplay video) |
30 | Democrats have taken all seven House seats in the historically Republican stronghold Orange County. |
29 | Attorney General Bill Barr says the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Irony meters explode at Trump attorney statement "his opinion (ie that of the AG) appears to be without any knowledge or investigation of the substantial irregularities and evidence of systemic fraud" |
29 |  Separatists grow majority in Catalonia regional parliament, despite the pro-union Socialist Party winning the most votes out of any single party. |
29 | The ruling Labor Party in West Australia sees a massive shift in its favour in the state election held 13 March. It increased its numbers in the 59 member house from 40 to 53, with a corresponding rout for the conservative opposition. The No Mandatory Vaccination party received 1.5% of votes and 0 seats. The Labor government had instituted a strong response to the covid crisis in 2020, which proved popular with the masses. |
29 | The US is so politically polarized that vaccination is now an accurate predictor of election results |
29 |  A ballot measure in Colorado would make school lunches free by raising taxes on state residents making over $300k annually. It needs a simple majority to pass. |
29 |  Several important victories for Democrats in the Great Lakes State: Firstly, Proposal 3, which will provide a state constitutional right to abortion, has passed. Secondly, Governor Gretchen Whitmer won reelection. Thirdly, and perhaps most surprisingly, Democrats have managed to flip both chambers of the Michigan state legislature, putting them in full control of the state for the first time since 1984. Update:Democrat Jocelyn Benson has won reelection as secretary of state, defeating a Trump-backed election denier. |
29 |  In Minnesota, the state Senate flipped blue to give Democrats first trifecta since before 2014. |
28 |  QAnon morons with AR-15s arrested near Philadelphia vote counting center, having apparently intended to break in and "straighten things out." |
28 | Trump acccepts he may not be President after January, but gives strong hints at a 2024 run. |
28 |  Lin Wood, the batshit insane Trump lawyer, who led the charge to have election results overturned, because of "election fraud," under investigation for... election fraud. |
28 |  Idiot Trumpist "Kraken" attorneys Lin Wood and Sidney Powell have been ordered by a federal judge to pay the legal fees of the Michigan election officials who they lodged spurious legal challenges against after the 2020 election. The judge also referred them to disciplinary authorities for investigation into the possibility of disbarment. |
28 |  Josh Shapiro wins PA's governor election, keeping January 6 lunatic Doug Mastriano away from the governor's mansion. |
28 |  Nebraska voters approved a ballot measure to raise the state minimum wage by $1.50 per year until it hits $15 in 2026 and then tie the minimum wage to inflation thereafter. |
28 |  Democrat Steve Hobbs wins the election for Washington Secretary of State. While this may seem like an expected result, the last time a Democrat had been elected into that position was 1960. |
28 | A federal court orders Wisconsin to stop suppressing the vote. |
27 | Conspiracy theorist and self-described "proud islamophobe" Laura Loomer lost her House of Representatives race to incumbent Democrat |
27 |  Voters approve Question 1, a ballot measure guaranteeing the right to repair, by a factor of 75% in favor verus 25% against. In the process it also closes a loophole from a 2012 law that would have exempted wireless diagnostics from the law |
27 | Florida man's legal team quits, weeks ahead of his second Senate impeachment trial. |
27 | Liberals projected to win in Canadian election which will result in virtually no difference from the last election 2 years ago. |
27 |  North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down gerrymandered map, also orders proportional map. |
27 |  Slavery as a criminal punishment is on the ballot for voters in 5 US states. |
27 |  The PA State House has now officially flipped blue, after Democrats win three special elections in safe-blue Pittsburgh-area seats in order to replace Representative Summer Lee, Lt. Governor Austin Davis, and the late Tony DeLuca. Previously, there had been a bit of drama to get a speaker, as the three vacancies meant neither side had a majority. |
27 |  California dinosaur Senator Dianne Feinstein announces that she will not run for reelection, opening the door for what will likely be the most intense Senate primary of the cycle. Among those running to replace her are Reps. Adam Schiff and Katie Porter. |
27 |  The far-right BJP loses its majority in the Indian state of Karnataka. |
27 | Scientific American has released their grading of Presidential candidates on science related issues. Surprising nobody, Clinton pulverized the competition winning 18 of the 19 graded questions. Jill Stein (handing Clinton's only loss) then Gary Johnson take second and third. Trump never scores higher than a 1/5 while only doing that for seven questions on the survey. "I believe in science!" indeed. |
27 | The official KKK newspaper, The Crusader, has officially endorsed Trump for president. |
26 | UKIP gets destroyed in the local elections, losing about 80% of the seats they were defending. They went in with 111 seats, and ended the election with 24. Mind you, The Brexit Party, their main competitor for being the 'party of Brexit', wasn't running any candidates in the local elections. Based on current polling, UKIP would struggle to keep a single seat in the EU Parliament in the May 23rd election . Update:They ended the election losing 145 seats and ended with only 31 elected. |
26 | Norway's center-left heads to victory in parliamentary elections, with incumbent conservative PM conceding defeat in an campaign dominated by the issues of climate change and the kingdom's oil and gas exploration industry |
26 | After arresting the other candidates, dictator Daniel Ortega is reelected in Nicaragua. |
26 | Former Bogotá mayor leftist Gustavo Petro leads in the primary elections. In addition, left-wing party Historic Pact made gains in both government chambers. |
26 |  Mark Kelly now projected to win the Arizona senate race for the Democrats. Also: Democrat Adrian Fontes wins election as secretary of state, defeating election denier Mark Finchem, who had ties to extremist groups and wanted to limit voting access. |
26 |  US District judge rejects bogus lawsuits from failed GOP candidates Kari Lake and Mark Finchem over the Arizona midterm results, orders them to pay resultant legal fees incurred by Maricopa County. |
26 | In the continuing adventures of the GOP's image problem regarding sexual assault/harassment, comes Jim Knoblach stopping his campaign for Minnesota state rep after allegations from his 23 year old daughter that he abused her from age 9 to 21. |
26 | The Liberals lose their majority in the lower house of Australian Parliament. |
26 | Donald Trump tweets that sending out mail-in ballots in California will lead to widespread voter fraud, That becomes the first ever of Trump's tweets to be given a fact-check warning label by Twitter. Trump then accuses Twitter of interfering in the US presidential election. He even threatens to close it down. |
25 | Jair Bolsonaro loses big in municipal elections with candidates backed by him being knocked out of several races |
25 |  The White House revokes access for Marc Short, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff. |
25 | Progressive Justin Bibb is the next mayor of Cleveland, beating moderate Kevin Kelley. |
25 | Due to demographic replacement, for the first time since 1948 there are no commies in the Czech parliment. |
25 | Mike Lindell says he has "enough evidence" to put 300 million Americans in jail for election fraud |
25 | Exit polls suggest a 58% - 42% win for incumbent Emmanuel Macron over his rival Marine Le Pen in the French Presidential election. |
25 | Andrew Yang and other Democrats and Republicans have formed a new centrist party called the Forward Party, which will probably have as much success as all the other third parties in US history. |
25 |  Incumbent Kansas governor Laura Kelly wins reelection over her GOP opponent (who promised to sign an anti-trans bill that Kelly vetoed). |
25 |  Republican Joe Lombardo narrowly defeats incumbent Gov. Steve Sisolak. Lombardo notably rejected Trump's claims of voter fraud in 2020 and dropped his support for a 13-week abortion ban. |
25 | Kasich is out too. Now, there is only the Trump. |
25 | Donald Trump totally didn't just call for the assassination of Hillary Clinton. He just advocated "second-amendment remedies" to stop her. |
25 | Donald Trump continues grandstanding about the "rigged" election (something he's done throughout his campaign and something which has a long history in Republican rhetoric). Meanwhile his campaign, party and supporters are up to all sorts of dirty tricks, including (but not limited to) ongoing voter suppression in Republican states, mail flyers outrageously claiming that Democrat voters will be named and shamed, and trying to convince Clinton supporters they can vote online with a social media hashtag. Plus of course the ongoing incitement of voter intimidation and "patriot" violence. |
25 | A Conservative MP has been forced to apologise after telling a high schooler to "fuck off back to Scotland" during a discussion on Scottish independence. |
25 | The Republicans are struggling to hold on to Orange County. |
25 | Polling shows that the Democrats hold a 12-point lead in congressional preference among registered voters. |
24 | Trump wants the 2020 election to be delayed, citing mail-in voting fraud. Update: Republicans flat out reject the proposal to delay the election. |
24 | The first presidential debate is considered draining, an embarassment and a moment of national shame across the media, condemnation falling mostly on Trump's performance |
24 |  Crowd protests outside Michigan Secretary of State house oblivious to the irony of shouting "stop the steal" while trying to overthrow an election! |
24 |  Pro-Trump attorneys tell Georgians not to vote until votes are "secure" (and by that, they mean, "rigged in favor of the GOP") |
24 | The Dutch cabinet has collapsed over the childcare allowance scandal. The Dutch Tax Authority had been incorrect in marking childcare allowances as fraud, causing thousands of parents to be marked as fraudsters. This had occurred in the current cabinet and the previous cabinet. One of the coalition party leaders from the previous cabinet resigned earlier this week over the matter. |
24 | Mike Lindell sued for $1.3 billion, by Dominion Voting Systems. |
24 | Sidney "Kraken" Powell tries to get the defamation suit against her thrown out, by claiming that no reasonable person would've believed the stuff she made up in numerous court filings and news conferences. Which seems to be the very definition of defamation. |
24 | Swiss voters approve referendum which legalizes same-sex marriage in the country. It will come into force on July 1, 2022. |
24 |  Lowest voter turnout ever in Hong Kong's first post-crackdown "patriots only" Legislative Council elections |
24 | 80 year-old Italian President Sergio Mattarella, who was hoping to retire, has agreed to serve a second term after the Italian Parliament failed to choose a successor. |
24 |  Hardcore Trumpist and US Representative Madison Cawthorn is defeated by Chuck Edwards in the primary election for NC-11. Good riddance. |
24 |  It has been decided. Oregon Democrats won the governorship. |
24 | Mary Peltola defeats Sarah Palin again and wins reelection for Alaska's at-large district. Meanwhile, Lisa Murkowski wins reelection for the Senate, defeating Donald Trump-backed challenger Kelly Tshibaka. |
24 |  Liberal Janet Protasiewicz wins election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, giving liberals their first majority there in 15 years. |
24 | Leftist Luisa González and businessman Daniel Noboa will battle for Ecuador's presidency in an October run-off. |
24 |  Genius analysis by a random GOP representative from Virginia says the Republicans lost the recent elections because they weren't anti-abortion enough. |
24 | Wikileaks releases 20,000 hacked DNC emails. The release has so far only revealed tons of credit card and Social Security numbers. Update: One of these, however, might indicate that the DNC was biased in favor of Hillary Clinton. Another reveals that Sander's campaign was a mess as DWS had to call Bernie directly in order to get the campaign to do things because they'd either ignored or forgotten to something critical. Further emails reveal that Kenneth Vogel, Politco's chief investigate reporter, made an agreement to send advanced Clinton story to DNC, that DWS put pressure on MSNBC to censor itself after they criticized her treament of Sanders, that the DNC leaked a letter from Sanders, that Super PACS were paying young voters to push back against Sanders supporters online. TL;DR: There was bias but no conspiracy. Russia may be involved. |
24 | Flashback: Trump in a 9/11/2001 interview revels that his building is now the tallest in NYC |
24 | There is no evidence that thousands of noncitizens are illegally voting and swinging elections. |
24 | Brazil's far-right presidential candidate has narrowly missed an outright victory and now heads to a runoff vote. |
24 | NC 9th Congressional District: The man at the center of this entire mess, Leslie McCrae Dowless, has been arrested and charged with three counts of felony obstruction of justice, two counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice and two counts of possession of absentee ballots by the Wake County district attorney. |
23 | In a special election after the murder of former Gdańsk mayor Paweł Adamowicz, In preliminary results, his deputy Aleksandra Dulkiewicz has overwhelmingly won the mayorship with 84%. The liberal won against her far-right challengers Grzegorz Braun who got 12 per cent and Marek Skiba who has got 4%. |
23 | UKIP gets destroyed in MEP election. 0 MEPs elected. (They won 24 seats in the 2014 election). In the South West Region (where Carl Benjamin a.k.a. Sargon of Akkad was on the ballot), UKIP only got 3.2% of the vote, down 29.1% from the 2014 election. |
23 | tfw you're too batshit for Rudy & Jenna Ellis: Sidney Powell is swiftly underbussed after Team Trump's disastrous loss in PA lawsuit. |
23 | The non-existent states of New California and New Nevada file an amici curiae before SCOTUS, supporting Texas' bizarre suit of battleground states Biden won, because 2020 is a giant dumpster fire. |
23 | In a possible breach of campaign finance laws, Jared Kushner, Lara Trump and John Pence have been tied to a consultancy firm which received $650 million for aiding the Trump re-election campaign. |
23 | Joining Fox News, Newsmax issues sweeping ‘clarification’ debunking its own coverage of election misinformation |
23 |  Two Wisconsin state lawmakers sue, among others the Electoral College to overturn the election result, presumably thinking it's an actual place, and not a process. |
23 | Trump takes last opportunities to screw the public by extending Secret Service protection for family members, and undoes pretty much the one measure that probably did actually help "drain the swamp". |
23 | Democrat Melanie Stanbury wins by 24 points in the special election for New Mexico's 1st District |
23 | Voters in Boston have elected former City Councilor Michelle Wu as mayor, making her the city's first woman and person of color elected to the post. |
23 | Phil Murphy squeaks out Jack Ciattarelli to win a second term as Governor of New Jersey. Ciattarelli is yet to concede. Not anymore. |
23 |  Democrats win upset victories in Ohio's first and thirteenth districts. This means that despite the Ohio legislature's absurd gerrymander, Democrats still won more districts than they did in 2020. |
23 |  A recount has confirmed that Democratic candidate Kris Mayes narrowly won the Arizona attorney general's race by just 280 votes. |
23 |  Lori Lightfoot is ousted as the mayor of Chicago. A run-off election will occur between Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson. |
23 | Spain's elections end in a hung parliament. The right-wing People's Party won a plurality, but the center-left "Socialists" will likely have an easier path to a coalition, even if it will mean negotiating with regional parties to do so. |
23 |  The reason Kentucky's Democratic governor won reelection: relatively low turnout among Trump voters (53% turnout) compared to Biden voters (79%). |
23 | Bernie Sanders wrote an OpEd for the Los Angeles Times: "I support Hillary Clinton. So should everyone who voted for me" |
23 | The Tangerine Terror has a new endorsement... from the American Nazi Party. |
23 | Donald Trump's campaign staffing choices get even more horrifying, as more Russian connections are put out in the open. |
23 | Trump campaign closes with a dog-whistling ad condemning a (((global power structure))) which has "bled our country dry". |
23 | Thousands of anti-Trump protestors have taken to the streets in at least 10 cities. (Autoplay video) In Seattle, specifically, 4 protestors and a bystander were shot by a gunman. Update: More protestors have been shot at in Portland. |
23 | The ruthlessly effective rebranding of Europe’s new far right. |
23 | The North Carolina State Board of Elections has voted unanimously for new election in the 9th congressional district after even Mark Harris, who had won and been demanding the election be certified so he could be seated, admitted that public faith in the election is damaged and asked for a new election. |
22 | In the past week, street fights have taken place between UKIP supporters and antifascists over the throwing of milkshakes at controversial election candidates. Carl Benjamin had a milkshake lobbed at him, and earlier got hit with fish (The photo is amazing). |
22 | According to a Gallup poll, 61% of Americans support abolishing the Electoral College |
22 | Kyrgyzstani protesters storm parliament over vote-rigging claims |
22 | As the results still come in, Kanye West concedes defeat. |
22 |  North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme |
22 | The Trump team throws in the towel on proving voter fraud by actually admitting in their pleading to the US Supreme Court that they do not have evidence and it is undetectable. "The constitutional issue is not whether voters committed fraud but whether state officials violated the law by systematically loosening the measures for ballot integrity so that fraud becomes undetectable." |
22 |  As Trump continues to unravel after his election loss, his latest Twitter attack is against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's brother. Update in article - there is a brother, nothing to do with China as Trump claims. |
22 | Disgraced General Michael Flynn's brother, General Charles Flynn was involved in the decision not to deploy the National Guard to Washington, following the terrorist attack by Trump's supporters. |
22 | Israeli elections will send some far-right racist and homophobic parties to the Knesset, which will very likely play into Netanyahu's strategy to form a coalition government. Among the shit they support are segregated maternity wards and religious law. |
22 | Angela Merkel’s CDU beats AfD in crucial German state election. Conservative win in Saxony-Anhalt seen as last big test ahead of national election in September. |
22 | Despite being in one of the traditionally deepest blue Conservative seats in the country, the Liberal Democrats have won the seat of Chesham and Amersham in Buckinghamshire by turning over 16 000 votes. Labour came in fourth place, nearly losing their deposit. |
22 | Traditional social democratic and conservative parties hold sway in the first round of France's regional elections, as support for Macron's LREM and Le Pen's far-right National Rally (formerly National Front) parties cratered. |
22 | Taking Trump's cue, Bolsonaro clouds vote with fraud claims |
22 | Republican presidential primary candidates must agree to a "loyalty pledge" promising to support whoever wins the nomination in order to debate, the party's National Committee chair says. Can anyone guess who this is aimed at? |
22 |  DeSantis "isn't running" yet. But his support is collapsing. Trump holds a polling advantage. One DeSantis megadonor is literally dead. Others are getting cold feet. Another has pulled funding, citing his social extremism. Meantime, team Ron plan to copy Rudy Giuliani's 2008 "strategy". All in all, the GOP's most likely shot at a non-Trump nominee is not looking so likely. (But don't count him out yet?) |
22 |  Conservatives trounced by Labour, LibDems and Greens in England's local elections. UKIP lost every seat it held. BBC source. |
22 |  Chris Christie takes second place in New Hampshire GOP presidential primary polling, now slightly ahead of Ron DeSantis. Though neither candidate is likely to defeat Trump's powerful cult of personality. |
22 | Progressive candidate Bernardo Alévaro wins runoff. Be on high alert for any coup attempts. |
22 | Progressive business tycoon Srettha Thavisin has been elected as Thailand's new Prime Minister. |
22 | Sanders: "It doesn’t appear that I'm going to be the nominee" |
22 | Tony Schwartz, co-author of The Art of the Deal: yeah, Trump is a sociopath. Sorry for helping craft his image. |
22 | Trump visited an African-American church this weekend and tried to claim the mantle of Abraham Lincoln. It went about as well as you would expect. |
22 | Leaked video and audio from Access Hollywood from 2005 when Donald Trump was bragging about grabbing women "by the pussy". |
22 | Even Roger Ailes has had enough of Trump |
22 | The alcohol industry is bankrolling ads to scare Massachusetts voters about legal pot |
22 | Trump has apparently decided that promising to contest the results if he loses was too subtle of an attack on American democracy, saying in a rally that "we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump." |
22 | Why Vladimir Putin’s Russia Is Backing Donald Trump Newsweek article details the known extent of Russian hacking and Black Ops. Russia even temporarily ceased supporting Trump because they thought he was psychologically unfit |
22 | Republican-controlled Southern states have closed down at least 868 polling places for the 2016 election. |
22 | Trump was rushed offstage by security in Nevada due to something going on in the crowd. Turns out it was just a protester with a "Republicans against Trump" sign getting the shit kicked out of him by Trump supporters. |
22 | Jeb! drops out of the clown car! |
22 | "He certainly is off the spectrum. There's never been anything like him" Noam Chomsky talks about Donald Trump in a nuanced interview on Aljazeera, says that Trump has no dedicated ideology but that strongman right wing populists like him internationally help a rebranded Right to power. |
22 | Exit polls predict a large swing towards Labour and a likely hung parliament in the UK general election. |
22 |  Putin admits that Russians hacked the election, but claimed it was da Joos and ethnic minorities and the gov't had nothing to do with it. |
22 | A Democrat getting outspent 17-1 is now neck and neck in deep-red Pennsylvania |
21 | Pro-democracy candidates win big in Hong Kong's local elections |
21 | Bernie Sanders bests Hillary Clinton in the Maine caucuses. |
21 | The Bloomberg campaign has acknowledged that one of the vendors it hired used prison labor to make campaign phone calls. |
21 | In what could be considered the biggest upset of the political season so far, Bernie Sanders wins Michigan, vastly outperforming polls there. Clinton still ends up with more delegates for the night, however, due to a huge win in Mississippi. |
21 |  Years of racist behavior finally caught up with Iowa white supremacist Steve King, who was defeated in the Congressional primary election by state senator Randy Feenstra. |
21 |  Hail to the Chief! Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) pulls the trigger on Trump: "...[he] has exhausted all plausible legal options to challenge the result of the presidential race in Pennsylvania. ... I congratulate President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory." |
21 | Thierry Baudet , far right Dutch politician, has been kicked out of his own party. |
21 |  John Fetterman, the current PA Lieutenent Governor and a noted progressive, launches Senate bid. |
21 | The US now has the new house and electoral college numbers from the 2020 United States census . Outcome: TX: +2 seats. CO, FL, NC, MT, OR: +1 seat. CA, IL, MI, NY, OH, PA, WV: -1 seat. |
21 |  After an order from the state Supreme Court, roughly 56,000 North Carolina residents convicted of felonies but who aren't in prison are now able to register to vote. |
21 | Austin overwhelmingly votes against a ballot initiative that would have drastically increased the size of its police force but would have likely resulted in cuts to firefighting, libraries, medics, and other essential services. |
21 | Labor has won a sweeping victory against the incumbent Liberals in South Australia's state-wide general election. Even the state premier has lost his seat! This election is crucial, as it is only months from the nationwide general election, and already Scotty from Marketing is looking very vulnerable. |
21 | Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen achieved the top 2 votes, will be faced in the runoff. |
21 | With counting underway for the the Federal Election in Australia, it is apparent that there will be a change of government, with Anthony Albanese set to be the 31st Prime Minister and the Labor party unseating the three term Liberal/National Coalition government. It's yet to be seen if it will be a majority or minority government. Update: Labor set to form majority government. |
21 | Some mildly entertaining news of how Trump "fundraising" e-mails were worded exactly like actual scams. The fun part is they were actually scams by the Trump team to make off with their supporters money. |
21 | Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon asks the UK government and UK Supreme Court for permission to hold a new independence referendum in 2023. |
21 |  Control of the Pennsylvania House of Representative has flipped to Democrat. |
21 |  Independent Arnold Palacios wins a runoff election for governor of the CNMI, defeating the ultra corrupt Republican incumbent Ralph Torres. |
21 |  Democrat Aaron Rouse flips a Virginia State Senate seat in Virginia Beach during a special election, expanding Democrats' Senate majority in the state to 22-18. This comes as Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin is trying to pass a 15-week abortion ban. |
21 |  Popular Democratic Arizona representative Ruben Gallego will challenge Independent Kyrsten Sinema for her US Senate seat. |
21 | Former army general and independent politician Petr Pavel has won the Czech presidential election against his rival, populist former prime minister Andrej Babiš. He will replace the current president Miloš Zeman in March, who has been criticised for pandering to dictators like Putin, and politicking the largely ceremonial role. |
21 | In the Estonian parliamentary election, the Reform Party, led by Kaja Kallas, has won the most seats in the Riigikogu. |
21 |  Democrats flip Virginia's state House while retaining the Senate, thwarting Republicans' attempts to gain a trifecta. |
21 | In a great sign for Ron DeSantis's campaign, his top strategists are literally on the verge of fist fights with each other. |
21 | Bernie Sanders has just won Indiana. He reiterated his earlier promise to fight till the very last state has voted, and polls show most Democrats want him to remain in the race. |
21 | A few weeks ago, The Bern Report and other Sanders supporters started circulating a "Stanford study" claiming electoral fraud in the Democratic primary. Turns out, A) it wasn't a study, but a non-peer-reviewed paper, B) it was done by two graduate students in psychology, not political science, statistics, or other relevant fields, and C) the paper's methodology is flawed, and the effects disappear with better controls(Alternative analysis ending with same point). |
21 | Mounting evidence that Russia was behind the DNC hack, and they're doing it specifically to help Trump. I'm sure his anti-NATO stance is a complete coincidence. |
21 | Feelings trump facts at the Republican ultraNationalist Convention. Surprise! |
21 | A federal appeals court has struck down North Carolina's voter ID law. |
21 | Members of Trump's Hispanic advisory board are starting to bail on his campaign after his latest hard-line speech. |
21 | GOP has no easy path at this point to dump Trump from the ticket. |
21 | A list of things Donald Trump completely changed his mind about after the election. |
20 | Tory PM candidates are now resorting to tax reform to maintain support of the voters. Raab now wants a 25% tax cut to low-income earners, while Johnson wants a 50% tax-cut for those earning £50-79,000. The latter is projected to blow a £9.6 billion hole in the budget. |
20 |  A campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the first that Donald Trump has held since the coronavirus lockdown began, fails to draw the expected crowds. |
20 | Trump supporter Mary Ann Mendoza, member of Trump's campaign advisory board and a so-called "Angel Mom," had her scheduled speech at the Republican National Convention cancelled after she urged people on Twitter to read an antisemetic, QAnon-linked conspiracy theory about how the Jews are plotting to control the world. Despite urging her followers to read the thread, she later said the hadn't read all the posts in it, which included claims that Hillary Clinton is a "Satanic High Priestess" and that Barack Obama's house smells like sulfur, because, as Alex Jones claims, he's connected to the devil and hell. Mendoza has also used Twitter to post other nonsense involving claims that George Soros, the Rothschilds and the United Nations are conspiring to implement a one world government in the United States. |
20 |  A convoy of about 100 Trump technicals trucks laid in wait on Interstate 35 for a Biden campaign bus, surrounded it, and attempted to force it to a stop. Think that's bad? It gets worse. Trump tweeted "I LOVE TEXAS!" with a video of the convoy as they surrounded the bus. |
20 | GOP Representative Gohmert says violence is only recourse after the courts threw out the bullshit lawsuits |
20 |  More lawsuits! Former renowned Birther Orly Taitz has filed a new lawsuit in California attempting to argue that Trump's impeachment is unconstitutional. It's... not great. |
20 |  Arizona GOP lawmaker introduces bill to give legislature power to toss out election results |
20 |   Local elections will go ahead in England and Wales in May in spite of the pandemic. There will be hand sanitizer in polling booths and voters will have to bring their own pens or pencils. |
20 | The election of the Wiltshire police and crime commissioner has been thrown into disarray, and a possible costly re-run, after it transpired that the winner, Tory candidate Jonathon Seed, had failed to disclose a drink-driving conviction in 1993, which disqualifies him from the post. |
20 | Samoa gets its first ever woman prime minister. |
20 | Dictator Bashar al-Assad wins the thoroughly democratic presidential election for a fourth term, winning 95.1% of the vote |
20 | The Labour Party narrowly holds the Batley and Spen seat in the parliamentary by-election, an election they were expected to lose. |
20 |  Right-leaning independent Evan McMullin launches Senate campaign against ultra-conservative Mike Lee, which could actually make the race competitive |
20 |  "America First" Republican Mo Brooks, floundering in the polls for his bid to the United States Senate in 2022, has lost his endorsement from Trump. The two immediately began to sling hilarious jargon at each other. |
20 | Bill Clinton accuses a BLM protester of defending gang leaders and drug dealers during a verbal scuffle. |
20 |  Miami mayor Francis X. Suarez becomes the first U.S. presidential candidate to drop out of the race. |
20 |  Federal judges redrew Alabama's Congressional map to undo its racial gerrymander, turning AL-02 and AL-07 into Black-majority districts that will likely vote Democratic next year. |
20 |  Kanye West has dropped out of the 2024 Presidential race. |
20 | 
Danica Roem has been elected as Virginia’s first openly transgender senator. |
20 | Bernie Sanders makes US history by becoming the first non-Christian to ever win a US primary... oh and Trump won too. |
20 | As battles against racist voting rules and voter suppression continue in some states, in Pennsylvania Donald Trump urges his (predominantly white) supporters to go in groups to "certain areas" on Election Day and "watch" the voters there because "we can't lose an election because of you know what I'm talking about". |
20 | More Republicans to Trump: Drop out now. This list is rapidly growing. |
20 | The fury and failure of Donald Trump. |
20 | Mike Pence refuses to pardon a Black man who was proven innocent, but was released with a felony regardless, because he doesn't want to make the prosecuting attorney look bad; this same attorney is the Republican's nominee for Attorney General in Indiana. (Autoplay video) |
20 | White nationalists, Neo-Nazis and the KKK have election day plans including poll-watching, intimidation and bribing black voters with booze and dope. Meanwhile, Ohio has issued a restraining order against a Trump campaign advisor's poll-watching activities. |
20 | The FBI said on Sunday it stood by its earlier finding that no criminal charges were warranted against Democrat Hillary Clinton for using a private email server for government work, lifting a cloud over her presidential campaign two days before the U.S. election. |
20 | Of the Republicans, the pro-Putin & Russian Dana Rohrabacher has lost his Californian seat in Congress. However, it was tight as he has lost by fewer than 2000 votes, 89,068 to 91,750. |
20 | The first day of hearings into the alleged election fraud in North Carolina's 9th Congressional district (Which is still unfilled due to this mess) lays out a well-orchestrated plan to deceive election personnel with attention to even small details like mailing ballots in small batches from the local post office and the matching pen ink used on forms to avoid arousing the attention of state election officials. |