- How Extreme Gerrymandering Paved the Way for Republican Vote-Counting Chaos https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/election-vote-counting-gerrymandering-trump-supreme-court-1084654 3 comments politics
- Republicans Plotting New Ways To Make It Harder To Vote https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republicans-plotting-new-ways-to-make-it-harder-to-vote 131 comments politics
- Republicans eye another ACA repeal vote if midterms go their way https://www.axios.com/affordable-care-act-repeal-2018-midterm-elections-eeeee50f-2fbd-4d9e-ac40-a2e394b6dcd2.html 31 comments politics
- McConnell Proposes Congress Indirectly Give Obama Debt-Ceiling Power; "[This] appears to be mostly about finding a way to raise the debt ceiling while protecting his fellow congressional Republicans from having to vote to do so" http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/07/12/137798961/mcconnell-proposes-congress-indirectly-give-obama-debt-ceiling-power 9 comments politics
- Way to attract new members, Republicans! Now 86% of Latinos, a huge voting bloc, hate you. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/22/745522/-english-only-crowd-should-learn-english 74 comments politics
- Senate Republicans look for new ways to justify anti-voting efforts https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/senate-republicans-look-new-ways-justify-anti-voting-efforts-n1262033 29 comments politics
- Voting by mail is the safest, easiest way to vote. Why are so many national Republicans lying about it? https://www.businessinsider.com/voting-by-mail-safe-easy-republicans-lying-about-it-2020-8 587 comments politics
- Why Democrats Keep Caving on Immigration | For years, Democrats have embraced hardline immigration policies in a desperate attempt to win Republican votes. But the only way to deliver justice for immigrants is to defeat the Right — with a progressive, multiracial coalition. https://jacobinmag.com/2019/07/democrats-immigration-border-ice-cbp 216 comments politics
- Have North Carolina Republicans Found a Way to Reinstate Discriminatory Voting Rules? http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/north-carolina-voting/496415/ 21 comments politics
- Fmr. Florida Republican Party chairman Jim Greer's deposition: GOP leaders held meetings to discuss ways they could suppress black votes http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/jim-greer-denounces-florida-republican-party-officials-as-liars-and/1242157 3 comments politics
- Newt Gingrich has figured out a way for a Republican to beat Obama: Stop all young people from voting. http://fdl.me/jq7r1f 117 comments politics
- "The House moved to repeal health insurance reform. Every single Republican -- all 242 -- voted for repeal. This is a vote for insurance companies. There is no other way to put it." This was in my email. I donated $10 in honor of all of my fellow bartenders/servers with no healthcare https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/dnc08stoprepealnownd 8 comments politics
- We disagree on many issues, but I look forward to the day progressives battle libertarians for votes. It’s way better than watching corporate Democrats duke it out with evangelical Republicans. http://www.theseminal.com/2008/01/10/ron-pauls-choice-3rd-party-or-movement-builder/ 296 comments politics
- Huckabee: "If Republicans in this election vote in such a way as to say a candidate’s personal life and personal conduct in office doesn’t matter,” he declared, “then a lot of Christian evangelical leaders owe Bill Clinton a public apology. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/03/31/a-very-spartan-operation/ 8 comments reddit.com
- Democrats way ahead in Florida voting, but Republicans closing the gap as Biden and Trump both push supporters to the polls https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/fl-ne-mail-voting-early-voting-trends-republicans-catching-up-20201026-r7tlevw255b63ndckzf36vhbny-story.html 14 comments politics
- In the Texas Legislature’s Final Days, Republicans Find New Ways to Attack Voting Rights https://www.texasobserver.org/in-the-texas-legislatures-final-days-republicans-find-new-ways-to-attack-voting-rights/ 5 comments politics
- Republicans, preaching austerity, demanded radical changes in the FEMA funding process by demanding disaster costs be offset by immediate spending cuts. (Republicans, by the way, made no such budgetary demands when voting to spend nearly $50 billion to rebuild Iraq.) http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109270004#.tohqlb269hi.reddit 12 comments politics
- After crying foul over Republican efforts to modify election laws in key states, Democrats are launching their own wide-ranging push to change the way Americans vote, kicking off the latest battles in a fight over voting rights that’s as old as the republic itself. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/08/19/democrats-push-back-on-voting-rights/?wprss=rss_politics&clsrd 5 comments politics
- More Students Are Voting — But Republicans Are Trying to Get in Their Way | Republicans are erecting new voting barriers as young people begin to flex their electoral muscle. https://truthout.org/articles/more-students-are-voting-but-republicans-are-trying-to-get-in-their-way/ 135 comments politics
- Key Republican senators say they’re ready to take up an infrastructure deal, paving the way for a vote. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/28/us/politics-news#infrastructure-deal-biden 201 comments moderatepolitics
- Harris County tried to make voting easier during the pandemic. Texas Republicans fought every step of the way. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/15/harris-county-texas-voting/ 21 comments politics
- Republicans are suing to stop people from voting the way Trump did https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/trump-ballot-florida-lawsuit/index.html 22 comments politics
- Republican Sen. Rand Paul says he will vote for measure blocking Trump’s emergency declaration, paving way for passage https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-sen-rand-paul-says-he-will-vote-for-measure-blocking-trumps-emergency-declaration-paving-way-for-passage/2019/03/03/d5c8a2ba-3ddb-11e9-a0d3-1210e58a94cf_story.html 61 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders Schools Democrats on the Right Way to Win Republican Votes http://observer.com/2016/12/bernie-sanders-schools-democrats-on-the-right-way-to-win-republican-votes/ 4 comments politics
- A day after his Republican colleagues on the House Appropriations Committee voted along party lines to cut about one-fifth of Amtrak’s budget, House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) incorrectly claimed that Congress had already funded implementing the safety system it mandated in 2008. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/05/14/3658757/paul-ryan-not-telling-truth-train-safety-funding/ 57 comments politics
- The Senate confirmed Cornelia T. L. Pillard to the country’s most powerful appeals court in an early-morning vote on Thursday, installing her over the objections of Republicans who, despite their inability to filibuster the nomination, are loudly protesting the way Democrats have stifled opposition. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/us/politics/senate-confirms-georgetown-law-professor-to-powerful-appeals-court.html 13 comments politics
- If BP is not completely destroyed form this, if it still stands after the Gulf is dead, there is no way in hell I will vote democrat or republican ever again. This country is corrupt to the core and it will be destroyed like this until it is another 3rd world country. the rich will merely move. http://www.google.com/search?q=bp+spill&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-us:official&client=firefox-a 4 comments reddit.com
- "If the only way to get Republican votes is for moderate and liberal Democrats to enact conservative Republican ideas into law, that's not bipartisanship. That's capitulation. Can't you see that? You want transparency? Let's do this all out in the open." http://www.truthout.org/ej-dionne-jr-the-elephant-health-care-summit57044 8 comments politics
- GOP opposes right to vote - Iraq's new constitution has something America's doesn't: The right to vote. Republicans want to keep it that way http://www.salon.com/ 5 comments politics
- Republicans Are Taking Their Voter Suppression Efforts to New Extremes | From Georgia to Iowa, Republicans are concocting new ways to suppress Democratic votes. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/republicans-are-taking-their-voter-suppression-efforts-to-new-extremes/ 35 comments politics
- Alan Grayson: "Democrats should have delivered more for the people who supported us. In 2008, ... only 23 percent of Republicans voted for me. What does that tell me? I should be doing the most for the people who voted for me, not the people who voted the other way." http://www.slate.com/id/2264763 5 comments politics
- Republicans Tout a Restaurant Fund They Voted Against - “Help is not on the way,” Rep. Kevin McCarthy said in March about the final COVID bill that included the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. “Help is not on the way.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-tout-a-restaurant-fund-they-voted-against 7 comments politics
- "Among states that voted Republican in the last three elections, all but one gets more money back from the federal government than it pays in taxes. For most Democratic states, it’s the opposite. Looked at this way, the red states are the moochers and the blue states are the makers." http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/108185/blue-states-are-scandinavia-red-states-are-guatemala?page=0,1&fb_action_ids=4709937429454&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%224709937429454%22%3A394830663919027%7D&action_type_map=%7B%224709937429454%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D 580 comments politics
- Sanders Says Congress Must Combat GOP Attacks on Voting Rights in 'Any and Every Way' | "What Republican legislatures and governors are doing in the most disgraceful way imaginable is to try to deny people of color, young people, poor people the right to vote." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/06/21/sanders-says-congress-must-combat-gop-attacks-voting-rights-any-and-every-way 60 comments politics
- House to vote on yet another bill to repeal Obamacare "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is supposed to be the definition of insanity..In their fight to defeat the law, Republicans believe the only way to success is to keep making a show of their failure" http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-readies-to-vote-on-yet-another-bill-to-repeal-health-care-law/2013/05/15/78d0d2b2-bd71-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story.html?tid=socialss 328 comments politics
- Poll: Romney helps more than hurts Trump with Republicans - The Morning Consult survey found 31% of registered GOP voters are more likely to vote for Trump given Romney’s speech, while 20% are less likely. Another 43% said it didn’t have an impact either way. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/03/08/poll-mitt-romney-helps-hurts-trump/81478380/ 10 comments politics
- President Obama’s reelection was a victory for him and the Democrats but also for the principles of democracy. The Republicans sabotaged the economy, sought to suppress the vote and flooded TV screens with attack ads, but young people and minorities led the way in rejecting these tactics http://consortiumnews.com/2012/11/07/a-great-night-for-us-democracy/ 821 comments politics
- Republicans are fighting for tax cuts for the wealthy while blocking extensions on unemployment benefits - threatening to shut down Congress until they get their way. This is why I hate when people dont vote. In your attempts to teach Democrats a lesson, you’ve also let the GOP fuck up this country. http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/in-fight-over-tax-762864.html 40 comments politics
- Republicans have a new plan to cut taxes for the top 0.2 percent "... the Paul Ryan-led House Ways and Means Committee just symbolically voted to end the estate tax entirely. In other words, to stand in solidarity with the heirs of the top 0.2 percent." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/01/republicans-have-a-new-plan-to-cut-taxes-for-the-top-2-percent/?tid=rssfeed 131 comments politics
- "As I told the Republican leader last week, If you want to vote against health care and health insurance reform, that's your privilege to do so, but don't shut down the Senate. Stand up and vote. Don't threaten to stand in the way next time, just because you didn't get your way the last time." http://www.politico.com/livepulse/0310/reid_to_gop_stand_up_and_vote.html 5 comments politics