News Release Category: US Elections
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Can We Make the Electoral College Representative? Two Proposals
“Because of these state winner-take-all laws, presidential candidates only pay attention to the concerns of voters in closely divided battleground states.”
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Public Citizen Demands to Biden
The group highlights a series of actions Biden could take, for example swiftly rescinding old executive orders and issuing new ones.
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Biden Foreign Policy: Corporate, Pro-War, Secretive
“As an effort to undermine anti-war Democrats and promote Bush’s plans to invade Iraq, Flournoy claimed that the U.S. needed to ‘strike preemptively before a crisis erupts to destroy an adversary’s weapons stockpile’ before it “could erect defenses to protect those weapons, or simply disperse them.”
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Blinken: AIPAC is Pleased
According to Tony Blinken, Joe Biden’s senior advisor, ‘He [Biden] would not tie military assistance to Israel to any political decisions that it makes.’
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Biden Can Have a Progressive Cabinet
“By a staggering 2 to 1 margin, voters of all stripes — including Republicans — say that Biden should not hire big business executives to run his government.”
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Biden Transition: War Profiteers, Beltway Chickenhawks and Corporate Consultants
“An eye-popping array of corporate consultants, war profiteers, and national security hawks have been appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to agency review teams that will set the agenda for his administration.”
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“When Centrists Lose, Corporate Media Blame the Left”
It analyzes several major media articles and notes: “Though all of these pieces offered plenty of suggestions that the left wing’s vocal support for things like socialism, Medicare for All, the Green New Deal and defunding the police cost the party seats in 2020, they failed to provide any actual data that might have helped…
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Lessons from Electoral History: Corrupt Deals and Supreme Court Subversion
“As the 2020 post-election crisis unfolds, we must learn from history — specifically the presidential election chaos in 1876 and 2000.”
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Is Mitch McConnell President?
“The transition team is leaking that they’re resigned to putting forward corporate lobbyists and bland centrists, in the desperate hope that this will appease McConnell into doing his damn job.”
