By MoveOn. Thursday, July 23 2026 Democracy | Organizing MoveOn members voted for Artists Against ICE earlier this year with the goal of amplifying powerful artwork as a…
Read more Who is Nicole Schulman, Winner of Artists Against ICE?A racist takeover in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, has reverberated across generations as a reminder of American democracy’s terrifying vulnerability. Lauren Collins Source link
Read more The Intimate Legacies of a White-Supremacist CoupWASHINGTON (AP) — Across the United States, many Americans are celebrating their country’s 250th birthday by closing their ears to all the partisan shouting. All the fingernails-on-chalkboard screeching…
Read more ‘Awesome.’ ‘Sad.’ ‘Let’s Keep Democracy Going.’ Americans Weigh in on State of a 250-Year-Old NationNATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Over and over, the Republicans and former Republicans who gathered just outside Washington this weekend warned that President Donald Trump and his allies…
Read more Never Trump Republicans Are Still Issuing Dire Warnings. Is Anyone Listening?SALISBURY — The Salisbury Democratic Town Committee will hold a caucus Feb. 28 at the Hilton Senior Center, 43 Lafayette Road, to elect delegates to attend as voting…
Read more Salisbury Democrats to hold caucusObama had started out, like so many, thinking that Trump was little more than a comical, if malevolent, real-estate hawker. Trump’s early and bellowing deployment of the racist…
Read more Presidents’ Days: From Obama to TrumpBOSTON — Doctored photos and video footage coupled with ads twisting candidates’ words have been used for decades in political campaigns, but the rise of artificial intelligence has…
Read more Beacon Hill targets AI in political advertisingWelcome to Black History Month, 2026 style. President Trump posted a video Thursday to his social media site that contains animated images depicting former President Obama and First…
Read more Commentary: Yes, Trump’s video showing the Obamas as apes is racist. But it’s also about the electionCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Andrés Velásquez didn’t stick around to become one more government critic jailed after Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election. A former governor who had crisscrossed Venezuela…
Read more A Glimmer of Hope for Democracy in Venezuela as Opponents Test the Limits of Free SpeechBOSTON — A Virginia-based group is leading an initiative to repeal Massachusetts’ 2016 recreational cannabis law and putting hundreds of thousands of dollars behind the effort, according to…
Read more Out-of-state group funds pot law repealWASHINGTON — A handful of Republicans expressed growing concern Sunday about the tactics that federal immigration officials are using in Minnesota after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally…
Read more Some Republicans express concern over the tactics used in Minnesota and urge shooting investigationThis week, guest host Zach Weissmueller is joined by Freddy Guevara, a Venezuelan opposition leader who was imprisoned by the regime of Nicolás Maduro and now lives in…
Read more Why Venezuelans support Trump’s capture of MaduroBOSTON — Backers of recreational cannabis have formed a committee to oppose a referendum inching toward the November ballot that would repeal the state’s 2016 pot law. The…
Read more New group to oppose repeal of recreational pot lawHONG KONG — From 18th place to 140th. That’s how much Hong Kong’s ranking plunged in a global press freedom index over some 20 years. Behind the decline…
Read more Red lines and increasing self-censorship reshape Hong Kong’s once freewheeling press sceneAs we begin a new year, we wanted to take a moment to look back on what we’ve accomplished together in 2025, and to look forward to all…
Read more What We Built Together and What Comes NextMETHUEN — A bid by Mayor D.J Beauregard aimed at increasing government efficiency through cutting down on City Council oversight failed resoundingly. The council voted 7-2 on Monday…
Read more Methuen council shoots down increase in mayoral powers on contractsWASHINGTON — Five years ago outside the White House, outgoing President Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters to head to the Capitol — “and I’ll be there…
Read more 5th anniversary of Jan. 6 attack brings fresh division to CapitolAsk any history teacher in Michigan how their lessons could be better and they will tell you that they need to incorporate more current events into the curriculum,…
Read more Michigan Teachers Weaving Lessons on Jan. 6 Uprising Into History ClassesWASHINGTON — Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy that day is nowhere…
Read more Jan. 6 plaque made to honor law enforcement. It’s nowhere to be found at the CapitolCONAKRY, Guinea — The Supreme Court in Guinea on Sunday upheld the election victory of Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya, cementing the junta leader’s transition to a democratically elected president…
Read more Guinea’s junta leader is confirmed president-elect after first vote since a 2021 coup
