Bernie Sanders: Purchase of Election by Chevron Shows We Have ‘Oligarchy.’
By Jon Queally, Common Dreams
According to estimates, fossil fuel company is on track to spend $3 million in attempt to gain control of city council in Richmond, California… Read more »
More than 14 million Texans have registered to vote in the November elections, the secretary of state’s office announced Thursday, calling the number a record high.
The total marks an increase of 2.8 percent since the most recent presidential contest … Read more »
By Anastasia Pantsios, EcoWatch
The evidence linking fracking to earthquakes continues to pile up.
A study by seven researchers from California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio and the UK, The Environmental Costs and Benefits of Fracking, said “Unconventional … Read more »
By Ramsey Cox, The Hill
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are trying to buy the Senate.
“The Koch brothers are trying to buy the Senate,” Sanders said Wednesday. “This is not what democracy is … Read more »
By Jim Vertuno, Associated Press
A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily reinstated Texas’ tough voter ID law, which the U.S. Justice Department had condemned as the state’s latest means of suppressing minority voter turnout.
The ruling by a three-judge … Read more »
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/26342-focus-a-republican-senate-would-wage-war-on-working-families… Read more »
By Paul Owen and Matthew Weaver, Guardian UK
Pakistani teenager and Indian children’s rights activist beat Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, the Pope and Vladimir Putin to the prestigious prize
alala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaigner shot on school bus … Read more »
By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday evening stopped officials in Wisconsin from requiring voters there to provide photo identification before casting their ballots in the coming election.
Three of the court’s more conservative members dissented, saying … Read more »
By Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
It’s become a cliche to point out that Democratic hopes of keeping the Senate turn on whether they can mobilize the low and moderate-propensity voters that tend to sit out midterm elections — single … Read more »
Court Decisions on Voting Rules Sow Confusion in State Races.
By TRIP GABRIEL
NILES, Ohio — Just weeks before elections that will decide control of the Senate and crucial governors’ races, a cascade of court rulings about voting rules, issued … Read more »
