While we are still waiting for some election outcome, the results of the midterm show that the anti-democratic movement of the far right has been rejected by the majority of voters. Sean Blackmon, co-host of the daily radio show By Any Means Necessary, joins to talk about how he analyzes the results of last week’s elections and referendums. Sean shares his thoughts on how the GA Senate race got so close, the failures of the Democratic Party to excite voters, and impending threats to democracy.
The head of
Rassemblement National (RN)—formerly known as Front National—Marine Le Pen (MLP) announced during her New
Year's greetings to the press on January 16, 2020, that she would be a candidate
in the 2022 presidential election. "One can’t improvise oneself as
president, one prepares for it" explained Marine Le Pen, in her
incessant...
The stakes are both high, and the danger of violence or voter fraud stark, as Bolivians go to the polls this Sunday, October 18, to elect their next president.
Bolivia has experienced pronounced social unrest and economic retrogression since the November 2019 coup d’état which brought down Socialist President Evo...
In CovertAction Magazine’s prior Paris Dispatch titled "Linking the Right and Far Right: Marion Maréchal's Plan for France" (dated April 12, 2020), we explained that the “union of the rights” project was a political venture aimed at blurring the barriers between the right and far right. This creates, instead,...
On May 7, The New York Times ran an article comparing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to independent candidates in past elections like Ross Perot in 1992, Gary Johnson in 2016, and John Anderson in 1980, who functioned as spoilers or gave people the option of a protest vote.
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With the highest voter turnout in two decades (50.5%), the recently held European parliamentary elections were clearly viewed with special importance by Europe’s citizens. The outcome was marked by considerable losses of the center factions in the European...
Sadly, Democrats Are Vowing to Be as Tough as Republicans and Support Draconian Surveillance Apparatus
During the GOP convention in Milwaukee in July, speaker after speaker made it seem like the U.S.-Mexico border was as porous as a leaking sieve and that the Biden administration had allowed the U.S. to...
The first and maybe only debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris happened just after we recorded our last show on Tuesday, September 10th. Over nearly two hours, the candidates attempted to talk over and through each other, regurgitating some of the same old talking points of each of their campaigns...
New HBO Series Looks Back at Stop the Steal Campaign by Trump and His Acolytes
As Americans prepare to go to the polls, a new HBO documentary is a cautionary tale warning against Donald Trump’s treachery and dishonesty in his efforts to hold and seize power.
In the 1919 book Ten...
For the so-called “greatest democracy on Earth,” elections in the United States are a mess of regulations and laws that differ by state...