by Alexa Kasdan | Feb 26, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc As I watched the Democratic debate, like millions of other Americans, I noticed the smug look on Michael Bloomberg’s face when Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others challenged him about his treatment of women, stop-and-frisk and...
by David Goodner | Feb 25, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Sen. Bernie Sanders’ electoral victories in the first three early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada make it much more likely that the political revolution will win the Democratic nomination for president and...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 13, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
In 2016, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. Senate by a 1,017-vote margin. Even though both parties spent millions on the campaign, the key to Hassan’s victory was thousands of college and university students who registered to vote...
by Lisa Demaine | Feb 11, 2020 | Blog, Climate, Democracy, Election, Featured
This is it, folks! Tuesday’s presidential primary is our big day - when the people power our member-driven organization, Rights & Democracy (RAD), has built over the last four years will shine. We will show the nation what people power truly looks like, as we help...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 10, 2020 | Democracy, Election, Featured
The app and software that failed to report and count the Iowa Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential caucus results were not the only miscalculation by the Iowa Democratic Party and its vendor. Its “boiler room” or secret operations center was unprepared to handle the...
by Adrienne Evans | Feb 6, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
The GOP-controlled Senate, by voting to acquit Donald Trump from impeachment, has made a mockery of our system of governance. By clearing him from charges of abuse of power and obstruction, Republican Senators have willfully made themselves complicit to his imperial...
