In Iowa, the steady stream of potential 2012 presidential candidates has already become almost commonplace. They arrive for book signings, speak at public events or provide monetary support for local candidates of the same ilk.
Want a rundown on all the incidents of voter fraud and voter intimidation that have been reported thus far today? The New Republic’s Eliza Gray has set up shop at the command center of Election Protection, a nonpartisan coalition of legal groups that monitors voter complaints as they come More…
Special interest groups of all stripes are taking advantage of the loosened limits on outside spending in this election cycle, but one group in particular still isn’t satisfied with the campaign finance landscape in the states, and it’s continuing to step up its challenges against them.
The National Organization for More…
Last Wednesday, a group of progressive volunteers gathered in Monument Square in Portland, Maine, to quiz passersby about citizenship. Could they answer sample civics questions from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services test to become an American citizen? (Most couldn’t.) Did they know how much it costs to become a More…
As midterm elections loom and anti-immigration rhetoric swells, The New York Times reports on the unfortunate trend of immigrants who register to vote and then face deportation charges for it. It’s against the law for non-citizens to claim citizenship — even if they have a green More…
After some initial reluctance, U.S. Chamber of Commerce executive vice president for government affairs Bruce Josten agreed to sit down with ABC’s Jake Tapper yesterday and talk about the accusations that Democrats have leveled against the group regarding its receipt of foreign funds and its unwillingness to disclose its More…
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been doing a lot of political work on behalf of GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina in California. They helped sponsor a bus tour through the state to draw Latino voters to conservative causes in general, and Fiorina’s race against Sen. Barbara More…
The National Organization for Marriage is at it again, this time suing Rhode Island’s Board of Elections for the right to run TV ads in the state’s gubernatorial race without complying with the disclosure requirements or spending limits that are currently state law:
The vote’s not over yet, but it might as well be.
This morning’s Senate session was devoted to a debate surrounding the DISCLOSE Act, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated will likely be put to a vote sometime tomorrow.
Reid and Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the Democratic Whip, spent the majority of their time ripping the Supreme More…
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