Tag Archives: voting rights

Demand the Voter Bill of Rights over voter suppression

By Mark | December 6, 2016

According to State Rep Jeff Irwin, whom I just traded emails with, it looks as though the controversial Voter ID law being pushed through the Michigan House this lame duck session by Republican lawmakers, will be coming up for a vote tomorrow – Wednesday, December 7 – Pearl Harbor Day. Given that the House is […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics | Also tagged Constitution, early voting, election fraud, HB 6066, HB 6067, HB 6068, integrity, lame duck, poll tax, Voter Bill of Rights, voter ID, voter impersona, voter suppression, Voting Rights Act | 33 Comments

Trump calls into question the legitimacy of the election, claiming that millions of illegal votes were cast

By Mark | November 28, 2016

Yesterday, Donald Trump, our President-elect, took to Twitter and said the following. “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide,” he said, “I won the popular vote, if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” This, as everyone knows, is absolute bullshit. Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote has now surpassed […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged conflict of interest, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorist, Donald Trump, election fraud, election rigging, election tampering, impeachment, Jeff Sessions, North Carolina, racial profiling, racism, threats to Democracy, voter fraud, voter suppression, voting, Voting Rights Act | 76 Comments

So, what happens on November 9?

By Mark | October 17, 2016

During this past weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, I talked at some length with Scott Hagerstrom, the Michigan director of the Trump Pence 2016 campaign, about both the possibility of polling place discord on November 8th, as a result of Trump supporters attempting to suppress the vote in “certain areas”, and the likelihood […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Pop Culture, Rants, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, ACORN, assassination, birther, Boston Globe, Breitbart News, Cincinnati, conspiracy theories, Dan Bowman, Donald Trump, election fraud, endorsements, facts, future of journalism, global climate change, Global Warming, GOP, hacking, Hillary Clinton, hot mic, illegal immigration, independent press, investigative press, Jared Kushner, Married with Children, Matt Bevin, Media, media literacy, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, President Camacho, Presidential politics, pussy, pussy grabbing, racism, reality television, rebellion, reform, Republican Party, revolution, rigged elections, RNC, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Scott Hagerstrom, sexual assault, Steve Bannon, Steve Schmidt, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the collapse of the Republican party, the hijacking of the Republican party, The November 9 War, the sad state of journalism, the short attention spans of Americans, threats to journalists, unshackled, Values Voter Summit, Vladimir Putin, vote tampering, voter suppression, voting | 47 Comments

And this is what happens when you gut the Voting Rights Act

By Mark | October 1, 2015

In late June of 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, stating that the provision, which, for almost 50 years, had required that certain areas of the country with dismal civil rights records obtain approval from the Justice Department or a special […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alabama, Antonin Scalia, DMV, John Lewis, racial entitlement, racism, Supreme Court, voting, Voting Rights Act | 10 Comments

Reverend Dr. William Barber II on reclaiming the moral high ground and building a majority coalition around issues of social justice

By Mark | September 2, 2014

Reverend Dr. William Barber II, the North Carolina minister who founded the Forward Together moral movement, is in the press today. It would seem that a young man in his group was arrested yesterday in Charlotte, at one of Barber’s Moral Monday events, for putting voter registration information on the windshields of parked cars. As […]