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By Invalidating 3 Million Voters, Courts Greenlight Trump and Republican Power Grabs to Try to Rig the Election

May 9, 2026 Republican, Election, Million, voters, Grabs, power, courts, Trump, greenlight, Invalidating0 comment

VIRGINIA – In response to the Supreme Court of Virginia striking down Virginians’ voting to redraw the state’s congressional map, MoveOn Political Action Chief Communications Officer Joel Payne released the following statement: “Virginians voted to level the playing field against Republican efforts to avoid accountability at the ballot box. And now a court is silencing and invalidating the votes of 3 million Virginians. Once again, the courts have blunted the will of the people, and are giving a green light to President Trump and Republicans’ unprecedented power grab in the…

‘We Need to Do McCarthyism to the Tenth Power’

March 6, 2026 need, power, Tenth, ‘We, McCarthyism0 comment

For decades, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s name has been used as shorthand for the opposite of the aspirational ideal of civilized American politics. In the way that Kleenex has become interchangeable with tissue, McCarthyism, for many, is an eponym for the unjust, reprehensible use of political power. Indicating that anything resembled the tactics and smears of the late senator from Wisconsin has been enough to suggest that such behavior was out of bounds, with no rightful place in our modern politics. But now comes a small, influential group of hard-line…

Census Battle: How This Lawsuit Could Change Political Power in Congress

January 1, 2026 power, Change, This, Lawsuit, Congress, could, Political, Census, battle0 comment

A federal lawsuit could be decided in early 2026 to require the Census Bureau to only count people rather than use statistical sampling—a move that could determine who controls Congress. The 2020 Census overcounted the population of several Democrat-leaning states and undercounted the population of several Republican-leaning states. While the agency admitted this was an error, plaintiffs in the case of University of South Florida College Republicans et al. v. Lutnick allege that its method of sampling led to the inaccuracies in the Census—and, ultimately, to the wrong apportionment of seats in Congress. Commerce…

Is There Any Way That Democrats Can Get Back Into Power?

July 21, 2025 Democrats, There, back, into, power0 comment

Yes, if Democrats can take back the House in 2026, then we can stop Trump from continuing to strip away Americans’ rights. There are things we can all be doing right now to get Trump out of office. Remember, Democrats need to flip only three seats to flip the House. Just three seats. In his first six months as president, Trump has already slashed America’s budget and signed dangerous bills into law. Trump and Republicans have taken away Americans’ health care, their SNAP benefits, and their cancer research funding. MoveOn…

Inside the White House: ‘New Media’ Journalist Olohan on Power, the Press, and What You Don’t See

June 27, 2025 Press, media, White, don't, power, 'new, Inside, journalist, Olohan, House0 comment

Working weekends, flights on Air Force One, and jockeying for position to ask presidential press secretary Karoline Leavitt a question in the White House briefing room is all a part of life as a White House correspondent, according to Mary Margaret Olohan. As a member of the “new media” in the White House, Olohan says the interactions between reporters for the legacy media and journalists like herself have “by and large been pretty polite,” but notes little differences between the two groups remain. For example, new media do not…

MoveOn Statement on President Trump’s Latest Abuse of Power

May 10, 2025 president, abuse, power, latest, Statement, trumps, MoveOn0 comment

WASHINGTON – In response to Newark Mayor Baraka’s arrest while protesting the Trump administration’s anti-constitutional efforts to abduct innocent people, MoveOn Civic Action released the following statement: “The Trump administration is abusing its power to arrest anybody who disagrees with them—everyone from mayors to judges to students. This is part of President Trump’s authoritarian playbook to scare the American people into silence and complicity. “We all have the constitutional freedom to express our political opinion and to peacefully protest. We cannot allow the Trump administration to take those rights away…