WATCH: Lawrence O’Donnell Makes the Progressive Case for Ditching Stein, Voting for Harris

WATCH HERE WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, MoveOn Political Action highlights a segment from MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who made the case to third-party-curious voters for ditching Green Party fraud Jill Stein and voting for Vice President Kamala Harris. O’Donnell laid it out plainly: Jill Stein will not win, and a vote for Jill Stein will see Donald Trump take office and realize progressives’ worst fears. Key highlights below: “Donald Trump became president of the U.S. thanks to the Electoral College … thanks to Jill Stein. The votes that Stein took from…

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How bad would schedule F be, anyway?

People concerned with the federal workforce and government operations generally are wondering. If he returns to office, would former President Donald Trump bring back Schedule F. That was his plan to turn a chunk of the senior career civil service employees to essentially political appointees.  The Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with one long-time observer who’s worried, Washington attorney George Chuzi. Interview transcript: George Chuzi My concern that the Trump administration will reinitiate Schedule F is actually stated in black and white in Project 2025. Project 2025 identifies three,…

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Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini

To support The Atlantic’s journalism, please consider subscribing today. Rhetoric has a history. The words democracy and tyranny were debated in ancient Greece; the phrase separation of powers became important in the 17th and 18th centuries. The word vermin, as a political term, dates from the 1930s and ’40s, when both fascists and communists liked to describe their political enemies as vermin, parasites, and blood infections, as well as insects, weeds, dirt, and animals. The term has been revived and reanimated, in an American presidential campaign, with Donald Trump’s description…

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November Could Determine Future of Ranked Choice Voting in US Elections

Arizona and Nevada not only are major battlegrounds in the presidential race, but voters there also will decide Nov. 5 whether the two states will adopt some incarnation of the process known as ranked choice voting. Six western states and the District of Columbia will vote on some form of ranked choice voting or “jungle primary” that includes ranking the final candidates, according to Ranked Vote and Unite America, which advocate the alternate election process.  Another state will consider ditching the ranked choice system. In most states, supporters and opponents…

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ROUNDUP: Jill Stein, David Duke, and the Plot to Spoil the 2024 Presidential Election

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Vice President Kamala Harris continues her swing state stumping, Jill Stein is stooping to new lows and garnering support from autocrats like Vladimir Putin and avowed racists like Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. By working hand in hand with Republicans, Stein is making it abundantly clear she is nothing more than an empty ideological shell bent on ruining Democratic chances of keeping the White House.  For months, MoveOn has sounded the alarm about third-party spoilers such as Jill Stein, Cornel West, and Robert F. Kennedy, after…

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