Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) cautioned Twitter followers on Tuesday not to trust in lies that the Republicans Party will likely amplify on election night that election results aren’t valid unless they’re called the same day — a part of their strategy to attack mail-in voting and throw doubt into the election process. “Many states don’t allow mail-in ballots to be counted before Election Day,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “But many races can’t be called until mail-ins are counted, which can take over 24 [hours]. This is normal, but some GOP are laying ground to claim any race not called tonight is…
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AOC Tells Boebert to “Just Quit” After Tweet Rejecting Solutions to Gun Violence
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) castigated far right Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert (Colorado) on Wednesday after Boebert took to Twitter to preemptively reject any legislative attempts at reducing gun violence that will emerge from Congress after Tuesday’s horrific shooting in Uvalde, Texas. As Democrats in Congress began discussing legislation to address the epidemic of mass shootings in the U.S., begging their colleagues to put partisan politics aside, Boebert dismissed the issue offhand. “You cannot legislate away evil,” she wrote, implying that the root of gun violence could never be addressed despite the fact that many other countries have largely been…
SCOTUS Decision in Cruz Case Makes It Easier for Mega-Wealthy to Influence Races
The Supreme Court has sided with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) along partisan lines in a ruling on campaign fundraising that “injures the integrity” of the political process, according to one dissenting justice. The case involved Cruz’s use of post-election campaign fundraising dollars in order to pay himself back for personal loans he took out and spent during his most recent senatorial election. A federal law had previously established a cap on the amount of funds a candidate could raise following an election in order to recoup money they borrowed during the actual campaign. In a 6-3 decision issued on Monday,…
Ted Cruz Tweets About Cancún Travel Costs as Another Winter Storm Hits Texas
On Wednesday, as Texans braced themselves for another harsh winter storm, Sen. Ted Cruz (R- Texas) joked about his decision to vacation in Cancún last year during the deadly winter freeze that left millions of people in his home state without power. In February 2021, as Texas’s energy grid faltered and left millions of residents without power during a brutal winter storm, Cruz left Texas to vacation in Cancún, Mexico, a move that was widely condemned for being callous and out-of-touch. The storm resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people. Cruz later admitted that his decision to go on…