State Watch
Two additional Native American tribes in South Dakota have banned Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) from their reservations after she said earlier this year that tribal leaders benefited from drug cartels. Noem is now banned from traveling to about one-fifth of South Dakota after the Yankton Sioux Tribe voted Friday to ban Noem and the Sisseton-Wahpeton…
Students at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) walked out of their commencement ceremony to protest an address by Gov. Glenn Younkin (R-Va.). About 100 of the 1,200 graduates at the graduation ceremony Saturday quietly filed out of the Greater Richmond Convention Center, some wearing kaffiyeh scarves and signs reading “Teach Black history” and “Book bans…
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s (R) radio show on WABC Radio has been canceled and he was suspended by the station over claims he made about the 2020 election, according to a report from The New York Times. “We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election,” WABC Radio owner…
A ballot measure in Wisconsin that prohibits the use of private funds in administering elections was projected to pass on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ. The ballot measure received 54 percent support, according to DDHQ, with 98 percent of the vote reported as of Wednesday morning. The measure asked Wisconsinites if the state…
Nearly 50,000 Democratic primary voters in Wisconsin voted for an “uninstructed” delegation on Tuesday as a protest against President Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war. The “uninstructed” margin — 48,000 votes, or about 8 percent — was more than 10 times larger than it was in 2020 and surpassed the general election margin…
Oklahoma residents will vote Tuesday to decide whether a city commissioner with white nationalist ties should be recalled. The recall election, held in Enid, Okla., will decide whether Judd Blevins, a commissioner for Ward 1, will remain in office. The Enid Social Justice Committee has accused Blevins of being “an open Nazi” who was “photographed…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the state of Utah and its corrections department on Tuesday over alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for discriminating against an incarcerated transgender woman. The Utah Department of Corrections failed to grant the woman, who is not named in court documents, equal access to health care…
Groups working to protect abortion rights in Arizona's constitution stated on Tuesday that they have gathered enough signatures to put the amendment on the ballot in November. Arizona for Abortion Access, a coalition including the ACLU of Arizona, Reproductive Freedom for All Arizona, and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, announced they have collected…
Georgia’s top election official couldn't contain his excitement about his state’s part in the last season of Larry David’s popular HBO show. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger wrote a letter to David making fun of an important part of the plot in “Curb Your Enthusiasm”: David, who plays an exaggerated version of himself…
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