Ahead of the midterms, conservative election activists discussed plans to wield a powerful new weapon in the war against fraud: a data tool built by one of their own that could identify suspicious voters and help with contesting their ballots. The system was put to the test this week in Forsyth County, Georgia, where a member of the county’s election board provided other officials with what…
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In 1963, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire helped launch a revolutionary literacy campaign in the impoverished northeastern Brazilian town of Angicos, where hundreds of rural workers learned to read and write in just 40 hours of instruction. Freire’s approach was about much more than literacy. Rather than emphasizing memorization and repetition, he developed “Culture Circles” where participants…
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It took Natt Offiah an hour to realize he had arrived at the wrong location to monitor the provisional and absentee ballots in the Mississippi U.S. Senate race. He drove to Madison County Circuit Clerk’s Office on Wednesday, but the building was under construction. After a phone call, Offiah, director of organizing for the People’s Advocacy Institute, and his colleague finally reached the…
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This article was originally published by Truthout on Nov. 04, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
Several statewide and state legislative contests in this week’s midterm elections have resulted in new Democratic Party “trifecta” governments — places where the party is now in control of both houses of the state legislature as well as the governor’s office.
With these new wins, Democrats have the opportunity to do something once considered nearly impossible: implement a popular vote model for electing future presidents of the United States, to replace the archaic and unpopular Electoral College.
Due to the mechanics of the Electoral College, five presidential “winners” in U.S. history have taken office who did not win the approval of most voters, including twice over the past three decades. While a constitutional amendment would be needed to formally abolish the Electoral College — which is unlikely to happen anytime soon, even after this week’s “blue wave” — there is a workaround called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which doesn’t require such an amendment.
Per Article II of the U.S. Constitution, each state is mandated to appoint, “in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.” These electors end up voting for president and vice president.
All states today direct their electors to vote based on their own results in presidential races. If a Democratic candidate wins in California, for example, all 54 of its electors are people chosen to support that candidate in the Electoral College.
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Today is Election Day, and voting rights advocates are encouraging voters to assert their rights and go to the polls with confidence if they have not already cast a ballot. Meanwhile, Republicans continue to play defense after a surge in early voting, particularly among Black and Latino voters who were the targets of gerrymandering and voter suppression efforts. In addition to promoting…
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On the weekends, Terri Craddock-Moore religiously reads her local newspaper, trying to keep up with what’s happening in her district. She has spent the past few months watching the back-and-forth over Missouri’s new Republican-drawn congressional map and the fallout in U.S. Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver II’s 5th District. While she felt clear about her choices after studying voting guides…
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