Washington voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to repeal the state's brand new 9.9% tax on income over $1 million, before it ever collects a single dollar.
Full breakdown on The Democracy Advocate: https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/state-news/washington/washington-income-tax-repeal/
🗳️ #WashingtonState #Initiative645 #TaxPolicy #Elections2026 #BallotMeasures
#elections2026
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The FBI #AntiCorruption Squad Was Circling #SusanCollins — Until #Trump Got in the Way
by William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden and Kirsten Berg
September 22, 2026, 5:00 am
"Reporting Highlights
- Probe: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show.
- Confession: The donor, an ex-defense contractor, told agents his company won millions in federal contracts by bankrolling campaigns of powerful politicians.
- Shutdown: After Donald Trump returned to office, the investigation died, a casualty of his purge of the FBI. Its closure shut a potential window into how Washington works."
https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation
#USPol MainePol #Elections2026 #UselessSusanCollins #USElections #VoteHerOut #PowerCorruptionAndLies #MillitaryIndustrialComplex
Whoa: Supreme Court tells regime it can just fuck off with its attempt to control mail-in voting in November
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/whoa-supreme-court-tells-regime-it-can-just-fuck-its-attempt-control
#lawsuits #elections2026
Postal Service to Boston federal judge: Drop dead
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/postal-service-boston-federal-judge-drop-dead
#MailInVoting #elections2026 #lawsuits
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"Flanagan, a citizen of the White Earth Nation, is seeking to become the first #NativeAmerican woman elected to the U.S. #Senate. During her tenure as Minnesota’s lieutenant governor, she has highlighted her work on legislation that established paid family and medical leave, expanded #FreeSchoolMeals for students, and increased the state’s minimum wage."
#PeggyFlanagan #Minnesota #USPol #USSenate #Elections2026 #USElections #PaidFamilyLeave #PaidMedicalLeave
How to plan for an election that leaders are trying to subvert https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/12/trump-election-subversion?CMP=share_btn_url
#uspol #elections #elections2026 #democracy #resist
Shame on you, England.
#Elections2026
There's no ddraig goch on the bloody butcher's apron.
#Cymru #Elections2026 #Seneddhttps://nation.cymru/news/plaid-leader-refuses-to-say-if-union-jack-would-fly-under-his-leadership/
Grauniad editorial.
"The first-past-the-post model used to elect local authorities in England is ill-suited to multiparty politics. It was already flawed in the era when political competition was defined by the rivalry between Labour and the Conservatives. Smaller parties were locked out. Too many voters felt their ballots counted for nothing in safe seats.
But there is an additional perversity when four or five parties have poll ratings somewhere between the high teens and high twenties. The threshold for victory drops. The winning candidate might have been opposed by a clear majority. The average winner’s vote share in last year’s local elections was 40.7% – the lowest on record. About 75 candidates were elected on vote shares lower than 30%."
#Elections2026 #UK_Politicshttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/06/the-guardian-view-on-britains-multiparty-politics-the-westminster-voting-system-needs-to-catch-up
Boosted by @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116520032707782074
i co-wrote, with other feminist bloggers, a letter to the US Congress asking them to reject Samuel Alito for #SCOTUS.
the lawyers in the group had a long list of cases but there was one case that stood out. we all agreed it was THE red flag about his extremism:
HIS CRUELTY TOWARDS A BLACK TEENAGE GIRL in a decision that allowed prosecutors to treat her as an adult instead of a child.
that case felt like a foreshadow of this #MAGA coup & #civilWar#USpol #racism #fascism #elections2026
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But Sam Alito just cannot handle a dissent from Brown that explains that he and the other Roberts Court judges who went along with him are nakedly using their privilege and authority to advantage the Republican Fascist Party and its white supremacist agenda. 7/
Open quoted post"It was quite an eye-opener peering into the misinformation that surrounds these bubbles, with Reformers fuming over a Sikh kebab owner arrested for refusing to sell Halal meat (he wasn’t), championing the Japanese government for banning Islam (they didn’t), and seething over bizarre AI-generated images of a taxpayer-funded water park in Croydon (there isn’t one)."
#ReformUK #UK_politics #Elections2026https://bylinetimes.com/2026/05/01/i-set-up-a-fake-far-right-news-channel-to-interview-reform-uk-candidates-and-this-is-what-they-told-me/
#AI providing 'inaccurate' information?
Surely not!
It's supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread.
#Elections2026 #Senedd #Cymruhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jvyyldypyo
JCB backs the Farage 🐸 Fascist Fan Club.
#Elections2026https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/reform-uk-funding-promoting-jcb-machine-farage-jenrick-anderson
Will 2026 finally be the year of third parties in the United States, the year when voters are fed up with our political duopoly?
https://www.cfr.org/articles/the-u-s-economy-was-shaky-before-the-iran-war-now-its-in-real-trouble
#elections #democracy #duopoly #elections2026 #DemocraticParty #GOP #midtermElections #politicalParties #USElections #USPolitics
How to tell everyone you're stupid.
"A Reform UK Senedd election candidate has been mocked after blasting Wales’ 20mph “blanket” speed limit while filming a campaign video on a road with a 50mph limit.
Catherine Cullen – Reform’s second place candidate in Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni – disabled commenting on the video she posted to Facebook on Sunday (April 26) after facing ridicule from social media users."
#Senedd #Elections2026 #ReformUKhttps://nation.cymru/news/reform-senedd-candidate-mocked-for-blasting-20mph-speed-limit-while-standing-on-a-50mph-road/
Not a good night for (at least) one candidate at #Senedd hustings in #Talgarth, #Powys.
"Audience members laughed when the Senedd hopeful said she wanted Wales’ parliament abolished, and later booed as she made a series of contentious claims, including suggesting that women in Wales were resorting to backstreet abortions and that three-year-olds were being taught to masturbate in schools."
#Elections2026https://nation.cymru/news/reform-uk-senedd-candidate-booed-and-branded-fascist-in-fiery-hustings-clash/
No doubt #ReformUK's 'patriotic' history lessons will teach that the British Empire was a glorious force for good in the world rather than the centuries-long series of crimes against humanity it actually was.
#UK_Politics #Elections2026https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/reform-uk-union-flag-school-policies-b2963196.html
Another misogynist standing for the Farage 🐸 Fan Club in Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr.
#Senedd #Elections2026 #Cymruhttps://nation.cymru/news/reform-candidate-claims-nursery-abuse-would-skyrocket-if-more-women-return-to-work/
History does not happen in nice, neat chronological sequences.
It's also subject to two other major factors: 1) new evidence of what happened being discovered; and 2) interpretation.
Politics doesn't come with much more ignorance than it does from the #Farage 🐸 #Fascist Fan Club.
#Senedd #Elections2026 #UK_Politicshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqww40gv19o
Boosted by @PhilipCJames@mas.to
Yes, Mr Booth.
Try telling the close family of my late cousin Ozzy that he died due to a conspiracy theory, you odious man.
You are unfit to clean a public toilet, let alone stand for public office.
#ReformUK #Croydon #Covid19 #elections2026https://bylinetimes.com/2026/04/15/reform-uk-candidate-claimed-covid-was-pentagon-led-plot-in-conspiracy-theory-journal/
