Since at least October 1805, Americans have heard the phrase, “This election is the most important of our lifetimes.”1 This year, it is more true than ever. There are many electoral [...] Continue Reading
Elections
Trump: Immigrants Are Eating Pets and Stealing Jobs
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump went full throttle on immigrants during the Sept. 10 Presidential debate, vowing to deport at least 15 million migrants immediately after taking [...] Continue Reading
Falling Out with Historical Allies
Recent events on the Fresno electoral scene clearly demonstrate that the goals of elected officials are not always 100% in alignment with the goals of their supporters or groups that have supported [...] Continue Reading
Miguel Arias for City Manager?
BY KEVIN HALLWhile all eyes are turned to the presidential election, local politicians are focused on their immediate prospects. With three Fresno City Council members due to term out in 2026 and only [...] Continue Reading
Trump’s Platform of Fear a Contagion of Violence
Fear is one’s anticipation of danger to oneself or the group you identify such as racial, economic, ethnic or religious. Political fear is among the oldest and has extended since the dawn of [...] Continue Reading
Trump Trumps Himself
When Donald Trump’s Supreme Court erased decades of precedent by overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, evangelicals and conservative Catholics (the “Religious Right”) cheered. However, their long fight [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Progressive PAC
Sponsored Page October 2024 This is a .pdf of the October 2024 Central Valley Progressive PAC. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply [...] Continue Reading
México: Profunda Reforma Judicial
En México todos los jueces serán electos de manera directa a través de votación popular. Será el primer país del mundo en que se decide elegir a todos los jueces de esta manera, aunque hay otros [...] Continue Reading
Registrando Votantes Latinos
El pasado 17 de septiembre se celebró el Día Nacional del Registro de Votantes. Por este motivo, Poder Latinx realizó tareas de registro de votantes y junto a miembros de la Federación Americana de [...] Continue Reading
Your Vote
(Editor’s note: We reproduce the following article with the permission of the El Tribuno del Pueblo.) OK, we get it. Some people are saying that these presidential elections, like the previous ones [...] Continue Reading
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Statewide Ballot Measures—The First Five
Your Nov. 5 ballot will include 10 measures for Californians to decide on, ranging from bond measures to cover repairs in public school buildings to repealing the 2008 same-sex marriage ban, which, [...] Continue Reading
What Will Break the Spell?
A spell has been cast over the white evangelical world. What will it take to break the spell? Consistently, white evangelicals are a reliable voting bloc for the Republican Party. No matter how [...] Continue Reading