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Friday, September 11, 2009
DoJ drops perjury case against Bradley Schlozman
(3 comments) So--having done likewise for Ted Stevens, and vote-rigger James Rubin, and certain other tainted Bush Republicans--Obama's DoJ has dropped the perjury charges against Bradley Schlozman, who lied to Congress re: his efforts to politicize.... the DoJ! He did such work, specifically, in furtherance of BushCo's vast campaign to fix US elections, and thereby keep itself in power despite the will of the electorate.

Friday, August 28, 2009
Obama's DoJ still going after Siegelman
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Rove steps in it
(3 comments) First, read throughKarl Rove's stunningly cocky op-ed in the Wall Street Journal----then read this important exposé by Larisa Alexandrovna. It's important to all those of us who care about, like, justice, and the truth. That may not be enough to interest AG Holder, but it should push us to keep pushing him, and Obama, to pay attention.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Computer scientists hack e-voting machines (AGAIN)
(3 comments) How much evidence do we need that these machines are no damn good? Well, here's some more. (Please send it out, as it will not be mentioned by the press.) And, although I repeat myself (yet one more time), please let me add that e-vote-counting machines--such as the op-scans used from coast to coast, and that will soon be used in New York State--are just as easy to manipulate as e-voting gadgets.

Saturday, June 27, 2009
House members cleaned up as market crashed
(1 comments) Why do I (re)tell this story here? Because both parties are corrupt--as the article below makes clear.For it wasn't only the extremist Brown-Waite who made a bundle off of bank stocks while the market crashed.As the blog below informs us,that surreptitious rip-off was a perfectly bipartisan affair.how can we expect the Dems(or most of them)to give a s**t about the dire state of our voting system,when it served to put them

Saturday, June 20, 2009
Obama won by MILLIONS MORE than we've been told
(11 comments) The "liberal media," in short, does not much care about, or for, democracy; and neither do the Democrats (or Pres. Obama). And so it's up to all the rest of us to face the facts about what really happened in the last election (and the ones before), or we will never, ever, get the change we voted for, and must keep fighting for.

Friday, June 19, 2009
The Outrageous Case of Paul Minor
(1 comments) This righteous article neglects to mention that it wasn't just the Bureau of Prisons that showed heinous "callousness" toward Minor,when he asked to be permitted to attend his wife's funeral.It was also--indeed, primarily--Eric Holder who said no, claiming,falsely,that his hands were tied,the BoP having ruled.Holder has the power to overrule that office,but pusillanimously chose not to do it (as he would certainly have done if

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Millions Wasted on Voter Registration in '08
(1 comments) The panacea offered here,however-"an automated system,"with (presumably)all-electronic voter rolls--would certainly enable more such disenfranchisement,unless it were rigorously policed at every level(state &federal).In any case, all discussion of "waste" alone,with no attention paid to the deliberate tactics used to block the vote from coast to coast--in this last election just as in '00,'02,'04 & '06--is a waste of breath.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Pentagon denies the awful truth, gets BUSTED!
(10 comments) And so it is with Al Jazeera's video of the military's top chaplain in Afghanistan instructing US troops to "hunt people for Jesus" in that Muslim land.The Pentagon's spokesman quickly charged that that explosive moment "grossly misrepresent[ed] the truth,"as it was mostly "taken out of context."To which denial Al Jazeera, & American filmmaker Brian Hughes, who shot that film,have come out with a devastating answer,as Scahill

Thursday, April 30, 2009
Roberts Court Prepares to Gut Voting Rights Act
(1 comments) And as the party's claim of "outreach" was a ruse, so, of course, was that ostensible Republican decision to approve the Voting Rights Act--for, while they did formally approve it in the House, they did so in full confidence that Roberts and his men would fix the act eventually, and in a way that would protect the congressmen from any fall-out.

Monday, April 27, 2009
Fatwa issued by "Christian" chaplain
(6 comments) I just got word from Mikey Weinstein from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation that a "fatwah" has been issued against him - by a Christian minister.

Saturday, April 18, 2009
"The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove"
(4 comments) Although McTiernan is a master of suspense &horror(he directed Predator & Die Hard),this film is certainly the scariest he's ever made,since its story is no fiction,& concerns a massive strike vs the rule of law,& democratic government,right here in the USA.This documentary lays it out as clear as day:Rove's careful orchestration of at least 600 partisan prosecutions by the DoJ,to give the GOP a big leg up on Election Day.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Say NO to FOX News, and Glenn Beck!
(14 comments) So read that piece--and sign, and forward, this petition from Media Matters, because this sort of fascistic rabble-rousing cannot be permitted to enjoy the comfortable support of parent companies like News Corp. and their advertisers.

Monday, April 13, 2009
Coverage on New York police attack protesting New School students
An NYPD spokesman, Paul J. Browne, denied pepper-spray or mace was used in the arrests, although, when later confronted with video evidence, he admitted that this had happened. Speaking of the unprovoked assault by one cop in attacking a protester, also caught on video, Brown told the media, "He pushed him and he fell down."

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Supreme Court's plan to gut the Voting Rights Act
(2 comments) The hideous irony is that the champions of both maneuvers--stripping Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act,& passing voter ID laws--are using the election of Barack Obama to justify their actions. After all,since America has elected a black president,why do we need a Voting Rights Act,anyway?And the advocates of voter ID legislations are contending, incredibly,that such laws actually increased the turnout on Election Day.

Monday, March 23, 2009
No Surprises Yet from Wall Street's President
(4 comments) We have to speak out forcefully against the mammoth crap-shoot that Obama and his men are playing with our money, and our future. Otherwise we'll all go down, because this country's rotten politics is killing us, even with Barack Obama, not his heinous predecessor, at the helm. So let's all face the fact that things are likely not to "change" at all, unless we force him to it.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
To "save" Coleman's seat, GOP eyes Bush v. Gore
(1 comments) Bush v Gore,despite its ludicrous assertion that it has no precedental value,did set a precedent,a fatal one at that-i.e.the precedent of SCOTUS arrogating to itself the grand prerogative of overriding the the electorate at will.Thus has that indefensible decision lain dormant, yet as dangerous as ever,like an unexploded mine,because no one has yet dared to make an issue of it.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Press Corps Defends Dick Cheney from Robert Gibbs
(4 comments) They are beneath contempt. And that's exactly where they've been for quite a while. So let's be shocked, but not surprised, since this is how "the liberal media" has been performing since before the Gipper was in office.

Monday, March 16, 2009
Two cheers (or less) for a WashPost editorial
(2 comments) This week, under the leadership of Rep.Conyers,the House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on "the lessons of the 2008 election."Maybe that will help the Post,&other bastions of "the liberal media," to learn a little more about what really happened then,&what we need to do to stop it's ever happening again.if the Post et al. don't get it,we must pay attention, spread the word,&, finally,fight to make the necessary change.

Saturday, March 14, 2009
Peter B. Collins going off the air
(1 comments) We may have to get progressive talk shows put on the Endangered Species List,now that Obama has reinstated it.Otherwise there won't be any voices on the air except the voices of the right,whether "centrist"(corporate)or explicitly far-right (corporate).The economic crash is threatening to finish off those last few figures who have managed somehow to resist the oligopolistic tide that has by now all but submerged the US media.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
4-5 MILLION Voters Disenfranchised in 2008
(1 comments) What this means is that (a) this president won by a landslide, not merely a "decisive" margin, and that (b) the GOP is, more than ever, a fringe party--and (c) a party that relies on every dirty trick and tactic in the book to "win" in our elections, so as to push their program on the rest of us despite the will of the electorate.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Supreme Court takes its (first) shot at the Voting Rights Act
Bush & Co. may be gone, and few Americans may ever want them back; and the Republicans may be dispersed and howling in the wilderness; but if you think they're done, you'd better think again, because, as ever, they are hard at work subverting the electoral process in order to ensure themselves more "victories" on Election Days to come.

Friday, March 6, 2009
Demand the release of the JFK files!
(6 comments) As you may know,the CIA,FBI and other agencies continue to withhold a ton of documents relating to JFK's assassination. hey do this in clear defiance of a law requiring the release of all such papers by a date that is now years ago.Here, then, is yet one more case of overt lawlessness by employees of our own government.So PLEASE give this interview a listen,pass it on---and CONTACT CONGRESS to let those papers go!

Saturday, February 28, 2009
GOP prefers Palin in 2012 (and that's no joke)
(3 comments) The only way that this extremist party can "come back" is through vote suppression and election fraud--which were the means they used to seize power in the first place.And they are planning it right now,with voter ID laws rammed through in state after state, and SCOTUS getting set to gut the Voting Rights Act.If they don't get on top of this ASAP,Obama and his party will be very sorry in 2010,and even sorrier after that.

Friday, February 27, 2009
BushCo's complicit SEC
(1 comments) It turns out, first, that the SEC was alerted re: the thievery of Allen Standford over five years ago. And we've learned that BushCo had a "hotline" that enabled shady financiers to shut off SEC investigations.

Thursday, February 12, 2009
Sen. Feinstein Sneaks Attacks on Net Neutrality into Stimulus Bill
(13 comments) Net neutrality is now at risk, the senator having snuck this poison pill into the stimulus package. Better raise your voices, if you don't want the Internet to be controlled by Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and their giant ilk. Apparently, Henry Waxman will support Feinstein's amendment, out of deference to the MPAA and the Recording Association of America. Tell him not to do it:

Saturday, January 31, 2009
Sarah Palin hires Mike Conell's partner
(1 comments) Now, Sarah Palin may be laughable--and unelectable.As we have seen,however,those who could not ever get elected can and do end up "elected" anyway,because of busy bees like Donatelli,Connell and a lot of other partisans,working under "wizards" like Karl Rove.So now's the moment for the Democrats to look at Donatelli, and at Connell's story, and Ohio 2004, and Florida 2000, and Alabama 2002, and George 2002, and so on

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and Harper's Scott Horton on DemocracyNow! 1/28

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
A Call for Truth re: NH Phone Jamming Scheme in 2002
Now that Karl Rove's finally heading for the hot-seat, let's urge Rep. Conyers, and his colleagues, to question Mr. Wizard carefully about his many unexpected "wins" since Florida 2000. (By now they certainly have solid grounds for asking Rove about his long collaboration with the late Mike Connell.)

Sunday, January 25, 2009
Interview with Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story
(1 comments) The tangled web of intrigue behind the Michael Connell story - his possible involvement in the 2004 Ohio election, his sudden death in a plane crash, and now the strange handling of the story by James Renner of the Cleveland Scene. The Renner article link is included so you can read it for yourself.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Bush's Swan Song
(4 comments) Watch the whole performance, and you'll see that Bush's mind is totally fixated on the failure or success of his team's propaganda. Did it win the day, and dazzle the reporters, and jack up his ratings? Or did it fail because of this "mistake" or that unlucky "disappointment," making all "the critics" bark, and driving down his ratings even more? That's really all he's ever thought about

Sunday, January 11, 2009
The Supreme Court hopes to kill the Voting Rights Act
(3 comments) So if we really care about those rights of ours, we have to face the fact that this democracy is in the gravest danger still--supremely threatened not just by Bush/Cheney's party and their Court, but, no less, by the silence of the press, and of the Democrats, and of our President-elect. And so we have to break that silence now, or it will finish us at last, whichever party manages the show.

Thursday, January 8, 2009
Two cheers for the Dem efforts for election reform legislation
(2 comments) All such steps are necessary(I am one of many who have often called for them),& so we should support them--while making clear that they are not enough to make our system truly democratic.The system,as it's working now,is all wrong--by design. Since the passage of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002,our voting system has been snatched away from us, &placed behind a massive& ingenious double barrier that keeps us out of our

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Good news! House overturns BushCo's most Nixonian order
(7 comments) Brushing aside a veto threat, the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to overturn a 2001 order by President George W. Bush that lets former presidents keep their papers secret indefinitely.Today, Congress took an important step toward restoring openness and transparency in government," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman said.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Environmental Disaster in Tennessee Reported 40x Exxon Valdez Spill
(3 comments) This horrific disaster in TN can be the turning point in our nation's struggle to build a new network of clean modern renewable sources of energy,like wind and solar power-but we have to raise awareness of this disaster immediately.Stephen Smith, with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy in Knoxville,said those concerned about water and air quality have tried for years to press for tighter regulation of the ash.

Sunday, December 21, 2008
Bloody Karl
(21 comments) Whereas Clinton's enemies made much of his imaginary homicides and fascist plans,they've mostly been stone-silent on the subject of Bush/Cheney's overt strikes against US democracy(e.g.,the Patriot Act)--and on the many unexplained and/or suspicious deaths that have occurred throughout the dark years of this presidency.Instead of trying to name them all, let's concentrate for now on those with clear links to Karl Rove.

Friday, December 19, 2008
Ohio's Gov. Strickland will veto nasty GOP election "reform" bill
(1 comments) Notice,BTW,how the Plain Dealer "reports" the veto:they barely mention it,while headlining Strickland's vetos of tax breaks for filmmakers and bonuses for veterans. Thus the paper,like OH's papers generally,serves the interests of the GOP and (therefore) not the interests of OH's voters.The good news here is that the governor responded to grass-roots demand that he nix the bill--that certainly did not come from the OH press.

Friday, December 19, 2008
Regarding the Iraqi Shoe Hurler, Bush, and the New York Times
For his outburst, meanwhile, Mr. al-Zaidi was severely punished by Iraqi security agents, who kicked and beat him until "he was crying like a woman," according to another journalist. He is still being held in military custody. That certainly is not "what people do in a free society." And to say so is a fundamental civic obligation, not a way of showing off.

Friday, December 19, 2008
Cheney throws down the gauntlet
(3 comments) We can't buy that argument,as it would mean that we care less about the Constitution,&the actual survival of ourselves as a republic, than we do about those leftish goodies that Obama will hand out to all,if everybody will just shut their mouths and let the man get down to business.And if that's the case,this erstwhile nation "of the people, by the people,for the people"will be something else:a place much nicer,certainly,but

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Two heroes are now homeless
Elizabeth Warren, Harvard professor and chair of the Congressional Oversight Committee on the Bailout, was on Fresh Air this week. She estimates that in the near future, 1 out of every 7 homes will be in foreclosure! This is not someone else's problem; it's ours and it's of mammoth proportions.

Thursday, December 4, 2008
We're not out of the woods yet!
(9 comments) So, whatever happens--or if nothing happens--there is still cause for profound concern (assuming that we really care about democracy). And even if the Court were not a rogue outfit, hijacked by theocratic partisans, we'd still have plenty of good reason to demand some radical reform of our election system, even if you're thoroughly delighted with the (temporary?) outcome on Nov. 4.

Thursday, December 4, 2008
Don Siegelman's Appeal on December 9th
Support Don Siegelman's Legal Defense Fund today, before his December 9th appeal--and help keep up the fight to hold Karl Rove accountable, and let the truth be known!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Ted Stevens is out (which does NOT mean Alaska's race was clean)
Here's yet another Democratic victory that does not mean "the system works." Stevens' lead was fishy from the get-go; and so we should be looking into it, just as we should be looking into Coleman's lead in Minnesota, and Chambliss's in Georgia (and, as well, at others nationwide). And yet, so far--and as usual--the only party out there warning of election fraud is the one that's been committing it.

Sunday, November 16, 2008
Was Prop 8 Actually Defeated??
(23 comments) As we think about the possibility that Prop 8 was not really passed by California's voters, let's note something that the press, and others, won't discuss: i.e., that the entire apparatus of computerized voting in this country--the e-voting machines and op-scans and central tabulators, etc.--is largely owned by members of the Christianist far right.

Saturday, November 15, 2008
The lawlessness of US "law enforcement"
With Ellen Brodsky now released from jail in Broward County, it seems appropriate that we also read Michael Hughes' account of his arrest in Baltimore on Election Night. Both are dedicated to the cause of election integrity, and neither of them should have been arrested.

Saturday, November 15, 2008
Don Siegelman Case Is Exploding!
(6 comments) Let's remember,BTW,that Bush/Rove's long crusade against Don Siegelman began with the theft of his re-election in 2002,as Don himself has said (and yet the media has all along refused to talk about it).Those who are interested in that may find 2 essays on Don's stolen re-election in Loser Take All--one, on the political context of the theft,by L. Alexandrovna,the other,on the method used to steal the votes in Baldwin Cty,by

Friday, November 7, 2008
Al Franken - Hoist on his own petard
(2 comments) What matters most about his long refusal to discuss the problem is that it appears to have been urged upon him by the Democratic Party, or those in it who were counseling him as he prepared to run for office. When asked by regular people, as he often was (on his book tour), exactly why he always pooh-poohed the whole subject, he would say, "The people I listen to have told me there's nothing to it," or words to that effect.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Two voter protection hotlines
One is from the Obama campaign, the other from National Public Radio. You can contact them via text,leave voicemail,Twitter,iPhone and Google Phone, and YouTube. Of course, you should also alert local election officials if you'd like to file a complaint. Also, please be mindful of any local restrictions on using your mobile phone at the polling place; you may have to file your report after you leave the premises.

Sunday, November 2, 2008
This election's getting hard to steal!
(1 comments) It looks like Rove has his work cut out for him,the DoJ turned down the president's request that they look into forcing a review of those 200,000 newly registered (Dem) voters in Ohio.And,nationwide,a number of the GOP's attempts at vote suppression have been slapped down by various courts,as Zachary Roth reports for TPM.No reason for complacency,because with Karl in charge,& with the US press the way it is,you never know.

Sunday, November 2, 2008
Troops may run out of time to vote
(2 comments) Adding Insult to Injury:The Bush regime(in league with the Pentagon?)has been doing all it can to block the military vote,since "our troops" mostly don't support McBush, whose record on the troops' & veterans' benefits,etc.,has been dismal.So we've seen the VA try to keep their hospitalized troops and vets from registering to vote; and here we see that, this time,there's no effort to enable those at war to cast their ballots.

Monday, October 27, 2008
AP and McCain foresee a victory
(1 comments) Now,let us not forget that other sages from Inside The Beltway said the same four years ago.I recall distinctly Sidney Blumenthal's pre-E-Day think-piece laying out the reasons why W was going to lose to Kerry.But Obama's way more popular than Kerry, and McPalin's way less popular than Bush.Thus a startling turnabout this time will raise a lot more eyebrows,& raise them a lot higher,than in 2004.Still no time for complacency.

Monday, October 27, 2008
50,000 voters purged in Georgia
This is an amazing display of media obfuscation of a large story coming out of Georgia. Headlined as,"Some voters 'purged' from voter rolls"a few paragraphs down, the reader learns what CNN means by "some":"50,000"!Eight days until electoral meltdown, when the media will gloss over the national debacle and paint it all as a smooth day for the world's greatest democracy.

Thursday, October 23, 2008
My Interview on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman
(1 comments) From a listener:I heard your interview this morning with Amy Goodman, and was thoroughly depressed and enraged.I had, of course, known about vote tampering,but had not known the breadth of the facts. All of this has left me feeling suffocated, overpowered.I have been working steadily as a volunteer for the Obama campaign--and feel at a loss. What on earth can the average voter do? Read on for Miller's response.

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Mark Crispin Miller on Bill Moyers Show
(1 comments) If you missed Bill Moyers' Journal Friday night, here's the video and transcript of his interview with Prof. Mark Crispin Miller, who talks about the upcoming election, ACORN, vote suppression and what we can do about it.

Thursday, October 9, 2008
Tell John McCain to FIRE MIKE CONNELL!
Mike Connell,whom Spoonamore has named as Karl Rove's top election fixer,has been trying desperately to forestall a deposition in OH,using an expensive troika of GOP lawyers to quash the subpoena ordering him to sit down,under oath,and answer questions about how he helped Bush/Cheney "win" since FL 2000.And Connell is now working for McCain, once more putting his peculiar talents at the service of the GOP in six swing states!

Thursday, October 9, 2008
Nevada ACORN office raided; confusing role of Dem SoS?
(1 comments) Ross Miller, Nevada SoS, is not a Republican, but a Democrat--which complictes the story.That is,the raid on ACORN would appear to represent a blow against Obama by the centrist or Old Guard Democratic apparatus in the state.That machine supported Hillary Clinton in the primary some months ago. To get some sense of how her angriest supporters feel about the raid on ACORN, check out what they're posting at her website.

Thursday, October 9, 2008
Palin's ties to terrrorism
Yes, Sarah Palin (who is busy attacking Obama/Ayers)is linked closely with the AIP--even though she claims to "love America"(and notwithstanding the McCain Team's loud denials that she was a member of that outfit).Anyone who wants to see the video of Dexter Clark,AIP vice chair,telling a whole roomful of secessionists about the governor's prior membership,and her successful "infiltration" of the GOP,should go right here:

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Where's Rachel (Maddow)?
I was disappointed tonight that you neglected to let viewers on your new show know that voter purges in 20 states,including FL,are taking place.Why this silence?It's as if someone over you has told you not to mention anything about such purges, or the many problems with the electronic voting machines(reported in a recent GAO report),or any of the countless other GOP tactics being used to disenfranchise new & current voters.

Monday, September 29, 2008
MORE NEWS ON HOW THE REPUBLICANS WILL STEAL THE ELECTION
(1 comments) Here, in this shattering new interview, Stephen Spoonamore goes into harrowing detail about the Bush regime's election fraud, past, present and--if we don't spread the word right now--to come. Since he's the only whistle-blower out there who knows the perps themselves, and how they operate, we have to send this new piece far and wide.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Busheviks warn of vast race riots if Obama "loses"
(10 comments) This alarmist jive is not an earnest warning. It's pre-propaganda, laying down a terroristic story-line that will be very useful if and when McPalin steals the race, and people (of all colors) dare to protest over it. Then the cops--and military personnel--will crack down hard, for "our" protection.

Saturday, September 20, 2008
BushCo wants to PRIVATIZE the Inauguration Route!
There will be heavily armed battalions of police--& probably contingents of the National Guard, and maybe other troops as well-on hand to hit the protesters with gas and riot sticks and rubber bullets. And,if BushCo has its way with these "new regulations,"all such violence will take place somewhere far away from the Inauguration Route,which the regime now wants to privatize.Say NO as loud as possible,and spread the word!

Thursday, September 18, 2008
Why they chose Sarah Palin and what to do about it
(13 comments) While all of those activities are crucial, they'll amount to nothing if the race is finally rigged, and most Americans don't know a thing about it. And so, whatever else we're doing, we must also speak out loud and clear about that possibility. Otherwise, if that disaster should befall us, we will be as much to blame for it as those Republicans who pulled it off, and all those Democrats who let them get away with it.

Friday, July 18, 2008
ROVE NAMED IN ELECTION FRAUD CONSPIRACY
(1 comments) It is a case of vast historical importance, not just because of what it will reveal about US elections since 2000, but, no less, because it represents the only way that we might actually prevent another stolen race this fall. By shining a bright light, at last, on all the topmost perpetrators of the fraud thus far, this suit will drive them all into defensive mode and, therefore, out of business.

Friday, May 16, 2008
Election Fraud, not Voter Fraud, is a National Security Threat
(5 comments) I am not a Democrat or a Republican, but an Independent dedicated to the promise of American democracy as envisioned by Tom Paine. I believe, with him, that the right to vote is the basis on which all our other rights depend. And so the issue here is ultimately not the victory or defeat of either party, but the people's right to choose their government, and thereby live, and rule, in freedom.

Monday, April 28, 2008
Help Clint Curtis
(2 comments) Friends,please help him raise the funds he needs to file for this fall's House race in FL's 24th Congressional district.He only needs $2000!Not too much to ask for such a patriot,who's done so much to spread the word about BushCo's election fraud--despite the interference,and/or non-cooperation, of both parties.Help Clint run against Tom Feeney,& maintain his struggle for an honest voting system in the Sunshine State,& beyond.

Monday, April 28, 2008
SCOTUS upholds Indiana photo ID law
(2 comments) This decision was supposed to come in June, but Roberts et al.didn't want to wait that long.Why?Perhaps because they want the law in place when IN Dems turn out to (try to) vote in their primary on May 6 (next Tuesday). And certainly because they want to give the GOP in other states a chance to ram through laws like IN's.(There are already similar laws in several other states.They aren't as strict as IN's so maybe now they can

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
On Clinton's "big win" yesterday
(11 comments) Neither her supporters nor the watchdogs of the media seem to care at all about exactly how she pulled it off--or rather,to be more precise,how it may well have been pulled off for her.As the piece below reminds us,the voting system in PA is eminently hackable,and completely unverifiable; and there were mammoth problems yesterday,all day,throughout Obama-friendly districts.Election monitors tried to call the hotline,no answer

Monday, April 14, 2008
Another of US Attorney Alice Martin's Victims
(2 comments) Martin is US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama--appointed by Bush/Cheney on 9/29/01 (and one of those not fired for non-cooperation); and then deployed by Karl Rove to nail Don Siegelman. Look at what she did to this guy.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Obama: "Al Gore won" (and that's the truth)
(1 comments) There is, however,no excuse for Clinton's claim that those two candidates lost their elections:no excuse, even though the myth that Gore and Kerry "lost" has been repeated all but universally for years,by nearly everybody in the media,the Democratic Party & the GOP.It was therefore a cause for raucous cheering when Obama said,"I have to say,I think Al Gore won."It was a statement to be wildly cheered,because no other candidate

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Who stole those votes in Alabama in 2002? Don Siegelman names names--but the media doesn't want to know
(10 comments) If you're an election reform activist, please start your(search)engines.If you're a journalist,please do your job.And if you're just another patriotic citizen,please do whatever you can do to get the press, and/or the Dem Party,to pay heed.For starters,how about asking "60 Minutes" why they "cut it out,"and asking Dan Abrams why he "didn't want to go there either"?And since Don also told the WaPa & LA Times about the theft of

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The ONLY way to beat McCain
(6 comments) The email below comes from a list-serve catering to far-right Christianists,and therefore offers us a clear view of how Bomb-Bomb plans to run: i.e.,as Rambo,with short hair and in a business suit,and back again not just to idealize the war in Vietnam but to start up several more just like it.They're doing it to keep the Dems embroiled in civil war-which is an excellent way for the Repubs either to get McCain elected in Nov...

Monday, March 10, 2008
Please help Clint Curtis
Clint Curtis is a great American, who deserves as much of your support--material support--as you can give him. He's probably done more to shed light on the Busheviks' election fraud than any other US citizen, and has been balked not only by the GOP but by the Democratic Party.

Sunday, March 9, 2008
GOP prolongs the agony--and GE likes it!
(3 comments) Here, from Thom Hartmann, are some interesting bits of audio that make it pretty clear that the Obama/Clinton rift is highly pleasing to some very powerful entities.

Monday, February 25, 2008
Bush buddies blacked out "60 Minutes"
The Bass brothers' PACs donated more than $200,000 to Bush's gubernatorial campaigns,while their personal donations topped $270,000,according to UTWatch.org.Lee Bass was also among the Bush Pioneers in '00&04,raising at least $100,000 for the presidential campaign in each election cycle,according to TX for Public Justice.The station's general manager initially gave an incorrect explanation for the broadcast failure, blaming it

Monday, February 25, 2008
Gray Lady [NY Times] hushes up SS breakdown in Dallas
We should all should be trying to clear up something infinitely more important:why the Times itself "hushed up" the story of Obama's Secret Service detail,which,according to the Dallas cops,got remarkably laid-back about Obama's safety in the very town where JFK got whacked.

Sunday, February 24, 2008
It's the media, stupid!
(6 comments) The vast corruption of our media system is an issue of profound importance-- an issue as important as, and fundamentally related to, the corruption of our voting system. So what really matters isn't whether John McCain was schtupping Vicki Iseman. It's that Ms. Iseman was but one of many pricey lobbyists who have helped McCain schtup all the rest of us.

Friday, February 22, 2008
Obama "open" to privatizing public education
(11 comments) If he were a mere mortal like the other candidates, we would call this "pandering to the right." Read on.

Friday, February 22, 2008
CBS News promoting "60 Minutes" on Don Siegelman this Sunday, 2/24/08
CBS News has just posted the first teaser for its feature,to air on Sunday, concerning the prosecution of former Ala. Gov. Don E. Siegelman.It concerns Jill Simpson's account of her dealings with Karl Rove and his involvement in plans to take down the once popular two-term Alabama Governor:Rove's attempt to smear Don Siegelman was part of a Republican campaign to ruin him that finally succeeded in imprisoning him,says Simpson

Friday, February 22, 2008
County Clerks are going berserk in Colorado
(1 comments) They want to keep the DRE machines, which the SoS,Mike Coffman,has decertified, insisting that the state use op-scans instead.The clerks say that it's not the DRE's that are defective,but the tests used to appraise the DRE's;and some of them are even threatening to use the DRE's, decertified or not.They say they don't have time to buy the op-scans, don't know how to use them, blah blah blah.The simplest course would be to dump

Sunday, February 17, 2008
Three Strikes Against Obama
(6 comments) If you care about what happens on Election Day,you had better take these revelations seriously;for,whether you can handle them or not, rest assured that the Republicans will handle them with all their usual ruthlessness and skill.And once that happens, all the rapturous devotion that you're feeling at this moment will not count for anything.So read this through,and try to keep your cool;because the last thing any of us need is

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Voters Hell in Arizona: A Pollworker's Personal Story
(5 comments) A detailed&poignant firsthand account of someone trying to do her civic duty in a polling place completely insecure & riddled with corruption."I believe after being witness to more then 14 hours of manipulation&controlled mass confusion at my Polling Place on 2/5/08,I'm convinced there's corruption within our electoral system.There's not a shadow of doubt in my mind,it doesn't matter who votes,what matters is who counts votes

Saturday, February 9, 2008
Obama's Treatment by the Press
(2 comments) It's ironic (not to say bizarre) that Barack Obama strikes so many people as "progressive."First of all,he's simply not progressive;and, secondly,because the press has so far treated him much as it treated Ronald Reagan back in 1980(and, by and large, forever after):i.e.,apolitically, uncritically,with lots of emphasis on his success as a "communicator" & almost nothing on his actual positions,or the interests back of him.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
A 12-Step Program to Save US Democracy
(16 comments) History can be changed,and for the better,but only through our own unbreakable commitment to,and action for,enlightened policies for the renewal of our democracy.Based squarely on America's first principles,such policies would not be wholly new,however revolutionary they must sound in these bad, backward times.As it was certain policies that got us into this horrific situation, certain other policies can get us out.

Monday, January 21, 2008
Clinton/Bush plays Vegas (I)
On this day when we pretend to honor MLK Jr.,it is appropriate to note that his great moral legacy has recently been trashed not only by the Reagan/Bush Republicans(what else is new?)but also by the Clinton Democrats.Despite Bill's reputation as "America's first black president,"the Clinton Team is evidently just as keen on vote suppression as the oldtime Democrats of Dixie,or their Bushevik descendents working full-time to

Monday, January 21, 2008
Clinton/Bush plays Vegas (2)
If you want a bitter laugh,read the following,and then read the coverage of Nevada in Sunday's New York Times.Typically,the Times account comes straight from Wonderland, where the Nevada caucus was high-spirited and lots of good old-fashioned fun-and absolutely clean,albeit marked by certain "political high-jinks" that the two reporters don't identify,other than to intimate, as usual,that there were "high-jinks"on both sides.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
What to expect from a NH Recount and Why
(3 comments) The NH recount is going forward after all, as many of you have pointed out to me. However, Kucinich is settling for a partial recount---which, as Nancy Tobi argues here, is likelier to cover up the fraud (if any) than expose it. Read on.

Saturday, January 12, 2008
Hanky Panky in Democrats' Primary Run
1) D.L.C. Leaders Cut Edwards Out 2) Teachers Sue to Block Hotel Worker's Union Vot

Saturday, January 12, 2008
Pre-election "house calls" in NH
What a mess.Apparently the Diebold opscans in NH have been so prone to failure that the vendor,LHS Associates,was making countless quiet "house calls" just before the primary up there.This is not unusual:LHS is called in routinely,and not just in NH(the company operates throughout New England),"to step in to make voting problems disappear before elections."Why is there no coverage of this issue?

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Karl Rove explains why Hillary won
Let's talk a bit about the possibility that the Republicans fixed the NH primary.How far-fetched is that idea? Well, those of you who know a little history willrecall that,way back in 1972,Richard Nixon had these guys, like Donald Segretti--"ratfuckers," they called themselves--out there on the campaign trail harassing old Ed Muskie.(Muskie finally melted down, remember,in NH.)Their goal was to ravage his campaign so as to...

Monday, December 17, 2007
Ohio 2004: The Longest Line
The drive to block the vote was particularly flagrant in Gambier, OH,home of Kenyon College.While student voters at nearby religious schools had quite an easy time of it, Kenyon's students had to wait for hours and hours and hours.Those long lines soon turned out to have been purposely created,through the deliberate under-supply of working e-voting machinery to the polling sites at Kenyon.Students wrote an account.Here's link.

Monday, December 17, 2007
Interview with Don Siegelman, former Alabama Governor
As he himself makes clear,Siegelman's ordeal began back in 2000,when he came out early on, and publicly,against the presidential bid of his fellow governor,Bush,and backed Al Gore instead.It was a move that Rove never did forget,and never would forgive,says Siegelman.Rove's long drive to destroy the Alabama governor resulted in the theft of the 2002 election for Republican Bob Riley. Here Siegelman describes that theft.

Monday, November 19, 2007
Granting Telecom Giants Retroactive Immunity will give AT&T total power over our elections
(1 comments) While the issues surrounding electronic voting are highly technical and controversial, it is beyond question that a telecom such as AT&T that strains the electronic flow of information, according to undisclosed search criteria, could also in principle act as a so-called "man in the middle" by intercepting, analyzing, and changing votes before they reach their final destination.

Friday, August 31, 2007
Action Alert! HR 811 up for vote in House next week
(1 comments) Although we have done much, over the last few months, to weaken the bill's congressional support, there is of course a good chance that the members of the House, just back from vacation, will have lost their focus, and so may vote this toxic legislation into law.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Exposé: Holt bill was revised by Microsoft, Diebold and ES&S
(18 comments) Is there any link between Rush Holt and a high-tech Princeton company that stands to profit from an election reform bill that Holt has pending in the House? That legislation, critics charge, will only further weaken our democracy. Holt is smart-a rocket scientist, in fact-so why has he ignored the many solid arguments against his bill? Is he in denial, or in somebody's pocket-or is it a little bit of both?

Sunday, June 3, 2007
Action Alert: Ask Congress to slow down on HR 811
(2 comments) From MCM's blog: IN LIEU OF HR 811, WE PROPOSE: 1. Paper ballots, not paper trails 2. Federal BUYOUT of all touchscreen voting equipment 3. No secret vote counting, no secret records, no secret contracts, and no trade secrecy in our public elections 4. No control of voting technologies by four White House appointees 5. No unfunded mandates. Please consider a workable, alternative proposal for essential election reform

Thursday, September 21, 2006
How to Make Sure You're Registered to Vote
(1 comments) Democrats.com has built a revolutionary new system to help voters check their voter registration quickly and easily. To prevent any more stolen elections, we want to encourage *every* voter to "google" their voter registration in September, while there is still time to submit a new registration form.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Stealing America: Vote by Vote
Showings of Dorothy Fadiman's new movie: Stealing America, Vote by Vote. Fadiman is an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker. Here is the schedule for the screenings: in New York, DC, California and Ohio.

Sunday, September 3, 2006
Psst! The Fix Is In (and what you can do about it)
(1 comments) As for this next election, we should concentrate on getting out the word. Once our fellow-citizens find out what's going on, and also finally understand the enemy, they will take up this struggle, which we, the people, will then win. There are three tasks that we must carry out these next two months.