“Violence has no place in America,” said U.S. Vice President and his 2024 election opponent Kamala Harris. The FBI said on Sunday that it was “investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination” of former U.S. President Donald Trump after members of the Secret Service fired shots at an individual who appeared to place the muzzle of a rifle […]
WASHINGTON – This week, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) released a draft of a proposed ‘interpretive rule’ in response to Public Citizen’s petition for rulemaking on artificial intelligence and campaign ads. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response: “With deepfakes impacting elections around the world and increasingly popping up in the U.S. election […]
“White supremacist and antidemocratic movements have always used the claim that so-called Black savages are coming to destroy, especially when political power is up for grabs,” said one critic. “This is no different.” U.S. vice presidential candidate JD Vance and other Republicans including congressional lawmakers and Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the X social […]
The president of the AFL-CIO called the November election a “fundamental choice,” slamming Trump as “an unhinged serial union buster who betrays working people.” The 2024 U.S. presidential debate in Philadelphia Tuesday night presented what progressive organizers and labor leaders described as a stark choice between a former president dedicated to slashing taxes for the […]