When Mottrom Dulany Ball left Virginia for Alaska in 1878, he was not setting out to become a pioneer in the usual sense. He was a lawyer, former Confederate cavalry officer, newspaper editor and political figure whose career had taken an unexpected turn following the Civil War. His appointment to Alaska came at a […]
Almost 49,000 voters made their way to 297 polling places in the territory of Alaska on August 26th,1958. The voters cast their votes for a proposition in a six-to-one margin in the special election to approve statehood for the territory. The turnout was so tremendous that in many of the polling places, the ballot supply […]
“It seems one of the ways this effort will take shape is, as with DHS’s deportation efforts, to racially profile voters and try to invalidate their votes by pretending they’re not citizens,” said one critic. President Donald Trump is using the US Department of Homeland Security to quietly assert federal control over elections in at least eight states, […]
“We who are prudent would like to know what mistakes were made that thrust us into this nightmare we are living.” The Democratic National Committee is still refusing to release its internal “autopsy” report about Democrats’ defeat in the 2024 election, but at least one progressive advocacy group isn’t letting party leaders off the hook. RootsAction has […]