I've argued for some time now that Tucker Carlson is one of the most dangerous figures in America today. The Fox News host is now the respectable face of the Alt Right movement in America, and provides Trump supporters with an intellectual framework for their bigotry and racism ...read more
Last night, the Trump administration, as quietly as possible, dissolved its "Commission on Election Integrity". The reason? The mean ol' states wouldn't give them the information they wanted: The commission, of course, existed solely for the purpose of justifying the next wave ...read more
In a Daily Beast article this week, Emilie Plesset reveals that Indiana is removing voters from the lists without telling them, thanks to a new law that violates the National Voter Registration Act (aka the Motor Voter Act.) Back in 2014, Indiana, under then-governor Mike Pence, ...read more
While pretty much every Republican currently in office is awful, there are seven that stand out from the rest of the crowd. They exemplify everything that's wrong with the modern right wing and deserve a round of applause for their extraordinary effort to destroy everything good ...read more
According to the Huffington Post, President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday that will establish a commission to investigate voter fraud. The move comes months after the president made the baseless claim that millions of illegal voters cost him the popular ...read more
In-person voter fraud is something that rarely happens in American elections. But Republican legislatures and governors all across the country have successfully instituted strict voter ID laws. The purpose, they say, is to stop people from voting illegally. But the real reason, ...read more
When it became apparent that Donald Trump did not win the popular vote in the election, he immediately started lashing out. The insecure (alleged) billionaire declared that 3 million illegal voters stole it away from him, a lie he apparently picked up from a random Twitter ...read more
Three weeks ago, we here at the Banter wrote an article about what it would mean if (when) Republicans force through a series of laws designed to "protect the integrity of the ballot" by making it more difficult for people to vote. The bottom line was that this would be the ...read more
Oregon just announced that its "opt out" automatic voter registration system significantly boosted voter turnout in an election that saw below average voting most everywhere else. Coincidentally, Hillary Clinton walloped Donald in Oregon by 10 points. It's a political law that ...read more
Elizabeth Warren has had enough of the GOP's "sudden" concern for the integrity of our democracy after spending years undermining it in every way possible. It's about time the party of "personal responsibility" actually took some for a change. On Wednesday evening, Donald Trump ...read more
By now, you might be aware of the latest bombshell O'Keefe "Project Veritas" videos, cited by everyone from Jake Tapper to Donald Trump, in which O'Keefe claims to have captured several Democratic operatives on video allegedly confessing to infiltrating Trump rallies to incite ...read more
Shortly after President Obama's inauguration, a vile prankster named James O'Keefe released a series of fraudulent videos alleging to show how the community organizing group ACORN was engaged in voter fraud. The videos were aired practically around the clock on Fox News and ...read more
In the spirit of good will, I'd like to personally thank various Republicans for making my life considerably easier in these difficult times. Since 2012, I've been tracking the creeping threat of Voter ID laws for The Daily Banter, and how they're systematically disenfranchising ...read more
They keep doing it. Republicans continue to accidentally spill the beans about unspoken GOP plots to roll back constitutional rights. Donald Trump, last week, accidentally blurted something about punishing women who undergo illegal abortions. And this week, It should be obvious. ...read more
In a nation where voting is the cornerstone of our form of government, how pathetic is it that the following cliche actually makes sense: America can put a man on the Moon, but we can't hold an election without prohibitively long lines and politically-motivated plots to ...read more
Last week, I posted two articles about the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, clearing a path for the ongoing Republican effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans with Voter ID laws. And so, predictably, conservative trolls filled my ...read more
By Bob Cesca: This probably won't go over very well in the southern states where the whiny, pouty threat of secession has been revived yet again, but the federal government needs to take over the regulation and process of voting -- and specifically in the states where ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From Huff Post: Poll watchers from groups ostensibly targeting voter fraud are headed primarily to minority voting precincts on Election Day, lending support to the argument that their real goal is to suppress the African-American and Latino ...read more
By Bob Cesca: For the last year or so, I'vebeentracking the Republican effort to suppress voting rights by passing various Jim Crow style "Voter ID" laws. The latest round of laws in Pennsylvania, Alabama, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and so forth is a ...read more
By Suevon Lee: Voter IDs laws have become a political flashpoint in what's gearing up to be another close election year. Supporters say the laws — which 30 states have now enacted in some form — are needed to combat voter fraud, while critics see them as a tactic to ...read more
by Chalan Moon In 2000, twenty members of the House of Representatives presented voter suppression complaints to a joint-session of Congress. Hundreds of thousands of voters, predominantly black, had been disenfranchised and refused their right to vote. They also requested ...read more
