2020 Elections
NYPD Violently Represses Post-election Protests for Second Night in a Row
As votes for the 2020 elections were counted for a third night across the country, protesters in New York City were met once again with violent repression by NYPD. Acting on the orders of Mayor Bill de Blasio, the police are cracking down on mobilizations to prevent a repeat of this summer's uprising.
Madeleine Freeman
November 6, 2020Did Republican Felon Disenfranchisement Deliver Florida for Trump?
In 2018, Florida voters restored voting rights to over 1.4 million formerly incarcerated people. Because of a Republican-backed bill passed in 2019, however, very few of these people were actually able to vote in the 2020 election. With a close race in Florida, did this tip the scales in Trump's favor?
Zed Simon
November 5, 2020Armed Right-Wing Protesters Shut Down Polling Center in Arizona
About a hundred Trump supporters gathered with assault rifles and handguns outside a polling station in Maricopa County, Arizona Wednesday night to demand that staff continue processing ballots. The disruption forced the polling center to shut down.
Maria Aurelio
November 5, 2020New York City Cops Violently Repress Post-election Protesters
Amid election week, hundreds of protestors in the West Village are protesting the undemocratic U.S. regime. Some of these demonstrators have been violently attacked, kettled, and arrested by NYPD cops in full riot gear.
Maryam Alaniz
November 4, 2020What Can We Read from the Vote?
It appears that more than 150 million votes were cast in the U.S. presidential election. The highest level of participation in a U.S. presidential election in 100 years, this historic turnout signifies the impact of youth and minority voting in a year marked by mobilizations.
Ana Rivera
November 4, 2020California Prop 22: Major Blow to Gig Workers and Entire Working Class
Yesterday, in a major blow to gig workers, California passed Prop 22. The measure allows companies like Lyft and Uber to continue classifying their employees as contractors, denying millions of gig workers rights to health insurance and a livable wage. We must demand full employment rights to all workers, and resist the “Uberization” of the economy.
Otto Fors
November 4, 2020World Markets Rattled by Election Uncertainty
Capitalism craves the certainty of a steady rate of profit, based on assurances that exploitation can chug along from day to day as it always has. The uncertainty of the U.S. presidential election, with no winner declared, is creating much-despised volatility in markets across the globe.
Scott Cooper
November 4, 2020Trump Wants to Steal the Election.
While the full results of the 2020 election aren’t known yet, it is clear that the race was closer than originally expected. As President Donald Trump ramps up his attempts to steal the election, it is clear that both Trump and the undemocratic nature of U.S. “democracy” are major threats to our basic right to vote.
Sybil Davis
November 4, 2020As Election Results Trickle In, Protesters Take to the Streets
In the middle of a tight presidential race, demonstrators in cities across the country are already mobilizing against Donald Trump and the undemocratic system that may open his road to reelection.
Left Voice
November 4, 2020Southern Voter Suppression 2020
As people in the South try to cast their votes, they face a variety of uphill battles. Whether it be explicitly white supremacist policies from the late 1800s, 21st century methods to restrict voting rights, long waits, climate disasters, or all of the above combined, voter suppression highlights the issues of how the American electoral system is organized around protecting the few.
John Lewis
November 3, 2020