A former neo-Nazi selected by the Conservatives to fight a council election next year has pulled out after a backlash against his candidacy. Joshua Bonehill-Paine was convicted of racially harassing Jewish former Labour MP Luciana Berger in 2016, while already serving a separate jail sentence for sharing antisemitic posts. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch had defended…
Dallas-area Democrats are demanding that Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton be investigated for illegal voting after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that he has repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he appears to no longer live. In a complaint filed Tuesday, the Collin County Democratic Party asked the Texas secretary of…
President Donald Trump has pushed out the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the bipartisan agency in limbo as he rushes to remake how elections are run before this year’s midterms. Trump fired Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, the Democrats on the commission, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ProPublica, which…
Two weeks before this year’s primary elections, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the creation of a tip line for the public to report people or groups suspected of voter fraud. “Free and fair elections are a cornerstone of a thriving republic, and with the authority granted to my office by the Legislature, we will…
But what America’s forces of progress have long understood is that America’s ideals are a trap that can be sprung on those who betray them, and Trump has betrayed them. What Democrats have not known, at least since Obama, is how to spring that trap. Trump’s dominance of the post-Obama landscape has led many Democrats…
As Zambia moves toward its 2026 general election, the contest is increasingly being framed not as a clash of ideologies, but as a national assessment of performance, expectations, and credibility. At the centre of this judgment is President Hakainde Hichilema, whose first term has been defined by economic stabilisation, fiscal tightening, and efforts to restore…
Burnham fielded questions from Reddit users on a range of topics and confirmed some policy positions. He said he would seek to negotiate a returns agreement for failed refugees, including with Taliban-run Afghanistan. He said he would not scrap the triple lock, a policy introduced by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government which guarantees the state…
Over the past year, it may have appeared that the pro-Palestine protest movement in the United States has lost momentum in the face of smears, crackdowns, indifference and fatigue. But a string of electoral wins by critics of Israeli abuses appears to indicate that activism’s success can only be measured in the long term. Recommended…
Presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella of the opposition Defenders of the Motherland movement. Rodrigo Abd/AP hide caption toggle caption Rodrigo Abd/AP BOGOTA, Colombia—Right-wing populist candidate Abelardo de la Espriella has narrowly won Colombia’s presidential election based on the preliminary “quick count” released by electoral authorities. With over 99% of the vote counted in the…
Graham Platner, who has advocated for government-funded healthcare, free education and a wealth tax, has won the Maine Democratic primary for the United States Senate. He will take on Republican Senator Susan Collins in a high-stakes race in November. Platner, a veteran turned oyster farmer initially backed by the progressive Democrats, was accepted by the…
