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Democracy Protection Group Outlines “Hyper-localized” 2024 Election Plans April 13, 2023 | Walker Kmetz | The Dickinsonian Keep Our Republic, a non-partisan group organized in 2020 to protect election laws and strengthen the power of checks and balances in the electoral system, hosted a conversation called “Our Fragile Republic — Sounding the Alarm in Defense…

Pennsylvania gets targeted for voter education efforts by bipartisan advocacy group April 3, 2023 | Charles Thompson | Penn Live CARLISLE - A group of folks who’ve benefitted at the highest level from American electoral politics unveiled plans for a new civic education campaign Monday designed to neutralize what they fear will be fresh waves…

Former Gov. Corbett calls for ‘hyper-localized’ dialogue on democracy, civics Corbett said conversations at the local level could be the solution to distrust in elections. April 3, 2023 | Justin Sweitzer | City & State Pennsylvania Speaking Monday during a panel discussion on democracy and civics at Dickinson College, Tom Corbett, who served as Pennsylvania’s…

The Threat of Election Denial Is Still Real—and Very Dangerous February 27, 2023 | Tim Wirth and Tom Rogers | Newsweek A lot was written after the 2022 midterms of how election deniers promulgating the Big Lie were defeated in the major races, depriving the Republicans of a major victory many had wrongly predicted. Certainly…

January 6th Report Exposes Ongoing, Converging Threat of Anti-Democracy Schemes and Paramilitary Violence And Lessons on Where to Go Next January 6, 2023 | Mary B. McCord and Jacob Glick | Just Security Two years ago, when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol and ruptured our country’s tradition of the peaceful transfer of power, images of…

Smerconish.com: The Independent State Doctrine May Soon Be Adopted by the Supreme Court— Frightening! December 6, 2022 | Madame Justice Sandra Schultz Newman and Ari Mittleman | Smerconish After the unrelenting crusade by election deniers to overturn the 2020 election, which reached its low point, if not its end, with the January 6 riot, many…

Supreme Court case on state legislatures could have ‘devastating consequences’ December 5, 2022 | Wilson Huhn & Jonathan Winer | City & State Pennsylvania This week the Supreme Court of the United States is hearing Moore v. Harper, a case with potentially devastating consequences for our democracy. In that case the Court is considering whether…

Congress Needs to Rein in Presidential Emergency Powers Now Several important bills could be combined during this lame-duck session—before Republicans take over and you-know-who might become president again. November 30, 2022 | Mark Medish | The New Republic This lame duck Congress has a lot on its plate, and many of these items have received…

Are We 'One Nation Indivisible,' or Doomed to 'Divided We Fall'? | Opinion November 30, 2022 | Patricia Duff and Tom Rogers | Newsweek Over the last several years many have bemoaned the plague of extraordinarily deep partisan divides spreading across the country, fraying our unity, undermining social trust, and tearing at our democracy. At…

On Tuesday, don’t forget to thank the election workers who make democracy possible | Opinion Be patient. We’ll have results. It will just take a while November 7, 2022 | Ken Davis and Ari Mittelman | Pennsylvania Capital-Star Local election workers and volunteers who work the polls, count the votes and otherwise make sure our…

Pa. voters shouldn’t expect results on Election Day – but trust the system, judges say November 3, 2022 | David Wenner | Penn Live It could take days or even months to know the final results of Tuesday’s election. That’s especially true of Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race between John Fetterman and Dr. Mehmet Oz which,…

Pa. elections likely to generate a new round of lawsuits over mail-in ballots, retired judges say ‘It’s very unfortunate that this question is hanging out there unresolved,’ retired federal Judge John E. Jones said November 2, 2022 | Peter Hall | Pennsylvania Capital-Star The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s evenly divided result in the latest case seeking…