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As the dust settles from Tuesday’s primary, all Pennsylvanians, regardless of party, should celebrate the turnout being much higher than in past “off year” elections. This was due in large part to the roughly 710,000 Pennsylvanians who requested and ultimately voted by mail. The historic turnout in the 2020 election changed the electoral dynamic throughout…

One of the several wars left over by the Trump administration and the recent 2020 election is the explosion of initiatives, largely in red State legislatures, to restrict voting by limiting or eliminating absentee or mail-in ballots, requiring multiple identification documents, restricting voting hours and days, and generally discouraging people from voting. This is the…

Protecting American's right to vote is shaping up to be the central civil rights battle of the Biden presidency, and the massive effort to suppress that right needs to be addressed head on, now. Three months into 2021, some 253 pieces of legislation and counting have already been introduced by Republicans at the state government level aimed…

Much of the discussion right now about how to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his role in the attack on the Capitol last week is focused on impeachment and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. But criminal accountability is another option, and a criminal investigation is warranted on the publicly known facts. To briefly review: In tweets…

Wednesday on Political Rewind: We ask two former U.S. senators about the state of our democratic institutions. As we come to the end of the Trump era, just how fragile is the American experiment in democracy? Former Sen. Gary Hart and former U.S. Rep. Richard “Dick” Gephardt are members of a bipartisan election integrity organization called…

It is not too soon to discuss the prosecution of Donald Trump as an absolute political necessity. How the last nine days of his presidency is handled relative to Trump being removed from office or not is one thing, but he must be removed from the political stage permanently. These 10 points must be kept in mind…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TupJZsoGuMI   While no one could have imagined the abuses our governing system would be forced to endure under the Trump presidency, we did learn where our constitutional and governing norms were vulnerable. The reforms necessary to strengthen and protect our system will require substantial public support, yet it will likely be up to Senator…