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Something Stinks in Virginia
SPN: The $83 Million Right-Wing Empire Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government The State Policy Network (SPN) is a web of so-called “think tanks” that push a right-wing agenda in every state across the country. Although many of SPN’s member organizations claim...
Obama to push administrative fix for insurance cancellations
(CNN) - President Barack Obama will lay out an administrative solution to address the problem of people getting cancellation notices from their health insurance providers due to the Affordable Care Act, a senior Democratic source familiar with the plan tells CNN's...
CBS: Journalistic Malpractice
Sorry, CBS, but that section B, page 6 apology tacked into the Andy Rooney position of last week's 60 Minutes? It doesn't even begin to address the problem. Let's review.. You paraded an absolute fabrication in front of the world and gave assurances that it was the...
Cartograms Reveal the Demographics Behind Democratic Sweep
From Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest Some comical conservative misunderstandings over the population density of Virginia counties have yielded a positive result: a new spate of attention to cartograms, a type of map that, by deliberately deforming geographic...
Clean Sweep
Mark Herring's statistically miniscule edge over Mark Obenshain in the attorney general race grew to 163 votes Tuesday evening as a midnight deadline approached for localities to finish counting ballots and report their tallies to the state. That updated count came...
Another Health Insurer Caught Falsely Cancelling Thousands of Health Plans
Following the report that Insurer Humana was fined $65,000 in Kentucky for sending out 6,500 misleading cancellation letters for low-premiums plans only to be automatic re-enrollment in high cost plans before these customers were given a chance to shop on the open...
Coalfields Expressway: Rally to Stop the Hijack
The Federal Highway Administration is preparing to seal the fate of the Coalfields Expressway project and they need to hear directly from you that this project is nothing more than a mountaintop removal project being disguised as a highway. Please join us in...
Every Vote Counts (Some Restrictions Apply)
Democratic state Sen. Mark R. Herring took the lead in the extraordinarily tight Virginia attorney general race Monday evening, after he picked up more than 100 previously uncounted votes in Richmond. Herring had started the day trailing his Republican opponent, state...
Virginia Republicans Change Vote-Counting Rules While Counting Votes
Legal wrangling is a given during any recount, but Virginia Republicans got off to an early start over the weekend, potentially exploiting the state's new voter ID law to cast aside likely Democratic votes. The vast majority of Virginia's votes had already been...
A Senator Said Voter Registration Was ‘Confusing.’ Watch A 12-Year-Old Clear That Up For Him
12-year-old Madison Kimrey of Burlington founded NC Youth Rocks after the North Carolina legislature passed voting restriction laws targeting young people, women, minorities, and the poor. The...
