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The rise of the #MeToo movement in the late 2010s allowed for past survivors of sexual assault to have his or her claims to be investigated and supported. Many around the U.S. and globe cheered this movement toward protecting sexual assault survivors and holding perpetrators accountable, albeit without its fair share of critics and cynics. Unfortunately, the #MeToo movement has become another casualty of the toxic, partisan political and media landscape the U.S. confronts today.

TwitterÂ’s policies about misleading tweets and abusive behavior are deeply cynical and designed merely to censor speech Jack Dorsey doesnÂ’t like. It seems clear now that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is going to ban President Donald Trump. ItÂ’s just a matter of when.Dorsey will come up with a pretext, however absurd or cynical, as part of TwitterÂ’s ongoing efforts to interfere in the 2020 election. It will probably consist of a charge that Trump has had one too many violations of some entirely subjective and impossible-to-define Twitter policy on abusive or harmful speech.We got another preview of what that might...

U.S. coronavirus deaths are projected to reach 180,000 by the beginning of October unless the majority of people start wearing masks, according to a report on Wednesday. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington estimates 179,106 fatalities from COVID-19 by Oct 1, although researchers said that number can be reduced by roughly 33,000 if at least 95 percent of the population wears a mask in public.

**SNIP** A deluge of mail-in ballots prompted by the coronavirus pandemic and slow-moving vote-counting procedures meant final results in many races would take days or more. That torturous wait seemed a preview of November, when numerous states will turn to mail-in voting like never before. Officials are already warning that uncertainty over who the next president is could linger for days. By late afternoon, there were scattered reports of long lines and absentee ballots that voters never received. Yet voting appeared less troubled than recent elections in Georgia and Nevada, where some people stood in line for hours. Waits lasting...

It is now obvious. The Democrats are behind all of the unrest and have been since Donald Trump was elected. They have pulled out every stop, funded and supported every subversive group they can, particularly Antifa and BLM and have whistled for the media to attack conservatives and particularly Trump 24/7. It is as plain as the nose on one's face as to what is going on. On a VERY frequent basis, the Democrats, or Antifa, or BLM or the media or all of them in unison say or do something that is completely outrageous. This would include tearing down...

The successor to prison-bound former Rep. Chris Collins and the challenger to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will be decided Tuesday along with nominees for dozens of House seats as six states hold elections. But it may take several days for votes to be counted as states cope with an expected surge in mail-in ballots because of the coronavirus pandemic. Elections in Kentucky, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina and Virginia had already been delayed, while South Carolina’s runoffs for state-level offices were always planned for Tuesday.In New York, Kentucky and North Carolina, which is hosting a GOP runoff for White...

Just saw a reference to a Never-Trumper (who happens to be a Republican), and I really and truly want to ask a simple question of any and all of you who place yourself in that category... (BTW, I haven't seen you much lately, or any references to you folks. Did you finally join the bandwagon? It's kind of why I'm writing this.) Given the November election as it stands today (although you have to give far better odds than usual that the names may change between JUL and NOV this cycle), are you still at NEVER Trump? Never ever ever?...

Washington (CNN)Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will administer the oath to Vice President-elect Mike Pence next Friday. One of the key issues President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on was filing the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Antonin Scalia. And Pence has taken a lead role in helping choose the next justice.

"In a trial heat for the 1984 presidential election, former Vice President Walter Mondale is now leading President Ronald Reagan by a 53-44 percent margin...."

Concerns about corruption in voting are not a new phenomenon. During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison worried about the abuses that might occur under the new Constitution. Our federal system of government is predicated on the faith that a citizen, adequately informed and unmolested is capable of judging who is best fit to govern our country. The U.S. Constitution stipulates - "the times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations.” Over...

Make me a promise? Don’t look at the polls. Don’t believe the polls. We’ve got to make this election #TooBigToRig and the only way to do that is to think we are coming from behind.

There are two kinds of people in this world - builders and destroyers. Be a builder and reject the destroyers in November. There are two kinds of people in this world - builders and destroyers. You know who you are. Our forefathers were builders who rejected monarchy in favor of limited government and the challenge of self-rule. Our forefathers understood the difference between servitude and citizenship. They chose freedom and built a more perfect union - a government of the people, by the people, for the people. The building of the United States of America was the most successful experiment...

Democrats are looking to seize upon the issues of racial injustice and the coronavirus pandemic in their effort to take back control of state legislature seats across the country. While Democrats have had a number of victories at the state legislature level during the Trump administration, they have continuously lagged Republicans since the Obama presidency. However, the party feels that they will be able to tap into the mood surrounding the nationwide protests against racial injustice and police brutality as well as the pandemic. Democrats say they plan to highlight the roles that local and state officials can take in...

President Trump plans to file a new lawsuit against voting by mail, which he said could allow Democrats to cheat in the upcoming elections. In an interview Monday, Trump told conservative talk show host Michael Savage, "We're suing, and we're filing another big lawsuit, I think, on Friday, and I think we have a good case." The Republican National Committee sued to halt vote-by-mail efforts in California after Gov. Gavin Newsom in May signed an executive order to allow expanded absentee and mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic. A judge on Friday temporarily blocked the order, which directed the state...

That amazing elation Americans felt pre-meltdown now returns. And it will manifest at the polls this November. Fear not; Trump will serve a second term. And he will enjoy both a Republican-controlled House and the Senate to get work done for the American people. Before I give you the reasoning behind my predictions, let’s look at what led up to the overwhelming support of President Trump, even as Democrats tried to destroy him in their latest attack on the economy and the race war they hoped to create. In what can only be described as a reign of terror or...

Every time some supposed conservative or Republican explains why he or she can’t vote for President Trump, I wonder if they have thought about the alternative – the Biden-Schumer-Pelosi machine. Our choice in November will not be between President Trump and President Perfection. It will be between President Trump and a nightmare that would end America as we have known it. If former Vice President Joe Biden wins, it means the turnout in favor of Democrats will be such that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., remains leader of a Democratic majority in the House. It also means that Democrats will...

Editor's note: This column was co-authored by Jim McCoy. Progressives inhabiting the mainstream media, the Democratic Party and Hollywood continue to herald how the Covid-19 virus, tainted economy, condemnation from China, the racist police beating of innocent demonstrators, and the disunifying editorial from four star General James “Chaos” Mattis about our president, are harbingers of doom for the Trump administration and Republican candidates come election time. There is at least one strong indicator that may prove these liberal naysayers wrong about the effects the current schiff-storm may have at the ballot box in November. John R. Lott, Jr. wrote in National...

It boggles the minds of people who are relative political outsiders. People who follow politics, and understand that it is a rough business, could never have imagined the lengths that the Democratic Party establishment, the Deep State, and the majority-leftist press would go to destroy a candidate, a president-elect, a president, and now, a commander-in-chief seeking a second term. The litany is etched into consciousness. Russian collusion and Mueller. The perfect Ukraine call and impeachment. Finally, the stage-management of the hysteria surrounding COVID-19, a virus everyone knows can be extremely nasty, but that has not proved—in pretty swift retrospect—to represent...

The data collected from April 2-May 13 by the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape project, an initiative that conducted weekly surveys of thousands of potential voters for nearly a year, found that 29% of percent of black voters ages 30-44 and 21% ages 18-29 have a "very favorable" or "somewhat favorable" view of President Trump. This compares to just 14% of black voters 45-64 and 9% of those 65 and older. "Trump symbolizes a much broader understanding than just his personality, what he represents," veteran black empowerment activist Bob Woodson told Just the News. "I think that our younger people...

The first test of Georgia’s new $104 million system of voting machines ran into problems all day Tuesday, with polling places reporting difficulties setting up equipment, touchscreens malfunctioning and supplies of provisional paper ballots running low, causing some voters to wait three hours or longer to cast their ballots on a hot day in the middle of a pandemic. The bulk of the issues, according to local reports, appeared at polling sites around the Atlanta metropolitan area shortly after voting commenced at 7 a.m. Georgia’s primary is the first time the state’s voters are using a fleet of new machines...