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The Democratic push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour has emerged as an early flashpoint in the fight for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, testing President Joe Biden's ability to bridge Washington's partisan divides as he pursues his first major legislative victory. Biden called for a $15 hourly minimum wage during his campaign and has followed through by hitching it to a measure that, among other things, calls for $1,400 stimulus checks and $130 billion to help schools reopen.

This happened in Valdosta, Georgia last night: Thousands of Georgians turned out to see President Donald Trump speak, exemplars of the 75 million Americans who voted for him in November and who won’t be just fading into the woodwork in the wake of this clearly stolen election. At several junctures throughout the night, the crowd of patriots loudly stated what they intend to keep doing: Naturally, no TV outlet carried the rally as the corrupt media continues its efforts to bully the public into accepting an election stolen vial massive voter fraud, but the event attracted hundreds of thousands of...

Here is video of Attorney Lin Wood at a “Stop the Steal” Rally in Georgia today alongside Attorney Sidney Powell. Wood is heard telling people at the rally that they should not vote in the January 5 Senate Runoff Election for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue unless both demand Gov. Brian Kemp call a special session of the Georgia Legislature to deal with the November Georgia Election mess. . . . Wood says, "We ain't dumb. We're not gonna vote on January 5th on another machine made by China. You're not gonna fool Georgians again. If Kelly Loeffler wants your...

reading this, you — you — can vote. Reading a strange bloggy rant about an election probably means you’re an engaged citizen, and you can make an informed and considered choice. But exhorting the masses to go out and vote leads to poor choices made with bad information. I’m tired of people wrapping themselves up in the self-satisfaction of a “Go vote” message, without actually putting themselves out there to explain why or how. Garbage in, garbage out, as any old programmer will tell you. And telling people to “vote” without any direction or context as to why or how...

The Spanish-language station Univision has announced it will no longer air ads telling Latinos to stay home on Election Day. "Don't vote this November," the English version of the ads says, while playing images of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Democrats. "This is the only way to send them a clear message: 'You can no longer take us for granted.' Don't vote." A group called Latinos for Reform, led by Robert de Posada, a former Republican National Committee official, is behind the ads. The decision to pull the ads came after a wave of outrage from Latino leaders....

BLAINE, Minn. — Vote for my opponent. Please. Paul Herold entered the primary for a City Council seat in this Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb, but then he landed a new job that he says wouldn't leave him enough time to do a decent job for his constituents. He missed the deadline for removing his name from the ballot, so he wrote a letter to a local paper pleading for nonsupport. He even offered to drive friends and neighbors to the polls to vote for anyone but him. "I tried my best not to get any votes,"he said. It didn't work. He...