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In a victory for the Trump administration, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read announced last week that the state will resume “routine cleanup” of outdated voter registration records, a process dormant since 2017. The effort could ultimately cancel up to 800,000 inactive registrations, roughly 20% of the Beaver State's total voter rolls. This long-overdue cleanup comes only after the Department of Justice sued Oregon and other states to enforce basic voter-roll maintenance standards. For years, Oregon’s political class treated voter roll maintenance as a nuisance at best and a moral failing at worst. The state paused its cleanup mechanisms in...

Oregon election officials are set to begin removing hundreds of thousands of inactive voters from the state’s registration rolls, a move that comes after years of inaction, mounting public pressure, and lawsuits filed against the state in recent months. Oregon's Democratic Secretary of State Tobias Read, in a press release Friday, outlined two new directives he said will "restart" the "routine cleanup of outdated, inactive voter registration records" in accordance with state law to address the roughly 800,000 inactive voter records that are being maintained by election officials. The first directive orders counties to immediately cancel long-inactive voter registrations that...

Oregon election officials are set to begin removing hundreds of thousands of inactive voters from the state’s registration rolls, a move that comes after years of inaction, mounting public pressure, and lawsuits filed against the state in recent months.

Recent polling has shown young voters overwhelmingly disapproving of Trump and the GOP amid increasing anxiety over the state of the economy, while young people played a big role in helping Democrats win in 2025’s off-year races. “If you’re 29 and you’re paying out the nose for health care, and you can’t own your own home and groceries are killing you, you don’t really care about the conversations about tariffs. That’s not where you’re living. You’re living at, ‘Hey, I need the price of eggs to drop,’” said Brett Loyd, a longtime Republican pollster who now works with an independent...

HISTORIC SHIFT: Republicans have overtaken Democrats in North Carolina voter registration for the first time in state history, signaling a major political turning point in the closely watched battleground state. New data shows roughly 2.315 million registered Republicans compared with 2.313 million registered Democrats, giving the GOP a narrow but historic edge.

Most establishment Democrats believe the party’s 2028 nominee needs to tack to the center, especially on social issues, to maximize the party’s chance to win. That looks sound on paper, but implementing it faces a serious obstacle: the party’s primary voters.Democratic Party primary voters are significantly more progressive and left-leaning than they were even in 2008. That fact was driven home in two high-profile mayoral races, in New York City and Seattle, where little-known progressive challengers easily defeated well-known establishment figures.Those contests are especially significant when one applies those results to the method by which Democrats traditionally apportion convention delegates....

When attorney Harmeet Dhillon was announced as Donald Trump’s choice to lead the DOJ Civil Rights Division in December 2024, we knew he’d picked someone who wasn’t coming to D.C. to mess around. And since her confirmation in April, the former California RNC chair and founder of the Dhillon Law Group, as well as the Center for American Liberty, has been very busy indeed.On Friday, the assistant attorney general announced that her team had uncovered some serious anomalies in voter rolls around the nation — hundreds of thousands of them.According to Dhillon, federal investigators have identified 260,000 dead individuals still...

Gen Z and Millennials will make up 60% of the votes in upcoming elections. The successful leaders will have done the work and articulated the principles that motivate this up-and-coming group. The old platitudes will not work. Neither will the old political parties. These younger citizens reject the petulant Baby-Boomers’ vitriol and want answers to hard questions. These are the same questions every generation asks. It’s just gotten very real for this generation, and they want workable answers, not platitudes. The excesses of past generations have finally come home to roost. The national debt crushes the younger generation’s ability to...

The Schumer Shutdown has been going on for more than a month now. It started on October 1, and the Senate won't even be able to have another vote on it until Tuesday at the earliest. The extended shutdown is raising concerns, particularly about funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and how it may be impacting air travel. 🚨For those traveling in and out of Newark — expect significant delays. We HAVE to reduce flight volumes to MAINTAIN SAFETY 🚨This is exactly what @SenSchumer and @RepJeffries want — to inflict maximum pain on the American people!The moment they...

Kamala Harris says the voting age should be lowered to 16 because young people "fear they'll be wiped out by extreme weather & they fear having children”

Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson on Tuesday announced her office has completed its review of the state's voter registration list against citizenship data in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ SAVE database. Nelson said she has identified over 2,000 potential noncitizens, who possibly voted illegally in recent state elections. The list of potential noncitizens have been turned over to local counties, who will conduct their own investigations into the eligibility of the identified voters. Those the state believes voted in a state election illegally will be referred to the Office of the Attorney General for prosecution. “Only eligible United...

Katie Porter was exposed for berating a staffer and throwing a tantrum during an interview in two video clips this week. And the California governor candidate is even worse when cameras aren’t rolling, one ex-staffer told The Post Friday. One of the lawyer and politician’s cruelest tactics is dehumanizing her young underlings by referring to them in the third person — while in their presence. “It was easier for her to do these things to the quieter ones, the more soft-spoken ones, who wouldn’t be like, ‘hey, that’s not okay,’ ” Sasha Georgiades, a former Wounded Warrior Fellow and Navy...

Today, Judge Michael P. Maxwell of the Waukesha County Circuit Court issued a ruling in the case Cerny v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) that requires the WEC to verify the U.S. citizenship of ALL voter registration applicants and review existing voter rolls for non-citizens. The WEC and local officials must fulfill their duties and are barred from registering anyone without verification of US citizenship. The court also mandated collaboration between the parties to create a plan, utilizing Department of Transportation (DOT) records or other legal methods to identify ineligible registrants. This review must be substantially completed before the next statewide...

REDDING, Calif. — Shasta County's transition from a "general law" to a "charter" county, approved by voters through Measure D in March of last year, is now under scrutiny due to an administrative oversight. Board Chair Kevin Crye says while the measure passed, the paperwork was never sent to the Secretary of State as required by law. ...

The diversity-visa jihadi has rolled over the Democrats’ audacious plan to win a no-strings amnesty for millions of young DACA illegals during the Christmas budget fight by using activists and skewed polls to bluff and intimidate GOP leaders.That power-grab was first blocked by President Donald Trump’s October 8 demand that any amnesty complies with his poll-tested list of immigration principles. On Nov. 1, he dramatically stepped up the pressure, telling the media directly that he wanted a quick end to the diversity visa lottery and chain migration: So we want to immediately work with Congress on the Diversity Lottery Program, on terminating it,...

Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s California-sized meltdowns are as hilarious as they are revealing. The oily-haired idiot needs to shut up. On Thursday, his constantly moving mouth had him spilling the frijoles on why Democrats hate ICE and why the protection of illegal aliens is so important to their party’s hold on power in the Golden State. Those reasons? Illegal aliens are voting in elections! Hear Newsom yourself. (WATCH)

WASHINGTON – Louisiana is now urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule a key section of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, which would throw out the state's congressional map that has two minority-majority districts. “The Constitution forbids sorting voters by race. And telling legislators drawing maps to think about race, but not think too much about race, is an untenable standard,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said after releasing Wednesday afternoon a 58-page brief filed with the Supreme Court. Louisiana had previously defended the maps, saying they had created them under protest when a federal judge ruled a previous map...

A member of the Democratic National Committee admitted that so-called nonpartisan voter registration schemes were always, in fact, partisan. The New York Times’ Shane Goldmacher and Jonah Smith concede in an analysis on Democrats’ cratering voter registration numbers that “For years, the left has relied on a sprawling network of nonprofits — which solicit donations from people whose identities they need not disclose — to register Black, Latino and younger voters. Though the groups are technically nonpartisan, the underlying assumption has been that most new voters registering would vote Democrat.” But it’s Democrat strategist and member of the Democratic National...

I am generally bullish about Democrats’ chances of retaking the House majority in 2026. That’s because the history of midterm elections is pretty overwhelming when it comes to seat losses for the president’s party. When a president is unpopular in polls—as Donald Trump is today—those losses are even steeper. And yet, I don’t think a Democratic-controlled House is in the bag just yet. Why? Well, for much of the past year, I have been hearing from smart Democratic strategists who insist that their party has fallen badly behind Republicans in one of the critical nuts and bolts needed for winning...