This year’s meeting of the Electoral College took on greater importance due to Donald Trump and his followers’ refusal to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Pro-Biden states deliver furious rejoinder to Republican AGs’ attempt to throw election
Texas and a cohort of other states with Republican attorneys general don’t want Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to be sworn in on January 20th. So, in an unprecedented move, they’re asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the will of the people.
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Book Review: The airing of grievances in Donna Brazile’s “Hacks” comes at her true crime memoir’s expense
Read NPI’s review of Donna Brazile’s Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House. The book has been portrayed in the mass media as a juicy tell-all, but a good chunk of it is actually a cybersecurity clinic that’s worth reading.
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Pacific Northwest unlikely to gain U.S. House seats in 2020 reapportionment, data indicates
Shortly before Christmas, the United States Census Bureau released its 2014 State and National Population Estimates. Strikingly, the data released by the Census Bureau shows that the United States’ population is growing at slowest rate since 1937. There is a parallel: Then, as now, we were witnessing a combination of recovery from a weak economy […]
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LIVE from Olympia: Washington’s electors meet to vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden
Good afternoon from Olympia! Eve and I are here at the Washington State Capitol Campus to witness one of many Electoral College meetings taking place across the United States. Twelve individuals, chosen by the Washington State Democratic Party, are here to cast votes for president and vice president on behalf of the people of the […]