Election Reform Editor for IVN.us since 2012. Studied history and philosophy at University of North Texas. Covers political and election reform efforts nationwide with deep expertise on the reform movement. Based in San Diego, CA.
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WikiLeaks wants President Trump's tax returns since he will not release them himself. WikiLeaks took to Twitter Sunday, claiming that if the White House doesn't release them, they would. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/823212055322853382 Responding to a White House petition that calls on President Trump
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January 20, 2017, marked the 58th Inaugural Ceremony and the swearing in of President Donald J. Trump. Trump's speech, though brief, focused on what he asserts his 2016 presidential campaign was about: taking power away from the Washington elite, the political establishment, and returning it to the people.
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Believe it or not, the Trump administration may be the best thing to happen to journalism in a long time. On Tuesday, the American Press Corps sent an open and rather abrasive letter to President-elect Donald Trump, warning him that denying them access to administration officials or the White House
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AP reported Tuesday afternoon that President Barack Obama officially commuted the 35-year sentence of Chelsea Manning. Manning (born Bradley Manning) was charged and convicted in 2013 under the Espionage Act for leaking classified military documents and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. President Obama announced that Manning would be freed on May
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San Diego, Calif. - U.S. Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) released a statement Monday announcing that he will be attending President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony Friday, saying he "greatly respects the office of the Presidency, even if he does not respect the man who will now inhabit
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With the 2016 elections in the rear view mirror, politicos now look ahead to the 2018 midterm elections. In Maine, there are lingering questions over how ranked choice voting, approved by voters in 2016, will alter the state's political landscape. READ MORE: Ranked Choice Voting Advocates Celebrate Historic
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The AFP reported Thursday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to extradition to the United States on one condition: President Barack Obama must first grant clemency to imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years for leaking sensitive military and diplomatic documents published by WikiLeaks in 2010.
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The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the nation's largest marijuana policy organization, released a statement Tuesday, January 10, regarding U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions' remarks on prohibition enforcement during his confirmation hearing before the Senate. Sessions is President-elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. attorney general,
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi doesn't like that the media reported on the DNC and Podesta email hacks and went so far Friday as to say members of the press were accomplices in what she calls Russia's attempt to influence US elections. “I really say to
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Kim Guadagno, who is New Jersey's lieutenant governor and secretary of state, is expected to run for governor in the GOP's June primary election against Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli. Guadagno is currently considered the odds-on favorite to win a primary election that is not likely to turn
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U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have re-introduced legislation in the 115th Congress that calls for a complete audit of the Federal Reserve. Similar legislation has stalled in previous Congresses, but this time it may have a new ally: Donald Trump. President-elect Donald
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I know what you are thinking. How could the democratic process have possibly won in 2016? If anything, the 2016 elections showed just how much control two private political corporations -- the Republican and Democratic Parties -- have over elections. And you are right. It did. However, 2016 proved something