election

05 Nov 2024

Why California’s Election Results May Take Weeks to Finalize

California’s statewide elections often take several weeks to be finalized, with the 2024 primary results not being called until two weeks after the election, and the 2022 general election not being called until December 2.

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03 Jan 2024

California’s Confusing Primary Voting Process Explained

Welcome to one of the most confusing parts of the election process in California: the Closed Primary.

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10 Jul 2024

This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

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27 Jul 2022

Sex Shop Owner to Run for Oakland City Council

Nenna Joiner is running for councilmember of Oakland’s District 4, a combination of hills and flatlands, wealth and wage workers. District 4 is home to an inarguably diverse voting range. It includes Montclair, Redwood Heights, Laurel, Glenview and the Dimond District, with California State Route 13 running up the middle.

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09 Feb 2021

Trump Team Resorts to Threats in Impeachment Defense

“Remember this day forever!” The Senate convened Tuesday to try former President Donald Trump for his incitement of a violent insurrection that ultimately resulted in seven deaths, countless injuries and devastating damage to the U.S. Capitol, both to the building and democratic principles it was built to uphold.  Neither side

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17 Nov 2020

Two Weeks After Election, Trump Refuses to Concede As Giuliani Takes Madman Routine to Court

Tuesday marks 14 days since the Nov. 3 election when the nation overwhelmingly chose to seat President-Elect Joe Biden, but the reality has failed to set in for ousted President Donald J. Trump and his most ferocious supporters. In a rare moment of blissful silence, Trump hadn’t yet used his

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29 Sep 2020

Trump v. Biden: Why the Debate is Almost Pointless

Former Vice President Joe Biden faces President Donald Trump Tuesday night on the debate stage, but voters hoping for any level of substantive policy discussion are almost guaranteed to walk away disappointed. Trump’s debate performance in the 2016 campaign was all insult where intellect should be, and nothing in the

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27 May 2020

Trump’s Assault on the Election is Just Warming Up

Donald Trump is on a rampage against mail-in ballots for the upcoming November election, asserting that large-scale voter fraud is an inevitable result. At least that’s his assertion now that the state of California is going in that direction — not so much when slightly less progressive states implemented similar

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04 Mar 2020

Fear and Loathing on the Rotting Democratic Campaign Trail

By Ian Firstenberg  Democratic rot gives way to a new breed of political monster. Hazy and loathsome lanyards lean into the liberatarian right.  The stench of corruption has wafted from Washington DC for years — certain people in the District are inextricably tied to the deepest parts of large financial

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