Since the 2020 presidential election, an amalgam of voter fraud conspiracies dubbed “the Big Lie” have become a unifying force in mainstream Republican politics. This misinformation movement led by former President Donald Trump inspired the January 6th insurrection by falsely asserting the presidential election was stolen through ballot manipulation, intentional software malfunctions and illegal votes.…
A commission tasked by the state legislature with analyzing how policies impact communities of color in Maine is recommending lawmakers pass 46 bills to help address racial disparities in the state. In a report released Monday, the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous and Maine Tribal Populations split the measures into 26 bills…
One day before Tuesday’s primary, Mainers received robo-calls from a conservative political action committee claiming that the ACLU is opposed to ranked-choice voting (RCV)–an assertion the rights group is blasting as “deceptive” and “designed to mislead voters.” Ranked-choice voting is one of the top features of the day, with the first ever statewide ranked choice…
Maine immigrants and civil rights advocates are calling the new immigration order released by the Trump administration on Monday both unjust and unconstitutional. The Executive Order, which is written to go into effect on March 16th, implements a 90-day ban on the issuance of new visas for citizens of six Muslim-majority countries including Iran, Sudan,…