Author: Tony Prettyman

The Washington Post editorial board believes that voters, at least in the future, will remember who supported Donald Trump and will punish them at the voting booth, but history tells us otherwise. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: Recently the Washington Post Editorial Board put out a story saying that history is going to remember those Trump loving Republican politicians. That they stood up for Trump, that they defended Trump, that they thought Trump was their guy. In time they are absolutely going to be punished by American voters. I respectfully disagree...

This week, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Ohio’s repressive voting laws that will result in the provisional ballots of thousands of Ohio voters (mostly minority voters) being thrown out. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear a case from the State of Ohio that would have granted some citizens in the state a little bit of leeway in terms of filling out a provisional ballot. As it stands right now, the State of Ohio has one of the most stringent...

The Republican Party has never been shy about their plot to prevent people of color from voting, but a new string of emails reveals that they actively lobbied North Carolina precincts to limit early voting in order to prevent black people from voting. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: According to a new investigation by the Reuters News Agency, e-mails have been uncovered from GOP officials in North Carolina to precincts in the state of North Carolina urging them, begging them, lobbying them to shorten poll hours and to open fewer polling...