Yesterday, two versions of Colorado's controversial Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) went before the voters in Washington state and Maine. Where, in...
Mike Lux | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Conservatives understand that a headline the day after the Maine initiative about them succeeding at rolling back the gay marriage bill helps them build momentum, and helps deflate and discourage progressives.
McClatchy | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Washington election workers say they've never seen a ballot measure attract as much scrutiny as this year's Referendum 71, which would strike down a l...
Kristina Wilfore | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Only by implementing solutions to the problems that exist will states be able to provide people with a ballot measure process that works for voters instead of against them.
Christine Pelosi | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
Today's California Supreme Court ruling on Prop 8 all but invited marriage equality proponents back to the ballot box.
Brian Normoyle | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
The voters of California sent another message that they want their leaders and legislators to do their jobs. The problem is the very system used to send this message is at least partially to blame for the state's problems.
Nato Green | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics
If it's not worth it to win marriage equality, to unite to spite the right, it's definitely worth it to stop the insurgent Iowan and Vermontian hubris and salvage our street cred among freaks.
Kristina Wilfore | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
If you read this headline and you're automatically thinking, "Wait, what about California, you fool?! Don't you care about marriage equality?" Just h...
Joel Barkin | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
The table is set to wipe away the legacy of decades of failed conservative ideology, but what becomes of that opportunity is up to us.
Gary Cohan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Civil rights are not won in the war zone of national elections or State referenda but, rather, in a series of small but important evolutionary steps.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
We want to assure you that partisan attacks will not interfere with ACORN members' determination to involve low-income, minority, and new American voters across the country.
Kristina Wilfore | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Brace yourselves people...on Tuesday progressives will advance important victories on a number of ballot measures including health care reform In Mont...
Jessica Arons | Posted 11.30.2008 | Living
Unless voters in South Dakota, Colorado, and California defeat these measures this Election Day, an abortion ban may be coming soon to a place near you.
Kristina Wilfore | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
Several producers of antigay propaganda also market anti-Mormon propaganda -- but now Mormons are joining forces with them over Prop 8.
Kristina Wilfore | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
Ward Connerly, the California lobbyist who has been running a divisive, multi-million dollar campaign to outlaw equal opportunity programs across the ...
David Goldstein | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics
The Catholic Church has started pouring in hundreds of thousands of dollars from dioceses across the nation to fight I-1000, Washington's Death with Dignity initiative.
Kristina Wilfore | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
McCain's choice is clear: flip-flop and pander to the right wing or oppose these divisive initiatives as he has in the past. To stay "mum" on the issue is not "straight talk" we can believe in.
Ryan Rivera | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home
With a new poll finding 63 percent of Americans see gay marriage as a "strictly private" decision out of bounds for government regulation, John McCain's recently reiterated position that marriage should be between one man and one woman puts him in the minority.
Ryan Rivera | Posted 05.28.2008 | Home
The Calif. court ruling to "destroy the man-woman definition of marriage" is akin to Nazis "following orders to gas the Jews?" Really? That's the language of a major campaign presently underway to sway Calif. judges.
ColoradoPols | Posted 11.04.2009 | Denver