The Constitutional Court of Romania has rejected the appeals of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu against a ban on his candidacy in upcoming elections, a move supporters have claimed is an affront to the democratic process.
President Volodymyr Zelensky insists he’s so popular you’d have to ban him from office to prevent him from winning the next Ukraine election.
The sovereigntist frontrunner in Romania’s annulled election, Călin Georgescu, was detained by police and charged by prosecutors on Wednesday amid accusations that his campaign was aided by Russia and shortly after U.S. Vice President JD Vance warned of threats against democracy in the Eastern European nation.
President Donald Trump is an “aspiring dictator,” likened to both Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Roman emperor Augustus Caesar, according to a Presidents Day Salon piece that warns his presidency is leading to the downfall of American democracy.
The Washington swamp and its media allies have settled on their line of attack against the new Trump administration, and it’s a tired one: Our democracy is in peril!
Much of the nation is experiencing deep existential grief following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, writes Salon.com, with some risking “PTSD, substance abuse and mental health issues.”
Donald Trump’s return to the presidency is a major threat to democracy and Democrats need to “find a new way to defeat him,” according to the left-leaning New Republic, which lambasted the returning president’s “nakedly fascistic agenda,” and calls to “extinguish the growing movement he leads.”
Germany’s ambassador to the United States reportedly warned that Donald Trump’s incoming administration will undermine “basic democratic principles” and seek a “redefinition of the constitutional order.”
President Joe Biden declared during his farewell address that an “oligarchy” of the “ultra-wealthy” and powerful is forming that “threatens our entire democracy.”
Former President Barack Obama on Thursday claimed the moral high ground by cautioning “one side” of politics is going to “stack the deck” by stealing elections and politicize the U.S. government.
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was upbeat and defiant at his trial in Hong Kong on Wednesday, facing down a kangaroo court appointed by the Communist-controlled puppet government to prosecute him under the fascist “national security law” imposed by Beijing.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that “when the Democrats lose, the mass is over, go in peace. When the Republicans lose, we have a riot, and we pretend every election is bullshit. This is
A cohort of 113 members of Germany’s Bundestag parliament have signed onto a motion calling for the Federal Constitutional Court to consider banning the right-wing anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Recent simulations conducted by left-leaning anti-Trump experts envision the U.S. facing an unprecedented erosion of democratic norms under a second Trump administration, according to Transition Integrity Project co-founder Rosa Brooks, who suggested the recent “war games” demonstrated the need for “creative” resistance and “harm reduction” tactics to counter what she describes as “autocratic” maneuvers President Donald Trump would employ.
Former President Donald Trump is poised to secure a significant electoral victory, potentially “sweeping battleground states,” according to Rasmussen’s head pollster, who sees the current race favoring Trump in the national popular vote, suggesting a larger “political realignment” is underway, and foreseeing an outcome that could echo — or even exceed — Ronald Reagan’s historic landslide win over Jimmy Carter in 1980.
The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times are “betraying democracy” by refusing to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, according to the left-wing magazine The Nation
A report published on Monday by Oxfam claimed that “carbon inequality” – meaning “the emissions of the world’s super-rich 1%” – is “causing economic losses of trillions of dollars, contributing to huge crop losses, and leading to millions of excess deaths.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” host Abby Phillip stated that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris getting the Democratic nomination without having to go through any primaries isn’t undemocratic and “has absolutely nothing to do with the
Former President Donald Trump would do a better job of defending democracy than Vice President Kamala Harris, a Washington Post/Schar School poll of key swing states found.
Donald Trump is a menacing “villain” who would empower violent paramilitary groups and undermine American democracy if he returned to the White House, according to a recent piece in The New Yorker, which describes the former president as a “distinctively vile” and “singularly dangerous” political figure whose opponents “haven’t grasped the scale of [his] villainy.”
During an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” released on Monday, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris responded to a question on whether President Joe Biden stepping down and endorsing her and her not having to go through a
Moderators of the vice presidential debate Tuesday evening on CBS claimed that democracy is the #2 issue in the country, behind the economy and inflation.
A 27-year-old man named Chu Kai-pong pled guilty to “sedition” in a Hong Kong court Monday because he wore a t-shirt with a protest slogan.
Algerian election officials on Sunday declared incumbent President Abulmadjid Tebboune the winner of a dubious election with 95 percent of the vote.
Federal prosecutors filed charges in New York on Monday against Yuanjun Tang, a Chinese dissident and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, for working as an illegal operative of the People’s Republic of China.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a historic speech on Friday, laid out some of the issues with the Democrat Party, saying it dismantled democracy.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Making Money,” 2024 Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated that the Democratic Party is “destroying democracy” in the name of saving it. Kennedy said, “[W]hen I was a kid, the
Former President Donald Trump reacted to leftists calling him a “threat to democracy,” saying, “Last week, I took a bullet for democracy” while speaking at his campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday.
ROME — Pope Francis warned Sunday democracy is in “crisis” around the world, likely with an eye to a rise in right-wing parties across Italy, Austria, Argentina, Netherlands, and Germany.
President Joe Biden must step down from office “for the sake of the planet,” according to a recent New Republic piece highlighting the “rambling octogenarian’s” debate struggles, questioning Democratic leadership before the November election while warning of a “crisis of potentially untold magnitude” as a result of Democrats continuing to “burn through their credibility” by “telling voters to ignore the obvious.”
President Joe Biden attacked tens of millions of Americans on Thursday night during the first 2024 presidential debate against former President Donald Trump, claiming that Trump supporters are voting “against democracy.”
Donald Trump is the stronger candidate to protect democracy, a poll found, undercutting the Biden campaign’s leading reelection pitch.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live,” Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) stated that while Republicans do it more, there are plenty of Democrats who “go after the system of justice in the United States by claiming that it is
During a sermon at the University of Illinois Chicago, a speaker for the campus’s Muslim Students Association denounced America and democracy, describing them as a “cancer” spreading worldwide, while advocating for the adoption of Islam as the “new way of life” for humanity.
Biden Campaign Co-Chair Mitch Landrieu stated that in order for 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump “to be President of the United States, he has to destroy democracy.”
A Hong Kong court approved the Communist-controlled government’s effort to ban “Glory to Hong Kong,” the anthem of the 2019 protests.
Americans are evenly divided on which 2024 presidential candidate they trust to handle “protecting democracy,” a poll revealed Sunday.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that voters who aren’t talking about democracy and are worried about the cost of living instead “need to be slapped up the head,” because the democracy issue is important
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) stated that some Democrats aren’t “embracing the spirit of liberal democracy” with their position on the campus demonstrations. Bowman said, “Young people are frustrated, they are angry, they
U.S. forces were expelled from both Niger and Chad this week, dealing a serious blow to the Biden administration’s diplomacy and counter-terrorism policies in Africa.
