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Somali Americans cast their early votes at the Lansing City Clerk's office on November 2, 2020 in Lansing, Michigan. In 2016 U.S. President Donald Trump narrowly won Michigan, which is now a main battleground state. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
The national civil liberties group says that it "is at the ready to act swiftly and use all of the tools and resources at our disposal to protect the vote."

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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This plan appears to be nothing but a thinly-veiled effort to deploy federal government personnel to communities in so-called 'battleground states.'"


Motorists queue at a drive-through voting station in Harris County, Texas on October 7, 2020. (Photo: Go Nakamura/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"This is what democracy looks like," said one ACLU lawyer. "Our justice system did its duty today to ensure voting rights are protected and our democracy remains intact."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We will not allow that to happen. Every vote must and will be counted."

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Members of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing paramilitary group, traveled to Louisville, Kentucky on September 24, 2020, where they clashed with demonstrators protesting the lack of criminal charges in the police killing of Breonna Taylor. (Photo: Jeff Dean/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"If you want to dress up like a G.I. Joe and claim you are protecting the polls when we all know what you're really doing is intimidating voters, you're getting locked up," said Larry Krasner.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday denounced the "audacity" of Shell Oil, the international multi-billion-dollar oil and gas company, after it waded into the global discussion about the climate crisis by asking members of the public what they would do to reduce carbon emissions. 



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A minister in Alamance County, North Carolina on Monday said he and other voting rights advocates intend to return to the streets on Election Day, three days after police pepper sprayed a gathering of 200 marchers in Graham, N.C. as they held a Get Out the Vote rally. 



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Our progressive values are on the ballot—and the progress we're fighting for isn't possible under a Trump presidency."


The White House is seen on June 5, 2020 through several layers of security fencing and barricades that were erected amid demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in late May. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Does this feel like preparation for a peaceful transfer of power?"



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This aggressive, abusive conduct by his supporters results from Trump continuing to incite acts of intimidation and violence."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
President Donald Trump on Sunday night suggested he would fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, should he stay in office following Election Day, after the public health expert spoke to the Washington Post about the White House's coronavirus response.

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A front yard placard states "VOTE HIM OUT BEFORE HE KILLS US ALL!!" and multiple campaign signs in support of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on the penultimate day before the general election on November 1, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The grassroots get of the vote campaign efforts of canvassing, door knocking, literature drops, phone calling, and texting, will prove crucial in determening the outcome of voter turnout and ultimately the presidency. (Photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images)

by Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Ellsberg
The best hope of removing Trump from the White House is a landslide victory for Biden.


Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says "one day" as he arrives to board his campaign plane at New Castle Airport on November 02, 2020 in New Castle, Delaware. One day before the election, Biden is campaigning in Ohio and Pennsylvania, a key battleground state that President Donald Trump won narrowly in 2016. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
"This could be our last chance to send the American dictator packing," says @MichaelWinship in latest for @CommonDreams


Trump's anti-worker, pro-corporate agenda provides a direct reality check on the myth that the career businessman is any kind of "populist." (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Christopher D. Cook
Despite the "populist" myth, Trump has decimated workers' rights and protections.


Trump 2017 tax break for corporations and the wealthy has encouraged them to move further offshore, taking jobs overseas. (Photo: Backbone Campaign/flickr/cc)

by Juan Cole
Trump has promoted coal burning, the dirtiest fossil fuel and the one most deadly to the health of the earth’s climate.


In a racially coded and distinctly nationalist fashion, Nixon brought southern whites in the formerly Democratic bastions of the South definitively into the Republican fold. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images and CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)

by Tom Engelhardt
America in the mid-seventies and 2020.


President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos attend a roundtable on reopening schools at the White House on August 12, 2020. (Photo: Shealah Craighead/Flickr)

by Jeff Bryant
Covid-19 exposed how important teachers are to students and families—it's a shame that school leaders still won't listen to them.

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