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05.02.2026 - 23:46 [ Norman Solomon / Common Dreams ]

Ending GOP Authoritarianism Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership

(January 20, 2026)

A key reason is a reality that Sen. Bernie Sanders described soon after Trump’s 2016 win: “Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.”

Democratic Party leaders should be removed from seats of party power or bypassed as relics of bygone eras. Their ongoing refusals to distance from corporate power, rich elites, and militarism have alienated much of the party’s base.

As I wrote in my free new book The Blue Road to Trump Hell, “The Democratic Party enabled Donald Trump to become president twice because of repetition compulsions that still plague the top echelons of the party.” To eject Republicans from power – and to advance a strong progressive agenda – true leadership must come from grassroots mobilization.

05.02.2026 - 22:29 [ Politico.com ]

Democrats want to find out why their voters stayed home in 2024 — and how to get them to show up this year

“We didn’t lose to Donald Trump. We lost to the couch,” DNC Deputy Executive Director Libby Schneider said in an interview. “We saw our voters, many of our important voters, stay home. Obviously, that is a trend that cannot continue.”

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“If we want to keep earning back the trust and support of voters, we have to listen to them,” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement. “The Democratic Party is done with waiting until the last minute to engage voters — these conversations need to happen early and often.”

04.11.2025 - 13:57 [ CBS News ]

NYC early voting ends with record turnout, shattering 2021 stats

Early voting has ended in New York City, and the initial numbers show the highest early voting turnout for a non-presidential election in the city.

The New York City Board of Elections reported 735,317 early voting check-ins over the past nine days. That‘s more than four times the total from the 2021 mayoral race, which reported only 169,879 early voting check-ins for the general election.

04.11.2025 - 13:50 [ AMNY.com ]

2025 Mayor’s Race – EARLY VOTING: Turnout sets a non-presidential election year record as NYC Mayor’s Race energizes the city

A whopping 732,866 voters cast ballots over the nine days of early voting in the New York City mayor’s race this year, according to an amNewYork analysis of early voter data from the city Board of Elections.

The general election’s early voting turnout this year marked the highest number of votes cast before Election Day in a non-presidential election year since the city implemented early voting in 2019.

04.11.2025 - 13:33 [ Salon.com ]

Health care, housing and wages: Antonio Delgado says New York Democrats need to stand for something

(March 20, 2025)

„Ultimately, we don‘t have a unified front where everybody‘s on the same page about saying, “Hey, wait a second. We‘re all trying to make a living here. We‘re all trying to get by, irrespective of race, irrespective of gender and sexual orientation. We‘re all trying to make a living. Why is it so hard for all of us to make a living?”

We have to be able to address it, because if we don‘t address it, then we will continue to be in the stock that we‘re in, because people will not invest in the system. They will stay home; 500,000 Democrats stayed home in New York. So people are staying home.“

16.05.2022 - 16:12 [ WDR ]

Landtagswahl in NRW: Historisch niedrige Wahlbeteiligung schadete vor allem der SPD

Ganz egal, welche Parteien am Ende die neue Landesregierung stellen und wie es politisch in NRW weitergeht, eines steht schon jetzt fest: Allein wegen der Wahlbeteiligung wird die Landtagswahl 2022 in die Geschichte eingehen. Seitdem Nordrhein-Westfalen 1950 zum ersten Mal einen Landtag wählte, gaben noch nie so wenige Menschen ihre Stimme ab: nur 55,5 Prozent der Wahlberechtigten.

15.05.2022 - 19:17 [ Nabard Faiz / Nitter.net ]

56% Wahlbeteiligung in NRW. Irgendwie machen ALLE demokratischen Parteien bei der Mobilisierung von WählerInnen was falsch.

24.03.2021 - 12:43 [ Ynetnews,com ]

IDF reports 20-year high in military voter turnout

Military spokesperson says 77% of eligible voters had cast their vote, while the voter turnout in the general public stood at only 67.2%;

24.03.2021 - 12:38 [ Henry Olsen / Twitter ]

Last tweet of the night. Likud‘s claim it would get more Arab votes is being proven true. Arab turnout is way down from 2020 but the number of Likud votes in Arab areas is up, which means its percentage of the Arab vote is way up. Might be enough to save Bibi.

(7 hours ago)

24.03.2021 - 12:13 [ Haaretz ]

Israel Election Results: Arab Political Alliance Failed to Gauge Voters‘ Anger, Frustration

It seems that the breakup of the Joint List persuaded Arab citizens to vote with their feet and stay home

03.03.2021 - 09:32 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Streit über das Wahlsystem in den USA

Für liberale und linke Wahlaktivisten ist das der größte Wurf seit dem Voting Rights Act von 1965. Aus dem anderen politischen Lager heißt es: Mit dieser Reform wollen die Demokraten einen Wahlsieg der republikanischen Partei für immer verhindern.

31.10.2020 - 12:24 [ Politico.com ]

‚We’ve got to stop the bleeding‘: Democrats sound alarm in Miami

Democrats are sounding the alarm about weak voter turnout rates in Florida’s biggest county, Miami-Dade, where a strong Republican showing is endangering Joe Biden’s chances in the nation’s biggest swing state.

No Democrat can win Florida without a huge turnout and big winning margins here to offset losses elsewhere in the state. But Democrats are turning out at lower rates than Republicans and at lower rates than at this point in 2016, when Hillary Clinton won by 29 percentage points here and still lost the state to Donald Trump.

21.07.2019 - 17:57 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Oberhauswahl: Japans Regierungspartei vor deutlichem Sieg

Auch wenn viele Japaner mit der Regierung unzufrieden sind, kann Ministerpräsident Abe offenbar einen deutlichen Wahlsieg verbuchen. Damit steigen seine Chancen, die pazifistische Verfassung zu ändern.

13.06.2018 - 16:54 [ ]

Höchste Wahlbeteiligung bei Kommunalwahlen seit 23 Jahren

Die Wahlkommission führte die hohe Wahlbeteiligung unter anderem darauf zurück, dass anlässlich der Präsidentschaftswahlen im letzten Jahr das Interesse der Bürger an politischer Beteiligung gestiegen sei. Die aktive Teilnahme an den Vorauswahlen habe ebenfalls eine Rolle gespielt.

09.04.2018 - 12:45 [ Pester Lloyd ]

News und Forum zur Wahl in Ungarn am 8. April

Orbán bleibt absoluter Alleinherrscher in Ungarn. Die Opposition hat auf ganzer Linie verloren, Fidesz legt bei Zweitstimmen nochmals zu (auf fast 50%) und holt damit auf, was man an einigen Direktmandaten verloren hat. In Summe gewinnt Orbáns Partei noch ein Mandat mehr und holt sich die 2/3-Mehrheit zurück.