US. Rep. and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard released a video statement on Thursday, October 10, saying she is considering boycotting the October 15 DNC debate in response to the DNC and corporate media's attempt to rig the election process.

The Arizona Democratic Party voted down a resolution on September 21 to open the party’s presidential primaries in March to the state’s 1.3 million independent voters.

It could well end up being a case of suicide by stupidity.

With all the news on impeachment updates, a news story that flew under the radar this week was the latest decision by the Supreme Court to punt on a gerrymandering case out of Ohio.

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Who among us could have imagined the post-truth era?

Yet, when ‘alternative facts’ abound, when deception and lies are shrugged off as just spin, when the U.S. president has made tens of thousands of proven false or misleading statements, when fake news penetrates YouTube and Facebook, and then spreads insidiously across the internet, we can no longer deny it. The post-truth era is real — and has tragic consequences.

The parties are not giving voters much choice going into the 2020 presidential election. While there are still 19 candidates running on the Democratic side, party pundits and media allies are declaring it to be a three-person race at this point between Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders, limiting the coverage of all other candidates.

They hand-pick the polls that decide which candidates get on the debate stage. They choose for voters -- even their own -- who is viable and who isn't.