President Biden’s plummeting approval ratings are bad news for Democrats hoping to buck history and avoid big losses in the midterm elections. The fact that approximately a million voters have switched to the Republican Party in the last year is another sign of growing dissatisfaction with the Biden administration. Straight Arrow News contributor John Fortier…

Democratic lawmakers are pushing to change the Supreme Court. Demands to “pack the court” began in earnest during the 2020 election after former President Donald Trump saw his three nominees to the high court confirmed. Those calls have seen a revival in recent weeks following multiple rulings from the latest SCOTUS term. Several high-profile decisions…

The Supreme Court upset more than a handful of lawmakers and activists on the American left with several of the recent rulings from its latest term. Now, Democrats are reviving their calls to “pack the court,” hoping to pressure Congress and the president to expand the high court and fill the new vacancies with justices…

With Biden’s approval ratings below those of Trump’s at this point in his presidency, and with nose-bleed inflation in an upward trend, Republicans smell blood. 34 Senate seats and all 435 House seats are up for election on November 8, 2022, and there’s a general consensus the GOP will win back the majority. Straight Arrow…

The latest round of primaries for November’s midterms unfolded in Maine, Nevada, South Carolina and Texas. South Carolina’s primaries produced mixed results for former President Donald Trump. In perhaps the biggest win for Trump, five-term Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC) lost his primary to state Rep. Russell Fry. According to the state’s elections website, it wasn’t…

Free and fair elections are the foundation of democratic societies. But not all elections are the same. There are two main types of election systems: single member, simple plurality, or SMSP, and proportional representation.  This article will explain how they both work and how they correspond to elections in the United States and around the…

The Census Bureau announced Thursday that 14 states had population miscounts as part of its 2020 survey of the United States’ population. The discrepancy is big enough for the agency to label it “statistically significant.”  The bureau’s “Post-Enumeration Survey” is conducted to gauge the accuracy of the latest census data. The PES found significant undercounts…

The midterm elections are less than six months away, and advance polling shows that President Biden’s declining public approval numbers are at the lowest point of his presidency. A major factor is the faltering U.S. economy, with two-thirds of the nation disapproving of Biden’s leadership. History is not on the side of Democrats heading into…

Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter has been trending from the moment the world’s richest man initially made the offer. Musk has discussed several ways in which he hopes to change the social media company, even as the White House discusses overhauling Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the ACLU raises concerns about…

Fewer than six months before the crucial midterm elections, it’s still not entirely certain which party is going to come out as the victor after the votes are tallied on Nov. 8, 2022. The Republican Party is seen by many as the favorite, given that historically, the president’s party almost always loses the midterms. Add…