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#WATCHING live NOW
– #USElections results with Democracy Now! & The Intercept
watch here: https://www.democracynow.org/live/watch_election_night_2018_coverage_with
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https://www.facebook.com/democracynow/videos/2288801478007403

#UPDATE The make-up of the outgoing US Congress and governorships, showing which seats are up for election in the midterms #Midterm2018

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1059845367288729600

U.S. Elections Are Neither Free Nor Fair. States Need to Open Their Doors to More Observers.

‘…On October 26, the OSCE – The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Washington, D.C., issued an interim report on the 2018 midterms. It didn’t make for pleasant reading. “The right to vote is subject to many limitations,” warned the report, “with racial minorities disproportionately impacted.”…’

report pdf: https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/usa/401243

Article: https://theintercept.com/2018/11/05/u-s-elections-are-neither-free-nor-fair-states-need-to-open-their-doors-to-more-observers/

Republicans attack Jewish candidates across the U.S. with an age-old caricature: Fistfuls of cash

‘…“It’s not by chance that they’re showing people showing money. It’s not by chance that these people happen to be Jews, and it’s not by chance that there’s more talk about people’s Jewish identity in politics,” [Omer Bartov, a professor of European history at Brown University] said. “Some genie is being let out of the bottle.”…’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/06/republicans-attack-jewish-candidates-across-us-with-an-age-old-caricature-fistfuls-cash