Alexandria Jacobson

When ICE agents smashed their vehicle into a pick-up truck last week and detained a man on a Chicago highway, protests erupted — and an impromptu action meeting was called to hit what the community is calling a "shadow surge."The urgent ICE Watch and Community Defense session came together on Friday...

Six months into the planning of an in-person fundraiser with Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Bonnie Raitt and David Crosby, the COVID-19 pandemic derailed the event.The goal had been to raise $150,000 for Democrats in 2020. But the California East Bay chapter of Indivisible was forced to pivot to a mor...

In the Chicago suburbs near where Charlie Kirk attended high school, a couple Republican groups promoted vigils for the one-year anniversary of the right-wing activist’s assassination.The small collection of gatherings stand in stark contrast to the hubbub that occurred in the area a year before whe...

A conservative law firm with deep ties to Justice Clarence Thomas, President Donald Trump and a history of arguing more than a dozen cases on hot-button right-wing causes before the Supreme Court took in more than $33.5 million from nonprofit dark money networks, according to new watchdog research.C...

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), who is running for governor of Arizona, took donations from leaders of an accused anti-LGBTQ+ hate group for which he formerly served as a board member, according to recent state election filings.The Biggs for Arizona campaign took in $3,000 on April 15 from Sharon Slater, pr...

The United States Postal Service is hiring armed security guards through a multinational private contractor with a history of alleged human rights abuses and price fixing, according to a Raw Story investigation.USPS has a contract with Prosegur, a multinational security firm, to provide armed guard ...

Alarms are blaring as the United States Postal Service orders an influx of contracted-out armed security at facilities just weeks before the midterm elections.Nearly 1,000 armed security officers (ASOs) have been deployed in at least 55 USPS facilities through a private contractor, multinational sec...

When James Hicks still supported President Donald Trump, he took to showing his coworkers a Confederate flag wristband he was wearing.Hicks, who is Black, became one of Trump’s Make America Great Again devotees after moving from a mostly Black town to a mostly white city — Conway, Arkansas — while i...

Grassroots organizations across the country are reporting record levels of interest from thousands of volunteers who want to help their neighbors vote and prevent interference with this year’s midterms, organizers said.But, beyond the helpers dressed in bright yellow shirts to answer questions at po...

Closing in on a week before Election Day, a lawyer is pushing state leaders to take legal action to prevent President Donald Trump from interfering in the midterms.Lawyer Kevin K. Johnson wants a lawsuit filed before the midterms to get a court order that would block Trump from disrupting the electi...