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58 Democrats join House vote to grant Trump additional war and tariff powers
Fifty-eight Democrats in the House of Representatives voted with Republicans Wednesday to grant US President Donald Trump additional war and tariff powers, including the authority to put tariffs as high as 100 percent on goods from China and India. The 58 House Democrats included former Speaker Nan
War powers resolution blocked in the Senate as 10,000 more US troops head to the Middle East
On Wednesday, the US Senate defeated a Democratic Party-sponsored war powers motion aimed at bringing a resolution to the chamber floor calling for the withdrawal of US forces from the war against Iran on the basis that the war was not authorized by Congress. The procedural vote failed 52-47 on a motion to discharge a resolution moved by Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois from committee. The vote permits the Trump administration to continue its illegal war against Iran without any congressional oversight. This was the fourth attempt by the Democrats to posture as opponents of Trump’s warmongering, while they know full well that the resolutions will be blocked by the Republican majority, and while they continue to vote for trillion-dollar military budgets. Journalists in Tehran document damage from U.S.-Israeli strikes in a residential area of the town of Fardis, west of Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 3, 2026. [AP Photo/Vahid Salemi] The failure of the procedural motion means that the resolution never made it to the Senate floor and the merits of the text itself could not be voted on. The vote signifies once again that Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to declare war, is a willing participant in the collapse of democratic government in the US and a facilitator in the establishment of a presidential dictatorship by Donald Trump. Among the notable votes were those from Senators Rand Paul and John Fetterman. Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, voted for the war powers resolution, while Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, voted against it. The two had taken the same positions in earlier Senate measures on Iran war powers. In opposing the extremely mild assertion of the constitutional power of Congress, the Democrat Fetterman restated his unconditional support for Trump’s criminal war, which has killed an estimated 3,636 people, including more than 1,700 civilians. Fetterman said, “we have to stand [with] our military to allow them to accomplish... the goals of Epic Fury.” The text of Duckworth’s resolution sought, “To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress.” The resolution does not declare the war illegal, criminal, or a violation of US and international law. Instead, it accepts the framework of the war and argues that Congress has been incorrectly excluded from the decision-making about launching the war and how to conduct it. Republican opponents of the Senate motion defended the president’s war-making authority and argued that the military campaign was justified by the alleged danger posed by Iran. For example, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch of Idaho stated that the President has a duty to act unilaterally to defend the US and its citizens and claimed the Constitution “clearly gives the president not only the right, but, indeed, the duty, as does his oath, to protect the United States.” This argument backs the lies told by President Trump, Secretary of State Rubio and Secretary of War Hegseth that Iran was two weeks from possessing a nuclear weapon, and there was an imminent threat of attacking the US. Other Republicans focused on the provision in the War Powers Act that permits a limited 60-day use of military force by the president without congressional authorization. This period expires in 16 days. The 1973 War Powers Act was passed after the escalation of the Vietnam War and the exposure of secret US bombing campaigns in Cambodia and Laos by the Nixon administration. It was enacted over Nixon’s veto, which was overridden by two-thirds majorities in both House and Senate. The backdrop to the passage of the act was the horrifying human toll caused by US operations in Indochina which were hidden from the American public. Estimates of the number of deaths in Cambodia and Laos during the secret wars in those countries are in the hundreds of thousands. The purpose of the War Powers Act was to limit the president’s ability to launch or prolong wars without legislative approval. The threat made by Trump on April 7 that, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” which was widely interpreted as a promise to use nuclear weapons against Iran, would dwarf the crimes of Nixon and Kissinger during the Vietnam War. A similar charade was under way in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday with Democrats introducing articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for “unauthorized war against Iran,” “targeting of civilians,” “obstruction of congressional oversight,” “abuse of power” and several other items. The motion is universally recognized as dead on arrival, given the Republican majority in the House. Even if it were passed, a two-thirds vote in the Senate would be required to remove Hegseth from office. Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson dismissed the impeachment motion as an effort to make headlines and said Hegseth will “continue to protect the homeland and project peace through strength.” While Trump announced a two-week ceasefire on April 7, the pause remains unstable. After talks in Pakistan ended on April 11 without an agreement, the White House moved to impose a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, in violation of international law. At a press briefing on Wednesday, the White House said that another round of truce talks is planned in Pakistan. The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) is underway in the Atlantic Ocean. [Photo: Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall] While the Trump administration is publicly talking about diplomacy, the military posture tells a different story. Media reports say that another carrier strike group and additional amphibious and Marine forces are moving into the region, with tens of thousands of troops already there from the first phase of the war. Available from Mehring Books The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran A pamphlet by Keith Jones The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that the US is sending more than 10,000 additional troops to the Middle East before the end of April. Quoting unnamed current and former US officials speaking on condition of anonymity, the Post reported that the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush and the ships escorting it, including 6,000 troops, are on the way to the region. Another 4,200 troops from the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and its embarked Marine Corps task force, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are also expected to arrive in the next two weeks. This buildup is unmistakable evidence that the Pentagon is preparing for a resumption of military operations, regardless of the negotiations. As was the case before the start of the war, the force posture points to a second phase of war rather than de-escalation. The same pattern is unfolding in Lebanon, where Israeli strikes continue while talks are underway. Reporting over the last 24 hours showed continued attacks in southern Lebanon, including strikes that killed medical workers, alongside Hezbollah rocket fire and the possibility of new Israeli buffer-zone plans. In both Iran and Lebanon, the US and Israel are pursuing negotiations as a mechanism to buy time to allow for the mobilization of military personnel and hardware and escalate the wars in pursuit of their imperialist and annexationist objectives. Sign up for the WSWS email newsletter Adblock test (Why?)
War powers resolution blocked in the Senate as 10,000 more US troops head to the Middle East
On Wednesday, the US Senate defeated a Democratic Party-sponsored war powers motion aimed at bringing a resolution to the chamber floor calling for the withdrawal of US forces from the war against Iran on the basis that the war was not authorized by Congress. The procedural vote failed 52-47 on a motion to discharge a resolution moved by Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois from committee. The vote permits the Trump administration to continue its illegal war against Iran without any congressional oversight. This was the fourth attempt by the Democrats to posture as opponents of Trump’s warmongering, while they know full well that the resolutions will be blocked by the Republican majority, and while they continue to vote for trillion-dollar military budgets. Journalists in Tehran document damage from U.S.-Israeli strikes in a residential area of the town of Fardis, west of Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 3, 2026. [AP Photo/Vahid Salemi] The failure of the procedural motion means that the resolution never made it to the Senate floor and the merits of the text itself could not be voted on. The vote signifies once again that Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to declare war, is a willing participant in the collapse of democratic government in the US and a facilitator in the establishment of a presidential dictatorship by Donald Trump. Among the notable votes were those from Senators Rand Paul and John Fetterman. Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, voted for the war powers resolution, while Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, voted against it. The two had taken the same positions in earlier Senate measures on Iran war powers. In opposing the extremely mild assertion of the constitutional power of Congress, the Democrat Fetterman restated his unconditional support for Trump’s criminal war, which has killed an estimated 3,636 people, including more than 1,700 civilians. Fetterman said, “we have to stand [with] our military to allow them to accomplish... the goals of Epic Fury.” The text of Duckworth’s resolution sought, “To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress.” The resolution does not declare the war illegal, criminal, or a violation of US and international law. Instead, it accepts the framework of the war and argues that Congress has been incorrectly excluded from the decision-making about launching the war and how to conduct it. Republican opponents of the Senate motion defended the president’s war-making authority and argued that the military campaign was justified by the alleged danger posed by Iran. For example, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch of Idaho stated that the President has a duty to act unilaterally to defend the US and its citizens and claimed the Constitution “clearly gives the president not only the right, but, indeed, the duty, as does his oath, to protect the United States.” This argument backs the lies told by President Trump, Secretary of State Rubio and Secretary of War Hegseth that Iran was two weeks from possessing a nuclear weapon, and there was an imminent threat of attacking the US. Other Republicans focused on the provision in the War Powers Act that permits a limited 60-day use of military force by the president without congressional authorization. This period expires in 16 days. The 1973 War Powers Act was passed after the escalation of the Vietnam War and the exposure of secret US bombing campaigns in Cambodia and Laos by the Nixon administration. It was enacted over Nixon’s veto, which was overridden by two-thirds majorities in both House and Senate. The backdrop to the passage of the act was the horrifying human toll caused by US operations in Indochina which were hidden from the American public. Estimates of the number of deaths in Cambodia and Laos during the secret wars in those countries are in the hundreds of thousands. The purpose of the War Powers Act was to limit the president’s ability to launch or prolong wars without legislative approval. The threat made by Trump on April 7 that, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” which was widely interpreted as a promise to use nuclear weapons against Iran, would dwarf the crimes of Nixon and Kissinger during the Vietnam War. A similar charade was under way in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday with Democrats introducing articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for “unauthorized war against Iran,” “targeting of civilians,” “obstruction of congressional oversight,” “abuse of power” and several other items. The motion is universally recognized as dead on arrival, given the Republican majority in the House. Even if it were passed, a two-thirds vote in the Senate would be required to remove Hegseth from office. Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson dismissed the impeachment motion as an effort to make headlines and said Hegseth will “continue to protect the homeland and project peace through strength.” While Trump announced a two-week ceasefire on April 7, the pause remains unstable. After talks in Pakistan ended on April 11 without an agreement, the White House moved to impose a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, in violation of international law. At a press briefing on Wednesday, the White House said that another round of truce talks is planned in Pakistan. The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) is underway in the Atlantic Ocean. [Photo: Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall] While the Trump administration is publicly talking about diplomacy, the military posture tells a different story. Media reports say that another carrier strike group and additional amphibious and Marine forces are moving into the region, with tens of thousands of troops already there from the first phase of the war. Available from Mehring Books The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran A pamphlet by Keith Jones The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that the US is sending more than 10,000 additional troops to the Middle East before the end of April. Quoting unnamed current and former US officials speaking on condition of anonymity, the Post reported that the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush and the ships escorting it, including 6,000 troops, are on the way to the region. Another 4,200 troops from the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and its embarked Marine Corps task force, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are also expected to arrive in the next two weeks. This buildup is unmistakable evidence that the Pentagon is preparing for a resumption of military operations, regardless of the negotiations. As was the case before the start of the war, the force posture points to a second phase of war rather than de-escalation. The same pattern is unfolding in Lebanon, where Israeli strikes continue while talks are underway. Reporting over the last 24 hours showed continued attacks in southern Lebanon, including strikes that killed medical workers, alongside Hezbollah rocket fire and the possibility of new Israeli buffer-zone plans. In both Iran and Lebanon, the US and Israel are pursuing negotiations as a mechanism to buy time to allow for the mobilization of military personnel and hardware and escalate the wars in pursuit of their imperialist and annexationist objectives. Sign up for the WSWS email newsletter Adblock test (Why?)
War powers resolution blocked in the Senate as 10,000 more US troops head to the Middle East
On Wednesday, the US Senate defeated a Democratic Party-sponsored war powers motion aimed at bringing a resolution to the chamber floor calling for the withdrawal of US forces from the war against Iran on the basis that the war was not authorized by Congress. The procedural vote failed 52-47 on a motion to discharge a resolution moved by Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois from committee. The vote permits the Trump administration to continue its illegal war against Iran without any congressional oversight. This was the fourth attempt by the Democrats to posture as opponents of Trump’s warmongering, while they know full well that the resolutions will be blocked by the Republican majority, and while they continue to vote for trillion-dollar military budgets. Journalists in Tehran document damage from U.S.-Israeli strikes in a residential area of the town of Fardis, west of Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 3, 2026. [AP Photo/Vahid Salemi] The failure of the procedural motion means that the resolution never made it to the Senate floor and the merits of the text itself could not be voted on. The vote signifies once again that Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to declare war, is a willing participant in the collapse of democratic government in the US and a facilitator in the establishment of a presidential dictatorship by Donald Trump. Among the notable votes were those from Senators Rand Paul and John Fetterman. Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, voted for the war powers resolution, while Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, voted against it. The two had taken the same positions in earlier Senate measures on Iran war powers. In opposing the extremely mild assertion of the constitutional power of Congress, the Democrat Fetterman restated his unconditional support for Trump’s criminal war, which has killed an estimated 3,636 people, including more than 1,700 civilians. Fetterman said, “we have to stand [with] our military to allow them to accomplish... the goals of Epic Fury.” The text of Duckworth’s resolution sought, “To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress.” The resolution does not declare the war illegal, criminal, or a violation of US and international law. Instead, it accepts the framework of the war and argues that Congress has been incorrectly excluded from the decision-making about launching the war and how to conduct it. Republican opponents of the Senate motion defended the president’s war-making authority and argued that the military campaign was justified by the alleged danger posed by Iran. For example, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch of Idaho stated that the President has a duty to act unilaterally to defend the US and its citizens and claimed the Constitution “clearly gives the president not only the right, but, indeed, the duty, as does his oath, to protect the United States.” This argument backs the lies told by President Trump, Secretary of State Rubio and Secretary of War Hegseth that Iran was two weeks from possessing a nuclear weapon, and there was an imminent threat of attacking the US. Other Republicans focused on the provision in the War Powers Act that permits a limited 60-day use of military force by the president without congressional authorization. This period expires in 16 days. The 1973 War Powers Act was passed after the escalation of the Vietnam War and the exposure of secret US bombing campaigns in Cambodia and Laos by the Nixon administration. It was enacted over Nixon’s veto, which was overridden by two-thirds majorities in both House and Senate. The backdrop to the passage of the act was the horrifying human toll caused by US operations in Indochina which were hidden from the American public. Estimates of the number of deaths in Cambodia and Laos during the secret wars in those countries are in the hundreds of thousands. The purpose of the War Powers Act was to limit the president’s ability to launch or prolong wars without legislative approval. The threat made by Trump on April 7 that, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” which was widely interpreted as a promise to use nuclear weapons against Iran, would dwarf the crimes of Nixon and Kissinger during the Vietnam War. A similar charade was under way in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday with Democrats introducing articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for “unauthorized war against Iran,” “targeting of civilians,” “obstruction of congressional oversight,” “abuse of power” and several other items. The motion is universally recognized as dead on arrival, given the Republican majority in the House. Even if it were passed, a two-thirds vote in the Senate would be required to remove Hegseth from office. Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson dismissed the impeachment motion as an effort to make headlines and said Hegseth will “continue to protect the homeland and project peace through strength.” While Trump announced a two-week ceasefire on April 7, the pause remains unstable. After talks in Pakistan ended on April 11 without an agreement, the White House moved to impose a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, in violation of international law. At a press briefing on Wednesday, the White House said that another round of truce talks is planned in Pakistan. The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) is underway in the Atlantic Ocean. [Photo: Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall] While the Trump administration is publicly talking about diplomacy, the military posture tells a different story. Media reports say that another carrier strike group and additional amphibious and Marine forces are moving into the region, with tens of thousands of troops already there from the first phase of the war. Available from Mehring Books The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran A pamphlet by Keith Jones The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that the US is sending more than 10,000 additional troops to the Middle East before the end of April. Quoting unnamed current and former US officials speaking on condition of anonymity, the Post reported that the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush and the ships escorting it, including 6,000 troops, are on the way to the region. Another 4,200 troops from the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and its embarked Marine Corps task force, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are also expected to arrive in the next two weeks. This buildup is unmistakable evidence that the Pentagon is preparing for a resumption of military operations, regardless of the negotiations. As was the case before the start of the war, the force posture points to a second phase of war rather than de-escalation. The same pattern is unfolding in Lebanon, where Israeli strikes continue while talks are underway. Reporting over the last 24 hours showed continued attacks in southern Lebanon, including strikes that killed medical workers, alongside Hezbollah rocket fire and the possibility of new Israeli buffer-zone plans. In both Iran and Lebanon, the US and Israel are pursuing negotiations as a mechanism to buy time to allow for the mobilization of military personnel and hardware and escalate the wars in pursuit of their imperialist and annexationist objectives. Sign up for the WSWS email newsletter Adblock test (Why?)
War powers resolution blocked in the Senate as 10,000 more US troops head to the Middle East
On Wednesday, the US Senate defeated a Democratic Party-sponsored war powers motion aimed at bringing a resolution to the chamber floor calling for the withdrawal of US forces from the war against Iran on the basis that the war was not authorized by Congress. The procedural vote failed 52-47 on a motion to discharge a resolution moved by Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois from committee. The vote permits the Trump administration to continue its illegal war against Iran without any congressional oversight. This was the fourth attempt by the Democrats to posture as opponents of Trump’s warmongering, while they know full well that the resolutions will be blocked by the Republican majority, and while they continue to vote for trillion-dollar military budgets. Journalists in Tehran document damage from U.S.-Israeli strikes in a residential area of the town of Fardis, west of Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 3, 2026. [AP Photo/Vahid Salemi] The failure of the procedural motion means that the resolution never made it to the Senate floor and the merits of the text itself could not be voted on. The vote signifies once again that Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to declare war, is a willing participant in the collapse of democratic government in the US and a facilitator in the establishment of a presidential dictatorship by Donald Trump. Among the notable votes were those from Senators Rand Paul and John Fetterman. Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, voted for the war powers resolution, while Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, voted against it. The two had taken the same positions in earlier Senate measures on Iran war powers. In opposing the extremely mild assertion of the constitutional power of Congress, the Democrat Fetterman restated his unconditional support for Trump’s criminal war, which has killed an estimated 3,636 people, including more than 1,700 civilians. Fetterman said, “we have to stand [with] our military to allow them to accomplish... the goals of Epic Fury.” The text of Duckworth’s resolution sought, “To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress.” The resolution does not declare the war illegal, criminal, or a violation of US and international law. Instead, it accepts the framework of the war and argues that Congress has been incorrectly excluded from the decision-making about launching the war and how to conduct it. Republican opponents of the Senate motion defended the president’s war-making authority and argued that the military campaign was justified by the alleged danger posed by Iran. For example, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch of Idaho stated that the President has a duty to act unilaterally to defend the US and its citizens and claimed the Constitution “clearly gives the president not only the right, but, indeed, the duty, as does his oath, to protect the United States.” This argument backs the lies told by President Trump, Secretary of State Rubio and Secretary of War Hegseth that Iran was two weeks from possessing a nuclear weapon, and there was an imminent threat of attacking the US. Other Republicans focused on the provision in the War Powers Act that permits a limited 60-day use of military force by the president without congressional authorization. This period expires in 16 days. The 1973 War Powers Act was passed after the escalation of the Vietnam War and the exposure of secret US bombing campaigns in Cambodia and Laos by the Nixon administration. It was enacted over Nixon’s veto, which was overridden by two-thirds majorities in both House and Senate. The backdrop to the passage of the act was the horrifying human toll caused by US operations in Indochina which were hidden from the American public. Estimates of the number of deaths in Cambodia and Laos during the secret wars in those countries are in the hundreds of thousands. The purpose of the War Powers Act was to limit the president’s ability to launch or prolong wars without legislative approval. The threat made by Trump on April 7 that, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” which was widely interpreted as a promise to use nuclear weapons against Iran, would dwarf the crimes of Nixon and Kissinger during the Vietnam War. A similar charade was under way in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday with Democrats introducing articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for “unauthorized war against Iran,” “targeting of civilians,” “obstruction of congressional oversight,” “abuse of power” and several other items. The motion is universally recognized as dead on arrival, given the Republican majority in the House. Even if it were passed, a two-thirds vote in the Senate would be required to remove Hegseth from office. Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson dismissed the impeachment motion as an effort to make headlines and said Hegseth will “continue to protect the homeland and project peace through strength.” While Trump announced a two-week ceasefire on April 7, the pause remains unstable. After talks in Pakistan ended on April 11 without an agreement, the White House moved to impose a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, in violation of international law. At a press briefing on Wednesday, the White House said that another round of truce talks is planned in Pakistan. The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) is underway in the Atlantic Ocean. [Photo: Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall] While the Trump administration is publicly talking about diplomacy, the military posture tells a different story. Media reports say that another carrier strike group and additional amphibious and Marine forces are moving into the region, with tens of thousands of troops already there from the first phase of the war. Available from Mehring Books The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran A pamphlet by Keith Jones The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that the US is sending more than 10,000 additional troops to the Middle East before the end of April. Quoting unnamed current and former US officials speaking on condition of anonymity, the Post reported that the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush and the ships escorting it, including 6,000 troops, are on the way to the region. Another 4,200 troops from the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and its embarked Marine Corps task force, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are also expected to arrive in the next two weeks. This buildup is unmistakable evidence that the Pentagon is preparing for a resumption of military operations, regardless of the negotiations. As was the case before the start of the war, the force posture points to a second phase of war rather than de-escalation. The same pattern is unfolding in Lebanon, where Israeli strikes continue while talks are underway. Reporting over the last 24 hours showed continued attacks in southern Lebanon, including strikes that killed medical workers, alongside Hezbollah rocket fire and the possibility of new Israeli buffer-zone plans. In both Iran and Lebanon, the US and Israel are pursuing negotiations as a mechanism to buy time to allow for the mobilization of military personnel and hardware and escalate the wars in pursuit of their imperialist and annexationist objectives. Sign up for the WSWS email newsletter Adblock test (Why?)
First primaries held in US mid-term election campaign
The first primary contests of the 2026 US mid-term election campaign took place on Tuesday, with the two parties of the financial aristocracy, the Democrats and Republicans, pouring tens of millions of dollars into contests in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas. Texas was the main focus of both parties, as well as the corporate media, which portrayed the outcome of a handful of tightly contested races as a clear signal that the Democratic Party will make significant gains in the general election on November 3. The Republican Party holds narrow majorities in both houses of Congress, 218-214 in the House of Representatives, with three seats vacant, and 53-47 in the Senate. This photo combination shows Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, left, in Dallas and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in Austin, Texas, both on March 3, 2026. [AP Photo/Julio Cortez, Jack Myer] More than $100 million was spent on the primary campaigns for the Texas seat in the US Senate now held by four-term Republican John Cornyn. The incumbent Republican accounted for two-thirds of this, an estimated $65 million-$70 million, raised from billionaire oligarchs in the oil industry, military contractors and financial institutions. This sum dwarfed that spent by his two opponents, state Attorney General Ken Paxton and Representative Wesley Hunt, who both sought to appeal to the party’s fascist base, attacking Cornyn as part of the Washington establishment. Paxton was himself damaged goods, impeached by the Republican-controlled state House on corruption charges in 2023 but retaining his office when the state Senate refused to convict him. Despite the disparity in resources, Cornyn won only a narrow plurality in the primary and faces a runoff in May against the fascist Paxton, who finished second. President Trump had declined to endorse any of the three candidates before the primary, but Paxton had the support of Trump’s 2024 campaign manager Chris LaCivita and his best-known fascist media advocate, Steve Bannon. Trump announced Wednesday that he would choose between Cornyn and Paxton soon, and demand that the non-endorsed candidate drop out of the runoff. This would represent an unprecedented assertion of presidential control over a state political race, furthering Trump’s bid for dictatorial power. Senate Republican Leader John Thune appealed to Trump to endorse Cornyn, and warned that if the scandal-ridden Paxton won the nomination the Republican majority in the Senate would be threatened. In the Democratic primary there was a similar disparity in fundraising, with state Representative James Talarico, a former seminarian with the backing of the party leadership and business interests, raising $25 million, while his opponent, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, raised barely $5 million. Texas state Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, left, shakes hands with Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, prior a debate during the Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education Convention, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Georgetown, Texas. [AP Photo/Bob Daemmrich] As in the Republican race, the better-financed candidate won, although in the Democratic contest it was a decisive outcome, with Talarico receiving 54 percent of the vote compared to 46 percent for Crockett, who conceded defeat. Talarico has emphasized his religious education, claiming it will make him more acceptable to Christian fundamentalists who have voted for Trump. Voter turnout was high for a mid-term primary election, with a New York Times analysis suggesting that more voters chose to cast ballots in the Democratic primary than in the Republican primary for the first time in many decades when there have been contests in both parties. The biggest shift was among Hispanic voters, particularly in the counties in the Rio Grande Valley, which Trump won in 2024 after losing by landslide margins to Hillary Clinton in 2016. In five majority-Latino counties, more voters turned out to vote in the Democratic primary Tuesday than cast ballots for Kamala Harris in the presidential election, according to an analysis by Politico. One local Democratic Party official, Sylvia Bruni, chair of the Webb County Democratic Party in south Texas, told Politico that it was anti-Trump sentiment, not enthusiasm for the Democrats, that was expressed in the vote. She said: “It’s not the party that’s driving people to the polls. It’s the horrendous behaviors of the man in the White House and his cronies. That’s what’s driving people to the polls.” The Democratic race included nearly $4 million in ads supposedly supporting Crockett, but paid for by the campaign of Republican Governor Greg Abbott, who viewed Crockett as the weaker of the two candidates in November. This is a further instance of the cynical interventions by the two capitalist parties across nominal party lines. In 2024 this was done mainly by the Democrats, who funded ads to support the most extreme-right candidates in several Republican primaries. The Texas contest is one of a half-dozen seats which the Democratic Party has targeted in its effort to win back control of the Senate, along with Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, and Ohio. The Democratic nominee in North Carolina was also chosen Tuesday, former Governor Roy Cooper, who had the full backing of the party establishment and only nominal opposition. He will face former Republican National Committee Chair Mike Whatley, who was handpicked by Trump, first for the RNC and then as the Republican candidate to replace retiring Republican Thom Tillis. Democratic and Republican nominees were also selected for 56 seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans hold all four Arkansas seats, 10 out of 14 seats in North Carolina, and 27 out of 38 in Texas. North Carolina and Texas were heavily gerrymandered by Republican state legislatures for the current election, with the aim of gaining five seats in Texas and one or two seats in North Carolina. The result has been forced retirements among Democrat representatives and one member vs. member primary, in which Representative Al Green—who was ejected from Trump’s State of the Union speech this year and last—narrowly trailed a much younger black Democrat, Christian Menefee, with a runoff set for May. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, disrupts President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025 [AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite] Trump successfully purged the only member of the Texas Republican delegation who vocally opposed his claims of a “stolen election” in 2020 and condemned the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Representative Dan Crenshaw was defeated by a Trump-endorsed state senator. In the media coverage of the election result, there was little discussion of the likelihood that the November election will be held under conditions of military occupation of major US cities, or with armed and masked federal agents supervising the polls. But a preview of sorts was on display in Dallas County, the second-largest in the state, where the Republican-controlled county government changed precinct structures so that Democrats and Republicans had different polling stations, leading many Democrats to be turned away because they went to the wrong station. The Democratic Party went before a local judge, who ordered polling stations to stay open an additional two hours to accommodate those who had been denied the opportunity to vote. But at the end of that time, the Texas Supreme Court, acting at the request of Republican state Attorney General Paxton, overturned the local order and told election officials in Dallas to set aside all the ballots cast during that period. Join the Socialist Equality Party! The Socialist Equality Party is organizing the working class in the fight for socialism: the reorganization of all of economic life to serve social needs, not private profit. Learn more Adblock test (Why?)
First primaries held in US mid-term election campaign
The first primary contests of the 2026 US mid-term election campaign took place on Tuesday, with the two parties of the financial aristocracy, the Democrats and Republicans, pouring tens of millions of dollars into contests in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas. Texas was the main focus of both parties, as well as the corporate media, which portrayed the outcome of a handful of tightly contested races as a clear signal that the Democratic Party will make significant gains in the general election on November 3. The Republican Party holds narrow majorities in both houses of Congress, 218-214 in the House of Representatives, with three seats vacant, and 53-47 in the Senate. This photo combination shows Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, left, in Dallas and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in Austin, Texas, both on March 3, 2026. [AP Photo/Julio Cortez, Jack Myer] More than $100 million was spent on the primary campaigns for the Texas seat in the US Senate now held by four-term Republican John Cornyn. The incumbent Republican accounted for two-thirds of this, an estimated $65 million-$70 million, raised from billionaire oligarchs in the oil industry, military contractors and financial institutions. This sum dwarfed that spent by his two opponents, state Attorney General Ken Paxton and Representative Wesley Hunt, who both sought to appeal to the party’s fascist base, attacking Cornyn as part of the Washington establishment. Paxton was himself damaged goods, impeached by the Republican-controlled state House on corruption charges in 2023 but retaining his office when the state Senate refused to convict him. Despite the disparity in resources, Cornyn won only a narrow plurality in the primary and faces a runoff in May against the fascist Paxton, who finished second. President Trump had declined to endorse any of the three candidates before the primary, but Paxton had the support of Trump’s 2024 campaign manager Chris LaCivita and his best-known fascist media advocate, Steve Bannon. Trump announced Wednesday that he would choose between Cornyn and Paxton soon, and demand that the non-endorsed candidate drop out of the runoff. This would represent an unprecedented assertion of presidential control over a state political race, furthering Trump’s bid for dictatorial power. Senate Republican Leader John Thune appealed to Trump to endorse Cornyn, and warned that if the scandal-ridden Paxton won the nomination the Republican majority in the Senate would be threatened. In the Democratic primary there was a similar disparity in fundraising, with state Representative James Talarico, a former seminarian with the backing of the party leadership and business interests, raising $25 million, while his opponent, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, raised barely $5 million. Texas state Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, left, shakes hands with Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, prior a debate during the Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education Convention, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Georgetown, Texas. [AP Photo/Bob Daemmrich] As in the Republican race, the better-financed candidate won, although in the Democratic contest it was a decisive outcome, with Talarico receiving 54 percent of the vote compared to 46 percent for Crockett, who conceded defeat. Talarico has emphasized his religious education, claiming it will make him more acceptable to Christian fundamentalists who have voted for Trump. Voter turnout was high for a mid-term primary election, with a New York Times analysis suggesting that more voters chose to cast ballots in the Democratic primary than in the Republican primary for the first time in many decades when there have been contests in both parties. The biggest shift was among Hispanic voters, particularly in the counties in the Rio Grande Valley, which Trump won in 2024 after losing by landslide margins to Hillary Clinton in 2016. In five majority-Latino counties, more voters turned out to vote in the Democratic primary Tuesday than cast ballots for Kamala Harris in the presidential election, according to an analysis by Politico. One local Democratic Party official, Sylvia Bruni, chair of the Webb County Democratic Party in south Texas, told Politico that it was anti-Trump sentiment, not enthusiasm for the Democrats, that was expressed in the vote. She said: “It’s not the party that’s driving people to the polls. It’s the horrendous behaviors of the man in the White House and his cronies. That’s what’s driving people to the polls.” The Democratic race included nearly $4 million in ads supposedly supporting Crockett, but paid for by the campaign of Republican Governor Greg Abbott, who viewed Crockett as the weaker of the two candidates in November. This is a further instance of the cynical interventions by the two capitalist parties across nominal party lines. In 2024 this was done mainly by the Democrats, who funded ads to support the most extreme-right candidates in several Republican primaries. The Texas contest is one of a half-dozen seats which the Democratic Party has targeted in its effort to win back control of the Senate, along with Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, and Ohio. The Democratic nominee in North Carolina was also chosen Tuesday, former Governor Roy Cooper, who had the full backing of the party establishment and only nominal opposition. He will face former Republican National Committee Chair Mike Whatley, who was handpicked by Trump, first for the RNC and then as the Republican candidate to replace retiring Republican Thom Tillis. Democratic and Republican nominees were also selected for 56 seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans hold all four Arkansas seats, 10 out of 14 seats in North Carolina, and 27 out of 38 in Texas. North Carolina and Texas were heavily gerrymandered by Republican state legislatures for the current election, with the aim of gaining five seats in Texas and one or two seats in North Carolina. The result has been forced retirements among Democrat representatives and one member vs. member primary, in which Representative Al Green—who was ejected from Trump’s State of the Union speech this year and last—narrowly trailed a much younger black Democrat, Christian Menefee, with a runoff set for May. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, disrupts President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025 [AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite] Trump successfully purged the only member of the Texas Republican delegation who vocally opposed his claims of a “stolen election” in 2020 and condemned the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Representative Dan Crenshaw was defeated by a Trump-endorsed state senator. In the media coverage of the election result, there was little discussion of the likelihood that the November election will be held under conditions of military occupation of major US cities, or with armed and masked federal agents supervising the polls. But a preview of sorts was on display in Dallas County, the second-largest in the state, where the Republican-controlled county government changed precinct structures so that Democrats and Republicans had different polling stations, leading many Democrats to be turned away because they went to the wrong station. The Democratic Party went before a local judge, who ordered polling stations to stay open an additional two hours to accommodate those who had been denied the opportunity to vote. But at the end of that time, the Texas Supreme Court, acting at the request of Republican state Attorney General Paxton, overturned the local order and told election officials in Dallas to set aside all the ballots cast during that period. Join the Socialist Equality Party! The Socialist Equality Party is organizing the working class in the fight for socialism: the reorganization of all of economic life to serve social needs, not private profit. Learn more Adblock test (Why?)
First primaries held in US mid-term election campaign
The first primary contests of the 2026 US mid-term election campaign took place on Tuesday, with the two parties of the financial aristocracy, the Democrats and Republicans, pouring tens of millions of dollars into contests in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas. Texas was the main focus of both parties, as well as the corporate media, which portrayed the outcome of a handful of tightly contested races as a clear signal that the Democratic Party will make significant gains in the general election on November 3. The Republican Party holds narrow majorities in both houses of Congress, 218-214 in the House of Representatives, with three seats vacant, and 53-47 in the Senate. This photo combination shows Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, left, in Dallas and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in Austin, Texas, both on March 3, 2026. [AP Photo/Julio Cortez, Jack Myer] More than $100 million was spent on the primary campaigns for the Texas seat in the US Senate now held by four-term Republican John Cornyn. The incumbent Republican accounted for two-thirds of this, an estimated $65 million-$70 million, raised from billionaire oligarchs in the oil industry, military contractors and financial institutions. This sum dwarfed that spent by his two opponents, state Attorney General Ken Paxton and Representative Wesley Hunt, who both sought to appeal to the party’s fascist base, attacking Cornyn as part of the Washington establishment. Paxton was himself damaged goods, impeached by the Republican-controlled state House on corruption charges in 2023 but retaining his office when the state Senate refused to convict him. Despite the disparity in resources, Cornyn won only a narrow plurality in the primary and faces a runoff in May against the fascist Paxton, who finished second. President Trump had declined to endorse any of the three candidates before the primary, but Paxton had the support of Trump’s 2024 campaign manager Chris LaCivita and his best-known fascist media advocate, Steve Bannon. Trump announced Wednesday that he would choose between Cornyn and Paxton soon, and demand that the non-endorsed candidate drop out of the runoff. This would represent an unprecedented assertion of presidential control over a state political race, furthering Trump’s bid for dictatorial power. Senate Republican Leader John Thune appealed to Trump to endorse Cornyn, and warned that if the scandal-ridden Paxton won the nomination the Republican majority in the Senate would be threatened. In the Democratic primary there was a similar disparity in fundraising, with state Representative James Talarico, a former seminarian with the backing of the party leadership and business interests, raising $25 million, while his opponent, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, raised barely $5 million. Texas state Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, left, shakes hands with Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, prior a debate during the Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education Convention, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Georgetown, Texas. [AP Photo/Bob Daemmrich] As in the Republican race, the better-financed candidate won, although in the Democratic contest it was a decisive outcome, with Talarico receiving 54 percent of the vote compared to 46 percent for Crockett, who conceded defeat. Talarico has emphasized his religious education, claiming it will make him more acceptable to Christian fundamentalists who have voted for Trump. Voter turnout was high for a mid-term primary election, with a New York Times analysis suggesting that more voters chose to cast ballots in the Democratic primary than in the Republican primary for the first time in many decades when there have been contests in both parties. The biggest shift was among Hispanic voters, particularly in the counties in the Rio Grande Valley, which Trump won in 2024 after losing by landslide margins to Hillary Clinton in 2016. In five majority-Latino counties, more voters turned out to vote in the Democratic primary Tuesday than cast ballots for Kamala Harris in the presidential election, according to an analysis by Politico. One local Democratic Party official, Sylvia Bruni, chair of the Webb County Democratic Party in south Texas, told Politico that it was anti-Trump sentiment, not enthusiasm for the Democrats, that was expressed in the vote. She said: “It’s not the party that’s driving people to the polls. It’s the horrendous behaviors of the man in the White House and his cronies. That’s what’s driving people to the polls.” The Democratic race included nearly $4 million in ads supposedly supporting Crockett, but paid for by the campaign of Republican Governor Greg Abbott, who viewed Crockett as the weaker of the two candidates in November. This is a further instance of the cynical interventions by the two capitalist parties across nominal party lines. In 2024 this was done mainly by the Democrats, who funded ads to support the most extreme-right candidates in several Republican primaries. The Texas contest is one of a half-dozen seats which the Democratic Party has targeted in its effort to win back control of the Senate, along with Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, and Ohio. The Democratic nominee in North Carolina was also chosen Tuesday, former Governor Roy Cooper, who had the full backing of the party establishment and only nominal opposition. He will face former Republican National Committee Chair Mike Whatley, who was handpicked by Trump, first for the RNC and then as the Republican candidate to replace retiring Republican Thom Tillis. Democratic and Republican nominees were also selected for 56 seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans hold all four Arkansas seats, 10 out of 14 seats in North Carolina, and 27 out of 38 in Texas. North Carolina and Texas were heavily gerrymandered by Republican state legislatures for the current election, with the aim of gaining five seats in Texas and one or two seats in North Carolina. The result has been forced retirements among Democrat representatives and one member vs. member primary, in which Representative Al Green—who was ejected from Trump’s State of the Union speech this year and last—narrowly trailed a much younger black Democrat, Christian Menefee, with a runoff set for May. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, disrupts President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025 [AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite] Trump successfully purged the only member of the Texas Republican delegation who vocally opposed his claims of a “stolen election” in 2020 and condemned the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Representative Dan Crenshaw was defeated by a Trump-endorsed state senator. In the media coverage of the election result, there was little discussion of the likelihood that the November election will be held under conditions of military occupation of major US cities, or with armed and masked federal agents supervising the polls. But a preview of sorts was on display in Dallas County, the second-largest in the state, where the Republican-controlled county government changed precinct structures so that Democrats and Republicans had different polling stations, leading many Democrats to be turned away because they went to the wrong station. The Democratic Party went before a local judge, who ordered polling stations to stay open an additional two hours to accommodate those who had been denied the opportunity to vote. But at the end of that time, the Texas Supreme Court, acting at the request of Republican state Attorney General Paxton, overturned the local order and told election officials in Dallas to set aside all the ballots cast during that period. Join the Socialist Equality Party! The Socialist Equality Party is organizing the working class in the fight for socialism: the reorganization of all of economic life to serve social needs, not private profit. Learn more Adblock test (Why?)
First primaries held in US mid-term election campaign
The first primary contests of the 2026 US mid-term election campaign took place on Tuesday, with the two parties of the financial aristocracy, the Democrats and Republicans, pouring tens of millions of dollars into contests in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas. Texas was the main focus of both parties, as well as the corporate media, which portrayed the outcome of a handful of tightly contested races as a clear signal that the Democratic Party will make significant gains in the general election on November 3. The Republican Party holds narrow majorities in both houses of Congress, 218-214 in the House of Representatives, with three seats vacant, and 53-47 in the Senate. This photo combination shows Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, left, in Dallas and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in Austin, Texas, both on March 3, 2026. [AP Photo/Julio Cortez, Jack Myer] More than $100 million was spent on the primary campaigns for the Texas seat in the US Senate now held by four-term Republican John Cornyn. The incumbent Republican accounted for two-thirds of this, an estimated $65 million-$70 million, raised from billionaire oligarchs in the oil industry, military contractors and financial institutions. This sum dwarfed that spent by his two opponents, state Attorney General Ken Paxton and Representative Wesley Hunt, who both sought to appeal to the party’s fascist base, attacking Cornyn as part of the Washington establishment. Paxton was himself damaged goods, impeached by the Republican-controlled state House on corruption charges in 2023 but retaining his office when the state Senate refused to convict him. Despite the disparity in resources, Cornyn won only a narrow plurality in the primary and faces a runoff in May against the fascist Paxton, who finished second. President Trump had declined to endorse any of the three candidates before the primary, but Paxton had the support of Trump’s 2024 campaign manager Chris LaCivita and his best-known fascist media advocate, Steve Bannon. Trump announced Wednesday that he would choose between Cornyn and Paxton soon, and demand that the non-endorsed candidate drop out of the runoff. This would represent an unprecedented assertion of presidential control over a state political race, furthering Trump’s bid for dictatorial power. Senate Republican Leader John Thune appealed to Trump to endorse Cornyn, and warned that if the scandal-ridden Paxton won the nomination the Republican majority in the Senate would be threatened. In the Democratic primary there was a similar disparity in fundraising, with state Representative James Talarico, a former seminarian with the backing of the party leadership and business interests, raising $25 million, while his opponent, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, raised barely $5 million. Texas state Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, left, shakes hands with Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, prior a debate during the Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education Convention, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Georgetown, Texas. [AP Photo/Bob Daemmrich] As in the Republican race, the better-financed candidate won, although in the Democratic contest it was a decisive outcome, with Talarico receiving 54 percent of the vote compared to 46 percent for Crockett, who conceded defeat. Talarico has emphasized his religious education, claiming it will make him more acceptable to Christian fundamentalists who have voted for Trump. Voter turnout was high for a mid-term primary election, with a New York Times analysis suggesting that more voters chose to cast ballots in the Democratic primary than in the Republican primary for the first time in many decades when there have been contests in both parties. The biggest shift was among Hispanic voters, particularly in the counties in the Rio Grande Valley, which Trump won in 2024 after losing by landslide margins to Hillary Clinton in 2016. In five majority-Latino counties, more voters turned out to vote in the Democratic primary Tuesday than cast ballots for Kamala Harris in the presidential election, according to an analysis by Politico. One local Democratic Party official, Sylvia Bruni, chair of the Webb County Democratic Party in south Texas, told Politico that it was anti-Trump sentiment, not enthusiasm for the Democrats, that was expressed in the vote. She said: “It’s not the party that’s driving people to the polls. It’s the horrendous behaviors of the man in the White House and his cronies. That’s what’s driving people to the polls.” The Democratic race included nearly $4 million in ads supposedly supporting Crockett, but paid for by the campaign of Republican Governor Greg Abbott, who viewed Crockett as the weaker of the two candidates in November. This is a further instance of the cynical interventions by the two capitalist parties across nominal party lines. In 2024 this was done mainly by the Democrats, who funded ads to support the most extreme-right candidates in several Republican primaries. The Texas contest is one of a half-dozen seats which the Democratic Party has targeted in its effort to win back control of the Senate, along with Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, and Ohio. The Democratic nominee in North Carolina was also chosen Tuesday, former Governor Roy Cooper, who had the full backing of the party establishment and only nominal opposition. He will face former Republican National Committee Chair Mike Whatley, who was handpicked by Trump, first for the RNC and then as the Republican candidate to replace retiring Republican Thom Tillis. Democratic and Republican nominees were also selected for 56 seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans hold all four Arkansas seats, 10 out of 14 seats in North Carolina, and 27 out of 38 in Texas. North Carolina and Texas were heavily gerrymandered by Republican state legislatures for the current election, with the aim of gaining five seats in Texas and one or two seats in North Carolina. The result has been forced retirements among Democrat representatives and one member vs. member primary, in which Representative Al Green—who was ejected from Trump’s State of the Union speech this year and last—narrowly trailed a much younger black Democrat, Christian Menefee, with a runoff set for May. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, disrupts President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025 [AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite] Trump successfully purged the only member of the Texas Republican delegation who vocally opposed his claims of a “stolen election” in 2020 and condemned the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Representative Dan Crenshaw was defeated by a Trump-endorsed state senator. In the media coverage of the election result, there was little discussion of the likelihood that the November election will be held under conditions of military occupation of major US cities, or with armed and masked federal agents supervising the polls. But a preview of sorts was on display in Dallas County, the second-largest in the state, where the Republican-controlled county government changed precinct structures so that Democrats and Republicans had different polling stations, leading many Democrats to be turned away because they went to the wrong station. The Democratic Party went before a local judge, who ordered polling stations to stay open an additional two hours to accommodate those who had been denied the opportunity to vote. But at the end of that time, the Texas Supreme Court, acting at the request of Republican state Attorney General Paxton, overturned the local order and told election officials in Dallas to set aside all the ballots cast during that period. Join the Socialist Equality Party! The Socialist Equality Party is organizing the working class in the fight for socialism: the reorganization of all of economic life to serve social needs, not private profit. Learn more Adblock test (Why?)