"South Sudan leaders used chaos of war to loot billions, investigation reveals" PBS NewsHour 9/12/2016ExcerptSUMMARY: Founded in 2011, South Sudan is the world's newest country; but fo… Read More
Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News for this point.
The November 8 ballot in the District of Columbia will ask voters if they wish D.C. to become a State.
The measure was put on… Read More
There are 50 states today, but that number was never set in stone. A lot of State Governments have had frosty relations with large parts of their own communities.
While West Virginia is the… Read More
Less than 24 hours after being sworn in, Puerto Rico's new Representative in Congress filed a Bill that would make the Island the 51st State by 2025.
The case for Statehood, formerly a poli… Read More
Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News for this post.
The Voters of Puerto Rico will vote on Sunday, June 11, 2017, whether to seek Statehood, or whether Puerto Rico should have a m… Read More
Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News for this post.
Nigel Farage, the British Politician known for his successful Campaign to get the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, h… Read More
With the Reading of their own version of a Declaration of Independence, Founders of the State of New California took the first steps to what they hope will eventually lead to Statehood. They… Read More
The Racist Origin of State Laws on Juries is encouraging Change. Split-Jury Verdicts are permitted to allow Ethnic Minorities to be Ignored.
Two Jurors who sat in Judgment at Willie Dunn Ju… Read More
House Democrats unveiled Friday the For the People Act, a comprehensive package of Democratic Reforms and the First Major Bill of the 116th Congress. The Bill is a sweeping combination of El… Read More
Non-Voting Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has introduced a Bill to make the District of Columbia (D.C.) the 51st State.
H.R. 51 The D.C. Statehood Bill, was introduced the day that the 116t… Read More
Puerto Rico's Senate Bill 1467, put a Measure on the November, 2020 Ballot, on whether to Request that it be Admitted as a U.S. State. The Ballot Measure will ask, "Should Puerto Rico be Imm… Read More
The House is expected to Vote next week on a Measure that would make Washington, D.C. a State, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD, 5th District)) announced on Tuesday. The Measure, dubb… Read More
Puerto Rico partially Suspended Primary Voting on Sunday, August 9th, over a Lack of Ballots, according to Officials.
The Elections Commission said Primaries for Voting Centers that had Not… Read More
The Democratic Party (DNC) Platform covers Topics including:
Climate Change - The Party sets Aggressive Goals of Eliminating Carbon Pollution from Power Plants by 2035 and achieving Net-Zer… Read More
I delivered this paper on October 17, 2020 at the online Western History Association Conference. Parts of it were taken from my Marquette University MA Thesis, which is entitled “In th… Read More
Senate Democrats Reintroduced a Bill, this week, that would Grant Statehood to Washington, D.C., furthering an ongoing Debate about how this Change and its Implications might affect Partisan… Read More
Senate Democrats introduced a Bill that would Grant Statehood to the vast Majority of Washington, D.C., building on the historic Passage of the same Measure by House Democrats in 2020.
The… Read More
According to Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, only Congress has the Ability to Authorize the Creation of a New State. Specifically, Section 3 Prohibits the Creation of New Sta… Read More