#National Democratic Congress

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Election 2024: Over 90% of Kpone-Katamamso assembly members endorse John Mahama

Assembly Members of the Kpone-Katamamso municipality have thrown their full support for the re-election of the Former President John Dramani Mahama in the upcoming general elections. In a health walk which was held in Zenu- Katamanso, a suburb of the Kpone municipality in the early hours of Saturday morning, 10 August 2024 saw thousands of members and some leaders of the National Democratic…

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John Mahama Disappointed The Creative Arts Sector; He Did Nothing When He Was In Power – Socrate Safo Claims

Popular Ghanaian filmmaker, Socrate Safo, has criticized Ghana’s former president – John Mahama. Continue reading John Mahama Disappointed The Creative Arts Sector; He Did Nothing When He Was In Power – Socrate Safo Claims

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The Rise of Entrepreneurship: List of Companies established under NDC

During the tenure of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Ghana, the nation witnessed a significant surge in entrepreneurial activities and the establishment of numerous companies across various sectors. This period marked a transformative era for Ghana’s economy, characterized by policies and initiatives that fostered an enabling environment for business growth and innovation. In this…

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Out Representative-elect Robert Garcia (D-CA) may not have been able to get sworn in yesterday due to Republicans’ inability to elect a Speaker of the House, but he has plans for when he finally can be sworn in.

When he takes his oath of office, he’ll swear on a copy of the Constitution, and, beneath that, an original Superman #1 comic from 1939, a photo of his parents, and a copy of his citizenship certificate.

Garcia came to the U.S. from Peru with his family when he was five-years-old and has said that naturalization was “his proudest moment” and the reason he started a career in politics. His parents died in 2020 of COVID-19.

He was the youngest and first out LGBTQ+ person elected as mayor of Long Beach, California (a position he served in from 2014 to 2022). During his time as mayor, he worked with businesses to reduce their environmental impacts, filled vacancies on citizen commissions with diverse and female members, and worked to improve local infrastructure as well as financial opportunities for local artists and home-based business owners.

He’s also an avid comic book fan.

In November, he tweeted a photo of the Superman #1 comic along with Amazing Fantasy #15, in which Spider-Man first appeared, saying he didn’t know which one he would first check out from the Library of Congress.

While many members of Congress will be sworn in on Bibles, they are not legally required to do so. Former Rep. – and current Minnesota attorney general – Keith Ellison (D-MN), who was the first Muslim person elected to Congress in 2007, was sworn in on a copy of the Quran owned by Thomas Jefferson.

Theodore Roosevelt wasn’t sworn in with any object after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. And in 2014 Suzi LeVine was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein on a Kindle with a copy of the Constitution open.

“I wanted to use a copy that is from the twenty-first century and that reflects my passion for technology and my hope for the future,” she said at the time.

New members of the House can’t be sworn in until a speaker is elected. Yesterday, after three votes, no candidate for Speaker was able to get a majority of votes because of a faction of Republicans voting against Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The Democrats’ candidate – Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) – got the most votes in each round of voting, and around 20 Republicans – including anti-LGBTQ+ Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Bob Good (R-VA), and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) – voted for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).

Jordan himself nominated and voted for McCarthy.

The House adjourned without a new Speaker elected.

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Hannah Ellis-Petersen at The Guardian:

Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party has lost its parliamentary majority, dealing an unexpected blow to the prime minister and forcing him to negotiate with coalition partners in order to return to power. With all votes counted early on Wednesday morning, it was clear that the landslide for the BJP predicted in polls had not materialised and instead there had been a pushback against the strongman prime minister and his Hindu nationalist politics in swathes of the country. The party lost 62 seats, bringing its total down to 240, below the 272 required for a parliamentary majority. It is the first time since Modi was elected in 2014 that the BJP has not won a clear majority on its own. Nonetheless, together with its political allies, known as the national democratic alliance (NDA), its win amounts to about 292 seats, which is enough to form a majority government to rule for the next five years and return Modi to office for a third term.

Meanwhile, the opposition alliance, which goes by the acronym INDIA, far outperformed expectations, collectively winning more than 230 seats. The alliance, formed of more than 20 national and regional opposition parties, had come together for the first time in this election with the aim of defeating Modi.

Incumbent Indian PM Narendra Modi and his right-wing BJP won the most seats, but not enough to gain a majority on its own in the recent election in India. Modi is likely to remain PM, as his coalition partners National Democratic Alliance are likely to cobble a majority.

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This is now a anti-Project 2025 account exclusively (i will edit this post with more stuff later probably)

Project 2025 is Trump’s plan, written by the Heritage Foundation for him, that he will enact should he win the 2024 election in November. If you have heard the name floating around but don’t know what it is, you need to read this post right now, because America is in real danger of a democratic collapse

Project 2025 is a 900-page document (Read it here) that goes over all the plans to kickstart a fascist takeover (they already attempted it once on Jan 6) of America by force. It is not hyperbole, it is not a joke, it can become our reality. In fact. It’s already the reality for many red states such as Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, etc. These states have enacted anti-LGBTQIA+, anti-abortion, anti-freedom of religion policies already, which completely tracks with what P2025 wants to do. These states are being used as lab rats, P2025 is just the plan to take these draconian policies nationwide.

Some of P2025’s policies include:

*Centralizing power to the Executive Branch, whilst weakening the independence of federal agencies. This will give Trump, in conjunction with the completely un-constitutional presidential immunity granted to him by a corrupt Supreme Court, more power than any President has ever had. It would effectively make him the first American dictator.

*Criminalize trans existence, imprisoning librarians who have books that contain LGBTQIA+ content.

*Eliminate the Department of Education

*Remove anti-discrimination protection laws for racial minorities, LGBTQIA+ people, disabled people, women, etc.

*Pull us out of initiatives that takes action against climate change (bye-bye earth).

*Enact the “biggest mass deportation of immigrants in American history”, which Trump has said will be a “bloody story”. I’m sure this can only end well for anyone who isn’t white.

*Weaponize the department of Justice against dissent (such as protestors).

*Promote anti-abortion and pro-family (the cishet and married with children family model) values globally.

*Remove the teaching of Critical Race Theory (systematic racism) and Gender Studies from all public schools.

*Give major tax cuts to the rich while giving tax raises on the poor and middle class.

*Destroy the separation between church & state.

And many more horrifying and completely out of touch plans…

The end goal of all this is to transform America into a christian theocracy that prioritizes white christian nationalists over all other groups.

Read more about the long history behind the dangerous pro-authoritarian movement and far-right machinery that birthed P2025 here.

From education, to women’s rights, MAGA is coming for all of us. And if we don’t pay attention to what they are saying and doing, we will pay a heavy price. We need to be doing all we can in this pivotal moment in history, or else we will not only fail future generations, but also our predecessors who fought, bled, and died for their rights.

The best way to fight P2025 is to vote blue, in all races. This means not just voting for Harris-Walz, but also for the local, state, senate, house, and other races. Make no mistake, our work is far from over if we win this election, but preventing Trump from getting into power, and voting out as many corrupt maga republicans from office as possible is the best action to take right now.

Please do not end up regretting that you didn’t do more. Get involved: Door canvassing, phonebanking, textbanking, donating, and of course, register to vote if you haven’t. Deadlines for state voter registrations are coming up. It’s never too late to get involved, but the best time to do it is now.

Go to iwillvote.com, register to vote if you haven’t, make a plan (will you vote early, by mail, or in person on Nov. 5th?), and make sure to frequently check that you STAY registered. Maga is pulling all kinds of dirty tricks right now to try and steal your vote when you aren’t looking. Your vote matters, and that terrifies Maga.

When historians who specialize in fascist history are sounding the alarm about what might happen in the immediate future, I think it’s about time to take these dangerous extremists very seriously, and then do something about it.

Fascism is not inevitable. It is only so when you choose to give up.

With fear for our democracy, I dissent.

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My representative spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.

If Democrats pick up about half a dozen House seats then Hakeem Jeffries will become Speaker of the House.

Support your local Democratic US House candidate with volunteerism, donations, and just plain word of mouth.

Remember that it's not necessary to live in a candidate's district to help a candidate – though you can vote only for a candidate running in your own district.

A simple way to help nationally is via the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

There's only 75 days until Election Day. Because early voting starts in many places around mid October, the next seven weeks will be particularly crucial for organizing, fundraising, and getting the message out.

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2024 South Korea's 22nd General Election

Update:

SEOUL, April 11 (Reuters) - South Korea's liberal opposition parties scored a landslide victory in a parliamentary election held on Wednesday, dealing a resounding blow to President Yoon Suk Yeol and his conservative party but likely falling just short of a super majority. more at Reuters

Pan-Opposition won 189 seats out of 300: Democracy party & its satellite party 175 l the Rebuilding Korea Party(leader: Cho Kuk) 12 l New Future 1 l Progressive Party 1

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SEOUL, April 10 (Reuters) - South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party and its allies were projected to retain a majority by winning up to 197 seats in Wednesday's elections for the single-chamber, 300-seat legislature, an exit poll conducted jointly by three television networks showed.

According to the exit polls, Democratic Party(blue) is expected to win an overwhelming victory for the election;

민주당 압승 예상 l 조국혁신당 12-14 예상(비례)

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Voter transfer: Any attempt by the E.C to engage in gerrymandering will be resisted — NDC

The National Democratic Congress have issued a press statement indicating their stance on the Electoral Commission’s decision to avert Political Party agents from supervising the voter transfer exercise. In a statement which was released in the early hours of Monday, 3rd June 2024, the National Democratic Congress stipulated that, agents of the various political parties are key members in…

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Vote For Bawumia Or Else John Mahama Will Abolish Free SHS If He Wins The 2024 Elections In Ghana – Nicholas Omane Acheampong Implores Ghanaians

Popular Ghanaian Gospel musician, Nicholas Omane Acheampong, has implored Ghanaians to vote for Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in the forthcoming 2024 general elections in Ghana. Continue reading Vote For Bawumia Or Else John Mahama Will Abolish Free SHS If He Wins The 2024 Elections In Ghana – Nicholas Omane Acheampong Implores Ghanaians

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struggling with how to word this, but putting it out there anyway:

i can fully understand the posts on here from a lot of americans being tired of "vote blue no matter who" posts when the #1 thing that people are constantly (and sometimes only?) addressing is how the republican party is going treat trans/queer people if elected.

it's part of an unfortunate pattern of prioritizing the effects on a demographic that includes white + upper class people, when people of color and those in the global south are actively and currently being killed or relegated to circumstances in which their survival is very unlikely

it is genuinely exhausting to witness this, and i was also on the fence about even participating in voting because i a) felt like it didn't matter and b) every time i voiced being frustrated with the current state of the country, white queer people would immediately step in with "but what about trans people!" -> (i am mixed race trans man)

and i say this with unending patience toward people who do this, because i know that it's not something they actively think about. but everyone already knows how the republican party is going to treat queer people. you are probably talking to another queer person when you bring up project 2025. the issue is that, for those of us who aren't white, or for those of us who are but who are conscious of ongoing struggles for people of color worldwide, the safety of people around the world feels more urgent than our own. that is the calculation that's being made.

you're not going to win votes for the democratic party by dismissing or minimizing these realities and by continually centering (white) queer people.

very few people on here and twitter are actually talking about issues beyond queer rights that concern people of color, or how the two administrations differ on these issues instead of constantly circling back to single-issue politics. this isn't an exhaustive list. but these are the issues that have actually altered my perspective and motivated me to the point of committing to casting a vote

the biden administration has been engaged in a years-long fight to allow new applicants to DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program that allows undocumented individuals who arrived as children to remain in the country) after the Trump administration attempted to terminate it. the program is in limbo currently because of the actions of Trump-backed judges, with those who applied before the ruling being allowed to stay, but no new applications are being processed. Trump has repeatedly toyed with the idea of just deporting the 1.8 million people, but he continues to change his mind depending on whatever the fuck goes on in his head. he cannot be relied on to be sympathetic toward people of hispanic descent or to guarantee that DREAMers will be allowed stay in the country. biden + a democratic controlled congress will allow legal challenges to the DACA moratorium to gain ground.

the biden administration is open to returning and protecting portions of culturally important indigenous land in a way that the trump administration absolutely does not give a fuck. as of may 2024, they have established seven national monuments with plans to expand the San Gabriel Monument where the Gabrielino, Kizh / Tongva, the Chumash, Kitanemuk, Serrano, and Tataviam reside. the Berryessa Snow Mountain is also on the list, as a sacred region to the Patwin.

i'm recognizing that the US's plans for clean energy have often come into conflict with tribal sovereignty, and the biden administration could absolutely do better in navigating this. but the unfortunate dichotomy is that there would be zero commitment or investment in clean energy under a trump-led government, which poses an astounding existential threat and destabilizing force to the global south beyond any human-to-human conflict. climate change has caused and will continue to cause resource shortages, greater natural disasters, and near-lethal living conditions for those in the tropics - and the actions of the highest energy consumers (US) are to blame. biden has funneled billions of dollars into climate change mitigation and clean energy generation - trump does not believe that any of it matters.

i may circle back to this and add more as it comes up, but i'm hoping that those who are skeptical / discouraged / tired of the white queer-centric discourse on tumblr and twitter can at least process some of this. please feel free to add more articles + points but i'm asking for the sake of this post to please focus on issues that affect people of color.

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“Spread love, it’s the Brooklyn way.”

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries clearly won the day on Tuesday. He made history as the first Black House caucus leader; it was also the first time (to the best of my fact-checking ability) Brooklyn’s Biggie Smalls was quoted on the House floor. While Republicans savaged one another, Democrats spread love. Jubilant, they looked like they were in the majority, not (narrowly) outnumbered by Republicans. While it’s still extremely unlikely, Jeffries went to bed closer to being House Speaker than he was Tuesday morning. Let it be said that in all three roll calls, Jeffries got 212 votes, at least nine more than McCarthy, and only a few shy of what the next Speaker will need.

Debased House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy is still not speaker, after three roll call votes in which he actually lost support. What happens when a man tries to sell his soul but finds no buyer? (A question for House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, too.) McCarthy gave the wing nuts virtually everything they asked for—the ability for only five members to force a vote to oust him as leader, key committee appointments, other rules changes, a gutted ethics committee, the ability to defund federal departments they don’t like. But they didn’t budge, and in fact their numbers climbed from an estimated five in the morning to 20 at 5 PM.

That’s when Representative Tom Cole moved to adjourn until noon on Wednesday. There had been talk that McCarthy and Co. wanted at least one more roll call vote, to “wear down” the opposition. But since the opposite was happening—the opposition was emboldened—most of the House did McCarthy a solid by voting to end his grueling day of trial by procedural combat.

Let it not be said, however, that the divided House GOP majority changed nothing. Shortly after noon on Tuesday, House security officials took down the weapon-detecting magnetometers, installed after January 6, that were intended to make sure no one entered the House chamber with a weapon. So there’s that.

There will be plenty of assessments of McCarthy’s plight after Tuesday, but I want to focus on Jeffries’s victory, even if it only lasts a day. It was also Nancy Pelosi’s: As she turned over her leadership post to Jeffries, she also bequeathed him a caucus schooled in sticking together, left, liberal, and center, when it matters most. I don’t think Beltway reporters addicted to a “Dems in disarray” story line ever understood what Pelosi accomplished, whether it was delivering her whole caucus for the Affordable Care Act in 2010, when the left was itching to bolt, to all the times she kept her members united under Donald Trump, to the selective defections she allowed—by the so-called Squad as well as centrists—as she pushed President Biden’s agenda in the past two years, knowing that certain members might need to go their own way given the proclivities of their districts.

So far, Jeffries hasn’t needed to grant any dispensation to Democrats to vote for someone else as Speaker. He won all Democratic votes, in a Speaker battle, for the first time since Pelosi did in 2007. That makes sense: Even though he is a liberal not unanimously beloved on the left, he won his caucus leader post by unanimous acclamation. Any reservations members had about him, whether from the left or the center, got subsumed by learned behavior: Being united has paid dividends for Democrats. Why stop now?

Midafternoon Tuesday, several reporters with GOP sources began floating the idea that Democrats might leave the floor, reducing the overall number of votes McCarthy would need to become Speaker. (The victor needs a majority of those present and voting for a named candidate, not of the entire House). I called bullshit at the time. It made no sense, given how Republicans were self-immolating. If there were a vital House Democratic center, maybe there would be people trying to cut deals with Republicans. (And while there isn’t, it’s still possible some incompetents are trying.)

Actually, a vital House Democratic center might be approaching Republicans in districts Joe Biden won to get them to vote for Jeffries. There are at least five: in Southern California, central New York, and southeastern Pennsylvania. Maybe Problem Solver Josh Gottheimer can work his magic? I doubt it. In fact, a much-gossipped-about photo capturing Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez chatting amiably with GOP psycho dentist Paul Gosar, who once produced a cartoon of himself killing the Bronx-Queens leader, turned out to show AOC gently disabusing Gosar of the notion that Democrats were ready to walk out and make it easier for McCarthy to win. “Dems in disarray,” d’oh! That message is strong.

It must be said that despite ideological fractures within the Democratic caucus, Jeffries had the unanimous support of the Congressional Black Caucus, and his historic leadership role, by most accounts, trumped policy differences. Progressives bristled last cycle when he joined with Gottheimer to thwart progressive Democratic challengers and refused “to bend the knee to democratic socialism,” as he put it. (As if anyone asked him to.) But when I heard Cori Bush cast her vote for Jeffries the first time, I knew he’d get all 212 Democrats. And he did. Three times.

After a brutal House GOP caucus meeting Tuesday morning, implacable McCarthy foe Matt Gaetz of Florida, who seems to have survived sex trafficking accusations, allegedly said, “I don’t care if we…elect Hakeem Jeffries.” I don’t believe that any more than I believe anything Gaetz says, but it’s still out there. Not counting on it, not betting on it, but whatever happens, Jeffries is in a hugely stronger position after this GOP multiple-vote shit show than he was even when Tuesday began. No matter who becomes Speaker, he’s going to be the most important House leader.