by Jim Heath | Feb 4, 2021 | 2020, Headlines
A voting technology company swept up in baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election filed a monster $2.7 billion lawsuit today against Fox News, some of the network’s star hosts, and pro-Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, alleging the...
by Jim Heath | Feb 1, 2021 | 2020, Headlines, Trump
Donald Trump has blamed the election results on bogus claims of fraud and malfeasance. But at the top levels of his campaign, a detailed autopsy report that circulated among his political aides paints a far different — and more critical — portrait of what led to his...
by Jim Heath | Jan 25, 2021 | 2020, Headlines, Trump
Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit today against Rudy Giuliani, the lawyer for Donald Trump and former mayor of New York City who played a key role in the former president’s months long effort to subvert the 2020 election. NYT: The 107-page lawsuit,...
by Jim Heath | Jan 21, 2021 | 2020, Headlines
One America News Network has quietly scrubbed its website of references to election conspiracy theories, which could be an attempt to fend off a lawsuit from the election-technology companies it had targeted in its stories. For months, the media organization, which is...
by Jim Heath | Jan 7, 2021 | 2020, Electoral Map, Headlines, History, Inauguration, Joe Biden
Overnight, Vice President Mike Pence declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election after Congress counted the electoral votes after a violent day at the Capitol. Pence also announced that Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) was the winner of the...
by Jim Heath | Jan 5, 2021 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines
The two Democratic candidates for the U.S. senate in Georgia have stunned the nation and defeated the Republican incumbents, putting Democrats in solid control of congress. With about 99 percent of the vote counted, the Rev. Raphael Warnock has defeated Sen. Kelly...