Election Day 2011 is over, and the victories for Democrats – and more accurately, for liberal values – across the country largely shared a characteristic – they were successful defensive actions to stave off extremely draconian conservative objectives. The most notable of these came in Ohio, where SB 5, the anti-union bill which stripped most [...]

In Arizona, State Senate President Russell Pearce, who authored and was the driving force behind the anti-immigrant SB 1070 last year, faces a recall election next month. He immediately faced some challengers, including Olivia Cortes, a naturalized immigrant from Mexico who used the familiar “Sí, Se Puede!” as a campaign slogan. Just one thing, though: [...]

NPR has become the first news organization to pick up on a Think Progress investigation from over a month ago, about the private prison industry’s role in SB1070 and anti-immigration laws generally. They did a pretty good job with it. Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles [...]