Have you ever heard of DRE's? It stands for Direct Recording Electronic voting systems, and Floridians are worried the 2000 elections debacle could be repeated again this year.

What you may not know about your congressional representative or Senator may shock and anger you.

Over the last five years, there has been a new concentration of wealth in the hands of the few in the US. Meanwhile, middle and lower-income families have seen their already precarious financial solvency eroded by rising debt and stagnant wages.

A growing grassroots campaign is demanding the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

Allan Burns, running against the powerful incumbent, US Rep. John Linder (R-GA), in Georgia's 7th Congressional District, knows he has an uphill battle.

Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) has gone on record as stating that the separation between church and state is "a lie." Harris gained notoriety when, as Florida's Secretary of State, her decisions resulted in awarding Florida's electoral votes to George W. Bush in November of 2000.

A group of wealthy out-of-state businessmen have financed a ballot initiative to turn back the clock on civil rights in Michigan. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to force the people of Michigan to vote on their divisive views this November 7th and misleadingly called their campaign the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative.

In 1775, Thomas Paine stated his belief that "any excuse can be made to serve the purpose of malignity when it is in power." A perfect example of this more than two centuries later is President George W. Bush's claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

And yet another menacing terror plot was thwarted 10 August, with the arrest of 24 suspects, all British Muslims. It was an ominous conspiracy aimed at committing "mass murder" on an "unimaginable" scale, British authorities quickly concluded.

(APN) ATLANTA – While Georgia voters were not limited to five forms of ID, instead of the current seventeen, in the recent Primary and Runoff Elections, the possibility is still there that poor, elderly, and disadvantaged voters may be effectively disenfranchised in the General Election or some future election.

(APN) ATLANTA -- US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) is pursuing numerous legal avenues to challenge the so-called "results" of not only her recent Primary and Runoff Elections, but also the fundamental reality that the current E-voting system in Georgia does not provide us with "results" that are in any way meaningful.

Ranking member of the House Judiciary Cmte. John Conyers and his staff are assembling a blistering followup to last year’s report “The Constitution in Crisis.” Though the Administration’s power grab has met some effective resistance in 2006, Conyers warns in his preview report that “the unfortunate reality is we are a long way from being out of the constitutional woods under the dangerous combination of an imperial Bush presidency and a compliant GOP Congress.”

Reading about the imaginative plans Washington's expatriate plotters have for a post-Castro Cuba, the thing that always sticks out is their lack of any grounding in reality.

Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation's capital in protest?

Seizing any weapon with which to attack the growing movement for immigrant workers’ rights, the Republican Party and the right wing have found a new gripe: the recording of a Spanish-language version of the national anthem.

Many Americans will tell you that it makes them uncomfortable to think of their president as a liar or a crook.  Their need for authority figures extends to pretending that whoever is president is honest and good.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency prohibits journalists from having unsupervised interviews with Hurricane Katrina victims who have been relocated to FEMA trailer parks, according to a report in the Baton Rouge Advocate.

Indeed, as Israel, with Bush's blessing, expands its initial militaristic bullying of Gaza into a full-scale invasion of Lebanon...a version of Oliver Hardy’s famous line springs readily to mind: "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten us into."

"You've got electronic voting machines. Many people called in and shared their concern. They pushed the button for Cynthia McKinney and Hank Johnson came up. It wasn't one time, it wasn't two times, it was many, many times."

Venezuelan President Chavez and other high level government officials sharply criticized U.S. efforts to undermine both Venezuela and Cuba.