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Citizens want fresh elections, they could see Zelensky outed, and they will happen “immediately” after ceasefire, Ukraine’s ousted FM said.

Faith in the French political system has completely collapsed according to an annual survey, which found staggering levels of dissatisfaction with the direction of the country and the establishment in Paris.

Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville spelled out his “fantasy dream” for punishing Trump “collaborators” after the president leaves office in 2029 — he said their heads should be shaved, they should be clad in orange jumpsuits, and then marched down Pennsylvania Avenue while the public spits on them.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) filmed himself leading a “No Kings” protest chant in California, joining a growing list of prominent Democrats taking part in the nationwide demonstrations against President Donald Trump.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that the eighty-year history of the Republic of Korea was proof that the United Nations can bring positive change to the world.

Kuwait First Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Fahad Yousef Saud a-Sabah announced on Monday that nearly 50,000 citizenships have been revoked because their papers were allegedly obtained with the assistance of “forgers.”

Banning the nation’s second-largest political party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), has become a matter of constant conversation. Yet, a prominent academic has warned that there could be serious consequences for breaking the democratic system.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation this week that advances an effort to prevent noncitizens from voting in the Lone Star State.

On his first full day in office, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz lashed out at the Trump administration for raising concerns about the state of democracy in the European nation following the green light to spy on the opposition AfD party.

Three pro-democracy banners were hung from an overpass in the Chinese city of Chengdu on Tuesday morning, in a daring echo of the famed “Bridge Man” protest in 2022.

Vice President JD Vance was proven right on the attacks on democracy and liberty in Europe, supporters claimed, as populist National Rally leader Marine Le Pen was banned from running in the French presidential election.

The Constitutional Court of Romania has rejected the appeals of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu against a ban on his candidacy in upcoming elections, a move supporters have claimed is an affront to the democratic process.

President Volodymyr Zelensky insists he’s so popular you’d have to ban him from office to prevent him from winning the next Ukraine election.

The sovereigntist frontrunner in Romania’s annulled election, Călin Georgescu, was detained by police and charged by prosecutors on Wednesday amid accusations that his campaign was aided by Russia and shortly after U.S. Vice President JD Vance warned of threats against democracy in the Eastern European nation. 

President Donald Trump is an “aspiring dictator,” likened to both Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Roman emperor Augustus Caesar, according to a Presidents Day Salon piece that warns his presidency is leading to the downfall of American democracy.

The Washington swamp and its media allies have settled on their line of attack against the new Trump administration, and it’s a tired one: Our democracy is in peril!

Much of the nation is experiencing deep existential grief following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, writes Salon.com, with some risking “PTSD, substance abuse and mental health issues.”

Donald Trump’s return to the presidency is a major threat to democracy and Democrats need to “find a new way to defeat him,” according to the left-leaning New Republic, which lambasted the returning president’s “nakedly fascistic agenda,” and calls to “extinguish the growing movement he leads.”

Germany’s ambassador to the United States reportedly warned that Donald Trump’s incoming administration will undermine “basic democratic principles” and seek a “redefinition of the constitutional order.”

President Joe Biden declared during his farewell address that an “oligarchy” of the “ultra-wealthy” and powerful is forming that “threatens our entire democracy.”

Former President Barack Obama on Thursday claimed the moral high ground by cautioning  “one side” of politics is going to “stack the deck” by stealing elections and politicize the U.S. government.

Media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was upbeat and defiant at his trial in Hong Kong on Wednesday, facing down a kangaroo court appointed by the Communist-controlled puppet government to prosecute him under the fascist “national security law” imposed by Beijing.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that “when the Democrats lose, the mass is over, go in peace. When the Republicans lose, we have a riot, and we pretend every election is bullshit. This is

A cohort of 113 members of Germany’s Bundestag parliament have signed onto a motion calling for the Federal Constitutional Court to consider banning the right-wing anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Recent simulations conducted by left-leaning anti-Trump experts envision the U.S. facing an unprecedented erosion of democratic norms under a second Trump administration, according to Transition Integrity Project co-founder Rosa Brooks, who suggested the recent “war games” demonstrated the need for “creative” resistance and “harm reduction” tactics to counter what she describes as “autocratic” maneuvers President Donald Trump would employ.

Former President Donald Trump is poised to secure a significant electoral victory, potentially “sweeping battleground states,” according to Rasmussen’s head pollster, who sees the current race favoring Trump in the national popular vote, suggesting a larger “political realignment” is underway, and foreseeing an outcome that could echo — or even exceed — Ronald Reagan’s historic landslide win over Jimmy Carter in 1980.

The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times are “betraying democracy” by refusing to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, according to the left-wing magazine The Nation

A report published on Monday by Oxfam claimed that “carbon inequality” – meaning “the emissions of the world’s super-rich 1%” – is “causing economic losses of trillions of dollars, contributing to huge crop losses, and leading to millions of excess deaths.”

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” host Abby Phillip stated that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris getting the Democratic nomination without having to go through any primaries isn’t undemocratic and “has absolutely nothing to do with the

Former President Donald Trump would do a better job of defending democracy than Vice President Kamala Harris, a Washington Post/Schar School poll of key swing states found. 

Donald Trump is a menacing “villain” who would empower violent paramilitary groups and undermine American democracy if he returned to the White House, according to a recent piece in The New Yorker, which describes the former president as a “distinctively vile” and “singularly dangerous” political figure whose opponents “haven’t grasped the scale of [his] villainy.”

During an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” released on Monday, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris responded to a question on whether President Joe Biden stepping down and endorsing her and her not having to go through a

Moderators of the vice presidential debate Tuesday evening on CBS claimed that democracy is the #2 issue in the country, behind the economy and inflation.

A 27-year-old man named Chu Kai-pong pled guilty to “sedition” in a Hong Kong court Monday because he wore a t-shirt with a protest slogan.

Algerian election officials on Sunday declared incumbent President Abulmadjid Tebboune the winner of a dubious election with 95 percent of the vote.