This year was a deeply disappointing one for Africa’s struggling democrats. And there is little reason to expect 2026 to be much better https://t.co/0PKd9HPJV7Illustration: Mel Haasch https://t.co/4s84JYkfWM ...

The transition to democracy in Venezuela “is not hypothetical; it has already begun”, argues the opposition leader and Nobel laureate. “The fear inside the regime is palpable” https://t.co/4FY5h3aM0C ...

The NGO bureaucracy controls Europe, depriving people of democracyNaomi Seibt (@NaomiSeibt):Democracy died with the rise of NGO bureaucracy.Your vote means nothing until the EU falls. ...

In the coming year, South Africa and Zambia will be bright spots for functional democracy. Elsewhere, however, ruling parties will be largely going through the motions https://t.co/2x9NqZixMi ...

Back this morning, the daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Karina Machado is accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on her mother's behalf at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The Nobel Institute said Machado would not be attending the ceremony, but that she would come to Oslo later. NBC News international correspondent Molly Hunter joins us now with more on this.Hey there, Molly. Let's start with the ceremony itself. Walk us through what's happening and what we've heard so far.>> Yeah, Emily ...

RT Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇪🇺 WHO ELECTED THEM? NO ONE. THE EU IS RULED BY A BUREAUCRATIC MACHINE, NOT DEMOCRACYCall it what it is: the European Commission is not democratic. It’s not even close.While Brussels lectures the world about democratic values and the rule of law, the truth is that the real power in the EU is held by people no one ever voted for. Not once. Not directly. Not democratically.Yes, Europeans get to vote for Members of the European Parliament every 5 years. But here’s the dirty little ...

Democracy is being destroyedArthur MacWaters (@ArthurMacwaters):@elonmusk this one map explains most of the policy around immigration https://t.co/0MMVzO0ZOB ...

Once you understand the incentive, the reason for the behavior becomes obvious: they are importing a left-voting bloc that depends on government handouts.A prominent example of this in America is Ilhan Omar and her Somali voting bloc in Minnesota, an area which used to be primarily Nordic-German.Importing voters is a CERTAIN path to a single-party supermajority and has ALREADY happened at the state level in California and New York. It also explains why those states have BANNED VOTER ID in order to accelerat ...

Governments elected on a small share of the vote do not have a mandate for the sweeping reform Britain needs. It is a recipe for disillusionment with democracy https://t.co/LR9J8hozIH ...

She is openly advocating for the destruction of democracy@amuse (@amuse):SCOTUS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told the Court that presidents should not be able to fire the PhDs & experts who run the government. She even argued presidents should avoid control over transportation & the economy.In a remarkable exchange in Trump v Slaughter, Justice https://t.co/sXQesOSdKG ...