NY-21, the North Country, wasn’t drastically affected by the 2020 redistricting. The district got slightly redder— from an R+14 partisan lean to an R+17 lean. The PVI is R+9 up from an R+4. The Traitor beat Biden 55.2% to 42.8% under the new boundaries, his third best performance in NewContinue Reading
I.C. Lord was the City Marshal in Houston following the Civil War who is credited with turning the Houston Police Department into a modern police agency, with uniforms, ranks, and patrol beats. I’d seen references to him being shot in 1868 in an episode of civil unrest by Houston freedmen,Continue Reading
News For This Wrongly Convicted Man, Making Jewelry ‘Takes Away From the Hardness That Prison Created’ Kenneth Hovland found solace in jewelry-making through his four decades of wrongful conviction. 07.12.23 By Meghan Nguyen (Image: Kenny Karpov/Innocence Project) Kenneth used jewelry-making to aid in his journey of healing after the traumaticContinue Reading
News 8 Ways People With Disabilities Can Be Vulnerable to Wrongful Conviction For Disability Pride Month, we’re taking a look at how people with disabilities can face unique challenges that hinder their ability to effectively participate in the criminal legal system. 07.31.23 By Meghan Nguyen (Image: Tim Mossholder/Unsplash) July isContinue Reading
News Know Your Rights: What to Do if You Have a Disability and Are Questioned by Police Understanding and asserting the rights of people with disabilities during police interrogations is paramount to ensuring their fair treatment and safeguarding their well-being. 07.31.23 By Meghan Nguyen (Image: Nguyen Minh/Unsplash) As we celebrateContinue Reading
Originally published at Ongoing History of Protest MusicDivide and Dissolve is an Australian-based instrumental doom metal duo that features saxophonist and guitarist Takiaya Reed and percussionist Sylvie Nehill. For the female duo, the act of simply inhabiting a prominently white male genre space is political. Reed is descended from “indigenousContinue Reading
Did Matos Think She Would Get Away With Handing In Forged Signatures? Well… She Did Rhode Island’s special election to fill the seat of David Cicilline will be decided in the Democratic primary on Sept. 5, not much more than a month away. The district, the eastern part of theContinue Reading
The following independent journalism was made possible by paid subscribers. Take advantage of this discount offer and subscribe to Shadowproof’s Dissenter Newsletter today.While the United States Justice Department has increasingly wielded the Espionage Act to make an example out of government employees or contractors, federal prosecutors have been reluctant to chargeContinue Reading
News Morton Johnson Has Spent More Than Half His Life in Prison for a Crime New DNA Evidence Shows He Didn’t Commit New DNA evidence supports what he’s always said: He didn’t commit the crime. 08.02.23 By Daniele Selby Samuel Grasty, Derrick Chappell, and Morton Johnson (Image: Courtesy of theContinue Reading
California Governor Gavin Newsom has always been outspoken about his views against the policy of capital punishment. Once elected, he kept his promise to halt all criminal executions in the state by closing down the death chamber located at San Quentin. On March 13, 2019, the lethal injection chair wasContinue Reading
Instead of one short animation, I created four cartoons in different styles that hopefully help reveal more about America’s Most Corrupt Justice., Read MoreContinue Reading
According to David Neiwert’s new book, the January 6 attack was the start of the new era in American politics in which the far right believes that a civil war is inevitable, and they have begun to act as such., Read MoreContinue Reading
News Rosa Jimenez Is Exonerated of a Crime That Never Took Place After 20 Years Exoneration 08.07.23 Rosa Jimenez in downtown Austin, Texas, on March 4, 2021. (Aug. 7, 2023 — Austin, TX) Rosa Jimenez was exonerated today after the Travis County District Attorney moved to dismiss a 2003 murderContinue Reading