The complaints, which include threats, reprisals and dismissals allegedly motivated by employees’ political leanings, represent 21.4% of all labor complaints counted this year and far exceed the volume reported in the 2022 election.
The MPT designed the package together with the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE), the Attorney General’s Office (AGU), the Superior Labor Court (TST) and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP), with the aim of stopping workplace persecution and protecting the secrecy of the vote.
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Labor Minister Luiz Marinho said the figures reflect “the discontent of a sector of businesspeople who do not accept the natural and democratic result of the ballot box.” He added that every worker has a constitutional right to choose a political affiliation and that the government will apply severe penalties.
Labor Prosecutor General Gláucio Araújo de Oliveira warned of legal consequences. “The employer owns the company, not the employee’s vote,” he said, adding that firing or intimidating workers for their political convictions is illegal and will bring criminal and civil action in labor courts.
The measures include a digital platform on the Ministry of Labor and Employment’s portal to receive testimony and evidence of discrimination or coercion at work, and labor inspectors who will issue infraction notices with cumulative fines. A public registry of companies convicted of discriminatory practices will also be created.
Authorities asked technology companies such as Google and Meta to take down content, groups and boycott lists organized on social media against workers or businesses.
Assédio eleitoral, listas de boicote e perseguição política no trabalho são crimes!
— CUT Brasil (@CUT_Brasil) October 30, 2026
O Ministério Público do Trabalho já registou milhares de denúncias de assédio eleitoral, ultrapassando os números de eleições anteriores. pic.twitter.com/S3oRF0ymC7
Text reads: “Electoral harassment, boycott lists and political persecution at work are crimes! The Labor Public Prosecutor’s Office has already recorded thousands of complaints of electoral harassment, exceeding previous election figures.”
The post-election climate has also affected rural areas and native people’s territories, particularly the Guaraní and Kaiowá communities in Mato Grosso do Sul. The National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (Funai) called reports of harassment and armed attacks “extremely worrying” and is coordinating protection with the Federal Police and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.
The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib) and the organization Aty Guasu forwarded the complaints, with backing from Amnesty International, Greenpeace and federal lawmaker Célia Xakriabá before the Chamber of Deputies’ Human Rights Commission. “These are communities facing direct threats to their lives, access to water and ancestral territories,” Xakriabá said, calling for the immediate intervention of the National Force.
The ministries of Human Rights and Citizenship, Racial Equality and Indigenous Peoples formed a joint monitoring table to investigate attacks motivated by politics and racial hatred against native peoples, quilombola communities and Afro-Brazilian religious centers. Whether the labor penalties and the monitoring table produce concrete cases will show how far the measures go beyond announcements.
The recent charges against nearly 20 individuals for illegal voting in North Carolina is yet another example of the failure of Democrat Roy Cooper's tenure as the state's governor.
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Elon Musk warned if Democrats get a trifecta in 2028, they'll make Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico states and expand the Supreme Court.
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As 2026 got underway and political observers looked ahead to competitive Senate races, few gave Kansas a second glance. The conventional wisdom was that Republican Sen. Roger Marshall would cruise to re-election, simply because he represents a red state that hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1932.
With just days remaining in the midterm cycle, it’s safe to say things haven’t quite gone according to plan for the GOP incumbent.
There’s no shortage of reasons why polls show Marshall struggling. From questions about his residency to an unpaid bakery bill, from his ongoing campaign finance controversy to the strength of the Rev. Adam Hamilton’s Democratic candidacy, the incumbent senator with a thin record is at the center of a toss-up race that few would’ve predicted in the recent past.
But I’ve long argued that the turning point in the Kansas race came in early September when Kansans learned that Marshall garnished paychecks and pushed arrest warrants when his patients couldn’t afford their medical bills during his time as a physician in private practice. There’s ample evidence to suggest local voters heard the story and considered it important.
This, as much as anything else, stuck. It was around that point when some polls started showing Hamilton ahead, especially after the Democratic campaign seized on the issue in its advertising.
As the race nears its end, the story continues to haunt Marshall in new and potentially harmful ways. The New York Times reported:
A former patient of Senator Roger Marshall, Republican of Kansas, on Thursday filed a class-action lawsuit against him and his former medical practice, contending that he charged illegally high interest rates in pursuing patients over outstanding bills. […]
The lawsuit, filed in Kansas state court, focuses on the 18 percent interest rate that Mr. Marshall and the medical practice he co-owned, Heartland OBGYN, often charged patients.
When the story about his debt collection practices first came to the fore, Marshall repeatedly said his business practices were “very common,” but a few weeks ago, The Kansas City Star reported that an analysis of medical debt lawsuits in the Kansas court system “found that although it’s not uncommon for hospitals and clinics across the state to sue patients, the 18% annual interest rate Marshall applied to unpaid bills was by far the highest of the roughly 150 medical practices whose public records were reviewed by The Star.”
The report added that in reviewing thousands of court documents, the newspaper “found no other medical providers that charged annual interest at 18% or any other specified rate above 12%.”
The Star also spoke to the lawyer who had represented the Kansas Republican, and he said it was Marshall’s office that was responsible for determining how much interest to charge patients on unpaid bills.
The newspaper gave the senator and his campaign team multiple opportunities over a two-week period to respond to questions about the story. They declined.
Three weeks later, Marshall’s practices are now the basis for a new lawsuit, alleging the interest rates he charged were “egregious” and potentially at odds with state law, which typically limits medial interest rates to 15%.
The Times’ report added that the lead plaintiff in the newly filed class-action suit is Meischa Zimmerman, whom Marshall’s practice sued in 2009 for $3,596 over debt related to the delivery of her daughter by cesarean section.
“She was arrested three times for missing court dates related to the case,” the article added, “once while she was eight-months pregnant and at home with her 2-year-old daughter.”
It’s not yet clear whether other patients have joined with Zimmerman in the case, and a spokesperson for the Republican incumbent did not immediately respond to the Times’ request for comment. Watch this space.
This post updates our related earlier coverage.
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Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* With time running out in South Carolina’s unexpectedly competitive U.S. Senate race, the Senate Democrats’ top super PAC is finally investing in the race. Politico reported that the Senate Majority PAC is spending $750,000 on digital ads, hoping to boost Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee, in her race against incumbent Republican Sen. Darline Graham.
The investment comes on the heels of the Senate Republicans’ top super PAC spending even more in the hopes of rescuing the appointed GOP incumbent. In fact, MS NOW reported that there’s a growing sense of “panic” in Republican circles about the state of the race in South Carolina, fueled in large part by doubts about Graham.
* In Ohio’s gubernatorial race, Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s notorious attack ad is finally leaving the state’s airwaves. According to his campaign, the commercial is rotating out after completing its intended run, rather than being pulled for having backfired.
* In Kansas’ U.S. Senate race, The Washington Post and George Mason University conducted a poll that found the Rev. Adam Hamilton with an unexpectedly large nine-point advantage over incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, though the Post’s article on the survey results emphasized at great lengths that registered Democrats “were more than twice as likely as registered Republicans to complete the survey after answering an interviewer’s call.”
Nevertheless, Hamilton continues to pick up endorsements from notable Kansas Republicans: Former Sen. Sheila Frahm, who briefly held then-Sen. Bob Dole’s seat in 1996, announced Thursday that while she’d backed Marshall in the past, she’s supporting Hamilton this year.
* Donald Trump was scheduled to headline campaign rallies in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday. On Thursday, the president’s team reversed course and canceled the events. On Friday morning, the White House appears to have reversed course again and resurrected the events.
* In Maine’s U.S. Senate race, outgoing Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has finally endorsed fellow Democrat Troy Jackson in his race against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins, although she did so in the most indirect way possible, urging Mainers to “vote for Democrats up and down the ballot.”
* And if it seems this year’s midterms have cost an enormous amount of money, it’s not your imagination. The New York Times reported this week, “This is officially the most expensive political advertising cycle ever, according to AdImpact, which monitors ad spending. Presidential cycles are typically more expensive than midterm ones, but not this time: The previous record was recorded in the 2023-2024 cycle, when AdImpact recorded $11.2 billion in ad spending. That was eclipsed [Monday], as now $11.21 billion of ads are booked or reserved, the firm said.”
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The history professor who inaccurately predicted former Vice President Kamala Harris (D) would beat President Donald Trump (R) in 2024 is predicting a major Democrat win in the midterm elections on Tuesday.
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Two Border Patrol unions endorsed Republican Anthony Constantino in the race for New York’s 21st Congressional District, citing his commitment to border security.
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Thursday on Fox News Channel's "Hannity," Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, called the tale of two "Dan Sullivans" on the Alaska general election ballot for U.S. Senate an effort to deceive.
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Socialist Claire Valdez is running in New York’s 7th Congressional District and urging Democrats to go "on offense" for "trans rights" built on annexing public funds to drive the push for "gender-affirming care."
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Pope Leo XIV has cast his ballot in the U.S. midterm elections while expressing his “belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes,” the Holy See Press Office announced Friday.
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With time running out in the election cycle, JD Vance participated in a primetime town hall on Fox News, which was largely unremarkable except for one unexpected exchange.
A local college student told the vice president that the right routinely tells young people to get married and have children but that conservatives have failed to acknowledge how financially difficult this is for many. She asked, “So my question is, how does the right, and yourself, expect us to start families young when the average price of a home in America now costs more than $415,000, which just feels out of reach for us?”
It’s worth emphasizing for context that the question came from a young woman who identified herself as the vice president of her university’s Turning Point USA chapter. That is, Vance wasn’t confronting a political opponent; the question came from someone inclined to agree with the Trump White House.
Almost immediately, the Ohio Republican demonstrated the kind of political instincts that have made him famous.
Q: How do you expect us to start families young when the average price of a home feels out of reach?JD VANCE: I want to point out that I've only gotten one question about Jon Husted's ass
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-30T01:28:44.964Z
“I want to point out that I think that I have been asked four or maybe five questions by my count,” the vice president began. “I have only been asked one question about [Republican Sen.] Jon Husted’s ass — and it was by [Fox News’] Jesse Watters.”
So, during a nationally televised event, a young conservative voter asked a sincere question about one of the most pressing issues facing her generation, and Vance’s first thought was to make a joke about a senator’s backside.
It’s impossible to say just how many young voters watching at home were amused by this clumsy attempt at humor, but it seems likely the number was small.
It only got worse when Vance actually tried to answer the question with some substance.
“I think we have to take stock of the fact that the reason why housing exploded in the United States of America is in part because we allowed 20 million illegal aliens into our country to buy homes that ought, by right, go to American citizens,” the vice president argued.
Except that’s absurd. Vance’s statistic is wildly inflated and totally at odds with actual data — the idea that 20 million undocumented immigrants have the resources to buy up American real estate is nonsensical. (Last fall, he similarly complained to Fox News about importing “more and more low-wage servants” from other countries. How “low-wage servants” can afford to purchase homes has never been clear.)
The vice president went on to say, “Another reason why housing got too expensive in this country is because we allowed homes to be bought up by Wall Street and foreign investors.”
Unlike the rest of his response, this actually made some sense, though it touched on a problem Vance neglected to mention: Congress approved a bipartisan housing bill earlier this year that was designed to address the very problem he referred to. President Donald Trump, however, refused to sign it as part of a tantrum over a voter suppression proposal that he wanted but couldn’t have. (The housing bill, thankfully, became law anyway.)
This exchange didn’t have to be so politically messy for the vice president, but his unerring political instincts won out in the end anyway.
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After months of speculation about Democrats recruiting retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan to run against incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan in Alaska, The New York Times uncovered credible evidence to suggest that the allegations have merit.
To put it mildly, the GOP reactions have fallen somewhere between hair-on-fire apoplexy and unbridled rage. Donald Trump, in particular, has spent recent days in total hysterics, demanding that former Rep. Mary Peltola be, among other things, prosecuted for crimes the president failed to identify. (Peltola on Thursday again denied having had knowledge of the alleged scheme, saying she’s “not interested in tricking voters.”)
But of particular interest was the reaction from Gov. Mike Dunleavy. On Wednesday, the Alaska Republican announced that he had ordered an investigation into whether Peltola’s campaign should face criminal or civil penalties, and on Thursday he went even further. Axios reported:
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) suggested Thursday the state could withhold certification of the U.S. Senate election results if Democrat Mary Peltola wins.
Withholding certification could complicate Peltola’s path to the Senate, as Republicans investigate allegations that Democrats recruited a candidate with the same name as GOP incumbent Dan Sullivan.
During a NewsNation interview, the governor hedged when asked if he was prepared to certify the results, even if his preferred candidate loses. “We’re going to ensure that we aren’t going to send a scam to Washington,” Dunleavy said.
In other words, with only a handful of days remaining before Election Day, the state’s sitting governor publicly declared that even if Alaskans back the former congresswoman, he may not be prepared to accept the will of the voters.
That, in and of itself, is a radical move that puts a thumb on the scale. Governors are not supposed to effectively tell their state’s electorate, “Vote how you want, but the results might not count.”
But just as notable is the fact that the partisan outrage is wildly inconsistent with the alleged offense.
It’s more than fair to argue that ballot-stacking is underhanded campaign mischief. But it’s equally fair to note that it’s a common tactic, employed by both parties, going back generations.
As for the legality, the Times also reported, “Ballot-stacking strategies are common in politics and generally considered legal, if misleading. Republicans engaged in the tactic in Alaska this year, too, trying to prop up Democratic candidates in the Senate primary to siphon votes from Ms. Peltola.”
What we’re left with is a story in which Republicans appear to be engaging in performative outrage, not in response to a genuine scandal, but in response to polls showing them behind.
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On Thursday’s edition of CBS’s “The Takeout,” Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) stated that “we might even see a vote” on impeaching Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “when we get back in the lame duck.” But when it comes to impeaching
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On Thursday’s edition of CBS’s “The Takeout,” host and CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett stated that he doesn’t hear a lot about what Democrats’ actual agenda is. While speaking with Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Garrett asked, “Is this
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