Think Republican Attacks On Voting Rights In Georgia, Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Texas And Other States Is No Big Deal, That There's Time To Turn America's Traitors Around… Then Remember This… In…
Reminder: History Teaches
We Learn Or We Rot Republican Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona was asked at a recent event sponsored by the far-right group Patriot Voices, a Rick Santorum organisation, what he thought about…
No Mystery Here. Happy 4th!
It's now old news that Senate Republicans blocked an investigation into the 6 January insurrection and deadly attempted coup by Trump-supporting armed domestic terrorists whose mission included hanging the Republican Vice-President, Mike Pense. "If…
A Chilling Reminder
Last month, when Senate Republicans led by Mitch McConnell blocked passage of a bill to create an independent investigation into the January 6 rightwing insurrection/deadly riot – five dead and 140 police officers injured,…
Blue and Red: The Game
So, Senate Republicans kill For the People Act, the legislation that promised to protect American citizens' right to vote, thereby saving a fragile U.S. democracy. But all 50 senate Republicans said NO! All 50…
Republican Attacks On Education, History Growing
GOP Attack on Education Continues as Texas Bans Teaching of 'Critical Race Theory' in Public Schools Texas Governor Greg Abbott became the latest Republican state leader to approve legislation aimed at controlling public…
McConnell Has Another Grab-For-Power Orgasm
Determined To Reach That Pleasure Spot It's The Only Thing That Matters To Him During an interview with a conservative radio show, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave notice that he will repeat…
Somebody Needs To Go To Prison
Department of Fake Justice Exposed, Again! The U.S. Department of Justice under the former occupant of the Oval Office secretly grabbed phone and other communications data from at least 12 people connected to the…
Where Is America Heading?
An article in The Guardian asks: Is America heading to a place where it can no longer call itself a democracy? I offer once again these reminders as among possible answers to that question.…
Do Not Turn The Page On The Lady, Yet…
A Piece of The Why of Republican Obstruction of the 1/6 Commission and Why Dems Must Go It Alone Neo Fascists In Suits And Dresses Almost two hundred Republican members of the United States…
Democracy: It’s Complicated and Fragile
It's Always About Choices During his Memorial Day 2021 address to the nation President Joe Biden warned that U.S. democracy is in danger of failing: “The mission falls to each of us,…
Joe Manchin Just Loves To Appease Republicans
West Virginia's Conservative Democratic Senator Gives Detached-From-Reality Response To Republican Promised Obstruction On 1/6 Commission and Elections Security With Spot On Commentary by Brian Tyler Cohen
Democracy: Ya Gotta Fight For It
“There Is a Ticking Timebomb” Republican controlled states across the country are moving more aggressively with their democracy-killing agenda to make voting as difficult as possible in counties where Blacks, Latinos and low-income…
Danger Ahead: Anti-Democracy Drift
Reminders “The radicalization of the Republican Party has outpaced what even most critical observers imagined. We need to grapple with what that should mean for our expectations going forward and start thinking…
Will This Nation Survive
Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post sums it up, perfectly: The greatest threat to our nation’s future is not covid-19 or the rise of China or even the existential challenge of climate…
Danger Ahead
Enemies Of The People It’s hard to overstate how dangerous this is, and what its consequences might entail in the very near future. As Greg Sargent notes, the 'GOP appears to be plunging…
Just Sunday Drivin’
Are We There Yet?
THE Image
Madame Speaker. Madame Vice-President.
Repost: The American Normal UPDATED
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a gun law case challenging New York law which prohibits carrying concealed handguns outside the home without a license. This post is just one of many offering a…
The More Things Change The More They…
After watching the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where Democratic voting rights activist Stacey Abrams schools Republicans on systemic voter suppression in this country, I scrolled through my folders holding files related to this…
Stand Up. Speak Up. Demand Change.
New Approaches Needed to Address Ongoing Police Abuse By Human Rights Watch A Minnesota jury has properly convicted former officer Derek Chauvin of second-degree murder for the killing of George Floyd on May…
When An Image Tells The Story: Maxine Edition
Ieshia Evans Getting Confrontational Ieshia Evans is facing straight on a large number of heavily-armed police at a Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2016 following the shooting (multiple times)…
Dictator Wannabe Platform 2022/2024
Florida Gov Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Making Protest A Crime, Allowing Drivers To Run Down Protesters. It's clear this bill is the foundation upon which DeSantis will build his 2022 reelection campaign with a…
America
2nd Lieutenant Caron Nazario, Active Duty, U.S. Army Medical Corps. Pulled over on bogus traffic stop in Windsor, Virginia. Guns pointed directly at him at close range by two cops. Taunted with execution slang.…
Mitch, A Special Place In Hell Awaits You
Hypocrite of the year award, and there's no close second, goes to Republican Senator Mitch McConnell for lecturing corporate CEOs for speaking out against, and one taking direct action against, voter suppression laws in…
Think Republican Attacks On Voting Rights In Georgia And Other States Is No Big Deal…
Then Remember This... In 1930, Germany is a liberal democracy. Just four years later, democracy is dead, Germany’s leader is a dictator and the government is in the hands of the Nazis.
The Playbook Reads Familiar
It's Getting Serious, Folks. Georgia Republicans Go Even Farther Right. While Georgia's Republican governor Brian Kemp was signing the now-known-around-the-world 98-page anti-democracy Republican voter suppression bill, state Representative Park Cannon knocked on his closed…













