Progressive Caucus Says Biden Would Be 'Foolish' to Keep Pursuing GOP Votes on Infrastructure These are the same Republican senators who refused to vote for the American Rescue Plan even if some touted…
Enjoying Your Moment In The Spotlight, Sen. Joe Manchin?
The end of the For the People Act would open the way for Republican-dominated states to continue their shameless campaign to suppress the votes of likely Democratic voters - using Trump's baseless claims of…
Joe Manchin, Meet Neville Chamberlain
So, Joe, you wrote an op-ed stating you are a 'No' for the voting rights bill – For the People Act. You say, Joe, you're against the legislation because it ran through the House…
Democracy Be Damned! One Man Can Kill 85 Million Votes.
"We didn't need an op-ed to know you're unwilling to protect our democracy" Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia penned an op-ed Sunday in the Charleston Gazette-Mail where he vowed to oppose…
Voting Voters and Their Votes
During His Long Reign of Terror, Murderous Paranoid Psychopath Joseph Stalin Often Got 100% of The Vote. He Once Got 103%. Establishment Democrats' Dribble, 'Oh My, What Can We Do...'
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,…
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…
He’s Still At It
Republicans don't like it when voting is easy for U.S. citizens. Because, as we all know, when casting a vote is unrestricted, Democrats out-vote Republicans. So, Republicans, especially at the state level, are passing…
Monday Ménage
Angela Davis. H.L. Mencken. Adlai Stevenson. I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who…
We Love To Hate. It’s You, Not Me
Sixty-Four Percent of Americans Think Social Media Divides More Than Unite A new NBC poll reveals astonishing news: Most Americans who use social media more than once a day think platforms like Facebook…
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…
Is This The End Or The Beginning
Lindsey Graham: Sick, Twisted, Flat Out POS Coward Can we move forward without President Trump? The answer is no. I’ve always liked Liz Cheney but she’s made a determination that the Republican…
100 Days 2025
America Rising Medicare For All / Paid Maternity Leave Supremes Expanded / Citizens United Gone Police Reformed / Gun Shops Closed Minimum Wage Up / Economy Grows Wall Street Breaking Records Right-Wing Heads Explode,…
So Let Me Continue…
"With All Due Respect" Voting rights warrior Stacey Abrams proves once again that she is not someone who comes to your Q & A meeting unprepared. She proves, once again, that she is not…
Monday Ménage
Amos Wilson. Lindy West. Abhijit Naskar. Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence…
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…
Joe Manchin, Pretend Democrat
“Our ultimate goal should be to restore bipartisan faith in our voting process by assuring all Americans that their votes will be counted, secured and protected”. Senator Joe Manchin in Washington Post op-ed offering…
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…
Republicans. Guns. Votes. The Numbers
1 Week. 2 Mass Murders. 18 Dead. Assault On America Lives And Democracy When Democrats passed the Assault Weapons Ban in 1994, the number of mass shootings went down by 37%.…
Well, This Is Weird
The New York Times Stepped Out Of Its Comfort Zone, Talked To People Who Didn't Vote For Trump. Here's a sample of what they learned: Nancy MacEoin, 47, criminal defense lawyer in Philadelphia: “Many…
Worse Of The Worst: #3
2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. Don't Let Them Take It, Our Democracy Posted 2020.08.24…
Damn! He Was Right!
Never thought I'd be saying this, but ya gotta give it to him. Donald Trump's voter fraud claims before, during and after the presidential election have proven to be true. In Delaware County, Pennsylvania,…
Fascists In The House
UPDATE Supreme Court: NO! UPDATE 20 More Join Attempt At Coup, Including Top Republican Leadership: Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). 106 Anti-Democracy House Republicans Sign On To Texas…
Somewhere In The Not So Distant Future
Just Two Old White Guys Dancin' In The Grass













