There are fewer hate groups in the United States today.
According to Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), in a report titled "The Year in Hate and Extremism" for 2021, hate group membership dropped for the third straight...
For a party so incensed over so-called "cancel culture," republicans sure have been doing a lot of canceling lately.
They want to cancel the teaching of "Critical Race Theory" in schools even though schools aren't teaching...
In his speech last Thursday afternoon commemorating the first anniversary of the attempted coup against our government, President Joe Biden said:
“Rioters rampaging, waving for the first time inside this Capitol, the confederate flag that symbolized the...
As the one-year anniversary of the attempted coup against our government approaches next week, we reflect on how close we came to losing democracy.
The past year has provided a myriad of speculation, criticism, analysis, and...
Here are just some consequential accomplishments the Democratic party can boast of this first year of the Biden administration with a congressional majority:
5.6 million jobs created and a historic decline in unemployment.
The most...
Randomly stop any individual at work, on the street, or anywhere else, and ask his or her opinion of the government.
You're bound to receive responses like:
"Government is too big."
"The government screws up everything."
"There's too much...
"Just as food is essential for the existence of life, voting is essential for the existence of democracy."
Those are the words of iconic civil rights activist and progressive radio talk show host Joe Madison on...
Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the American experiment?
While we haven't slipped into full-on fascism yet, a recent Global State of Democracy (GSoD Indices) report from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral...
45 Q Anon supporters are running for congressional seats in next year’s mid-term election.
Seriously.
But it gets worse.
Hoping to join them are fellow Trumpistas who participated in the January 6 domestic terror attack on the Capitol intending to violently subvert...
This week we witnessed another example of how much the republican party hates democracy.
On Wednesday, Senate republicans blocked debate on S.2747, “The Freedom to Vote Act," the Senate's version of the “For the People Act”...
There are some people out there who actually believe Democrats, the media, and government agencies are either inter-dimensional demons or psychic vampires running a child sex trafficking ring.
There normally wouldn’t be any reason to waste time explaining...
Even months before election day, Donald Trump was peddling the "big lie" that "the only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged."
It was that either/or fallacy that helped gin...
Historian Ken Burns is one of the foremost documentary filmmakers in America, renowned for marathon features about myriad subjects from the Vietnam War, the Roosevelts, World War II, prohibition, jazz, the Central Park Five, Mark...
Comprehensive voting reform Democrats have been promising since reclaiming the congressional majority this year may finally be within our grasp.
HR1, or the “For the People Act,” re-introduced this January, seeks, in part, to:
Include providing voters...
For all their sturm und drang about "big government," republicans really don't have a problem with government intervention as long it helps boost their wealthy campaign contributors' profits, prevents voters they don't want to include...
If you're a Californian, September 14 is an important day.
That's the day republicans hope to unseat Democratic governor Gavin Newsome in a special recall election.
Citing the administration's policies regarding taxes, immigration, homelessness, and the state's...
The 2020 Census data is in, with both encouraging and disconcerting results.
First, the good news.
The country has gotten more diverse.
According to Nicholas Jones, the Census Bureau's Population Division director of race, ethnicity, research and outreach:
"These...
Two years ago, news broke about evidence confirming Russian buyers used Facebook advertising as propaganda leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
In response, Facebook presented Congress 3,000 Russian-purchased ads through 470 phony pages and accounts intended to exploit America's racial divisions.
Facebook said...
The United States came dangerously close to losing democracy January 6 when thousands of spiteful, armed Donald Trump supporters descended on the Capitol to do the failed president’s bidding to “stop the steal” of votes he still...
In 2018, republicans took advantage of their inevitably fleeting majority by approving 66 judicial nominees, in addition to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Putting that into perspective, the second year of Barack Obama’s first term, the Democratic-controlled Senate confirmed 49,...
