Here's an intellectual exercise Donald Trump's most ardent supporters probably haven't thought of.
If, as QAnon adherents believe, there hasn't been a legitimate President of the United States since Ulysses S. Grant, wouldn't that make Trump's...
Republican state legislatures all over the country are aggressively trying to make voting harder.
As the Brennan Center for Justice reports, currently 28 states have 106 pending bills to restrict access to ballot boxes.
Contrast this to...
There are 224 state-level ballot-qualified political parties in the United States.
Most are obscure.
We like to believe we can vote for whomever we want in the United States, yet because we do not practice a parliamentary system nor a national-level system of proportional representation,...
Three weeks ago the United States of America experienced something it never should have.
Although the attempted Capitol coup d'etat on January 6 did not elicit the outcome Donald Trump and his ardent supporters intended--namely overturning...
Here are the words we have longed to say for four years: Donald Trump is gone.
After four dark, disconcerting years of anxiety and despondency, things are finally beginning to look brighter.
Not only is Joe Biden...
The 42 right-wing Republican senators and House of Representatives members who voted two weeks ago to challenge US election results want us to believe they were standing on principles.
They want the American people to understand...
In three days, the United States will inaugurate former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris as the next President and Vice President.
Getting rid of Donald Trump after four years of lawlessness, mendacity, and...
Last week's Capitol siege was a potential practice run for many of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters intent on committing domestic terrorism based on conspiracy theories, white grievance, and contempt for democracy.
According to an internal...
Only three presidents have been impeached in American history: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998, and Donald Trump in 2019.
After Wednesday's treasonous coup attempt at the Capitol for which Donald Trump is undeniably culpable, there...
Five months ago, Donald Trump tweeted the following:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1287877621380837378
He was responding to “left-wing violence,” “dangerous radical leftists,” and "radical ANTIFA" supposedly wreaking havoc in Portland, Ore. during Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests this summer over the...
Republicans had an opportunity to remove Donald Trump from office a year ago.
Yet, despite incontrovertible evidence of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress leading to Trump being the third president to be impeached, the...
Record turnout in this year's election is throwing Republicans into a tailspin.
They do not want democracy.
They want oligarchy.
But they know Americans outside the extremely wealthy do not.
So to maintain their wealthy donors' hegemony, they work...
Donald Trump and his “elite strike force” have failed at overturning the Electoral College-certified election.
Every federal court to which Trump's lawyers have brought legal challenges intended to steal Joe Biden’s victory has backfired.
So that's it,...
Do you know anyone who might have donated to the "Donald J. Trump Election Defense Fund"?
Well, it probably won't make any difference, but you might want to have a talk with him or her about...
In 1974, President Gerald Ford granted Richard Nixon a "full, free, and absolute pardon for all offenses against the United States."
Despite Ronald Reagan funding right-wing Nicaraguan paramilitary insurgents with arms sales to Iran and his...
As we celebrate and savor President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump, we must also be cognizant that, despite record voter turnout, the 2020 election did not bode as well for Democrats as it could have.
Two years ago, a...
Some of the circumstances President-elect Joe Biden will be inheriting from the Trump administration are not unprecedented.
We weathered an influenza pandemic a century ago.
We have dealt with collapsing economies.
Immigration has always been a political football.
Income...
We have achieved step one in rescuing our republic from the brink of fascism--namely voting Donald Trump out of office.
Now the hard work begins.
With Trump out of the way, we can start rebuilding our alliances,...
Thirty-third president Harry Truman proclaimed:
"Given a choice between a Republican and a Democrat who acts like a Republican, the voters will pick the Republican every time!"
As we celebrate and savor former Vice President Joe Biden's...
During an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump Jr. stated COVID-19 infection rates have dropped to "almost nothing."
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1322001939266109441
If over nine million is "next to nothing," when does it get to be "something"?
We shouldn't...
