It's bad enough to have Q-Anon adherents like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene occupying a seat on the racist "America First" caucus in the hallowed House of Representatives.
It seems inconceivable there are members of Congress...
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...
Right-wing extremist groups are on the rise.
Although one might be tempted to assume their activity is confined mostly to social outcasts languishing in their basements on 4Chan message boards, recently leaked membership data from the neo-Confederate...
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,...
The clock is ticking.
There are four weeks left in the congressional calendar, which means when federal lawmakers return to Washington in September, it will be time to be gearing up for November elections.
While it's not...
Republicans don't need to wait until they hold a congressional majority again to wreak havoc on democracy.
We needn't look further than state-level legislation tailored specifically to criminalize First Amendment-protected free speech, suppress voting, and stifle...
"It’s rare to go one day without a mass shooting in America."
That's how U.S. data and visual reporter for The Guardian, Alvin Chang, began a recent visual database of American gun violence.
According to the non-profit...
Democrats hold the majority in the House of Representatives.
They hold a narrow majority in the Senate.
They have the White House.
So why are they bowing to republicans?
At a carpenters’ training center outside Pittsburgh, Pa. last month,...
The republican fascist death cult (because we can't call it a "party" anymore) has embraced Donald Trump's big lie about a rigged 2020 presidential election, and is running full-bore voter suppression in an attempt to...
Despite being accused of "doing nothing," when Democrats reclaimed control of the House of Representatives in 2019, they wasted no time in passing a slew of legislation.
The first, and arguably the most necessary, was HR1,...
Republicans are afraid.
One term of Donald Trump's naked racism, xenophobia, and general incompetence cost them both houses of Congress and the White House.
They know their policies are unpopular with the American majority and the dog-whistle...
While Democrats seize their razor-thin majority in both houses of Congress with legislation designed to improve average Americans' lives, states with Republican majorities are going full authoritarian on voting rights and people's First Amendment right...
Provide federal assistance to low-income communities
Protect Social Security
Grant asylum to refugees
Expand the federal minimum wage
Improve and expand unemployment benefits
Strengthen labor laws to make it easier for workers to join...
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...
Two years ago, Donald Trump proclaimed during his State of the Union Address, "The United States will never be a Socialist country."
During Trump's four years, the Republican party promulgated decades-old red scare fallacies about the...
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,...
After Joe Biden was elected, South Dakota Sen. John Thune said:
“The one thing that concerns me that nobody seems to be talking about anymore is the massive amount of debt that we continue to rack...
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...