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...
One would assume Russian president Vladimir Putin's long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine would be the catalyst to unite both American political parties against a common foe.
Yet despite global democracies' condemnation of Putin, some members of...
This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump--the twice-impeached, authoritarian-leaning, wanna-be autocrat former president of the United States--praised Putin's "brilliant," “savvy,” and “smart”...
In his speech 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 cause...
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...
Remember in 2016 when Trump famously claimed, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters"?
Shooting someone wouldn't cost him support.
But the COVID vaccine certainly is.
Many of...
How would you like to wake up one morning to the following headline: "Donald Trump Indicted for Criminal Racketeering"?
Well, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, that headline may be breaking soon.
In an interview...
Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed creating a state paramilitary force that would answer only to him.
He told state lawmakers he wants Florida taxpayers to pay for this to assist with “state-specific emergencies” so...
Remember back during Barack Obama's second term when republicans chanted, "Hillary Clinton Lied and Four Americans Died" after the Benghazi, Libya embassy attack?
That little rhyme was the product of two years of congressional hearings that...
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...
Most people are familiar with the symbolism behind a white flag.
From television, movies, and literature, we understand it to indicate surrender.
But a new phenomenon has emerged in America.
Some Donald Trump supporters have taken to displaying...
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...
A seat on a local school board isn't traditionally a controversial, high-profile position.
Boards of education do not usually make front-page news.
They aren't responsible for national security, federal budgets, environmental policy, healthcare, defense, or immigration.
Most couldn't...
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...
What’s another term for a “failed coup”?
A rehearsal.
The United States came dangerously close to losing democracy January 6 when thousands of spiteful Donald Trump supporters descended on the Capitol to do the failed president’s bidding to “stop...
Amid all the perfidy, cronyism, and disregard for democracy and the rule of law the former Trump administration is guilty of, one good thing that came out of four years of the most corrupt regime...
“We’re going back to the Capitol, right where it started. And it’s going to be huge.”
That's what Matt Braynard, former data chief for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, proclaimed on former White House strategist Steve Bannon's...
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...
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...
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,...
