Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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...
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...
Two weeks ago, New York became the 14th state to legalize recreational marijuana. A week later, Virginia became the 15th and the first Southern state. Most of the country now has either fully legalized, decriminalized, or allows...
Ballot counting began Monday for 5,800 Amazon fulfillment center workers in Bessemer, Alabama attempting to unionize with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). If successful, it will be the first Amazon warehouse to unionize,...
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...
While we seem to finally be gaining ground on the COVID-19 pandemic, there is one public health crisis to which we appear powerless. That is the epidemic of gun violence. Once again, the United States has suffered...
Former Democratic presidential candidate--now New York City mayoral candidate--Andrew Yang had a unique signature issue among last year's other presidential contenders. He wanted to give every American $1,000 from what he called the "Freedom Dividend." Last year Yang partnered...
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...
Texas is synonymous with the oft-cited American ethos of "rugged individualism". But perhaps that obstinance has finally come at a dangerous and expensive cost. As President Joe Biden on Saturday approved a major disaster declaration for Texas after...
Change may be slow at times, but nothing can stop it. Every year is historic in its own way, but 2020 stands out as one of the most turbulent and interesting in recent times. One of 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...
We live in interesting times. We may not stop too often to consider it, but as we speak we are at the mercy of a global pandemic the likes of which the world has not seen...
Responding to pressure from environmental groups, New York has become the first state to divest its massive public pension fund from fossil fuel companies. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced Wednesday the Empire state will begin transitioning $226...
A video taken before “blue lives matter” adherent Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire and killed two BLM protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 25 shows police tossing water bottles to armed civilians. One officer broadcasted “We appreciate you being...
A global pandemic ripping through the United States is not deterring American voters. More than 91 million have cast their ballots, putting the country on pace to produce the highest voter turnout since 1908. But this doesn't...
Is there really any doubt anymore Donald Trump is fanning the flames of right-wing domestic terror? While it may be true Trump finally capitulated to pressure to condemn white supremacist groups in an interview with Fox...