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...
It appears wealthy right-wing donors behind the anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-democracy, anti-intellectual, "COVID hoax" wing of the republican party have widened their franchise. Touting a so-called "freedom convoy," Canadian truck drivers protesting a vaccine mandate have fanned...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Imagine a Democrat suggested shooting unvaccinated people. Now imagine a republican suggested shooting the vaccinated or anyone advocating vaccinations. We don't need to imagine, because Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was caught on video last month suggesting...
“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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...