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...
Randomly stop any individual at work, on the street, or anywhere else, and ask his or her opinion of the government.
You're bound to receive responses like:
"Government is too big."
"The government screws up everything."
"There's too much...
"Just as food is essential for the existence of life, voting is essential for the existence of democracy."
Those are the words of iconic civil rights activist and progressive radio talk show host Joe Madison on...
This week we witnessed another example of how much the republican party hates democracy.
On Wednesday, Senate republicans blocked debate on S.2747, “The Freedom to Vote Act," the Senate's version of the “For the People Act”...
Comprehensive voting reform Democrats have been promising since reclaiming the congressional majority this year may finally be within our grasp.
HR1, or the “For the People Act,” re-introduced this January, seeks, in part, to:
Include providing voters...
For all their sturm und drang about "big government," republicans really don't have a problem with government intervention as long it helps boost their wealthy campaign contributors' profits, prevents voters they don't want to include...
The 2020 Census data is in, with both encouraging and disconcerting results.
First, the good news.
The country has gotten more diverse.
According to Nicholas Jones, the Census Bureau's Population Division director of race, ethnicity, research and outreach:
"These...
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,...
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...
One day after the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) was expected to hear two cases threatening to unleash “the most aggressive attacks on the right to vote to reach the Supreme Court in the post-Jim Crow...
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...
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...
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...
Months ago, several political commentators (including this one) floated the possibility that behind Donald Trump and the complicit republican party's call to de-fund the United States Postal Service (USPS) is an insidious voter suppression strategy.
We...
The moment many have been anticipating came Thursday morning when Donald Trump tweeted:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288818160389558273
Every word of this is false.
Not to mention, absentee voting is mail-in voting, but anyway...
The good news: the President of the United States does not have...
Republicans talk a good game about "democracy" and "patriotism."
When it comes down to it, though, waving a flag is meaningless when one’s actions belie the very principles he or she claims to uphold.
Republicans do not...
Last week, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order postponing the state’s presidential primary to June 9, as his counterparts in other states have done.
That was until the state’s Republican-majority supreme court intervened, ruling elections must...
The Republican party talks a lot about "freedom," "choice," and "independence."
When we peel back the rhetoric and focus on policy, though, we understand in its starkest form that Democracy is the GOP's Achilles' heel.
It could...
To date, Georgia, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Kentucky, Puerto Rico, and New York have postponed their presidential primary elections.
But something just happened in Wisconsin.
On Monday, Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive...
