The simple reality is that conservatives throughout modern history have viewed democracy with a jaundiced eye, and the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees are no exception.
Thom Hartmann
Trump's vision of fascism—supported by the neofascist ideologues behind Project 2025 and Project 47—is claiming the Democratic Party is so extreme it’s a threat and needs to done away with.
Trump ran—and won—on rebalancing wealth in this country. He was lying, of course, but that experience now has Americans ready to leave behind Reaganomics and see billionaires pay fair taxes again.
The irony about strongman leaders is that they’re generally not strong people. They use violence and the rhetoric of violence to mask their own fear and weakness.
While it requires lawful due process—your day in court—to take away your gun, red state governors and secretaries of state can take away your vote without even telling you.
The debate about how humans should govern themselves is the real battle of our time, both metaphorically and literally, both internationally and right here at home.
Why do Red state voters tolerate being conned and ripped off by their own elected representatives? Mainstream media have made it clear that they won’t expose the damage Republicans are doing to rural America.
Republicans have been on a major campaign to trash reproductive rights and women's rights in general. This creates a big problem for them come election time. Their solution? Stop women from voting.
The fascists are here again, this time calling themselves MAGA. And they’re using the classic fascist tactic of the Big Lie, just like Hitler and Mussolini did.
There is no movement advocating political violence on the American left. It is entirely confined to the American right. The media needs to admit that, and the FBI needs to recalibrate their efforts.
If you’re female and pregnant in a Red state, the legislature and police of that state own you and your body, regardless of your maturity or life circumstances.
It now appears that the six corrupt Republicans currently on the Court are preparing to make political bribery even easier for their well-heeled patrons.
It’s time for “truth in labeling” laws like the processed food industry complies with to apply to social media. The life—and democracy—that gets saved could be your own.
Is there something in the GOP’s core beliefs and strategies that just inevitably leads to other people losing their lives? It turns out that’s very much the case.
Bill Barr's time as Trump's Attorney General was not the first time he covered-up for a Republican president who’d committed crimes that could rise to the level of treason against America.
Using arcane laws and loopholes, GOP affiliated groups are challenging the right to vote of thousands of democratic voters across the states most likely to determine the outcome of the 2024 election.