Governor Abbott wanted people to jump through long, complex, confusing hoops to retain their Medicaid. Many thousands did not, which is explicitly his goal.
Though Americans overwhelmingly oppose U.S.-led foreign wars and the colossal debts incurred by them, the military industrial complex is embedded in every congressional district in the United States.
Republicans are trying to protect their depredations of our rights by preventing people who disagree with them from voting. If fully accomplished this would give them a mandate as fake as Trump's tan.
There are honest and good journalists out there, but most of this media stuff now is just press releases and opinions—all dressed up to draw our attention, break us into camps and fight.
Trump may or may not be the GOP’s nominee this time next year, but, whoever it is, now is the time to harden our democracy against a neofascist MAGA Republican rising to that office.
What can be said about a blathering buffoon of a "candidate" who lectures an adoring crowd—that hangs on his every butchered word—while they somehow think of the comedy "Idiocracy" as a documentary?
Dissent—like in the colonies before 1776—is no longer allowed in the GOP. Authoritarianism like that of King George III now prevails. Oligarchy has completely seized the Party.
This July 4th, as we celebrate, we must also realize the fact that our core principles as a nation are under attack and it is up to all of us to uphold them.
Student debt is a crime, weakening our intellectual infrastructure while maintaining and rigidifying racial and class caste systems inherited from the eras of slavery and indenture.
Is there something in the GOP’s core beliefs and strategies that just inevitably leads to hating on their citizens and worshiping poverty, death, and disease?