Politics, Corruption & Criminality

For the record, praising Nazism is not “what men do.” At least it’s not what decent, caring, honest, hard-working, patriotic, family men do. None of it.

Election deniers are running for election administration jobs in some states. What would it look like to make changes they want to see?

Project 2025 pushes out Arizona's system for diverting public school funding to private operations. The implications for students and public schools and the communities that rely on them are disastrous.

Congressional Republicans push to keep drug prices sky-high, defying voters, and fueling corporate greed.

Trump's Republican Party is caught up in a web of violence they themselves have carefully knitted.

Campaigning is now an industrial operation, concentrating on large population centers. But, ignoring rural areas cost Democrats dearly. A candidate in Mississippi shows what it really takes to gain votes in rural America.

DeSantis was always a rage-hampered little man, but now that he’s been humiliated on the national stage and his presidential aspirations squashed like a palmetto bug, he’s only gotten angrier. And he’s taking it out on Florida.

The Electoral College system essentially identifies the states where malicious people who want to alter or undermine the election results should focus their energies.

We may laugh at Republicans arguing Black people can never be true citizens, but militia-style white supremacist Christian nationalist rightwingers take this sort of thing very seriously.

The architects of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, Steven Miller and Ken Cuccinelli have laid out a second term that would expand the use of executive authority to carry out mass deportations and curtail legal immigration.

President Biden was right about the GOP’s threat to democracy, and it is intrinsic to the American story. But, as Kamala Harris and Tim Walz know, freedom is a word that rings deeply in our psyches and has since the American Revolution.

The Georgia Republican leadership that handed control of the state election board to Trump’s pitbulls have been too intimidated by their far-right base to take that control away and put it back in responsible hands.

Republican attacks on the academic world are hollowing out Florida’s public universities.

Oil barons are bankrolling the Trump campaign because Donald Trump promised to deliver their policy 'wish list' which will make them even richer.

Many members of Congress have embraced styles of communication that effectively undermine not just their opponents but the very democratic systems that give legitimacy to their own positions of status and power.

A review of Project 2025's training videos shows that 29 of the 36 speakers have worked for Trump in some capacity—on his 2016-17 transition team, in the administration or on his 2024 reelection campaign.