Cop Killing, Rape and Theft
One can only live in fear if one listens to Republicans and watches their campaign ads. Republicans consistently decouple gun control from crime. Criminality is a real problem, but Willie … Read More
Category: legislatures
A Letter To Those Who Don’t Do Politics
Since around age sixteen, I have had friends and adults in my life who have said to me more than once, ‘no, no, I don’t do politics.’ Well, to those … Read More
As Usual, the GOP Takes the Wrong Side
Again, the invasion and war crimes in Ukraine demonstrate how the GOP is habitually wrong. Whether it be something as serious as our southern neighbors trying to escape the same … Read More
Opinion: Your Vote Really Counts
The Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races are going to be decided on Tuesday, November 2. Although Republicans Glenn Youngkin and Jack Ciattarrelli are playing hide the Trump, Democrats Terry … Read More
Go Eastman, young John. But that's not my advice even if I wrote it in two memos.
“Slammer Time” may be on the horizon. It won’t be about the DoJ looking backward or forward, but looking inward to do something historical to maintain democracy. Because a malign … Read More
cheeseheads in Wisconsin GOP Assembly vote to end 'patriarchy' by banning its K-12 mention
Beetle-Juice Three Times. Thank Jeebus that cheesehead is not banned from primary and secondary schools in Wisconsin. Because nothing says “Freedom” and “Liberty” like being the language police. If you talk … Read More
Opinion: Eyes Open America, or You are Next
There is a saying in playground basketball games, no harm, no foul. That may be fine for Sidney Deane and Billy Hoyle, but the United States’ sanctity is a different … Read More
The Scary Prospect of ENABLING
It is usually a minefield of critical backlash, and what about(s), when you compare the oppression of Jews to the descendants of enslaved Africans in America, but I am going … Read More
The Threats to American Democracy
I don’t know if this statement has been diarized, my apologies, but it bears repeating often, so if anyone missed it. The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for … Read More
On Velshi: Roland Martin admonishes Democrats to get off their a$$es as GOP rigs 2022 Election.
Roland Martin has a wake-up call one hopes that the Democratic Party heeds sooner than later because it is existential for many of us. Roland Martin gets real on Velshi … Read More
The Man who Killed Republican Politicking
Once Senator Mitch McConnell staked out the politically uncompromising GOP opposition to ‘everything’ Democrats proffered, during the Obama administration, the redline was drawn. Slowly but surely, the so-called moderate Republicans … Read More
Redistricting and Representation
The addition of the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act was a turning point in terms of minority representation. Redistricting is the process of drawing electoral district lines every … Read More
$24 million from dark money group writing much of the GOP voter suppression legislation
Like ALEC writing legislation for a lazy GOP, Heritage Action is providing the same “song sheets” for state legislatures trying to suppress voting rights. Heritage Action says it wrote “8 … Read More
FL-Gov: “It's him and Casey. But everyone else is like a disposable piece of garbage.”
Not surprised by this: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a rising star in the Republican Party. But many of his former staffers told Politico they felt used and abused by … Read More
previous guy lies low because he really wants back on Facebook, not because of snitches
Previous guy always expects the loyalty of mob silence Omertà, even when he throws everyone under the bus, it’s part of his personality disorder. The real goal for his relative silence … Read More
Minerva @ Midnight: GOP states want to suppress protests by deputizing civilian vehicular assault
Only Republicans would encourage running over demonstrators by indemnifying and pitting RWNJs and their vehicles against peaceful crowds. Because who knew that the “unintentional” weaponizing of personal vehicles was possible when pretending … Read More
Sen. Mark Warner (D. VA) Helps His Fellow VA Democrats Keep The General Assembly Blue
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D. VA): We've all seen the headlines about Republican state legislatures passing outrageous voter suppression laws that roll back mail-in voting … Read More
Minerva @ Midnight: after previous guy's indictment, a trumpist jail-break in the offing?
Previous guy colluded with Russia, led a Capitol insurrection, and is not rotting in a prison cell. But if it happens, could there be enough secessionist nut-logs ready and willing to … Read More
Mitch McConnell tells Coke to: Shut Up and Donate
By way of a baffling and contradictory threat in explaining his position, Senator Mitch McConnell, in his best southern drawl, warned “Co-cola” to not be “stupid.” Addressing a gaggle of … Read More
NYT Says Up to 3% of All Credit Card Fraud Claims in 2020 Were Against Trump Campaign
It really isn’t much of a surprise that the 2020 Trump Campaign organization used about every trick to defraud his supporters, especially the poorer and more naïve ones. The New … Read More
I'll risk arrest to give water to Georgia voters, but there are other ways to fight
Of all the hundreds of voting suppression bills popping up across the country right now, one of the most nefarious is Georgia’s recently passed law that, among other things, makes it … Read More
Mail-in Ballots Didn't Win the Election for Biden
In the 2020 election, we witnessed Yuge ™ Republican angst over mail-in ballots. They were an invitation to fraud, they said. There’s no way to know if the votes were … Read More
A further note on legal standing, Race and White Privilege
A brief note on a diary that I wrote yesterday arguing that Democrats should embrace the fact that many Trump election lawsuits were dismissed for lack of “legal standing”: Democrats should … Read More
The urban vote explains why GA got swept rather than split
The urban-suburban-exurban voting shows the shift in the south like elsewhere for a cosmopolitan American electorate. Stacey Abrams may have saved America. x I have been kindly asked to clarify … Read More
GOP false fraud claims can become a feature
Even after getting past 6 January, the new Congress until the next election will have GOP members willing to repeat the same Trumpian foolishness. As Raffensperger’s response to Trump underscored, … Read More
Some GOP Senators Will REJECT the Latest Subversion of our Constitution [Update*3 Et tu, Lindsey?]
The focus here this weekend has been on the seditious actions being taken by at least a dozen Republican senators in spite of Moscow Mitch’s begging them not to challenge … Read More
Another Trump-Appointed Judge Rules Against Him
Trump just got some more coal in his Christmas stocking, delivered by a judge he appointed to the 7th Circuit. Trump campaign suffers another legal setback in Wisconsin case President … Read More
Trump Plots 2022 Primaries for “Disloyal” Republicans
Politico says Trump has told his political aides to monitor statements by Republicans that oppose his efforts to hold onto the Presidency with an eye toward supporting primary challengers in … Read More
Trump attacks on US democratic institutions create a “pretty good sedition case against himself”
Aside from the usual caveats, Trump continues to act seditious. The GOP is plunging into open warfare over President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory — with President Trump taunting Senate Majority … Read More
Is Pence seen as “faithless” and betraying such that Trump would try to grab voting machines
Desperation and unhingery on the way to the bunker. “Shoo fly don’t bother me”. x Inside the White House, Trump is lashing out, and everyone is in the blast zone. … Read More
did Republicans cement their grip on power for the next decade, there's much more work to do
First things first: elect Warnock and Ossoff Much like urging Georgia Republicans to write in Trump on their ballots, there likely is an unintended consequence in Democrats’ failure to flip … Read More
corrosion and catastrophes: James Fallows on what Biden should do with the warlock hunt
Stories do have consequences, and following Trump’s American Carnage, truth will out in the larger American narrative. This James Fallows essay is worth reading, made important by the trial balloon of … Read More
Unhingery: “No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost. I won them both, by a lot!”
Why bother counting the votes after Dixville Notch weighs in. Dick Nixon won both Ohio and Florida in 1960 and lost to Kennedy. But you do you Donald, it’s still 1-52 in failed legal … Read More
“I’ve probably worked harder in the last three weeks than I ever have in my life.” -Trump
Out of 249 Congressional Republicans, only 27 acknowledge Biden’s win, measuring their fear and/or loyalty to Trump. Thus around 10% can answer truthfully, aside from Trump wanting their RINO names. Trump … Read More
and the grift goes on: Trump fails to convince GOP governors to overturn elections. Biden wins
Biden has enough electors. Now all Trump has to do besides trying to compel GOP governors to overturn their elections is bribe some “faithless electors”. …the hidden mechanics of electing … Read More
previewing Trump's Saturday Nuremberg Rally
A loser’s victory rally, what a message. In his Valdosta, Georgia speech on Saturday Trump will essentially repeat his 46 minute Facebook rant from Wednesday with a few local references and additional … Read More
The Bridges of Edison County emerge in the Trumpist parallel universe, aka The Phantom Zone
“It has all gone too far,” Trump continues to raise money off a highly confused grift, and still remains unindicted. x Edison County must be where Trump has been keeping … Read More
Trump declares Twitter a national security threat because it's more important than Iran for 53 days
Trump’s doing nothing about the continuing rise in Covid cases, and is spending his time at golf and continuing to sow chaos on the path to the bunker. Meanwhile the … Read More
'The transition jokes will continue until morale improves', as Trump now invites PA to another stunt
Failing in Michigan, Trump seems to have moved on to Pennsylvania with the same stunt, meant largely to excite state-level resistance by RWNJs pressuring political institutions in the hope of … Read More
Trump's sedition is a serious matter – he wants one state legislature to be the first domino to fall
We’re not humoring Trump’s father Fred with a Potemkin executive desk to humor delusional derangement. It has always been deadly serious. Whatever his bluff, call it. Trump is leveraging some negotiated … Read More
Congresswoman calls on Democrats to spine up on Trump’s attempt to steal the election
Congresswoman Jackie Speier has a message for Democrats. She messaged that Trump is a loser, and they must get tough. Democrats must assert their win x x YouTube Video See … Read More
Trump campaign official admits their plan is to get legislatures to nix election results
As we watch Rudy Giuliani’s last marble circle the sanitarium shower drain where they hose down the real hard-luck patients, it’s important to note that his lurid side show is just … Read More
melting Rudy Giuliani explicitly says that Trump's goal is to “overturn the election”
Did Trump actually call the two Wayne County canvassers to try to reverse their reversal. Autogolpe Trump's widespread effort to delay or undermine certification includes no-take-backsies. Now Rudy saying lots of … Read More
CNN Jake Tapper to GOP: Prepare to bury Caesar. Come back to planet earth.
CNN's Jake Tapper did not mince his words. Trump's minions should talk up their successes and then close out the Trump era. Jake Tapper, you've got to love his commentary … Read More
“Growing Discomfort” as Obamacare faces Supreme Court remade by Trump
The lawfare against the ACA now being heard in SCOTUS now resembles the attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 election. Scorched earth and total lawfare, total landscaping. Schrödinger's … Read More
Looks like we're going to win. Pound sand, Trumpers, on the banks of a river in Egypt
It hasn’t been called yet, but the signs are there and Biden-Harris will speak to the nation tonight. At this writing the swing state margin of victory is less than … Read More
GOP wants a 2000, but chads aren't hung this time “There are still millions of ballots left”
Idiocracy declared victory at 2 am. Didn’t happen. Trump and the GOP want the courts to intervene before counting is finished. Voting is done, counting’s not finished. At this writing Wisconsin and … Read More
time's up for Trump death cult's October Surprise, because of Balding-face lies, it's 'no contest'
Apparently, with four days left, time has run out for the 2016-style October Surprise. Only a major terror attack(s) could make a shift in what looks to be a trending Biden … Read More
Last call to help: State legislatures most likely to flip
In 2010, while Democrats completely focused on national races, the GOP—along with dark money from the Koch brothers and others—poured millions into the state legislative races. As a result, Democrats lost 21 legislative … Read More
WaPo: “Democrats risk overstating Biden’s chances of victory — as many did in 2016.”
At WaPo, Phillip Bump throws more cold water on our optimism, but we all need to be confronted with the probabilities. Try Bump’s interactive tools to convince yourself of the … Read More
