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Kudos to ThinkProgress for highlighting this: Voters in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District will vote Tuesday in their latest attempt to elect a U.S. Representative. The 2018 midterm election result … Read More
We Need The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) In solidarity, Debra Schrishuhn for Alan, Mike F, Janis, Mike H, Shayna, Dan, Dr Bill, Kimberly, and Bryan—your PDA National Team A better … Read More
In his ongoing campaign to try to pretend everyone in the world is racist except for him, Donald Trump today said any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat is … Read More
I love this man: Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said this week that should Democrats take control of the upper chamber during the 2020 election, there’s one thing … Read More
A friend of mine introduced me to Jim Rigby, a pastor in Austin, Texas, whom I am very impressed with because of his thought process, his compassion, and his clear … Read More
For four long, embarrassing, tortured years, Donald Trump has gotten away with being a virulent racist. He’s gotten away with it mainly because the party he purports to represent has … Read More
Received this e-mail yesterday from Teresa Tomlinson’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaign: This is a dangerous time for our democracy. Robert Mueller’s testimony today confirms what the House should already … Read More
Since the Trump Presidency began back in January 2017, we have endeavored to maintain a comprehensive listing of all the administrations misdeeds in the Everything Awful The Trump Administration Has Done … Read More
< p class=”is-empty-p” style=”text-align:justify”> Speaker Nancy Pelosi needs to be careful not to throw shade at the millennials she accused of being Twitter creations this past weekend. I believe that … Read More
Since when is giving Donald Trump money with no strings attached a good idea? Pelosi had to pull the House backed version of the Border Aid Blll and pass the … Read More
It seems to be an argument almost as fundamental as “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”, and just about as insoluble. On the one hand you have activist … Read More
Still about 44.85 percent too low, but this is good news. A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted by Langer Research found that 55 percent of respondents “definitely would not” … Read More
Since the Trump Presidency began back in January 2017, we have endeavored to maintain a comprehensive listing of all the administrations misdeeds in the Everything Awful The Trump Administration Has Done … Read More
If you’re a President, you have a better chance of winning the Powerball lottery than you have of being impeached. I mean that literally. If you buy a ticket, you … Read More
You know, being an Irishman, I love irony. And being a Murphy, I love it twice as much, since we have that stupid law named after us. When they interview … Read More
For Republicans, the gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has become an annual ritual in their hyperbolic effort to peel away Jewish Americans who overwhelmingly give their votes … Read More
Once again Trump has stepped on his own dictatorship. Now Republicans are frustrated with the wobbly orange Jell-O mold over his Justice Department’s decision to support removing Obamacare root and branch. … Read More
In the euphoric days following the Democratic steamroller in the US House, the conversation quickly turned, since as Democrats we’re actually concerned with governing, The Democratic challengers had made quite a … Read More
Ah, spring. Life is revitalized, and hope renewed. Winter is in the rear view mirror, and the promise of a long, lazy summer fills the windshield. Cast your mind back … Read More
Like most people, I like Girl Scout Cookies. I think my favorites are the Thin Mints, because they taste the most like socialism. On the other hand, the Tagalongs remind … Read More
Here is an important piece from a community organizer in Pike County, Kentucky — a woman by the name of Mikaela Curry — on the coal miners’ “friend” Senator Mitch McConnell. This … Read More
A team of analysts at Politico found a small group of 200 accounts—specifically these guys—drove a “disproportionate” amount of racist and negative disinformation, over a 30-day period, targeting four Democratic … Read More
Schiff minces no words here. Washington Post “This is a moment of great peril for our democracy. Our country is deeply divided. Our national discourse has become coarse, indeed, poisonous. … Read More
Put away your sunscreen, I ain’t gonna be blowing any sunshine up your ass today. Right now everybody is all up in arms over His Lowness’ bogus national emergency declaration, … Read More
You ain’t seen nothing yet, the best is yet to come Frank Sinatra This is actually a companion article to the one I published this morning about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s … Read More
My, my, my. What a mess. Tommy Lee Jones The Fugitive Things like this pop up in politics occasionally, although not all that often. Shit happens, or as a coworker … Read More
Overview Since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s Presidency, we have attempted to catalog all of the harmful actions committed by his administration. Furthermore, by categorizing these actions by policy … Read More
This will just be a quick hit. I’m serious, no shit. For those of you who are total gluttons for punishment, and never seem to tire of my stuff-n=nonsense, the wonderful … Read More
Under Anna Galland and Ilya Sheyman’s 6 Years of Leadership, People-Powered MoveOn Has Grown Dramatically and Emerged As a Pillar of the Resistance Movement in Landmark Trump-Era Fights Galland and … Read More
I’m shedding a tear here. It’s kind of like the day when you finally throw out your favorite old pair of socks because you can put them on from either … Read More
There ya all go, trying to think along with me again. What a waste of time. By now, you should all know that my mind is wired like a telephone … Read More
Politico has a fun bit of schadenfreude-fluff on its website today. It’s a retrospective of the shittiest political predictions from 2018. Now, everyone screws up badly from time to time … Read More
When it comes to the events of the last 10 days, to borrow a phrase from Rachel Maddow, “Stick a pin in this.” And no, I don’t mean everything that has happened … Read More
According to Republicans, pay not attention to that crazy Texas judge behind the curtain who ruled that the ACA was invalid. In an appearance on “Meet the Press,” Sen. John … Read More
There is an ill wind blowing in Washington DC right now, and the staff in the west wing had better make sure that all of the windows are closed, or … Read More
The throwback cheesy ads for Virginia Slims had a point. I grew up in the Tidewater area 40 years ago. Race mixing was seriously looked down upon, the confederate flag … Read More
I was born and raised in Wisconsin and lived there most of my life. Now on the West Coast, I see what’s happening in my home state and am heartbroken … Read More
Sometimes it’s almost hard to wrap your head around. It was only 29 days ago that we all hit the bricks for the polling places in the midterms, and yet, … Read More
Tomorrow is a big day in Georiga: After an election marred by voting problems, Georgia voters will decide in Tuesday’s runoff who should fix them. One candidate for Georgia secretary … Read More
Received this e-mail today from Let America Vote in support of John Barrow’s (D. GA) Secretary of State campaign: Georgia’s last secretary of state purged the voter rolls, tried to … Read More
Here’s another crucial fight to protect the right to vote: The Senate postponed to next week the confirmation vote on Raleigh attorney Thomas Farr to be a federal judge in … Read More
Stinging from the sudden realization that he’s a total, abject, moronic, mewling, mephitic, sad sack of a loser and garbage human being, Donald Trump famously lashed out at some of his … Read More
One thing is for sure, 2018 had something for everybody. Well, pretty much everybody who was a Democrat, if you’re a Republican, you were shit out of luck. Election night … Read More
You know, Der Gropinfuror really should stop calling it a “witch hunt.” At last check, small as it is, Trump still had a teenie-weenie, so he really should be referring … Read More
You know, it’s one thing for a politician to lack common sense, Lord knows that happens occasionally, but when they lack political sense, that’s like feasting on grapes at a Borgia … Read More
OK, you can come out from under the bed now. Come on, admit it, two weeks ago today, you were scared shitless. S’alright, we all were. I had one friend tell me … Read More
Ya know, when you were a kid, your parents always told you that the only to handle a bully was to stand up to the bully. That was easy for … Read More
Senator Mitch McConnell is an unpopular guy not only in his home state but nationally, and given the response from Republican voters in other states, McConnell is the Republican version of … Read More
Donald Trump has been extraordinarily petulant the past several days. Sure, even on a good day the guy is basically a spastic colon getting a Sriracha enema from a firehose, but even … Read More
While we wait for recounts, runoffs and remaining races to be called, it’s never too early to start getting ready for 2020. Right now, we’re off to a good start … Read More
