Part 1: Empirical Studies Confirm The Republican Party Is An Anti-Democratic Authoritarian Faction

New political science research suggests Republican control over state government is correlated with large and measurable declines in the health of a state’s democracy. Zach Beauchamp reports at Vox, Study: Republican control of state government is bad for democracy: The paper, by University of Washington professor Jake Grumbach, constructs a quantitative measure of democratic health at … Read more

The Republican Party Has Become a Far-Right Extremist Party Under Trump

The Washington Post summarized the size of Joe Biden’s decisive win: Biden received more votes – 77.3 million (so far) – than any other candidate for public office in American history. With the highest levels of turnout since 1900, he beat Trump by more than 5 million votes nationwide, and that number is expected to … Read more

A Reckoning For The Late Republican Party

Axios reports “Republicans, win or lose next week, face a big — and growing — math problem.” The GOP’s monstrous math problem: The state of play: They’re relying almost exclusively on a shrinking demographic (white men), living in shrinking areas (small, rural towns), creating a reliance on people with shrinking incomes (white workers without college … Read more

Appellate Court Judge Calls Out GOP Voter Suppression In The Appellate Courts (Updated)

In an extraordinary dissenting opinion, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Karen Nelson Moore called out the Republican corruption of the federal courts in support of the “concentrated effort” of GOP voter suppression. (h/t Election Law Blog). Judge Moore was appointed to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1995 by President Bill Clinton. She graduated … Read more