The GQP Insurrection Over The 2020 Election Was Just A Dry Run For the 2024 Election
“What do you call a failed insurrection? PRACTICE.” – Greg Palast. Retired conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig issued a dire warning in an op-ed at CNN, “The last presidential election was a dry run for the next.” The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election: Nearly a year and a half later, surprisingly few understand … Read more
CD 2 GQP Primary Debate Was A Farce – The Media Must Do Better
Paul Waldman at the Washington Post writes, The Republican primaries have gone off the rails: It might have been inevitable that the 2022 version of the Republican Party would be dominated by its most extreme and unhinged impulses. The election of a Democratic president always produces a furious backlash. With Donald Trump demanding GOP fealty … Read more
My father’s “Personal Justice Reconciled” 80 years later
Can a wrong ever be righted? Recently a university wrong against my innocent Nisei (2nd generation) Japanese American/ US citizen father which occurred 80 years ago in 1942, was righted on April 1, 2022 by USC, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. They awarded him a posthumous honorary bachelor’s degree (he passed away … Read more
Ginger Sykes Torres Withdraws from CD One Race
After a validation process, brought on by a third-party complaint to the Arizona Superior Court in Maricopa County, found that not all the petition signatures gathered by Fieldcorps for the Ginger Sykes Torres for Congress Campaign were valid, the House Candidate has been left with no other choice but to withdraw from the Democratic Primary … Read more
The Anti-Democracy Crusade Of White Christian Nationalist Churches
Earlier this year, Chrissy Stroop reported for Religion Dispatches, NEW REPORT ON (WHITE) CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AND THE J6 INSURRECTION SHOWS JUST ‘HOW DIRE THE THREAT IS’ (excerpt): Readers who follow my work will be aware of my conviction that neither the press, nor the American public generally, is taking the serious threat to democracy and human … Read more
The Backlash Against GQP Snowflake Book Banners Has Begun
Above: h/t Daniel Boone Regional Library. The Miami New Times reports, Florida Atheist Petitions to Ban the Bible in Miami-Dade and Broward Schools: Since July of 2021, more than 200 books have been banned in various school districts across Florida, the state with the third-highest number of school book banning incidents in the U.S. This comes … Read more
QAnon Candidate ‘Krazy Kari’ Lake Wants Dr. Fauci Arrested; A Candidate In Oklahoma Wants Him Executed By Firing Squad
“Krazy Kari” Lake attended a cmpaign event sponsored by a right-wing organization calling itself America Pack (because they don’t know the acronym for political action committee is “PAC”). The supposed founder of America Pack, Valerie Grosso Turley, explains: I founded America Pack based on a simple mission and an even grander vision. I believe we … Read more
LD 18 State Senate Candidate Priya Sundareshan Wants to Fight to Preserve Arizona for Future Generations
Combatting Climate Change. Protecting Voting and Human Rights. Fully Funding Public Education. Those are the issues Arizona State Senate Candidate Priya Sundareshan is running on in the new Legislative District (LD) 18. A Tucson native and graduate of both M.I.T. (chemical engineering) and the University of Arizona (Juris Doctor and Master’s in Natural Resource Economics,) … Read more
