Biden Drops Out of Presidential Race

https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1815080881981190320 President Biden, 81, abandoned his bid for re-election and opened the 2024 presidential contest on July 21, 2024. He responded to pressure from his closest allies to drop out of the race amid deep concerns that he was too old and frail to defeat former President Donald J. Trump. After three weeks of refusals … Read more

School Vouchers Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget

This excerpted article is by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Arizona’s voucher experiment has since precipitated a budget meltdown. This year, the state faced a $1.4 billion budget shortfall, much of which was a result of the new voucher spending, according to the Grand Canyon Institute, a local nonpartisan fiscal and economic policy … Read more

New Book on Republicans Who Stood Up to Trump

When “Anonymous” wrote an op-ed titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration” in the New York Times in 2018, it made headlines nationwide. In October 2020, he revealed himself to be Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff of the Department of Homeland Security, who was now campaigning against Trump. He … Read more

Simon Rosenberg: Democrats Will Win

This is an edited transcript of Simon Rosenberg’s speech at the LD18 Democrats meeting on July 25, 2024. Simon Rosenberg is the author of the Hopium Chronicles, a Democratic newsletter with 9,000 subscribers. A veteran political analyst, strategist and commentator, Rosenberg is a veteran of two Presidential campaigns and senior roles at the Democratic National … Read more

Simon Rosenberg: We Must Elect Kirsten Engel to the US House

This is an edited video transcript. Scroll to the very end to watch the video. Simon Rosenberg: This is Simon Rosenberg from Hopium Chronicles. This is our third interview in the series of interviews we’re doing for the 12 House candidates we’ve backed. If they win, they will flip the House and ensure that MAGA … Read more