Organizers in Prescott considering a recall drive to oust David Stringer

Organizers in Prescott considering a recall drive to oust David Stringer

December 7, 2018

The outcry against Legislative District One Republican Representative David Stringer has grown since the publication of his racist remarks. This condemnation includes a group of local activists in LD 1 who will meet this weekend to discuss launching a recall drive of Mr. Stringer if he does not immediately resign from his elected office.

The Trump Slump: ‘Tariff Man’ roils the markets with false claims of trade war ceasefire (Updated)

December 6, 2018

The stock market surged on Monday after a 90-day ceasefire of the trade war between the U.S. and China was announced after the G20 Summit, with the hope that it would ratchet down tensions between the two nations in the long term and provide relief for companies that have been feeling the pain from tariffs. Then … Read more

Our lawless Tea-Publican legislature loses in court again

December 6, 2018

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has blocked efforts by Gov. Doug Ducey and the Republican-controlled Legislature to create new exceptions to laws that require disclosure of campaign finance spending. Ruling restores expanded oversight by Clean Elections Commission over campaign finances: In a ruling released Wednesday, Judge David Palmer said a 2017 measure unconstitutionally conflicts … Read more

Discovery in Emoluments Clause case to be resisted by the Grifter-in-Chief

December 5, 2018

Grifter-in-Chief Donald Trump’s lawyers made a desperate last-minute bid over the weekend to block the discovery process in the Emoluments Clause case filed by the Attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia.  U.S. District Court Judge Peter Messitte rejected their arguments. The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia have wasted … Read more

Michael Flynn sentencing memorandum indicates that the Special Counsel is far from done

December 5, 2018

The media waited with bated breath in high anticipation of the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sentencing memorandum for Michael Flynn, hoping that it would lay out a more complete narrative of his case, as the indictments previously filed have done. The media was disappointed by the Sentencing Memorandum (.pdf) and heavily redacted Addendum (.pdf). This … Read more

Face It: Republican Leaders do not believe in Democracy

Face It: Republican Leaders do not believe in Democracy

December 5, 2018

It should be apparent to most political observers that the Party of Lincoln is dead at the local. state, and federal levels. It has been replaced by a Party (called Trumpist) that rejects everything democracy and republics profess to be about. This did not start with Donald Trump. This evolution has been proceeding since 1965 … Read more

GOP election fraud in North Carolina 9th congressional district

December 4, 2018

Republicans purvey the myth of in-person voter fraud at the polls, for which there is no evidence to substantiate their conspiracy theory. If voter fraud is going to occur, it will occur with early voting mail-in ballots. The hand-full of voters prosecuted for “double voting” in Arizona are snowbird residents who voted in their home … Read more

GOP authoritarians are engaged in a coup against democracy (Updated)

December 4, 2018

Two years ago after authoritarian Tea-Publicans in North Carolina lost the governorship, we witnessed outrageous Tea-Publican tyranny: a GOP legislative coup against democracy in North Carolina (excerpt): Daily Kos reports, North Carolina Republicans execute legislative coup against democracy itself: Last month, Democrat Roy Cooper unseated Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, while Democrats also gained a majority … Read more

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