The MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection on January 6, 2021, one of the darkest days in American history, is a date which will live in infamy. But the MAGA/QAnon personality cult of Trump is already laying the groundwork in state legislatures, and blocking reforms at the federal level, plotting a sequel on January 6, 2025. Forewarned is forearmed. … Read more
Vice News has one of those “no duh” stories to report. Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theorists Are Taking Over State Republican Parties (excerpts): The Republican Party chairs of Texas and Wyoming have flirted with secession from the United States. Oklahoma’s Republican chair has called Islam a “cancer.” The Oregon GOP called the Capitol insurrection a “false flag” … Read more
By now I think I have made myself abundantly clear that I think Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is a naive fool who is putting the very survival of our American democracy at risk by appeasing a radicalized anti-democratic insurrectionist GQP with his version of Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time,” insisting that he can negotiate … Read more
The Washington Post editorializes today, Arizona is now ground zero in Republicans’ war on voting: Undeterred by the backlash to Georgia’s new anti-voting law, Arizona Republicans have made their state ground zero in the party’s spurious efforts to question the 2020 election results and restrict voting. First, they insisted on running a chaotic “audit” of … Read more
End Citizens United Action Fund is out with a new report, The Dark Money Assault On Voting Rights (excerpt): THE BACKDROP During the Trump Administration, Republican operatives raised at least $250 million in dark money contributions to help push through more than 200 conservative judges to the federal bench, including many who had records of … Read more