While most press headlines rightly highlight how Donald Trump has spent his second term destroying the nation’s economy, international standing, and socio-political fabric in a Project 2025 agenda designed to return the nation to a pre-Progressive Era Gilded and Isolationist Age that deserves to remain dead and buried, the American Duce’s corporate and Orwellian war … Read more
Crossposted with permission from David’s Substack “Arizona’s Progressive Voice” to which you ought to subscribe! “Hello and welcome to this edition of ‘Your Republic is in Jeopardy’, the game show to watch in 2024. I’m your host Wink Washington. Let’s meet the three contestants who’ll be playing with us today.” “First, the former Governor of … Read more
Writing on the necessity for leaders to be well-versed in the study of history, Renaissance Philosopher Nicolo Machiavelli wrote in his work The Discourses that: “Whoever considers the past and the present will readily observe that all cities and all peoples are and ever have been animated by the same desires and the same passions; … Read more
The 55th Legislative First Session has been filled with crazy, right-wing ideological bills attacking voting rights, reproductive rights, patients, doctors, nurses, midwives, doulas, teachers, engineers, professionals, unions, public education, the Permanent Early Voting List, the Citizens Initiative, Clean Elections, and transparency in campaign finance. Adding insult to injury, these bad bills are passing on party … Read more
Most Americans probably thought this was already a long-decided issue from their grade school civics classes, but there is always someone out there seeking to overturn or reinterpret norms and accepted law under the Constitution. Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern reports on today’s Supreme Court decision of note. The Supreme Court Declined An Invitation … Read more