This Election Is A Referendum On American Democracy

My wife received this political postcard (below} in the mail late last week, without any “paid for by” disclosure to identify the sender.  Just a short note to “Please vote all the way down the ballot,” signed by someone using only a first name. The post mark is from New York, New York. The postcard … Read more

The Republican Party Is Sick, It Is Now The Anti-Democracy Party

Dana Milbank writes at the Washington Post, The GOP is sick. It didn’t start with Trump — and won’t end with him. This essay was adapted from “The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party” by Dana Milbank. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday. All rights reserved. It began where it ended, on the … Read more

Big Lie Election Denier And Insurrection Leader Mark Finchem Is Unfit To Serve As Secretary Of State

Above: Looks like Mark Finchem has spent too much time in the Arizona sun recently. Better contact his dermatologist for a skin cancer checkup. Rep. Mark Finchem has described himself as a proud member of the Oath Keepers, an antigovernment militia movement (being prosecuted for seditious conspiracy for the violent January 6 insurrection), he takes credit … Read more

Blake Masters Goes All-In On White Supremacist ‘Great Replacement Theory’

Peter Thiel’s “New Right” puppet, Blake Masters, is going all in on Eurpoean fascism’s “great replacement theory.” The New York Times reports, Pushing an Immigration Conspiracy Theory, While Courting Latinos: Blake Masters, a venture capitalist running for Senate in Arizona, is among the many Republicans who argue that the left’s obsession with racial identity politics … Read more

Anti-Semitic White Christian Nationalist CEO of Gab Endorses Mark Finchem And Wendy Rogers

Brad Reed reports, Republican’s top ally says Jews aren’t welcome in conservative movement: ‘This is an explicitly Christian country’: A top ally for the Republican Party’s nominee for Pennsylvania’s governor has now explicitly said that Jews should not be welcome into the American conservative movement unless they convert to Christianity. The Jerusalem Post reports that … Read more