top of page

Down With Tyranny
feat. Howie Klein
Search


Can "Speaker Designee" Gym Jordan Cost Republicans More Seats Than Trump Already Is Going To
Are Two Albatrosses Worse Than One? After the second ballot, CNN’s Melanie Zanona reported that some of Jim Jordan's opponents have told...

Howie Klein
Oct 19, 20235 min read
Â
Â


It Didn't Take Much Arm-Twisting By The Fascists To Flip The GOP Holdouts, Did It? It Never Does
Ready For Speaker Jordan? As part of his… um, charm offensive, Gym Jordan promised a handful of Republicans who were reluctant to vote...

Howie Klein
Oct 17, 20233 min read
Â
Â


Of The 55 House Republicans Who Cast Secret Ballots Against Jordan, How Many Can Resist Bullying?
Not Many Gym Jordan had enough votes in a secret ballot meeting of the House GOP conference to win the Republican nomination for the...

Howie Klein
Oct 16, 20234 min read
Â
Â


You Can Count On This: In The House GOP Fever Swamp, The Fever Is Not Going To Break
Over the weekend, campaigning in Iowa, Mike Pence “tore into Donald Trump and pointed to isolationism in the Republican Party as...

Howie Klein
Oct 9, 20234 min read
Â
Â


Expect A Red To Blue Flip In Central New York-- Unless The DCCC Screws It Up Again
Sarah Klee Hood Can Beat Williams, Mannion Is Way Too Conservative If you follow the political press, they’re always talking about the...

Howie Klein
Oct 7, 20233 min read
Â
Â


Just What The Democratic Party Needs-- Another Sam Bankman Fried, Financing Conservative Candidates
Another Right-of-Center Billionaire-- This Time Rick Caruso When billionaire developer Rick Caruso ran for mayor of L.A. as a "Democrat"...

Howie Klein
Oct 6, 20235 min read
Â
Â


How Many Congressional Republicans Will Lose Their Seats With Trump At The Top Of The Ticket?
Arthur Engoron is on the New York Supreme Court and he’s been supervising the state’s Attorney General’s case against Trump. When she...

Howie Klein
Sep 27, 20234 min read
Â
Â


Imagine If The Dems Win Back The House Because The Supreme Court Said No To Racist Gerrymandering
Supreme Court Slapped Down Alabama's Last Appeal There’s going to be some bad news today so let’s start with something good— in Alabama,...

Howie Klein
Sep 27, 20234 min read
Â
Â


McCarthy's Not A RINO, He's A SINO...Speaker In Name Only-- Crackpot Matt Gaetz Is Calling The Shots
Thursday night Matt Gaetz crowed that “The House has really abandoned the McCarthy CR strategy today and has embraced the Matt Gaetz...

Howie Klein
Sep 23, 20235 min read
Â
Â


The House Republicans Are Not Reading The Room Right-- Unless They WANT To Commit Political Suicide
The very right wing Wall Street Journal editorial board had a warning for their party yesterday: shutting down the government to make...

Howie Klein
Sep 21, 20239 min read
Â
Â


What Does A Blue Wave Look Like When It’s Forming Up Over A Year Before The General?
Big Wins In Pennsylvania And New Hampshire Yesterday There were two consequential special elections yesterday. We wrote about the one in...

Howie Klein
Sep 20, 20233 min read
Â
Â


Nice Blue CA-22 Election Shapes Up: 3 Shitty Conservatives And A Fascist
CA-22 is a fairly safe blue district in California’s Central Valley, parts of 3 counties— Kern, Tulare and Kings. Biden beat Trump by 13...

Howie Klein
Sep 17, 20233 min read
Â
Â


Vulnerable GOP Freshman, Laurel Lee (FL-15) Gets A Challenger-- Meet Kris Fitzgerald
FL-15, northeast of Tampa, used to stretch almost all the way to Orlando. The partisan lean was R+14. Under the new map, the district...

Howie Klein
Sep 8, 20231 min read
Â
Â


Santos’ Plea Deal Hasn't Taken Solid Enough Shape To Have Been Made Public Yet
Movie Rights Are A Major Sticking Point! The Republican establishment and the Democratic establishment, both in Nassau County and in DC...

Howie Klein
Sep 7, 20233 min read
Â
Â


Republicans Keep Trying To Limit Voting Rights But So Far This Cycle They Are Mostly Losing
And The Crucial 2023 Elections In Virginia The things that Republicans are trying to take away from Americans is a long story but the one...

Howie Klein
Sep 4, 20237 min read
Â
Â


What We Can Expect From A Big Blue Wave-- And Hold On... No One Is Ready To Talk About A Tsunami Yet
Anti-Red Wave? Let’s leave aside the 3 likely new anti-racism districts created by court orders in Alabama, Louisiana and, now, Florida....

Howie Klein
Sep 3, 20233 min read
Â
Â


Blue Wave? I Think So… But I Don’t Want To Jinx It
So… Kenahora We don’t have to worry about shedim— not when we have millions of MAGAts running around, armed, self-righteous, aggrieved...

Howie Klein
Sep 2, 202312 min read
Â
Â


Tim Scott And George Santos Are Both Gay Republicans— But VERY Different Gay Republicans
When Santos’ Performance Was Over Virtually No One Clapped Early this morning, in the silliest story of the day, Axios writer Alex...

Howie Klein
Aug 31, 202311 min read
Â
Â


The Hakeem Jeffries Machine vs The Elise Stefanik Machine
Trump-owned-and-operated creepy, treacherous North Country MAGAt, Elise Stefanik, has finally abandoned George Santos, who she was key to...

Howie Klein
Aug 29, 20234 min read
Â
Â


Most Important 2024 House Candidate Who National Progressive Movement is Ignoring: Maebe A Girl
Yes, She CAN Win-- She Needs Our Help When Blue America endorsed AOC against Joe "the next speaker" Crowley, everyone accused us of being...

Howie Klein
Aug 24, 20233 min read
Â
Â
: Political News
bottom of page



