Midnight Meme Of The Day! 130 Election Deniers Won Election Or Reelection Last Week!
by Noah It's great that the election deniers who ran for Governor and Secretary of State positions all across the country lost last...
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Nigel Best
- Nov 7
- 3 min
It’s Happened There
-by Nigel Best “One day you’re going to rise from your habitual feast To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast They call...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 30
- 6 min
The Election In NJ-07 Is About More Than 2 Men's Careers-- And The Consequences Could Be Enormous
New Jersey’s 7th district has been redrawn by the state’s Democratic legislature— with an R+1 PVI— to make two conservative Democrats’...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 30
- 14 min
A Scholarly Book Published In 1950 Foretold The Rise Of Donald Trump— And The Descent Of The USA
The F Scale, 2022 Last week, the Canadian Broadcasting Company updated a report from April on a study from 1950 about what kind of people...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 10
- 8 min
The Effects Of Inequality Are Both Worse And More Pervasive Than Is Generally Acknowledged
Grace Blakeley has an infuriating piece in the new Jacobin, Corporate Welfare Props Up the Billionaire Class. “The last year,” she wrote,...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 20
- 5 min
The GOP's Brazen Embrace Of Violence Is A Precursor To Authoritarianism, If Not Civil War
Late last night, as the votes in Maryland’s GOP gubernatorial primary were still being counted, it became clear that the candidate from...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 30
- 6 min
Remember When You Thought The Handmaid's Tale Was Far-Fetched?
Americans— and especially American women— are growing increasingly furious at the 6 reactionaries on the Supreme Court and their...
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Noah
- Mar 17
- 1 min
Midnight Meme Of The Day! Next Up For Republicans: Don't Say Vote
by Noah For Republicans and their dreams of autocracy, it's no longer about just banning books. It was only a matter of time before their...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 29, 2021
- 4 min
Is It Too Late For Democracy?
Just before dawn-- right around the time our post about how Americans have turned against the Supreme Court went up-- the NY Times...
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Noah
- Dec 27, 2021
- 2 min
GOON-O-RAMA, 2021 In Review, Part 8: A Book Recommendation
-by Noah I don't read as many books as I would like to anymore so when I do, I like to make them count. Ditto for the recommendations....
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Howie Klein
- Dec 14, 2021
- 6 min
Americans United, Defeated Fascism In '45. Today We Are Divided... And Fascism Is Taking Over
On Sunday, writing for the Wall Street Journal, Aaron Zittner and Chad Day reported that there will be significantly fewer competitive...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 6, 2021
- 13 min
Does Anyone Care That American Democracy Is Inexorably Slipping Away?
Writing for the Associated Press early this morning, Brian Slodysko looked at how the far right-- think fascism-- is changing the GOP. He...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 23, 2021
- 4 min
Attention Conservatives: Here's why You Must Hold Your Nose & Vote For Democrats In 2022
Brian Klaas, author of The Despot's Apprentice and The Despot's Accomplice, is an associate professor of global politics at University...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 23, 2021
- 5 min
The World Has Become More Authoritarian Over The Last Year
The Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) released its 2021 Global State of Democracy...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 23, 2021
- 4 min
Without Real Accountability Trump Will Certainly Try Another Coup
Almost a century ago, in early November, 1923 Hitler tried a coup with 2,000 Nazis, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, which failed...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 30, 2021
- 5 min
Count On It: Afghanistan Will Be A "Consolidated Authoritarian Regime"-- And Very Homophobic
I'm in the "give the Taliban the benefit of the doubt" camp. I could be very proven wrong very quickly. Now, mind you, I'm not saying...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 24, 2021
- 12 min
How Much Further Right Is The Democratic Party Poised To Move?
Is The Party Of Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt Turning Into The Anti-Trump Party? Does the Democratic Party really need unrepentant...
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