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Trump’s Redistricting Coup Is Already Underway And Texas Is The Test Site For The Death Of Democracy
The Slow Coup Picks Up Speed: GOP Gives Up Trying To Win Elections As Much As Ending Them Welcome to Texas, 2025! Yesterday, Jonathan...

Howie Klein
Aug 85 min read
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Trump Is Rewriting The American Story, Albeit Without The Democracy Part
It Is  Happening Here "Landmine Diplomacy" by Nancy Ohanian Trump asking Texas Republicans to gerrymander their state’s congressional map...

Howie Klein
Aug 34 min read
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Fascism And Authoritariansim
"into the Abyss" by Nancy Ohanian -by Mark Pinsley, Lehigh County Controller Since 2016, I've reached out to people on the other side of...
Mark Pinsley
Jun 154 min read
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Some Of Trump's Elite Support Is Melting Away Over The Deranged MAGA Policy Agenda
Even Musk Is Setting Trump Up To Take The Fall For A Recession Founder and manager of Bridgewater, the world’s biggest hedge fund, Ray...

Howie Klein
May 282 min read
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Donald Trump Is America’s Toxic Turkey Come Home To Roost
"Reframing The American Way" by Nancy Ohanian  -by Sluggo Wasserman   An America dying in dictatorship is fraught with horror, denial,...

Harvey Wasserman
Apr 193 min read
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Is Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy The One? He's Not Bernie... But At Least He Isn't Gavin Newsom
ProgressivePunch isn’t the flawless measurement of congressional progressivism… but it’s closer to perfect than any other measurement...

Howie Klein
Apr 29 min read
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The Worldwide Far Right Fringe Rallies Around Convicted Embezzler Marine La Pen
Marine Le Pen inherited her neo-Nazi political party, the National Rally, from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was a little less neo...

Howie Klein
Apr 12 min read
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Don't Expect To Wake Up And Someone To Say "Trump Became A Dictator Today"— It's A Process
The Next Republican Could Even Be Even Worse This week, Robert Reich wrote in an email that “Authoritarians benefit from an...

Howie Klein
Mar 285 min read
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Under Authoritarian Regimes, Dear Leader Is Judge, Jury & Executioner— 1/3 Of Us Seem Fine With That
Members of Congress, said Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (R) Wednesday, are being intimidated into silence by South African Nazi...

Howie Klein
Mar 228 min read
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The ICE Cold Reality— How Power-Hungry Cops Enable Abuse… Why Fascists Thrive in Law Enforcement
Law Enforcement Has Become A Safe Haven for Sadists This morning, Julie Watson looked at how detentions of European tourists at US borders...

Howie Klein
Mar 218 min read
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One Of The First Efforts Of An Authoritarian Is To Delegitimize Any Kind Of Independent Media
Resistance Last week, former Chicago congresswoman, Marie Newman, wrote that “There is no question we must fight and be a strong, loud...

Howie Klein
Mar 199 min read
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Trump’s Speech Last Night Was A Warning— And The Democratic Leadership Is Largely Ignoring It
History's Warning: Weak Opposition Enables Fascism After Trump had finished his 100 minutes of campaign rally lies and grievances, Jake...

Howie Klein
Mar 57 min read
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Do You Think The U.S. Is Still A Democracy? Believe Me, Not Everyone Does
How Ready Are You To Do Anything About It? In March of 1930, Centrist Chancellor Heinrich Brüning’s reliance on emergency decrees from...

Howie Klein
Mar 57 min read
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Hitler Had Himmler & Stalin Had Beria— The Senate Just Confirmed Kash Patel As Trump’s Enforcer
It’s impossible to say definitively at this point which Trump appointee will do the most damage. There isn’t a single one who won’t harm...

Howie Klein
Feb 225 min read
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The Dangerous Normalization Of Trump’s Lawlessness— A Nation, Our Nation, Without Guardrails
I Hope I'm Wrong But We Seem To Be Watching The Death of American Democracy In a birthday greeting today, my old elementary school friend...

Howie Klein
Feb 209 min read
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Joe McCarthy And Roy Cohn Walked So Donald Trump Could Stumble
The Republicans’ Marxist Smear Campaign Is Nothing More Than A Coward’s Playbook Less dependable to stand up to Trump than Lisa...

Howie Klein
Jan 307 min read
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It Can't Happen Here? Media Censorship Only Happens in Other Countries, Right?
Trump Wants MSNBC Shut Down The Night of the Long Knives (actually a long weekend in June-July, 1934) is best known for Hitler purging...

Howie Klein
Jan 233 min read
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Those Who Defied Tyranny During World War II Were Their Countries' Heroes—It's Probably Our Turn Now
They Reelected Him Again— 77 Million This Time... We Have To Deal With It When Nixon was elected president over half a century ago, I...

Howie Klein
Jan 219 min read
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Most Americans Think Trump Is Off To A Good Start— Although Majorities Disagree With His Agenda
Few Knew When They Voted For Trump They'd Be Getting A South African Fascist Co-presidents Some of the loudest voice on social media are...

Howie Klein
Dec 20, 20245 min read
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They Don't Know Exactly What It Is, But U.S. Voters Are Rushing Headlong Into The Jaws Of Fascism
Expect Orbán's Mug On a Postage Stamp Sooner Or Later Signatories to the Treaty of Rome, which created of the ICC, the International...

Howie Klein
Nov 25, 20249 min read
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