top of page

Down With Tyranny
feat. Howie Klein
Search


Trump On Mt Rushmore? How About A Mugshot Instead? They’re Putting Trump On Everything Except Trial
Before The Fall, The Statues are Rising "Bent Forms # 1" by Ricky Swallow Yesterday, I drove for a stretch down the Barack H. Obama...

Howie Klein
Aug 16 min read


Getting Serious About Combatting The Very Real Existential Threat Of Severe Wealth Concentration?
Democracies Can't Afford To Have Billionaires Bob Lord is an old friend dating back to Blue America endorsing his congressional campaign...

Howie Klein
Jul 286 min read


Dynasty Or Oligarchy? The Super-Ugly Future of Trumpism
The GOP After Trump— No Exit I'll opt for AOC If mass prayers work, Trump will be dead soon, maybe before the cock crows on Monday. It’s...

Howie Klein
Jun 276 min read


Welcome To The American Oligarchy… & The Alternative: Zohran Mamdani’s Brand Of Democratic Socialism
Michigan freshman Elissa Slotkin still has the most reactionary voting record of any Senate Democrat— worse than Ruben Gallego’s, Mark...

Howie Klein
Jun 2228 min read


One Post Today— Something To Read Before We All Go Out And Celebrate No Kings Day With Our Neighbors
Yesterday, Bernie announced he’s taking the Fighting Oligarchy Tour back on the road, starting with events in Texas, Louisiana and...

Howie Klein
Jun 147 min read


MAGA Exclusivity, A Half Million Dollar Membership Fee & Red Velvet Ropes To Keep Out The Riff-Raff?
Trump Regime: More Corrupt Than The Sublime Porte Or The Ming Dynasty Honoré Daumier’s "The Legislative Belly" (1834) Will there ever be...

Howie Klein
May 2715 min read


The Times
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For -by Carol Wolman The Chinese word for “crisis” (危機, wēijī) contains characters representing both...

Howie Klein
Apr 225 min read


Head Start For The Billionaire Class, Dead End For The Rest Of Us
Welcome To Techno-Feudalism: Romulus, Musk & The American Decline Van Orden and pal Yesterday, People revealed the name of one of Elon...

Howie Klein
Apr 185 min read


All-American Headliner: Bernie Sanders
Bernie’s on the road rallying Democrats and anti-Trump/Musk independents. He started in Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Michigan. And he...

Howie Klein
Mar 116 min read


What Should Not Exist In A Democracy? Billionaires Should Not Exist In A Democracy— It's Us Or Them
Bernie’s Tour— “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here” Things aren’t ominous enough? Historian Janis Mimura is comparing Silicon...

Howie Klein
Feb 288 min read


Canada May Put A 100% Tariff On Teslas— China Should Do The Same... So Should The Rest Of The World
I loved going up to Montreal to teach at McGill, more so than any classes I taught in U.S. universities. And what a great town Montreal...

Howie Klein
Feb 36 min read


Apparently There Can Be No Co-Existence With The Billionaire Class— Unless You Choose Slavery
Working People Are Fighting For Their Lives Now Over the weekend, Will Bunch wrote about the real damage Trump has set out to do to our...

Howie Klein
Jan 279 min read


How Much Worse For Ordinary Americans Will Trump’s Second Term Be Than The First?
How many times in the last 2 months have we seen headlines like this one from CNN, Trump assembles an administration of uber-wealthy...

Howie Klein
Jan 174 min read


How Many Months Will The Trump-Musk Bromance Last? And How Damaging Will The Fall-Out Be?
Partners In Chaos, Partners In Dysfunction, Partners In Disaster Trump may look larger than life, but Musk is pulling the strings In an...

Howie Klein
Jan 23 min read


Damn Shame That When The GOP Cuts Safety Net Benefits It Won't Be A Disaster Just For Trump Voters
Many Working Class Voters Helped Elect A Plutocracy Yesterday, Greg Ip claimed that cutting the deficit is easy—it’s just unpopular ....

Howie Klein
Dec 27, 20244 min read


What Can Be Done About Musk? Does Trump Have What It Takes To Rein Him In? The Fear Has Taken Over
Congressional Dems Have An Opening To Reverse Their Previous Spinelessness Clicking it won't send Musk back to Africa but... At a point...

Howie Klein
Dec 20, 20246 min read


Will The Buyers' Remorse Set In Before The 2026 Midterms? Schadenfreude Isn't Nearly Enough, Is It?
Ben Franklin, 237 Years Ago: “A Republic, If You Can Keep It.” Sickened by Trump’s cabinet picks? His supporters aren’t . Trump...

Howie Klein
Nov 18, 20246 min read


Trump Is Creating An Historic Cabinet— And Much Worse... And The Republican Party Is Complicit
First a little good news: on Wednesday, the Senate shut down the Republican filibuster ( 50-48 ) of Dave Huitema to be Director of the...

Howie Klein
Nov 16, 20247 min read


Will Working Class Trump Voters Feel Badly When The Country Officially Becomes A Plutocracy?
How The Tech Billionaires Bought The GOP Running Mate Slot For JD Vance Eliminating billionaires— through tax policies, not violence— has...

Howie Klein
Oct 19, 202419 min read


Underwriting The Oligarchy— Here Are Some Of The Worst Villains... But By No Means All Of Them
If Thérèse (professionally known as Madame Defarge) were alive today— and if I had her e-mail address— I’d send her this list, knowing...

Howie Klein
Aug 27, 20242 min read
: Political News
bottom of page



