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It’s Tuesday— What Do MAGA Republicans Want To Take Away From Americans Today?
Austerity For Us-- Good Times For Their Billionaire Financiers Let the good times roll Let them knock you around Let the good times roll...

Howie Klein
May 2, 20238 min read
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Book Banning Is An Absolute Precursor To Fascism-- No Two Ways About It, Governor DeSantis
Fascist regimes have historically sought to control information and limit access to books and libraries in order to manipulate and shape...

Howie Klein
Apr 17, 20236 min read
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The GOP Midterm Agenda Is A Carefully Crafted Package Of Outrageous Lies & Dumfuckery
This morning, our friends at the Wall Street Journal warned that “White suburban women, a key group of midterm voters, have significantly...

Howie Klein
Nov 2, 20222 min read
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Conservative Ex-Republican Tom Nichols Doesn’t Think The GOP Is A Fully Fascist Party Yet
The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols, wrote yesterday that he “long resisted using the word fascism to describe Donald Trump and his Republican...

Howie Klein
Aug 31, 20226 min read
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Maxwell Frost— Snake Oil Salesman Who Sold A Bill Of Goods To Progressives
In 2020 Liz Cheney won her Wyoming GOP primary with 73.5%. The voters appreciated her ultra-reactionary, hawkish and viciously partisan...

Howie Klein
Aug 17, 20224 min read
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What Republicans Fear Most: An IRS Doing Its Job
The House passed the Inflation Reduction Act yesterday— 220-207. Pelosi noted that it “saves the planet while keeping more money in your...

Howie Klein
Aug 13, 20223 min read
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AIPAC Is Now Essentially A Money Laundering Operation For GOP Cash To Disrupt Democratic Primaries
Regular readers of DWT already know this but early this morning Robert Reich confirmed what we already know, namely that AIPAC is no...

Howie Klein
Jul 22, 20226 min read
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How Bad Does A Party Have To Be To Get Beaten By Terrible, Treacherous, Treasonous Republicans?
I doubt anyone who reads DWT with any kind of regularity would disagree with the premise that, in Robert Reich’s words, the Republican...

Howie Klein
Jul 10, 20225 min read
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Liz Cheney For President? Give Me A Break
On Friday, during an interview with the Fox affiliate in L.A., Gov. Gavin Newsom, former mayor of San Francisco, said there was nothing...

Howie Klein
Jun 13, 20228 min read
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Dare I Still Hope For A Great President In My Lifetime?
Or Must I Just Watch My Parking Meters? This morning, Robert Reich speculated that in the case of Señor Donald J. Trumpanzee vs the...

Howie Klein
Jun 10, 20226 min read
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Does Trump Deserve The Death Penalty For His Violent Coup? What About His Co-Conspirators?
The Select Committee has its work cut out for it. According to NBC News polling conducted between May 5 and 10, "Just 45% of Americans...

Howie Klein
Jun 6, 20226 min read
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The Republican Civil War May Be Scary, But Will That Be Enough For Democrats To Save Themselves?
There's been quite a bit of talk lately about how next time the far right tries a coup, they'll be better prepared and... successful....

Howie Klein
Jun 3, 20226 min read
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Sean Patrick Maloney Messed Up NY & Is Wrecking Whatever Chances The Dems Had Of Holding The House
No one likes saying "I told you so," but I warned and warned and warned that if the House Democrats made very conservative New Dem Sean...

Howie Klein
May 18, 20227 min read
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Can Trump Really Save The Democrats From Disaster In November? I Doubt It
Either Biden has been-- as many of us expected-- a crappy president or he hasn't been that bad but has been prevented from doing anything...

Howie Klein
Apr 4, 20223 min read
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The Inextricable Manchin Problem... And The Agony Of The FDR Wing Of The Democratic Party
Desolation Row Manchin vetoed Biden's modest plan to require billionaires to pay a small minimum tax. While a a progressive tax plan...

Howie Klein
Mar 30, 20225 min read
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What Will We Do About Inflation? All The Wrong Things, Of Course
With the consumer price index up 7.5%, the inflation rate is at a 40-year high. Everything is going up but wages, at least not fast...

Howie Klein
Feb 18, 20228 min read
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Democracy For Everyone-- And That Includes The Trumpists
The military can't kick anyone out just for being an extreme right-wing lunatic. But... they can-- and are-- kicking people out for...

Howie Klein
Dec 31, 20213 min read
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Any Blue Will Do? If You Ever Considered That, You Need To Read This
Looks like Pelosi fell right into the transparent trap the Republican wing of the Democratic Party set up. Manchin and Sinema got...

Howie Klein
Sep 22, 20217 min read
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False Equivalence Has Already Made The Media Nearly Worthless-- What's Next?
Robert Reich gave the media's tendency to bend over backwards to find some kind of fake "middle ground" a good kick in the ass today....

Howie Klein
Aug 20, 20213 min read
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Democrats Are Fighting To Hold Onto Democracy-- Where's Joe Biden?
Reminder: Biden Is Jim Clyburn's Fault Last last week, Pew released some very ominous data about the state of American democracy....

Howie Klein
Jul 25, 20213 min read
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