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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


Performance Art Politics In The Age Of The Kayfabe King
-by Patrick Toomey There’s little to add to Howie’s recent summary of the latest Schumer Switcheroo on the CR. This pre-vote commentary...

Patrick Toomey
Mar 175 min read


Democratic Candidates Are Winning Special Elections Even As Voters Say They Hate The Party
Even Democratic Voters Hate The Democratic Establishment & Leadership Although new polling released by NBC yesterday wasn’t exactly good...

Howie Klein
Mar 174 min read


I’m from Kings Highway… I’ve known What Chuck Schumer Is Since We Were Teenagers At James Madison
And When He Was Elected To The State Assembly In 1974 Schumer is often referred to as “the Senator from Wall Street” but it wasn't always...

Howie Klein
Mar 162 min read


Disgrace: 10 Democrats Passed MAGA Mike’s Spending Bill— It Would Have Failed Without Them
Wondering which Democrats helped the Republicans pass their purely evil spending bill without even a fight? The traitors and cowards,...

Howie Klein
Mar 152 min read


Can Dems Win Back Gen Z Voters? Yes— But Not If They Keep Nominating Corporate-Friendly Candidates
I think most Democrats— and anyone who fancies themselves sympathetic to the resistance— would agree with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear: “I...

Howie Klein
Mar 1511 min read


Today: Another Moment Of Infamy For Senate Democrats— Thanks For Nothing, Chuck Schumer
Did you ever imagine that the Senate Dems would muster the guts and good sense to let the Republicans walk their own plank on the...

Howie Klein
Mar 145 min read


AOC Needs To Primary Schumer In 2028
-by Patrick Toomey Chuck Schumer, once again, folded on the shutdown vote . As Josh Marshall notes, the Dem “leader” consciously gave up...

Patrick Toomey
Mar 132 min read


Contrasting Chris Murphy's & Jamie Raskin's Activism With Schumer's & Jeffries' Non-Leadership
Desperate Times Do NOT Call For Incremental Measures Trump’s across-the-board headcount slashing— without regard to functionality— has...

Howie Klein
Feb 177 min read


Yes, It's A Full-Blown Constitutional Crisis— Time To Shout It From The Rooftops
And Time For The Democrats To Find Leadership That Suits the Crisis When Trump or Musk stumbles onto a good idea, Bernie thinks we should...

Howie Klein
Feb 129 min read


Trump's Honeymoon Is Over— So Wretched Blue Dogs, Supported By The DCCC, Move To Prop Up The GOP
With more than a few right-wing Democrats— Blue Dogs and New Dems— it’s sometimes hard to tell which members agree with the Republican...

Howie Klein
Feb 85 min read


As Trump & Musk Steamroll Their “Deconstruction Of The Administrative State,” Where Are The Dems?
And The Mainstream Media? A few days ago, AOC— not Gerry Connolly— ripped Elon Musk for being “morally bankrupt” and “not smart.” She...

Howie Klein
Feb 710 min read


The Billionaire And The Buffoon: How Musk And Trump Are Hollowing Out America Before Our Eyes
Yes, A Foreign Unelected Tech Tyrant's Takeover Musk's control over key technologies and his influence on public discourse pose an...

Howie Klein
Feb 46 min read


Trump’s Worst Instincts Are His Own— & Roy Cohn’s— But His Worst Austerity Ideas Are Russ Vought’s
Vought Plans To Control Every Dollar Decision & Every Regulatory Decision Generally, when the media— and even Democrats— talk about the...

Howie Klein
Feb 19 min read


Can We Get Some Good House Candidates For The 2026 Midterms— No One Recruited By Chuck Schumer?
Yesterday, the Senate voted on Biden’s renomination of Lauren McFerran to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). It failed 50-49 ,...

Howie Klein
Dec 12, 20244 min read


Standing Between The DCCC & A Blue Wave: Grotesquely Bad Candidate Quality In New York & California
The DCCC Has One Thing Going For It: Republicans Are Worse In New York State, 2020 saw Biden beat Trump 60.9% to 37.7%— not as good as...

Howie Klein
Aug 24, 20243 min read


There's A Lot More To Saving Our Democracy Than Defeating Trump— The Threat Of The Oligarchs' PACs
Thanks To Citizens United AIPAC And The Crypto-criminals Control Congress Bernie gave an inspiring speech at the convention last night....

Howie Klein
Aug 21, 20247 min read


Midnight Meme Of The Day! Chuck Schumer Fiddles While America Is About To Burn To The Ground!
by Noah I had a post on third parties all but set for today but it occurred to me that, after a long weekend, people tend to forget...

Noah
May 29, 20242 min read


Midnight Meme Of The Day! Samuel Alito Is The Marjorie Traitor Greene Of The Supreme Court
Your Saturday Cartoon: by Noah Justice Samuel Alito is a subversive. That's first and foremost. And, yes, he is very much...

Noah
May 25, 20245 min read


Was Yiddish-Kabuki Theater Ever A Thing? Did AIPAC Write Schumer’s “Anti”-Netanyahu Speech?
Chuck Schumer Will Always Be Pro-Genocide Chuck Schumer and I grew up in the same neighborhood of Brooklyn and went to the same...

Howie Klein
Mar 15, 20244 min read
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