Monday, April 13, 2020

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Trump Offered Assange Pardon if He Covered Up Russian Hack, WikiLeaks Founder’s Lawyer Claims

Why Trump has already secured a second term — no matter who his opponent is

Donald Trump's new pick for director of national intelligence is absolutely his worst selection ever

Trump associate Roger Stone sentenced to 3 years, 4 months in prison for lying to Congress: Stone will not have to report to prison until the judge acts on a pending defense motion for a new trial, based on a claim of juror bias.

Nicolle: Trump's comments on Roger Stone have us on 'pardon watch'.  President Donald Trump said his former adviser Roger Stone has 'very good chance of exoneration' hours after the GOP operative was sentenced to 40 months behind bars for lying to Congress.

Trump rally tallies: President has unpaid bills for Arizona events

Has Trump Taken Down Our Democratic Republic?

Roger Stone SENTENCED; Debate WINNERS; TYT Investigates Buttigieg

Young People Don’t Support Biden. Why Does the Establishment Still Think He’s the Most “Electable”?
Don’t believe arguments about “electability” coming from the corporate wing of the Democratic Party.

A Primary Is a Competition. Bernie Should Play To Win.  There’s no need to hedge our bets.

We Need Sanders and Warren to Cooperate in the Primary: The real fight is for progressive power in the Democratic Party.

A Win Against Voter Suppression in the South: While Republicans have purged voter rolls and suppressed Black turnout in the South, voting rights organizers just showed how to win.

Is Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez the Future of Texas?  The Latina labor organizer out to unseat GOP heavyweight Sen. John Cornyn.

How Political Fact-Checkers Distort the Truth: Glenn Kessler and his ilk aren't sticking to the facts. They're promoting a moderate dogma.

Oligarch of the Month: Michael Bloomberg. The former New York mayor is trying to spend his way to the White House.

The Rise of a Hollow Political Catchphrase: Democrats focus on "kitchen-table issues" to avoid being tarnished as overzealous liberals.

Trump’s Loyal Apprentice in Congress: Matt Gaetz has all the cocksure swagger of a reality television contestant.

Glenn Beck, the Nutty Professor: The conservative blowhard has transformed from a Never Trumper to a Ukraine conspiracist.

A Man in Full: Joe Biden wants to be a normal president in a highly abnormal age.

Educated Fools: Why Democratic leaders still misunderstand the politics of social class

The Loneliness of the Resistance Protester: Grassroots Democrats are marching and donating, but they are not forging a movement.

Michel Houellebecq’s Fragile World: How much does the French author owe his popularity to the rise of virulent nationalism?

A Rebirth of Communal Liberty?  One scholar’s quest for a modern equivalent to the General Will

The Center Is a Decaying Piece of Real Estate: And Bernie Sanders is the only candidate not clinging to it.

Tracking Down Mayor Pete’s Black Voter Problem: Listening to voters in his home state, our reporter discovers he’s queer for Buttigieg.

Rep. Katie Porter Wants to Make It Easier for Single Moms Like Her to Serve in Congress: Despite the record gains by female candidates in the 2018 midterms, women still make up just 24 percent of Congress. Without a structural solution, says Porter, that won’t change.

Lawmakers Are Warned That Russia Is Meddling to Re-elect Trump

Senior intelligence official told lawmakers that Russia wants to see Trump reelected

Michael Bloomberg is not the candidate who can beat Donald Trump: Michael Bloomberg is trying to hide his Republican New York City mayoral record.

TRUMP WOULD ARREST 'EVERY JOURNALIST HE DIDN'T LIKE' IF HE COULD GET AWAY WITH IT, SAYS MSNBC HOST

Bloomberg Flounders, Warren Rebounds, and Bernie Brings the Heat | The Common Good with Robert Reich

Let's talk about misunderstanding Bernie's supporters....

Trump Says He Plans to Stay in Office Until He’s 100 Years Old at Insane Colorado Rally

Nina Turner ANNIHILATES MSNBC's Bernie Bro Narrative

Trump declares himself the 'chief law-enforcement officer of the United States' and admits he makes Attorney General Barr's job harder

Stopping corruption is everyone’s business.  It shouldn’t always take the feds to fight corruption at the state level 

The art of not making a deal: The president makes demands in such a way that it’s more difficult for other leaders to give in.

We’re getting a good look at Mike Bloomberg: Readers are divided over the billionaire's prospects and his place in the 2020 race. 

Dem-election derby

Bernie Sanders: "I Did Not Know Russian Bots Were Promoting My Campaign"; "Real Question" Is About Clinton

Carville: The happiest person right now is Vladimir Putin.  James Carville: Putin is trying to help Sen. Sanders because Putin wants President Trump to win. It's a straight line. "I don't think Sanders wants Putin to help ... I think they don't like this story, but the story is a fact."

How Trump’s going to steal the 2020 election

Trump’s New Spy Chief Worked For A Foreign Politician The U.S. Accused of Corruption: Richard Grenell did not disclose payments for advocacy work on behalf of a Moldovan politician whom the U.S. later accused of corruption.

Maddow: Time for warnings is past as Trump openly abuses power.  Rachel Maddow points out that it is no longer accurate to frame Donald Trump's corruption as imminent or potential as he is openly abusing his power to make it clear that the power of the U.S. government will be used to punish people who oppose him and help people who demonstrate fealty.

Russia Doesn't Want Bernie Sanders. It Wants Chaos: The point of Kremlin interference has always been to find democracy’s loose seams, and pull.

Justice Department unease with Barr goes beyond Stone case

Watch: Trump Mocked Joe Biden For Stuttering At Today's Rally In Las Vegas

Trump aide asked Cabinet agencies to identify anti-Trump appointees: report

Barr privately ordered re-examination of Michael Flynn's case, US officials say


Bernie Sanders hits the jackpot: After Nevada, he can and must parlay newfound political capital into a sophisticated argument for why an antiestablishment message is electable

Democrats happily backing Bernie Sanders, the most left-wing presidential candidate ever

Donald Trump has poisoned American culture — but the toxin was here all along: Donald Trump's cruelty and vulgarity have done enormous damage — but let's stop pretending he's "un-American"

Trump suggests Justices Sotomayor, Ginsburg should recuse themselves in all of his cases

Robert Reich: 5 Ways William Barr is Turning America Into a Dictatorship

Bernie Sanders: I thought this question might come up ...

Susan Collins is mad about 'dark money' ads. But she's the reason they're legal.

The multimillion-dollar Christian group attacking LGBTQ+ rights

The Damage Report E2968 - Lawsuit Exposes Bloomberg’s Checklist For Female Employees

Let's talk about what Bernie supporters can learn from Ole Miss....

Let's talk about today's news media in a special way....

Trump engaged in 'jury tampering on a mass, national scale': Rachel Maddow puts a spotlight on Donald Trump's attempts to smear a Roger Stone juror in such a way that not only intrudes on the Stone case but sends a signal to any potential future jurors on cases of interest to Trump that they could attacked on a national stage by the president of the United States.

2/26 SUPPORTER CALL WITH SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS

Pete Buttigieg Is America’s Emmanuel Macron: Just like France’s leader, the upstart mayor promises business as usual in a calmer environment.

ALL IN SOME REAL GOOD trump ASS KISSING MONTAGE 05 31 2017

Seeking Black Voters, Trump Campaign To Open Offices In 15 Black Communities

Trump nominates Rep. John Ratcliffe to be intel chief — again.  Trump wanted the Texas congressman as director of national intelligence in 2019 but backed off when Ratcliffe was shown to have inflated his resume.

JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS SAYS DONALD TRUMP IS A 'FAKE PRESIDENT': 'HE'S A COMPLETE MORON, FROM START TO FINISH'

AOC says she feels unsafe because Trump’s fixation with her is fuelling white supremacist threats

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: "The President Is A Russian Operative"

Christie: Only Thing Better For Republicans Than Sanders Nomination, Is Democrat Establishment Taking Nomination From Sanders

What We Do Next Now That Impeachment Is Done

Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas review – superb hate-reading: A spirited examination of the hubris and hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world

WINNERS TAKE ALL: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.  An insider’s groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.
Anand Giridharadas - “Winners Take All” and the Paradox of Elite Philanthropy | The Daily Show

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Trump justice: He's using his office to reward friends, punish enemies and tarnish America.  We count on an independent Department of Justice to look out for us and for America. But Trump has commandeered DOJ to protect his friends and allies.

Term limits will drain the swamp and stop career politicians: Democratic presidential candidate lineup only offers more of the same

Why Democrats Need To End the Filibuster: Warren and Buttigieg pressed Bernie Sanders on the filibuster last night. Here’s what you need to know.

I Testify: Congress Must Push for the Repeal of Blasphemy Laws Abroad

American Jurisprudence on Trial

CHURCH & STATE | Our Constitution Lacks a School Prayer Amendment—For That, You Can Thank These Champions

Spirit of the Law: Keeping Justice Alive in Red States

The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

Virginia Becomes 38th State to Ratify the ERA

CIVIL RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS URGE FEDERAL APPEALS COURT TO AFFIRM THAT MAINE NEED NOT FUND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Donald Trump’s odds of going to prison just went way up.

Reporter: Billionaire Bloomberg Says He Released His Tax Returns as NYC Mayor. This Was a Lie.

‘The Nation’ Endorses Bernie Sanders and His Movement: We are proud to endorse Sanders, a democratic socialist with a program both realistic and radical enough to meet the challenges of our time.

Robert Reich: Why 2020 Won't Be Won By Centrists

What Bernie Skeptics Need to Know Before Super Tuesday

Let's talk about Trump's historic achievement....

Let's talk about Reagan, a cliche, fear, and love....

Krystal Ball: panicked DNC elites try to stop Bernie’s big Super Tuesday

Biden is 'part of the old political establishment,': Sanders

Chris Matthews announces retirement: Chris Matthews is announcing his retirement from Hardball.

Democrats weigh holding Trump officials in contempt and are torn over Bolton subpoena

Will the Supreme Court crown Trump as king?

Malignant Narcissism comes to Washington

Alabama blocked a man from voting because he owed $4

On Biden’s Big Night, Sanders Warns Against ‘Same Old’ Politics: The former vice president is surging, but the Vermont senator is still waging a political revolution.

Did Donald Trump Say ‘Mein Kampf’ Had a ‘Profound Effect’ on Him?  The same internet meme quoted Trump as saying he has 'tremendous respect' for Adolf Hitler.  (Read all the way to the end.)

Chomsky: Sanders not a Socialist, but a Decent & Honest New Dealer

Trump’s new attack on Biden exposes his own unfitness

Psychiatrist: Trump Needs Urgent MRI, Obvious Dementia Symptoms

Elizabeth Warren Still Has a Choice to Make: The stakes are too high for her to remain on the sidelines.

GOP efforts to make voting harder spur massive lines in Texas primary: Texas has closed 750 polling locations since 2012 — many in counties with high numbers of African American and Latino voters.

Super Tuesday Surprises and Progressives' Path Forward | The Common Good with Robert Reich

DELEGATE COUNT: Here's who's winning the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination.  (Note: Does not include the California results.)

Super Tuesday Results 2020: Live Updates

Mark Zuckerberg is tailoring Facebook’s policies to suit Trump, warns former mentor: Facebook is preparing to enter the 2020 US election with lax policies on political lying and social media influencer campaign

Trump's Christian right worships power more than they worship God: In "The Power Worshippers," Katherine Stewart shows what really motivates the Christian right — and it's not Jesus

The Disastrous Iowa Caucuses Were Just the Beginning: Unless they’re stopped, the Democratic establishment will lose another election.

Letters From the March 2, 2020, Issue: A scoutlandish story!… Love supreme… No more war… Street smarts…  By Our Readers

The Modern GOP Is Built on Lies: In some ways Trump is more truthful than previous Republican presidents.

The Removal of Lt. Col. Vindman (and His Brother) From the White House Staff

The Woman Behind Elizabeth Warren’s Foreign Policy: The campaign has kept Sasha Baker out of the spotlight, but she wants to shake up the consensus from the inside.

Kendra Horn Is Radical… for Oklahoma: Democratic centrism may not inspire voters nationwide—but in one of the nation’s most conservative states, it can seem downright revolutionary.

Voiding the Social Contract: Trump's War of the Weird.  We can no longer fool ourselves about the state of American politics. We’re witnessing two opposing parties committed to destroying each other.

Snap Out of It, Dems!

Democrats Need to Choose Between the Progressives and the Centrists

Letters to the Editor: Vote Like Your Life Depended On It, etc.

Don’t Throw the Personal Campaigning Out with the Caucuses

Dispatches: RENEGING ON PLEDGES, TRUMP BUDGET CUTS MEDICARE, MEDICAID AND SOCIAL SECURITY TO PAY FOR TAX CUTS FOR RICH, etc.

My Turn: Froma Harrop: Iowa was very good for Bloomberg

Iowa Results Seem to Fall Where Everyone Expected They Would: Undecided.  While the media was having a fit over the confusion, the people who actually were involved in them appeared happy with the process and the results

When Democrats Vote …

Gene Lyons: Sanders supporters can't see the forest for the trees

Donald Trump: Loser

THERE’S NO ‘GREAT AMERICAN COMEBACK’: Trump is counting on the working class he’s betraying most aggressively. Can the left get out of affluent suburbia and back to its roots?

Election-Year Pessimism

Donald Trump’s State of the Mighty Me: A speech not worth the paper Nancy Pelosi tore apart.

The End of Truth; The Triumph of Lying

Trump's core philosophy: Get even. It's going to be really ugly, folks.  Trump has now turned the entire Republican Party into the MAGA tribe — and they'll go after his enemies with gusto

State of the (Dis)Union with Robert Reich

This is the Way it Ends, Not with a Bang but a Whimper

Democrats, Post-Feud

Just The Facts, Madam Speaker

A Union Broken With a Senate Surrender

Was Impeachment a Mistake?  Republican devotion to the Great Dictator held. Now Trump is gloating. Was impeachment always a fool’s errand?

Misleading Categories and Trump’s Swamps

Democrats’ Wimpy Impeachment Has Made Trump Stronger Than Ever

The Iowa Fiasco Rings the Death Knell of a Failed 50-Year Experiment

What a State of Our Union

This vulgar man has squandered our decency, by Dana Milbank

Six former wrestlers say Rep. Jim Jordan knew about abusive OSU doctor

Florida woman charged with changing party affiliations of voters: Some of the forms changed the registrations of Democrats or no party affiliation to Republican, officials said.

Joe Biden says he’d want Michelle Obama to be his running mate

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: We should be scared about what we’re going to see in this year’s elections

White House hires another college senior for sensitive administration post: The move follows the White House’s recent hiring of another college student for a powerful post.

Rights Groups Sound Alarm on Religion-Minded Pompeo Commission

TRACKING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S UNPRECEDENTED CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Trump Is Counting on the Supreme Court to Save Him: The president’s remarkable lawsuit against his own accountants and bankers can succeed only if the conservative majority intervenes on his behalf.

Under a Democratic president, McConnell vows a return to total obstruction

Senate Democrats believe their path to dethroning Mitch McConnell is better than ever: report

New standards eliminate Tulsi Gabbard from next Democratic debate

The head of Mike Pompeo's new human rights commission once compared the Boston Globe to Osama bin Laden

Trump replaces Mick Mulvaney with Mark Meadows as chief of staff

CREW FILES IRS COMPLAINT AGAINST THE NRA

Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups

Now is the time to go on the offense – against Trump

Do Trump kids financially benefit from Trump in White House? Do Donald Trump’s children and in-laws benefit financially from his presidency? Experts explain the many allegations of Trump family favoritism in the Trump White House in conversation with Joy Reid.

Let's talk about how Castro came to power....

Jesse Jackson to endorse Bernie Sanders at Michigan rally: The Sanders campaign is working past a poor performance on Super Tuesday.

Middle Class’ Joe Biden has a corruption problem – it makes him a weak candidate: We don’t have to choose Biden’s way, which would give Trump a perfect foil

How Bernie Can Beat Joe Biden (TMBS 129)

How Nancy Pelosi is forcing Trump and Republicans over a cliff: With each passing day, Pelosi’s savvy political strategy grows clearer, even as she gets much too little credit.

Dems Struggle with S-Word

Letters to the Editor: Trump Forgives Friends, Not Enemies, etc.

DISPATCHES: TRUMP AIDES CONTINUE PURGE OF ‘DISLOYAL’ GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, etc.

Before Fixing Tomorrow, Democrats Must Fix Today

Democrats are Reaching Farmers with an Exciting Message: Green Agriculture.  Every leading Democratic candidate supports a form of conservation that can reduce greenhouse gases and create jobs in rural America.

Democrats’ rules could lead to a contentious convention A Democrat will need an actual majority to win the party’s nomination to face Boss Trump come November. Even if it tears the party apart to reach one.

Who Can Beat Trump?

Bernie Sanders: Nothing to Fear Except Fear Itself

Fearful (and False) Symmetry: A Sanders-Trump election would not be a face-off between left and right, but between democracy and incipient fascism.

The resurrection of Mike Bloomberg: Savior for black and brown communities?

Trump Wants to Inflict Severe Pain on Disabled Community Just Because He Can

If the Democrats nominate Mike Bloomberg, we're facing four more years of Trump.  Don't get suckered, Democrats: Of any current candidate, Bloomberg would be the easiest for Trump to beat

‘Tick-Tock,’ Says the Trump Corruption Clock

Bill Barr, finally under fire: Will Trump's henchman survive a DOJ insurrection?  Donald Trump's anointed fixer is finally facing serious pushback from within Justice. Will he be forced out?

Trump has out-Nixoned Nixon

Kerner Report set standard for what a serious leader would champion

It’s Happening Here … Messages of resistance in two little books, one a movie script.

Down-Ballot Races Are Critical to Turning Texas Blue: Progressive Texans will need to leverage coalitions and grassroots enthusiasm in November.

America’s New Cold Civil War

President Trump Had No Right to Fire Lt. Col. Vindman

Trump’s Corrupt Pardon Spree Has Just Begun

Pelosi and Paul: The Art and Arc of Resistance

Believing/Not Believing in the US Political System

Want To Attack “Democratic Socialism” – Bring It On Corporate Socialists!

Bernie Should Own the Socialism Label

Trump and Roger Williams

Medicare for All Should Be a Reality Today

Oh, Sure, It's the Democrats Who Have a Problem

Bill Barr learns that Trump is a crafty badger

Why Do Liberals Think All Trump Supporters are Stupid?

The Trump Administration’s Misinformation Machine: Mere lying is one thing; silencing the voices of those who disagree is something far more serious and more dangerous

Let's talk about healthcare and tone deaf comments....

2020 STARTS NOW: We can beat Trump and the GOP—if we get to work today. Find things you can do to help win next November, starting right now.

#UnitedAgainstYou vs. #NotMeUS: Naomi Klein Slams Cory Booker and Other Corporate Democrats for Backing Biden. "We need 'unity' behind survival—not a united front against real change."

No ‘credibility’: Trump losing 2020 battle to hide secret parts of Mueller report.  A federal judge has condemned Attorney General Bill Barr for "misleading" the public with his handling of the Mueller Report. ABC News Chief Legal Correspondent Dan Abrams joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss a top federal judge’s “grave concern” and lack of “trust” about Barr’s “objectivity.” Abrams argues there is “nothing more insulting” to Barr than assert he “politicized” the process and Department of Justice. Former Federal Prosecutor Joyce Vance argues Barr’s actions are “so egregious” a federal judge is telling “the American people” they “cannot trust the Attorney General to be truthful.”

Boosting Electability Argument, Sanders Has Won Independent Voters in 13 Out of 16 Exit Polls So Far: "The criteria by which we should judge any Democratic presidential candidate's electability is their popularity among Democratic-leaning independents and 'true independents' in swing states. And by that metric, Sanders excels."

A Campaign Finance Solution Has Been Sitting on McConnell’s Desk for a Year

TRUMP IS 'USING THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENCY TO CONCEAL' RUSSIA'S 2020 SCHEME TO RE-ELECT HIM, SAYS FORMER ACTING AG

NRA Doesn’t Have Veto Power Over N.Y. Subpoenas, Judge Says

It’s Time to Debunk the Idea that Women Aren’t ‘Electable’: While the ‘electability’ myth helped sink women in the Democratic primaries, women are winning big at the state and local level.

Letters From the March 16-23, 2020, Issue: A message to Democrats… An impeachable offense…

What Bloomberg Is Doing Has No Precedent in American Political Life: If he becomes the nominee, then the Democratic Party will be a wholly owned subsidiary of the billionaire.

Comix Nation

Richard Grenell Named Acting Director of National Intelligence

If We Don’t Reform the Supreme Court, Nothing Else Will Matter: The court has been captured by conservatives for at least a generation, but there are ways to restore the balance.

“Fifty Shades of Gray”: A tribute to Collin S. Gray (1943-2020)

Russia's Foreign Policy Goals Under Vladimir Putin

Trump's India Visit Was Little Substance and All Show: Despite the lack of any truly consequential accomplishments, Trump and Modi have reason to be pleased with their meeting and will invoke it to boost their political standing at home.

DON’T ASK, DON’T GET

THE CASE FOR A PACIFIC DETERRENCE INITIATIVE

The Posters That Warned Against “the Horrors of a World With Women’s Rights”

Let's talk about what Bernie Sanders is and isn't....

Marianne Williamson's Endorsement of Senator Bernie Sanders for President

Robert Reich: Will Donald Trump Get Reelected?

4 Republican senators could well be on the chopping block come November

Memo to Bros of Any Stripe

Biden Turned Back on Vietnamese Refugees

Protect the Taxpayer’s Revolution

Let's talk about AOC the bartender...

Let's talk with Shahid Buttar about 2020....

Jelani Cobb: Sanders' losses are validation of the most cynical ideas about politics.  The New Yorker's Jelani Cobb discusses the Bernie Sanders campaign with Brian Williams and Nicolle Wallace and describes how his slowed momentum is a "validation" of the most cynical ideas about the political system.

Why Vladimir Putin cannot retire: He has too many enemies, and too many cronies who depend on him

Trump Just Dug His 2020 Grave By Appearing To Tell Fox He’ll Cut Medicare And Social Security

Electability: Bernie Is DOMINATING Biden With Independent Voters

Acting Intelligence Chief Grenell Freezes Hiring and Looks to Cut Office

The Trump Presidency Is Over: It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain.

Most People Never Saw the Best of Bernie Sanders’s Campaign

Former Judge Resigns From the Supreme Court Bar: In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, he detailed why he’s lost faith in the court.

The coming Supreme Court showdown over birth control: Justice Scalia’s death delayed a reckoning. Now the fight over contraception is back.

We Are All ‘Militant Secularists’ Now

Brevard County, Fla., Commissioners Agree to End Religious Discrimination in Invocation Practices

Church & State: The Magazine of Americans United

Say Your Prayers, Kids! (Or We'll Force You): Christian Nationalists And The Long-Running Campaign To Force Children To Pray In Public Schools

A History Of Violence: How Disputes Over School-Sponsored Religion Have Ignited Public Passions

The Voluntary Principle: The U.S. Supreme Court Had Made It Clear There Can Be No Compulsion When It Comes To Religion In Public Schools

Read All About It: Books On School Prayer

Prayer In Public Schools: It's Time To Set The Record Straight

Reckless Rules: New Trump Administration 'Faith-Based' Regulations Promote Discrimination And Threaten Rights, Americans United Says

Americans United In Action! AU Staff Members Work To Promote Church-State Separation

Federal Court Rules That AU Lawsuit On Birth Control Access At Notre Dame May Go Forward

Jerry Falwell Jr. Proposes Breaking Up Virginia To Avoid Rule Of Democrats

Fla. Voucher Plan Steers Tax Aid To Anti-LGBTQ Schools, Newspaper Reports

Religious Right Groups Claim To Be Churches To Avoid IRS Reporting Requirements

Tenn. Governor Signs Discriminatory Foster Care Bill

Court Strikes Convictions For Ariz. Activists

Seeking Unity In Divided Times
The Importance of Fact-Checking Debates - Between the Scenes | The Daily Show

Trump Floats $700 Billion Payroll Tax Cut Decried as Stealth Attack on Social Security

Trump says he's 'strongly considering' a 'full pardon' for Michael Flynn: It was unclear what specifically provoked Trump's Twitter message on Flynn Sunday.

Democrats, You Do NOT Want To Nominate Joe Biden

LIVE CHAT: Watch the 11th #DemDebate With ‘The Nation’.  Our debate commentators are back again, analyzing and riffing on tonight’s primary debate.

How Does Bernie Pay for His Major Plans?

Health Care as a Human Right - Medicare For All

The Green New Deal

Right of revolution

Biden SPEECHLESS After Bernie Attack

Bernie Bros warn of ‘massive exodus’ if Democrats nominate Joe Biden

Biden v. Sanders Is Really About Transactions v. Revolution

How Lindsey Graham Could Lose in 2020: South Carolina’s Trump-loving senator draws national heat—and a worthy opponent, for once.

Why did the Justice Department drop its prosecution of 2 firms linked to a Putin associate?  Democrats and former intel officials are skeptical of the DOJ's decision to drop a prosecution of Russian firms accused of meddling in the 2016 election.

After This, Voters Will Take Their Responsibility Seriously

Mueller Report: Trump administration looks to drop charges against two Russian firms 'exploiting case' to obtain sensitive information.  Prosecutors say continuing case represents threat to national security

Justice Department Abandons Prosecution of Russian Firm Indicted in Mueller Election Interference Probe

Let's talk about the Earn It Act....

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard drops out of the Democratic presidential primary, endorses Joe Biden

Bernie’s Strategy To Win California—And Everywhere: Sanders is taking a risk no one has before: banking on new voters

"Blue No Matter Who" is NOT "Vote Biden Over Trump"

End the GOP: In order to save our democracy, we must not merely defeat the Republican Party.

Finding Neverland: The American right’s doomed quest to rid itself of Trumpism

Hate Is on the Ballot: The hidden dynamic that’s transformed our politics—and will loom large in the 2020 election

Faith Militant: How today’s religious right functions as a shadow political party

The Troubling Obsession With Political “Tribalism”: Lazy pundits are employing a racially loaded concept that does nothing to explain the deep divisions in America.

A World to Win: How millennial socialists make the case for a kinder politics

How Powerful Is This Right-Wing Shadow Network?  A new book traces the workings of the Council for National Policy. But how much influence does the organization really wield?

Turning Left at Darwin: In search of civic evolution

‘The Nation’ Endorses Bernie Sanders and His Movement: We are proud to endorse Sanders, a democratic socialist with a program both realistic and radical enough to meet the challenges of our time.

‘This Was a Grift’: Bloomberg Staffers Explain His Campaign’s Demise: When Elizabeth Warren embarrassed Bloomberg on the debate stage, his lackluster campaign was effectively over.

The Judiciary Still Hasn’t Reckoned With Its #MeToo Problem: Thanks to their immense power, federal judges have a license to harass—and no one is trying to stop them.

Trump’s damage is already done

The Political Media’s Blurred Reality: How market pressures and professional hubris have undone campaign journalism

The Caged Ballot: Why the GOP is poised to create large-scale voting chaos this year

The Democrats’ Cult of Pragmatism: Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other moderates claim they Get Things Done—but not because they actually do get things done.
How the Media Created the “Moderate” Susan Collins: The Maine senator was never an independent force in Washington, but reporters concocted that myth to justify their phony narratives.

“Folks”: The perpetual quest to win over real, unpretentious American folks

Seeing No Evil: The peril of gender-blind consensus thinking

The Imitation Game: The subtlest way to undermine democracy is to fake it.

Supremely Divided: How the Republican Party took over the Supreme Court

Hillary Clinton’s Neverending Story: Can Hulu’s new documentary ever set the record straight?

An Open Letter to Bernie and His Team

Biden Rises Back to Life

Push, Push, Push: How Movements Succeed.  Push on we must, for it's the only way We the People have ever made progress toward the democratic society we seek

Letters to the Editor: Sanders Socialism is Mainstream; Dems Aren’t Socialists; Republican Senate Has Unleashed Trump; Once Again, We’re Getting Trickled On; We Need Regional Presidential Primaries; Trump No Caretaker of Environment; Republicans Pay No Price for Wrongdoing; Say It Ain’t So, Ted!; Trump Hypocrisy; and Mind Over Madder.

Dispatches: YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHOSE PEOPLE WERE MESSING WITH ELECTIONS IN FLORIDA

Some are Just Cons, Others are Dangerous to Democracy

For Sanders, party rules are fine. Until they're not

Is Obama Shadow-Presidenting on Social Media?

Uncle Joe is on Top, and That’s No Malarkey

Bloomberg’s Campaign Threatens to Turn Our Elections Into an Auction: In our broken campaign finance system, the barrier to running for office keeps getting higher.

Apathy in Texas

Searching for the Great Moderate

The Real Losers on Super Tuesday: Urgent Climate Action, Medicare for All, Anti-Plutocracy

What A Sane Government Would Do

Alice Paul's spirit lights the House

American Fuhrer—Corrupt Rampage Against Americans

Don’t Worry, Centrists. Bernie Isn’t Radical.

A Not-So-Super Tuesday

Bloomberg’s problem is he spent too little

Psychoanalyst explains the bizarre and dangerous reason Trump lacks ‘the ability to cope with’ reality

Trump ‘is destroying the government’: Former Reagan aide says Republicans are hypocrites on the stimulus

‘Looting of America by big corporations’: Progressives criticial as Senate unanimously passes largest bailout bill in US history

Dethroning Moscow Mitch is up to these 10 Democrats running for Senate. Here’s how you can help them.

Stop letting senators play the stock market: When those privy to inside information are making a killing, it's time for some real “sanitizing.”

New disclosure reveals Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her husband dumped retail stock and bought shares in a company that manufacturers medical supplies

Sen. David Perdue Bought PPE Stock Same Day as Senate COVID-19 Briefing

Trump deceives while lawmakers cash out. It’s the ‘Story of Life.’

Bernie campaign work is growing DSA chapters: More than 70 chapters have launched active DSA for Bernie campaigns.

We must intensify existing democracy: A conversation with Louisville DSA member Robert LeVertis Bell.  Robert LeVertis Bell is a public school teacher and DSA member who’s running for Metro Council in Louisville, Kentucky.

National Political Committee (NPC) Report: Elected at the convention, the National Political Committee (NPC) is DSA’s leadership body.

CHAPTER AND VERSE: Some of the most interesting and impactful work DSA’s local chapters are doing.

We own the future: We Own the Future—a new book edited by Kate Aronoff, Peter Dreier, and Michael Kazin—reminds us why socialists not only dream but do.

Dear Leader Trump Proposes ‘Forcing’ the Press to Reveal Sources

Jim Hightower: What Does Small Government Buy Us?

How Weird Is the Democratic Party Establishment?

Pastors as Politicians

Vote Your Heart

Gene Lyons: The Emperor is naked!

The Establishment Fights Back Against Bernie Sanders

Bold agenda of change vital to defeating Trump

Back to Politics as Usual

Trump Fails, Biden Steps Up

Joe Biden: Pro and Con

In Nightmare Scenario for Liberals, Former Brett Kavanaugh Clerk Is Next in Line for Crucial Judicial Nomination

Florida man Matt Gaetz says the Democratic Party wants vote by mail so Joe Biden can win

Review: Christian nationalism's insidious hold on America is not an overnight phenomenon

Power Struggle: The Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the "Imperial Presidency"

Let's talk about unfinished dreams and MLK....

Trump Is Preparing the Ground for a Totalitarian Dictatorship

Conservative Columnist Max Boot Looks At History, Concludes Trump Is Worst President Ever: “Trump cannot escape the pitiless judgment of history,” writes Max Boot.

How to Win in Wisconsin: Democrats have a shot to win the state in the November presidential election, but the 2020 strategy has to speak directly to Wisconsinites’ needs.

Nancy Pelosi named recipient of Profile in Courage Award

Wisconsin primary election

We Can't Rely on the Supreme Court to Guard the 2020 Election: Wisconsin’s debacle shows states would do well to resolve their own voting disputes.

Bernie Sanders drops out of presidential race, saying he concluded his path to victory was 'virtually impossible

Bernie Sanders is dropping out of 2020 Democratic race for president 

McGrath outpaces McConnell in fundraising for Kentucky race: Democrat Amy McGrath raised substantially more campaign cash than Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the first three months of 2020

Trump's unfettered attacks on accountability are a life-and-death crisis for democracy: The government is failing us, safeguards that took two centuries to build have crumbled, and authoritarianism is eyeing this republic like lunch.

Trump falls on face when asked by Jim Acosta for proof of mail-in ballot fraud

In Wisconsin, missing absentees spur questions and anger

Let's talk about the news reusing footage....

Why It’s Going to Be Much Harder for Neoliberals to Prevent Government Spending

Republicans Need to Take Responsibility for Their Actions…and So Do Democrats

Will Trump’s GOP Finally Kill American Democracy?

Progressives Decide: Dignity and Freedom, or Voting for Biden

Bernie’s Decision: Retreat Should Not Be Confused with Surrender

The Supreme Court Is Poised to Extend Gun Rights at the Worst Possible Time

The Failure of the American Political Class System

Absentee Ballot Rules

Trump’s attack on vote-by-mail is an attack on democracy

Bipartisan Senate group gives Trump till Monday to better explain inspector-general firing

How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief: The Senate Majority Leader’s refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.

 “Courage Never Quits”? The Price of Power and West Point’s Class of 1986

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