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Bill Barr Says Trump Will Focus Purely On Revenge If He Goes Back To Washington - Aug 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbkeHP9mk1A

 

Letters from an American - August 22, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-22-2022

 

Letters from an American - August 23, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-2022

 

Letters from an American - August 24, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-24-2022

 

Letters from an American - August 25, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-2022

 

Letters from an American - August 26, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-26-2022

 

Letters from an American - August 27, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-27-2022

 

Letters from an American - August 28, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-28-2022

 

Letters from an American - August 29, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-29-2022

 

Letters from an American - August 30, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-30-2022

 

Letters from an American - August 31, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-31-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 1, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-1-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 2, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-2-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 3, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-3-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 4, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-4-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 5, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-5-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 6, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-6-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 7, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-7-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 8, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-8-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 9, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-9-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 10, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-10-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 11, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-11-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 12, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-12-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 13, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-13-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 14, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-14-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 15, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-15-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 16, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-16-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 17, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-17-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 18, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-18-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 19, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-19-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 20, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-20-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 21, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-21-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 22, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-22-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 23, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-23-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 24, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-24-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 25, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-25-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 26, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-26-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 27, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-27-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 28, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-28-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 29, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-29-2022

 

Letters from an American – September 30, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-30-2022

 

Letters from an American – October 1, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-1-2022

 

Letters from an American – October 2, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-2-2022

 

Letters from an American – October 3, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-3-2022

 

Letters from an American – October 4, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-4-2022

 

Letters from an American – October 5, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-5-2022

 

Letters from an American – October 6, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-6-2022

 

Letters from an American – October 7, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-7-2022

 

Letters from an American – October 8, 2022

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-8-2022

 

Let's talk about Trump begging McConnell for help.... - Aug 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU8djnLlx_M

 

Let's talk about Trump's memoir defense.... - Aug 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaRcIdS4eQ0

 

Let's talk about talking points that are destroying families.... - Aug 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPFF-RPyM7Y

 

Let's talk about if Trump did declassify the documents.... - Aug 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQrlJUHnzII

 

Let's talk about the newly-released NARA letter to Trump.... - Aug 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc0b7OVeQD0

 

Let's talk about a cop, a guilty plea, and Breonna Taylor.... - Aug 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTBOJ1Swoxs

 

Let's talk about sewer surveillance.... - Aug 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp4Mi8EDzRw

 

Let's talk about Republicans becoming Democrats in Colorado.... - Aug 24, 2022 10 hrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihnhq7oVER8

 

Let's talk about 6 months in Ukraine.... - Aug 24, 2022 4 hrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6nu-9WyVYU

 

Let's talk about the Klamath River and foreshadowing.... - Aug 24, 2022 3 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1qo0pTbWpU

 

Let's talk about some weird legislation.... - Aug 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj7IcScwQvs

 

Let's talk about why state-wide elections are different.... - Aug 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTLmeJ4UtWs

 

Let's talk about hunger stones and more.... - Aug 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adUmAUFMzOY

 

Let's talk about Biden's student debt relief policy.... - Aug 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNhGoVucluE

 

Let's talk about a surprising internet development for Trump.... - Aug 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmADwjSogjI

 

Let's talk about Biden's CHIPs executive order.... - Aug 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S6zKgNQckY

 

Let's talk about Trump's unsealed affidavit.... - Aug 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCm9-DilILA

 

Let's talk about Ukraine, Russia, and DOD naming it.... - Aug 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FywxSyMG294

 

Let's talk about Trump demanding McConnell be replaced.... - Aug 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2K5BdfakF4

 

Let's talk about a term Biden used.... - Aug 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mCee-jXmzY

 

Let's talk about access to higher education.... - Aug 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2NDt1yJzDk

 

Let's talk about the Florida governor's race.... - Aug 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcNduOXZ_9g

 

Let's talk about Trump's viability in 2024.... - Aug 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmFUiw5mLvc

 

Let's talk about a story out of Tennessee.... - Aug 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgomADVb-9E

 

Let's talk about the predictions about Trump's indictment.... - Aug 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7y6Z-_Bug

 

Let's talk about Trump and witch hunts.... - Aug 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGurLYv7-FY

 

Let's talk about Georgia, Kemp, and a delay.... - Aug 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E418mc3TUsM

 

Secret Service official at center of Jan. 6 hearing departs agency

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3620199-secret-service-agent-tony-ornato-who-reported-trump-was-irate-on-jan-6-leaves-agency-reports/

 

Let's talk about Trump's request for a Special Master.... - Aug 30, 2022 2 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyZgwX9qtB4

 

Let's talk about former Secret Service agent Tony Ornato.... - Aug 30, 2022 10 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3cQuDb0MX4

 

Let's talk about Trump's legal fees, Truth social, and dumpster fire.... - Aug 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q62KWzaXS-g

 

Let's talk about Trump, the DOJ response, and photos.... - Aug 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODEsDBxgML0

 

Let's talk about the explanation from Trump America deserves.... - Aug 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDyqvJlOOYM

 

Let's talk about how Biden isn't done with loan forgiveness.... - Aug 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79NWEnEpy08

 

Let's talk about Ted Cruz, education, slackers, and risk.... - Sep 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpd0AnyK4N0

 

Let's talk about the Jan 6 hearings restarting.... - Sep 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgR1yuUCQ8Q

 

Let's talk about Greenland's ice and sea levels.... - Sep 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuC8uGtrq9s

 

Let's talk about Biden ending hunger.... - Sep 2, 2022 11 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kde3fY3il4E

 

Let's talk about NASA crashing a spacecraft.... - Sep 2, 2022 4 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAenSVO3E8Y

 

Let's talk about Karla Hernández-Mats, Crist's running mate.... - Sep 2, 2022 9 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOprnHGbrjo

 

Let's talk about a Bossier City cop.... - Sep 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCSj-oqU9q8

 

Let's talk about preparing for the next 2 months.... - Sep 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAmOn63QjoE

 

Let's talk about the loneliest man on Earth.... - Sep 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHAoHK4C_2s

 

Let's talk about climate refugees in the US today.... - Sep 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orkoucmkteY

 

Let's talk about the US military running low.... - Sep 4, 2022 5 hrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX4PzAxYtiw

 

Let's talk about the prisoner's dilemma of Trump and the GOP.... - Sep 4, 2022 1 hr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s43npzuSeKQ

 

Let's talk about Labor Day's origins.... - Sep 5, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxt6oOZyBgI

 

Let's talk about Trump getting his special master.... - Sep 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2OaxDJd2g

 

Let's talk about the other Las Vegas.... - Sep 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLX3Y8ICLls

 

Let's talk about CNN.... - Sep 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctR1QJsCqFM

 

Let's talk about Cara Mund and North Dakota.... - Sep 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIC9kjKN8-c

 

Let's talk about New Mexico, Jan 6, and the 14th Amendment.... Sep 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQJbU9frJ-4

 

Let's talk about Trump's nuclear documents.... - Sep 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Usf39ngps

 

Let's talk about 370 cops, 100 active duty, and 80 politicians.... - Sep 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwp-TeJOPSI

 

Let's talk about the GOP's paper plots.... - Sep 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE6pGS3ZgfI

 

Let's talk about Bannon, New York, and developments.... - Sep 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAj9uMnejrM

 

Let's talk about Memphis and how it can change.... - Sep 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTXgX23RmnE

 

Let's talk about a Michigan ruling and a Republican choice.... - Sep 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt4vJPW8EvY

 

Let's talk about how Trump might have more documents.... - Sep 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1R-FWdEnz0

 

Let's talk about midterm polling errors.... - Sep 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Jyp6wVbU4

 

Let's talk about North Korea supplying Russia.... - Sep 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5VjUyt_980

 

Let's talk about Trump and RINOs.... - Sep 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXhSvSCuYZk

 

Let's talk about the GOP plan for student debt.... - Sep 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcF9pI-snG8

 

Let's talk about security, Trump, and a talking point.... - Sep 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZWutbGcaXY

 

Let's talk about California's cautionary tale.... - Sep 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWyjjVBvjH0

 

Let's talk about midterm strategy and marriage equality.... - Sep 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtHCrfShCx8

 

Let's talk about UPS and labor.... - Sep 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPTz_YTfcu8

 

Let's talk about numbers to give the GOP chills.... - Sep 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-9zfxxWdLk

 

Let's talk about Ukraine and expectations.... - Sep 12, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE1-8OWbI-U

 

Let's talk about the Little Mermaid and relatability.... - Sep 12, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubE-arwpjk0

 

Let's talk about DOJ looking into Trump's fundraising.... - Sep 12, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPT19CkDtdU

 

Let's talk about all those subpoenas about Trump.... - Sep 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG6Wi2vsrPs

 

Let's talk about Putin and a Swan Lake moment.... - Sep 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erA9c0mQ_Ik

 

Let's talk about the hearing, ethics, and Mudge.... - Sep 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPL093zXv5k

 

Let's talk about Graham's proposed ban.... - Sep 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe4IpI3ysrI

 

Let's talk about Michigan, Trump, and how it used to be.... - Sep 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsJjESPXixI

 

Let's talk about The Pillow Guy's phone.... - Sep 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG2nt1Cb3Bs

 

Let's talk about a possible railroad strike.... - Sep 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k4JiwK7q0s

 

Let's talk about Red Wolf Week.... - Sep 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA52nYtzLCk

 

Let's talk about Biden and the railroad strike.... - Sep 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0LavDRrIAI

 

Let's talk about what Trump said about possible indictment.... - Sep 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBvBT-Catk

 

Let's talk about the new bail law in Illinois.... - Sep 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf2r5OFTJpY

 

Let's talk about Meadows complying.... - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pODbCwsRGM8

 

Let's talk about the GOP needing more time for marriage equality.... - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yDVBtXf0bE

 

Let's talk about Trump's options and choices for leadership.... - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1523D8Sdkk

 

Let's talk about red state statistics.... - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NipiCyojaGk

 

Let's talk about who advised Trump's lawyer.... - Sep 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX6ZFYirs3s

 

Let's talk about who gets to pick Georgia's next gov.... - Sep 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpvIX_aiGIs

 

Let's talk about Wounded Knee changing hands.... - Sep 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqfNoUiLI50

 

Let's talk about what we can learn from Arkansas.... - Sep 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwOmGSWelG0

 

Let's talk about the next set of hearings.... - Sep 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b90lolwFBMQ

 

Let's talk about credit cards, codes, and guns.... - Sep 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UjP2KlEpWE

 

Let's talk about Hurricane Fiona and Puerto Rico.... - Sep 19, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USr_FZdZjm4

 

Let's talk about an update on Trump's special master.... - Sep 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1gmB3-OoUY

 

Let's talk about a stark warning from an Arizona republican.... Sep 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5g2L2pw49M

 

Let's talk about Trump getting exactly what he asked for.... - Sep 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HMuLRhxDdE

 

Let's talk about US information operations being audited.... - Sep 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT9cBOuaAsI

 

Let's talk about Trump, Dearie, and buyer's remorse.... - Sep 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO4BiM0S4xk

 

Let's talk about what Russia's referendum means in Ukraine.... - Sep 21, 2022 10 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIA1o_9KslI

 

Let's talk about Trump, New York, and $250 million.... - Sep 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctAJVubDoso

 

Let's talk about Russia, mobilization, reservists, and plane tickets.... - Sep 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rz9UFjcqjk

 

Let's talk about Trump, the 11th Circuit, and documents.... - Sep 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkikDVVL_pw

 

Let's talk about the DISCLOSE Act.... - Sep 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNjeW4XmNc

 

Let's talk about how Game of Thrones can change the world.... - Sep 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lg9QVjU6tE

 

Let's talk about a Philadelphia cop, Time, Distance, and Cover.... - Sep 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fo-ELYK2Pg

 

Let's talk about the Electoral Count Act of 1887 being clarified.... - Sep 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3h_oieEzV4

 

Let's talk about Trump by the numbers.... - Sep 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVnyDa_OoyY

 

Let's talk about whether the Democratic Party's tactic worked.... - Sep 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuWTZ17kH-I

 

Let's talk about 60% of Miami and the future.... - Sep 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl__MoKgnvw

 

Let's talk about understanding the other side.... - Sep 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCA0a4tygfM

 

Let's talk about The Democratic party's small donors.... - Sep 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L6zS1zuAhc

 

Let's talk about cops, cell phones, and foreign policy.... - Sep 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIL18lKQ-8o

 

Let's talk about good news on Climate and why we got it.... - Sep 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ09IhD3hIk

 

Let's talk about today in space.... - Sep 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yOtFEORC0I

 

Let's talk about the call coming from inside the White House.... - Sep 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqqTjan9Ses

 

Let's talk about women's rights, republicans, polls, and reality.... - Sep 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbrNh5s3DoQ

 

Let's talk about Texas and Paxton out for a little run.... - Sep 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqd3go5tPc4

 

Let's talk about a Cuban referendum and party and policy.... - Sep 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYTOR5XmlJU

Let's talk about students in Virginia.... - Sep 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnH0LaXwmpA

 

Let's talk about Putin, Russia, and mobilization.... - Sep 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZu4q6Cwg2c

 

Let's talk about who hit Nordstream.... - Sep 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T49_4Z1L3-4

 

Let's talk about a Trump legal team shakeup.... - Sep 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXEZTWc4Sc4

 

Let's talk about Hurricane Ian and helping from where you are.... - Sep 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFs0xPo9lQQ

 

Let's talk about the Senate's Electoral Count Act bill.... - Sep 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqsgVUh1q_0

 

Let's talk about a philosophical look at drafts.... - Sep 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0SrTA4SDb4

 

Let's talk about Ian and being overtaken by events.... - Sep 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS9bPiswYQ8

 

Let's talk about midterm races to watch for a civics teacher.... - Sep 30, 2022 14 hrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fJSrS8TaHY

 

Let's talk about the GOP's grand midterm student debt strategy.... - Sep 30, 2022 8 hrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GkFnZBN-sQ

 

Let's talk about the Cherokee and the Treaty of New Echota.... - Sep 30, 2022 3 hrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucz9cPD9V0s

 

Let's talk about being polite after public figures cease to be.... - Oct 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHGAtDPpMTU

 

Let's talk about teachers, Russians, and supplies.... - Oct 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOxSJp-Sg2w

 

Let's talk about what we can learn from Jan 6 defendants.... - Oct 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UVBPKlxjps

 

Let's talk about Psychology and Alameda, California.... - Oct 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBJgoziUBzU

 

Let's talk about ignorance vs racism.... - Oct 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t46xbJmOzKQ

 

Let's talk about hope and lessons learned from Hurricane Ian.... - Oct 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6y4svQTXXg

 

Let's talk about Trump suing CNN by the numbers.... - Oct 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e45fiyXNRvo

 

Let's talk about gas prices going back up and OPEC.... - Oct 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxmHW_bTChY

 

Let's talk about doing disaster relief wrong.... - Oct 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-77kjfjCJsA

 

Let's talk about Trump's emergency request of the Supreme Court.... - Oct 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dvUczldoL0

 

Let's talk about Velma, Scooby, and one out of five.... - Oct 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzyOlV2mbyA

Let's talk about Trump packing the boxes himself.... - Oct 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JurReaV2w9E

 

Let's talk about Georgia and the Herschel Walker situation.... - Oct 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWeHkyK8FJY

 

Let's talk about Russia falling back.... - Oct 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4QDOzQpyK8

 

Let's talk about Trump and his lawyers making fun of him.... - Oct 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxzV85ED86M

 

Let's talk about what a Polk County incident can tell us about teachers.... - Oct 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCRBwh-7n3M

 

Let's talk about Putin's mobilization efforts.... - Oct 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAsFAeC9oro

 

Let's talk about the possibility of Putin using a tactical.... - Oct 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5DBJAbmDTM

 

Let's talk about Nevada's Trump-endorsed candidate.... - Oct 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApyZAJ3hSDQ

 

Let's talk about spears and relief logistics.... - Oct 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU2KJij5lmM

 

Let's talk about a question about Finland and Russia.... - Oct 7, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWyEvOrCi_8

 

Let's talk about a new parenting approach.... - Oct 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvM3jUf00Q4

 

Let's talk about a bridge not too far.... - Oct 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC213TG_BHU

 

Let's talk about the next 3rd ranked military.... - Oct 8, 2022 11 hrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ1vKbaA9wc

 

Let's talk about Biden's pardons and student debt.... - Oct 8, 2022 7 hrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eu9_nFXbn4

 

Lindsey Graham is running out of rope & likely will soon find himself in the GA grand jury hot seat - Aug 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S57KqoNtqnU

 

Donald Trump's personal handling of stolen classified documents increases odds he will be prosecuted - Aug 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq1huluRnfY

 

Trump files nonsensical brief attacking DOJ/Mar-a-Lago search warrant; Judge tells him to try again -Aug 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6mtoYMdoEU

 

Newly unreacted DOJ memo reinforces Bill Barr's coverup of Trump's obstruction of justice crimes - Aug 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eek2fKdEB2E

 

Georgia DA Fani Willis moves through Trump lackeys: Giuliani, Graham, Kemp and Meadows - Aug 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlGCxANVtI8

 

Compare: how DOJ is handling Trump's classified documents crimes w/how DOJ handled another such case - Aug 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxQYukZ1SPY

 

Trump-appointed-judge Aileen Cannon grants Trump's demand for special master BEFORE DOJ weighs in - Aug 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7eH9qprhbQ

 

Trump's demand for Special Master moot? DOJ already reviewed the evidence of crime seized from Trump - Aug 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmIIY9kmXZ4

 

Lindsey Graham says there will be riots if DOJ charges Donald Trump for his crimes - Aug 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV5536rVB4o

 

Prosecutor's court filing reveals that Trump unlawfully concealed classified docs in his desk drawer - Aug 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5SxO08wE_c

 

Lindsey Graham loses in court (again) in desperate attempt to avoid testifying about Trump's crimes - Sep 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xd_HS7v9ys

 

FBI found 43 EMPTY classified documents folders in Donald Trump's office at Mar-a-Lago - Sep 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oEugChbHhM

 

Glenn Kirschner: Trump’s Making New Threats. Graham Loses Again. Newt is the Wart that Won’t Go Away - Sep 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSYHotPBteA

 

With Top Secret documents found at, & classified documents missing from, Mar-a-Lago, DOJ must act - Sep 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sjpVVE-hKE

 

Aug 2022 legal recap: from Trump's J6 crimes to his stolen documents compromising national security - Sep 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbcKCphPqBs

 

Judge Cannon's unjustified special master ruling; Barron's bedroom; and DOJ's continued inaction - Sep 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDZvW7MQoHc

 

As he awaits sentencing in one case, Bannon is indicted in another; Donald Trump's nuclear meltdown - Sep 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTVdeXOr5V8

 

Bannon indicted again; DOJ appeals "special master" ruling; former US Attorney exposes Trump & Barr - Sep 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n_GylyUNVk

 

DOJ appeals Judge Cannon's ruling in Trump's theft of classified documents case - Sep 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLlwdv5-GOE

 

New criminal investigation: this one of Trump's Save America PAC. Yet still no indictments - Sep 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8MnZ1_irbE

 

DOJ subpoenas Trump henchman Stephen Miller. Is he a target of the grand jury investigation? - Sep 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmGP00AvIPg

 

Glenn Kirschner: No Law Supports What Trump Wants to Do... Stop the Criminal Probe on His Crimes. - Sep 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyUgezVGjvo

 

Trump's lawyers file brief w/Judge Cannon that includes declassification "sleight of hand" - Sep 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjpHZOJEBT4

 

Bill Barr's abject corruption; 40 subpoenas & 2 seized cell phones; & Trump's special master pick - Sep 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih33jRbtIT0

 

DOJ exposes Trump's declassification BS, tells Judge Cannon they'll seek appellate court reversal - Sep 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U7tlzJyDiU

 

Georgia DA Willis says prison likely for election criminals; Meadows is subpoenaed by DOJ/grand jury

114,709 viewsSep 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuOrJornnLE

 

Glenn Kirschner On Trump Investigations | Zerlina. - Sep 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSU9RB_dDSg

 

Glenn Kirschner: One H&ll of a Justice Roller Coaster! Trump's Judge Repeats his BS Talking Points. - Premiered Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2qkaGGQfGk

 

DOJ appeals Judge Cannon's ruling that FBI may not investigate Trump's classified documents crimes - Sep 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO-T_LTMEgk

 

Trump's new $3 million criminal defense attorney paid for by his Save America PAC/his supporters. - Sep 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUZVucERjjM

 

NYT: A short review of the 6 top investigations into Donald Trump; indictments likely are coming - Sep 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_eLecaN_Uk

 

Special Master Judge Dearie puts Trump's lawyers in their place; wants answers on declassification - Sep 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9wp6iw3elo

 

NY AG Leticia James sues Trump, Don Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump & others in massive fraud case - Sep 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA6YeH5TbCY

 

Appeals court reverses Judge Cannon's ruling, FBI investigation of Trump/classified docs can resume - Sep 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCOOvbhsOI

 

Where is Sidney Powell? Gaetz skates? Judge Dearie tells Trump's attorneys to put up or shut up - Sep 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tohW-NoOMDE

 

Trump's secret grand jury litigation to stop aides from incriminating him & why it won't work - Sep 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvAn9zV243A

 

NY judge tells Rudy Giuliani to pay up or get locked up; Ginni Thomas to testify to J6 committee - Sep 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh9sUljfO_8

 

Mark Meadows is AGAIN subpoenaed to testify about Donald Trump's crimes. Will he show up this time? - Sep 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRXU-LkjkDE

 

Judge Amy Berman Jackson calls out Trump/GOP, highlighting need for accountability for their crimes - Sep 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d20sUpoY0oI

 

Stewart Rhodes/Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial kicks off in DC. Here's what to expect. - Sep 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzncTZB8WDQ

 

Judge Cannon continues catering to Trump, shoots down Judge Dearie's request for info from Trump - Sep 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CTSQYMxuFQ

 

Ginni Thomas lies to the Jan.6 committee, claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen - Sep 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIioav0d-uk

 

Sept. Legal recap: from EMPTY classified doc folders to Judge Cannon's biased/unsupportable rulings - Oct 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zavmrbvpvvs

 

Women rise up in Iran, fighting governmental oppression. Their struggle is our struggle. - Oct 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwQW35OhmCU

 

Day 1 of Oath Keepers Trial: prosecutors lay out a strong case for seditious conspiracy - Oct 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PWg2KI64E8

 

Trump asks his lawyer to lie about documents AND Trump asks Supreme Court/Clarence Thomas for help - Oct 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bkhCi1R1cU

 

Trump's dangerous post about Mitch McConnell & his wife, and what it says about the Republican party - Oct 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7IGpC0OChU

 

Three former Oath Keepers/military veterans testified at trial today. Here's why it left me hopeful - Oct 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtz9dY3IS_U

 

Trump STILL unlawfully concealing classified documents. DOJ must act to preserve the rule of law - Oct 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT8JJS1xTok

 

Trumps tries to swap stolen documents for info he wants; FBI investigates Trump Tower and Bedminster - Oct 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFKgXjwL_JM

 

The Bitter Manhattan Primary That Will End One House Democrat’s Career: In New York’s redrawn 12th district, longtime allies Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler have become fierce enemies trying to remain in power—and fight off a young upstart looking to defeat them both.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167487/nadler-maloney-patel-midterms-2022

 

‘Rubio Is Scared. Val Demings Is Dream Candidate For The Democrats’ Florida Pollster Says - Aug 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dF8Mop7DRY

 

New conservative group got $1.6 billion from single donor - Aug 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0y08WrUGoI

 

Republican INCRIMINATES himself with dumbest response possible - Aug 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOlRdkIIfRg

 

DOJ issues new subpoena for more January 6 documents - Aug 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3K1Ndk_esk

 

Forget FDR. Biden Is a Major President in His Own Right.  The president and media set far too lofty expectations last year that have dragged down his poll numbers among Democrats and distracted from all that he’s accomplished.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167474/joe-biden-fdr-polls-inflation-reduction-act

 

The Right-Wing Christian Sect Plotting a Political Takeover: The New Apostolic Reformation doesn’t always admit its own existence, but it’s growing in influence in the Republican Party.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167499/new-apostolic-reformation-mastriano-christian

 

PA Department of State Voting & Election Statistics

https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/VotingElectionStatistics/Pages/VotingElectionStatistics.aspx

 

Trump Had More Than 300 Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago: The National Archives found more than 150 sensitive documents when it got a first batch of material from the former president in January, helping to explain the Justice Department’s urgent response. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-documents.html

 

How to Deal With Difficult Conversations, According to Adam Grant

https://katiecouric.com/culture/how-to-have-difficult-conversations-adam-grant

 

What Did The FBI Want in Mar-a-Lago?

https://katiecouric.com/news/what-did-the-fbi-want-in-mar-a-lago/

 

The Idea That Letting Trump Walk Will Heal America Is Ridiculous

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/opinion/trump-mar-a-lago-indictment.html

 

Judge warns redactions in Trump warrant affidavit could render it ‘meaningless’

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3610878-judge-warns-redactions-in-trump-warrant-affidavit-could-render-it-meaningless/

 

Liz Cheney’s Presidential Campaign Will Fail: Even if by some miracle she plays spoiler in 2024, she doesn’t have a strong enough vision to create and sustain a post-Trump Republican Party.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167502/liz-cheney-presidential-campaign-2024

 

CBS News projects Charlie Crist wins Democratic nomination for governor - Aug 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jw5DdKQnes

 

Tapper: Republicans take credit for bills they opposed - Aug 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfEtxu0xE2w

 

Last Week in the Republican Party, August 23, 2022 - Aug 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJNBdE6NC64

 

O'Rourke: Abbott Is ‘More Beholden To NRA, Gun Manufacturers’ Than Those He Is Meant To Serve - Aug 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGh-POQneGk

 

Meet the Man Fighting to Keep Arizona Honest in 2024: Mark Finchem, the extremist Republican candidate for Arizona secretary of state, gets tons of press. It’s time to get to know Democrat Adrian Fontes.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167513/adrian-fontes-arizona-democrat-secretary-state

 

Andrew Weissman: New Unredacted Memo From Trump DOJ Officials Is ‘A Doozy’ - Aug 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpGi5PBTcJ8

 

Democratic Party Contributors 2022 cycle

https://www.opensecrets.org/parties/contrib.php?cycle=2022&cmte=DPC

 

Republican Party Contributors 2022 cycle

https://www.opensecrets.org/parties/contrib.php?cycle=2022&cmte=RPC

 

We May Never See Another Lifelong Public Servant Like Anthony Fauci: In a distinguished government career spanning more than half a century, he expertly steered America through two devastating pandemics. But given how Republicans have maliciously attacked him, why would anyone want to follow in his footsteps?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167532/anthony-fauci-retires-government-career-public-servant

 

Peace & Planet News

https://peaceandplanetnews.org/

 

Contact Us - The Beatitudes Center for the Nonviolent Jesus

https://beatitudescenter.org/contact-us

 

Daniel Berrigan – Priest, Poet, Prophet, & Peacemaker

https://danielberrigan.org

 

Father John Dear

http://johndear.org/

 

John Dear is a longtime activist, lecturer, and author/editor of 30 books, including The Nonviolent Life, Lazarus Come Forth!, A Persistent Peace, Put Down Your Sword, Transfiguration, You Will Be My Witnesses, Living Peace, The Questions of Jesus and Mohandas Gandhi.

https://www.ncronline.org/authors/john-dear

 

Trump’s Classified Documents and Mar-a-Lago’s Menu | The Problem With Jon Stewart Podcast - Aug 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcm4q9MdhEY

 

WATCH: President Biden calls on Democrats to vote in midterm elections - Aug 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujL4VHyLs6E

 

Real Doctors Against Oz - Aug 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqIkzJmsf5Q

 

Judge orders unsealing of redacted affidavit in Trump search - Aug 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdh854FWn9U

 

DOJ releases a Mueller-era memo to Barr on the decision not to prosecute Trump

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1119322386/memo-barr-trump-mueller-doj

 

Why Trump's Mar-a-Lago defense has stunned so many legal experts

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-trumps-mar-a-lago-defense-has-stunned-so-many-legal-experts/ar-AA116M39?ocid=winp-st%2Cwinp-st

 

The Story Behind Donald’s Bizarre Statement About Republicans Not Voting: The former toddler-in-chief is throwing another temper tantrum, and his party is all too eager to coddle him.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164037/donald-trump-bizarre-midterms-statement-ashli-babbitt

 

Trump Is Drowning in the Mar-a-Lago Scandal: His run-in with the DOJ may not land him in prison, but it has the potential to sap his political power when he needs it the most.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167548/trump-mar-a-lago-scandal

 

Fox host PANICS as his OWN guest accidentally destroys Trump - Aug 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSyh3Dnzu78

 

A Rare Peek Inside the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: The Council for National Policy, a secretive network of powerful conservatives, goes to great lengths to conceal its activities and even its members. But recently uncovered documents reveal the extent of the group’s influence on American politics.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167002/council-national-policy-documents-right-wing-conspiracy

 

The Justice Who Wanted the Supreme Court to Get Out of the Way: Felix Frankfurter warned that politicians, not the courts, should make policy.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167253/justice-wanted-supreme-court-get-way

 

Brian Stelter on How the 2020 Election “Radicalized” Fox News: “The number of Fox staffers who said to me, ‘I miss Roger Ailes’ absolutely astonished me.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/162693/brian-stelter-hoax-fox-news-big-lie

 

With a Single Word, Ted Cruz Gave the Game Away About the Right-Wing Supreme Court: The Texas senator’s recent complaint about the Inflation Reduction Act accidentally told the truth about the court’s war against the administrative state.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167543/ted-cruz-supreme-court-epa-west-virginia-victory

 

Joint fraud investigations will continue, agency official says

https://wichitafallstimes-tx.newsmemory.com/?publink=156346e15_13485bf&fbclid=IwAR21pwTfwrmw9tLR8ZvxW2-QGa5iEvZBHWcTDEuiacs_1_Mg8KvhxKvPioU

 

We Knew the Justice Department Case Was Righteous. This Affidavit Confirms It.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/opinion/redacted-affidavit-trump.html

 

Top Arizona Democrat sounds BOMBSHELL alarm - Aug 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAfNSzRGqZw

 

'This isn't like him': Stephanie Grisham on Trump's scattered messaging - Aug 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6GWDVqlFQA

 

Two of the GOP’s Worst Ghouls Lost Their Primaries: It’s a relief to know that Carl Paladino and Laura Loomer won’t be coming to Congress. But that doesn’t mean the Republican Party’s 2022 slate is a normal one.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167528/two-gops-worst-ghouls-lost-primaries

 

Ted Cruz Says If Texas Secedes, It’s the Democrats’ Fault: The only thing more bizarre than his “Texit” fantasy is his read of the current state of American politics.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164337/ted-cruz-secession-texas-texit

 

Opinion  A $1.6 billion donation lays bare a broken campaign finance system

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/28/leonard-leo-donation-campaign-finance/

 

I don't hear 'Republicans squawking' about billionaires: Sen. Bernie Sanders | ABC News - Aug 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBF7BJqZSY0

 

Republicans on Sunday shows reveal how scared they are about Trump's document scandal

https://www.rawstory.com/republican-sunday-shows-election-fears/

 

It Is Far Too Early to Start Freaking Out About the 2024 Election: Is Biden running? Is Harris ready? The Democratic donor class needs to chill, baby, chill.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167555/democratic-donors-2024-election-biden

 

PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, August 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEE_Hb3d1w

 

Mark Blyth | United States is a PLUTOCRACY - Aug 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3OgkYG4sBg

 

Beto O'Rourke flips LIFELONG Republican in EPIC display - Aug 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSY2PLgzrAY

 

Donald Trump Is Increasingly Cornered, and Yes, This Should Terrify You: While the path to accountability must be pursued, let’s not kid ourselves: Storm and stress await us all.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167558/trump-indictment-classified-documents-judge

 

'Blanks keep getting filled in': What we've learned from Trump's Mar-a-Lago docs - Aug 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgEAbLk8jSI

 

‘The timing is suspect’: US Secret Service assistant director retires - Aug 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxZA75VsFqk

 

LIVE Organize to Win call Monday 8/29/22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFD9zCKcd8c

 

The Sparta Fetish Is a Cultural Cancer: The myth of the mighty warrior-state has enchanted societies for thousands of years. Now it fuels a global fascist movement.

https://newrepublic.com/article/154563/sparta-myth-rise-fascism-trumpism

 

How Pat Ryan’s Fast-Acting Campaign Turned Abortion Rights Into a Winning Message: The New York Democrat was quicker to the punch than most of his party when Roe was overturned. He was rewarded with a come-from-behind victory in a bellwether contest.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167560/pat-ryan-abortion-rights-message

 

Republicans HUMILIATED with brutal mistake over student loan forgiveness - Aug 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD1Lfogwt_4&list=TLPQMjIwODIwMjKxuIfzZAKjEw

 

WATCH LIVE: Biden delivers remarks on ‘Safer America Plan' to reduce gun crime. - Started streaming Aug 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toplF1xr-70

 

It Matters That Joe Biden Used the F-Word: The president made waves when he referred to the Trump-drunk GOP as “semi-fascist.” Republicans have earned it—and more.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167563/biden-semi-fascism-maga-2022

 

Opinion  Trump wants to be treated like Hillary Clinton? By all means.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/30/trump-hillary-clinton-classified-documents-equal-treatment/

 

House conservatives prep plans to impeach Biden

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3620081-house-conservatives-prep-plans-to-impeach-biden/

 

Reintroducing bison to grasslands increases plant diversity, drought resilience, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-reintroducing-bison-grasslands-diversity-drought.html

 

Mark Blyth Predicts Political CATASTROPHE - Aug 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCxvchld-lU

 

Dr. Oz accidentally SINKS himself with DISASTROUS answer on Fetterman's stroke - Aug 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuNz-LUPgZs

 

Justice Dept. alleges "obstructive conduct" occurred at Mar-a-Lago after request for classified documents

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-search-justice-department-filing-classified-documents-obstruction/

 

Fear of Fascism: We’re hesitant to use the word, and for good reason.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/08/fear-of-fascism/671289/

 

Republicans are increasingly sharing misinformation, research finds: Republican candidates have dramatically increased how much they share from unreliable sources in just two years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/29/republicans-democrats-misinformation-falsehoods/

 

Biden to host Barack and Michelle Obama to unveil White House portraits years after Trump snub

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/31/biden-obama-white-house-portrait/7950424001/

 

False claim: Nikita Khrushchev 1959 quote to the United Nations General Assembly

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-khrushchev-1959-quote/false-claim-nikita-khrushchev-1959-quote-to-the-united-nations-general-assembly-idUSKBN22N25D

The Senate is 50/50, Yet America is Not - and This is Democracy?  The ten least populous states have a combined 7.9 million residents but throw equal weight in the senate to the ten representing 164 million Americans. How can we fix this?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-senate-is-5050-yet-america-is?fbclid=IwAR0EMZxxko1VHwRk9O8jo6HcZjNUzUIvtmMM_FRaK9B2qqBYRFlBvme8U0s

The Senate's 50/50 Split Is Not Democracy - Aug 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtwtOZ6bgPc

 

Dr. Oz's Senate hopes dealt FATAL blow with BOMBSHELL revelations - Aug 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=P-55Uvc15W0&feature=emb_logo

 

'Really disturbing': Ex-intel chief reacts to Trump evidence photo - Sep 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0fd9GVTGy4

 

Democrat Mary Peltola defeats Sarah Palin in Alaska special election

https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/democrat-mary-peltola-wins-upset-in-alaska-special-election

 

New Mexico to build $10 mln clinic to meet expected abortion demand

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-mexico-build-10-million-clinic-meet-abortion-demand-2022-08-31/

 

When Will Americans Again Believe in America?  If the Democrats fail in restoring Americans’ faith in the ability of government to solve problems and serve the people, get ready. The next Jackson, Mississippi will be your town.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/when-will-americans-again-believe

Political Parties & Polarization

https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/politics-policy/political-parties-polarization/?fbclid=IwAR02Y9D6s2OPsp489gqcVJCYX6xD4BzmwM8SzCGw4NUWTywjwTspYp0gC_E

 

THE MIRACLE OF ME: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A NOBODY - Prologue

https://medium.com/@daffieduck2016/the-miracle-of-me-714985cc0d04

 

The nation's poorest state used welfare money to pay Brett Favre for speeches he never made: The state auditor says $70 million in federal welfare funds went to Favre, a volleyball complex and a former pro wrestler in a scandal that has rocked Mississippi.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/nations-poorest-state-used-welfare-money-pay-brett-favre-speeches-neve-rcna45871

 

Book banning in U.S. schools has reached an all-time high: What this means, and how we got here.

Grid takes a comprehensive look at culture wars and censorship in America’s public learning spaces.

https://www.grid.news/story/politics/2022/08/27/book-banning-in-us-schools-has-reached-an-all-time-high-what-this-means-and-how-we-got-here/

 

J6 insurrectionists tap into right-wing gullibility about ‘political prisoners’ to enrich themselves

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/29/2119592/-J6-insurrectionists-tap-into-right-wing-gullibility-about-political-prisoners-to-enrich-themselves

 

Watch President Biden address the nation on American democracy - Sep 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK-RT116DXk

 

Remarks by President Biden on the Continued Battle for the Soul of the Nation SEPTEMBER 01, 2022

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/01/remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation/

 

Trump's Lawyer Makes SHOCKING Confession About The Top Secret Documents Trump Had - Sep 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4rKXICg4jE

 

Justice Alito’s Crusade Against a Secular America Isn’t Over: He’s had win after win—including overturning Roe v. Wade—yet seems more and more aggrieved. What drives his anger?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/05/justice-alitos-crusade-against-a-secular-america-isnt-over

 

US court unseals list of seized Mar-a-Lago material

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-court-unseals-list-of-seized-mar-a-lago-material/ar-AA11ouPI

 

Here’s a Crazy Idea: Maybe Donald Trump Isn’t Fit To Run for Reelection: Last month, there was a deluge of hot takes about how Biden needed to bow out of the 2024 race for a range of reasons. Perhaps that standard should be more consistently applied.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167378/trump-unfit-for-election-2024

 

Rick Scott’s Shadow Presidential Campaign Is Frustrating His Fellow Republicans: The head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee seems a lot more focused on getting himself elected in 2024 than he is on helping Mitch McConnell take back the Senate.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167582/rick-scott-shadow-presidential-campaign

 

Elie Mystal On The Mar-a-Lago Document Showdown | Zerlina. - Sep 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3bFtviUbh0

 

‘Every New Fact Makes The Situation Worse’ For Trump: Neal Katyal - Sep 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqKv7q0D2IY

 

Liberal Redneck - Biden, Trump, and Democracy - Sep 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VMzy7Jrrlw

 

The Stupid Myth That Mitt Romney’s Mistreatment Gave Us Trump: Some conservatives argue that the way Democrats pilloried the Utah senator in 2012 pushed the Republican Party toward Trumpism. They should take a long look in the mirror.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167642/mitt-romney-republicans-blame-obama

 

Prof. of International Affairs on Unstable Democracy | JHS Ep. 718 - Sep 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU_gS4iKPgk

 

New Doc Looks At How GOP Leadership Traded Rule Of Law For Political Power - Sep 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl7E6XkCTbE

 

Jill Lepore on Why Biden Is No F.D.R.: The Harvard scholar puts the President’s recent accomplishments in historical context, and discusses the “dangerous necessity” of prosecuting Donald Trump over January 6th.

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/politics-and-more/jill-lepore-on-why-biden-is-no-fdr

 

McCarthy tries and fails to turn democracy argument against Biden: It seems either Kevin McCarthy no longer knows what “democracy” means, or he’s cynically assuming the public isn't smart enough to know the difference.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/mccarthy-tries-fails-turn-democracy-argument-biden-rcna46056

 

The Media Is Not Ready to Defend Democracy: Joe Biden gave a midterm election speech about the GOP’s ongoing threat to democracy, and political reporters just could not cope.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167652/media-biden-speech-democracy-defense

 

Now Is the Time for Democrats to Ban Dark Money From Primaries: Before the party chokes to death on its own corruption. Next week the Democratic National Committee will vote on a crucial resolution to break the hold of wealthy donors and secretive PACs.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-ban-dark-money-primaries/

 

Autocracy and Anti-Abortion Go Hand in Hand: Facing defeat at the ballot box, the anti-choice movement is already gravitating toward antidemocratic solutions.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/abortion-democracy-maga-leonard-leo/

 

Wisconsin conservative activist charged with election fraud after improperly requesting other voters’ absentee ballots

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/wisconsin-election-fraud-absentee-ballots/index.html

 

Labor Day Message from PA State Senator Tartaglione

https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168192.1426.436&gen=1

 

Fact check: Trump’s false and uncorroborated claims in response to the FBI search

https://us.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/fact-check-trump-claims-fbi-search/

 

The political impact of what the FBI found at Mar-a-Lago

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-political-impact-of-what-the-fbi-found-at-mar-a-lago

 

Red flag laws get little use as shootings, gun deaths soar

https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-highland-park-july-4-gun-violence-chicago-politics-5165bbcde8771ebf09e7641674d0de9a

 

PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, September 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RSSYAg3mg0

 

New polling of WA shows what really divides us

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/new-polling-of-wa-shows-what-really-divides-us/

 

Agenda PAC Targets Anti-LGBTQ Politicians Ahead Of The Midterms - Sep 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyDI5k-Lo1k

 

The Most Significant Bill You Don’t Know About, According To U.S. Trade Rep Amb. Katherine Tai - Sep 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_IwZoX5mgE

 

Why Lofgren says Trump’s speech was ‘weird’ - Sep 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ1rTSknOYg

 

Ex-FBI adviser: I'm more concerned going to my home now than when I was chasing ISIS - Sep 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzCLI34ibcE

 

Watch Live: President Biden delivers Labor Day speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin | CBS News - Started streaming Sep 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkMZFx0Pl00

 

Here Are the Possible Outcomes of a Trump Prosecution. They’re All Bad.  Yes, the case against him seems open-and-shut. But he’s wriggled out of these situations all his life. And a successful conviction could lead to civil war.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167625/trump-prosecution-mar-a-lago-justice-department-outcomes-bad

 

The Last Days of Sigmund Freud: Danger surrounded Freud in Nazi-occupied Austria. Why did it take him so long to see it?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167592/sigmund-freud-austria-nazis-last-days

 

Ana Kasparian's Masterclass on How The Left Should Handle Ben Shapiro - Sep 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpLH0jAaREw

 

Economics, Democracy, and Freedom: It’s All One Argument.  For their policies to succeed, Democrats need to tie their economic ideas to the broader ideals all Americans are taught to cherish.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167607/economics-democracy-freedom-democrats-argument

 

Donald Trump May Destroy the GOP Before He Can Wreck Democracy: As the forever-embattled former president hits the campaign trail, Republicans fret that he might end up pumping the brakes on what was supposed to be a runaway victory.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167661/midterm-2022-oz-mastriano-trump

 

Can the Democrats Keep Winning in Georgia?  In this battleground state, Democrats are hoping that Senator Raphael Warnock holds onto his Senate seat and that Stacey Abrams can defeat GOP Governor Brian Kemp in November’s midterms.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167656/stacey-abrams-raphael-warnock-georgia-midterms

 

Protective vs. neglectful

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20220906&instance_id=71182&nl=the-morning&productCode=NN&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=105488&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2Fbc1555dc-f28b-5916-bef4-2c9eddd16340&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

Judge removes lawmaker from office for January 6th participation - Sep 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK_1wcM7388

 

Press Secretary WRECKS Ted Cruz in perfect smackdown - Sep 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ZwcD9dMxg

 

Pro-MAGA D.C. Cop Secretly Worked to Undermine Seth Rich Investigation: A hard-nosed federal prosecutor was determined to figure out who killed the 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer. But someone with access to the case file had a different agenda

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/seth-rich-investigation-trump-police-conspiracy-1234586954/

 

The Christian right’s Faustian bargain: It goes back 42 years.

https://religionnews.com/2022/09/06/the-christian-rights-original-sin/

 

Philadelphia Literacy Day 2022

https://www.treehousebooks.org/philadelphia-literacy-day-1

 

Video fills in details on alleged Ga. election system breach

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-donald-trump-voting-92c0ace71d7bee6151dd33938688371e?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_3

 

Reproductive Rights Today

https://statesnewsroom.salsalabs.org/reproductiverightstoday_090722_1?wvpId=35444be8-8984-4331-8f25-52703c68cda8

 

Barr calls judge's ruling in Trump's Mar-a-Lago case 'deeply flawed' - Sep 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPNjNTzJm-w

 

A Delco Capitol rioter who was turned in by his ex after he called her a ‘moron’ was sentenced to 9 months in prison

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-delco-capitol-rioter-who-was-turned-in-by-his-ex-after-he-called-her-a-moron-was-sentenced-to-9-months-in-prison/ar-AA11xkWP

 

It's Time to Enforce the Constitution & Ban Seditious Republicans from Congress.  It’s time to enforce the Constitution, and a judge in New Mexico just kicked off the process. Democrats need to jump on this with the vigor of Trump crashing a Miss Teen USA dressing room

https://hartmannreport.com/p/its-time-to-enforce-the-constitution?utm_source=email

 

Balanced Journalism Requires Truth-Telling: Balanced journalism doesn't give equal weight to liars and to truth-tellers. It seeks out the truth and exposes lies.

https://www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in-the-united-states/balanced-journalism-requires-truth-telling?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=707634fef3-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-707634fef3-286987487&mc_cid=707634fef3&mc_eid=dd9216c814

 

Will Coming Senate Races Tell the Tale?  What voters decide in November in seven states across our country will help tip toward one or another.

https://www.laprogressive.com/election-reform-campaigns/coming-senate-races?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=707634fef3-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-707634fef3-286987487&mc_cid=707634fef3&mc_eid=dd9216c814

 

What Did Trump Take to Mar-a-Lago and Why?  Did Trump take classified documents to some of his other residences, such as the Trump Tower in New York City?

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/what-did-trump-take-to-mar-a-lago?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=707634fef3-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-707634fef3-286987487&mc_cid=707634fef3&mc_eid=dd9216c814

 

CNN, Politico Want to Give Authoritarianism a Fair Shake: Are these outlets truly ignorant of the threats facing our democracy, or are they looking to profit from its fall?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167667/cnn-politico-licht-dopfner-trump

 

Beyond Hope: What did Barack Obama accomplish? And how much of it will survive in the age of Trump? Five historians and political observers weigh in.

https://newrepublic.com/article/138951/beyond-hope-barack-obama-legacy-age-trump

 

Dominion has a strong case against Fox News. That's bad news for (alleged) liars.  To make their defamation case, Dominion attorneys deposed Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro last week — with Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs up next.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fox-news-trump-lies-may-cost-billions-if-dominion-wins-n1298515

 

Elie Mystal on the Four Investigations into Trump & Why Progressives Should Push to Expand the Court - Sep 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuW8Z50lb5g

 

Religious employers need not cover PrEP in their health plans, federal judge rules: U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling could threaten access to sexual and reproductive health care for more than 150 million working Americans on employer-sponsored health care plans. The ruling will likely be appealed.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/07/texas-HIV-ACA-lawsuit/

 

Elected officials, police chiefs on leaked Oath Keepers list

https://apnews.com/article/oath-keepers-leaked-membership-rolls-2ca4195ed3a10e45dd189bf98f3e5a26

 

The Special Master Problem Didn’t Start With Judge Cannon: It isn’t just that she’s a Trump appointee who’s hedging her bets. It’s also that special masters are unaccountable and undemocratic.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167682/special-master-cannon-kenneth-feinberg

 

Queen Elizabeth II of Britain has died at 96 in Scotland. The world’s longest-serving monarch reigned for seven decades.

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20220908&instance_id=71398&nl=updates-from-the-newsroom&productCode=UFN&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=105736&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F1916bb7b-a640-5823-b53f-d194184459f9&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

State Sen. Nikil Saval: We Can Collaborate to Meet Deep Needs

https://convergencemag.com/articles/state-sen-nikil-saval-we-can-collaborate-to-meet-deep-needs/

 

Samuel Alito Believes That Christians Are Oppressed in America: He won’t rest until the Supreme Court enshrines religious freedom protections for a select minority of Americans—at the expense of everyone else.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167266/samuel-alito-religious-freedom-doctrine

 

How Black Churches Can Change the World

https://convergencemag.com/articles/how-black-churches-can-change-the-world/

 

A Crime Fiction Series That Supports Voting Rights

https://convergencemag.com/articles/a-crime-fiction-series-that-supports-voting-rights/

 

Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to NY state charges of money laundering, conspiracy and fraud related to border wall effort

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/08/politics/steve-bannon-not-guilty-plea-surrender-border-wall-charges/index.html

 

Gov. Wolf Expands Voter Registration Access for Eligible Pennsylvanians

https://www.governor.pa.gov/newsroom/gov-wolf-expands-voter-registration-access-for-eligible-pennsylvanians/

 

What Is Peter Thiel Thinking?  An interview with Max Chafkin, author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power,” on how J.D. Vance and Blake Masters came to be part of Thiel’s political project

https://newrepublic.com/article/167669/peter-thiel-max-chafkin-2022

 

Peter Thiel’s Handpicked Candidates Are Train Wrecks: The tech billionaire wants to remake the Republican Party—and America. But Blake Masters and J.D. Vance are lagging in the polls, and struggling to raise money.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167687/peter-thiel-vance-masters-midterms

 

Mich. judge declares 1931 abortion ban unconstitutional

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3632911-mich-judge-declares-1931-abortion-ban-unconstitutional/

 

Why billionaire John Malone’s shadow looms over CNN: One of the world’s most powerful news outlets has a new mandate — which happens to sync with the views of one of the world’s richest men.

https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column

 

DJ Trump - Sep 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC5352Ku3CA

 

"Pro-Life" State Locks Up Pregnant Woman Then Put Her In A Disgusting and Dangerous Cell - Sep 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFN2tAWoWCU

 

Sucker - Sep 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ0vPIo9eyY

 

Conservatives Want You to Die for Their Personal Beliefs: A Texas judge’s ruling that employers don’t have to cover HIV-prevention medication is further proof that the right sees public health policy merely as a tool to punish political enemies.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167701/texas-prep-hiv-ruling-conservatives-personal-beliefs

 

Why Candidates Get More Bang for Their Buck Than Super PACs—Starting Now: A 50-year-old law allows candidates—but not fundraising groups—to get discounted TV ad rates in the 60 days before the election. What does that mean for the home stretch of their campaigns?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167696/candidates-tv-ad-rates-super-pac-tax

 

It’s Going to Take Several Miracles to Stop the Republican Party From Turning America Into Hungary: It’s probably already too late to save American democracy. Here is the series of improbable events doing so would require.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167100/republican-party-turning-america-into-hungary

 

Schumer in tough spot over Manchin promise

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3633178-schumer-in-tough-spot-over-manchin-promise/

 

“Libs of TikTok” and the Right’s Embrace of Anti-LGBTQ Violence: The newest campaign against children’s hospitals is part of a much larger pattern.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167674/anti-lgbtq-violence-libs-of-tiktok

 

AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETING, KICKING DARK MONEY OUT OF ELECTIONS IS ON THE AGENDA

https://www.tag24.com/politics/us-politics/at-the-democratic-national-committee-meeting-kicking-dark-money-out-of-elections-is-on-the-agenda-2602667

 

Capehart and Gerson on Queen Elizabeth's political impact and new polls ahead of midterms - Sep 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHrQzFzMro

 

‘Lawlessness’: Tribe Condemns ‘Courts Faithful To Trump’ - Sep 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBBhjXJo760

 

Baptist leader speaks out: 'Christian nationalism is not Christianity' - Sep 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZukWuT9lcA

 

Kevin McCarthy’s Desperate Bid to Prove the Republican Party Has Ideas: His Gingrich-lite “Commitment to America” is short on actual policies and long on Trumpian insanity.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167699/kevin-mccarthy-midterms-2022-agenda

 

Trump FBI raid could have ‘some connection’ to murdered CIA assets, MSNBC's Joy Reid speculates: A federal judge ruled on Monday that a special master be appointed to review documents seized by the FBI

https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-fbi-raid-could-some-connection-murdered-cia-assets-msnbcs-joy-reid-speculates

 

The Sad, Quiet Vanishing of Josh Hawley: Eighteen months after he raised his fist to insurrectionists, the Missouri senator’s political project is stalled.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167162/josh-hawley-career-vanish-january-6-running

 

Voters Don’t Believe You Stand for Things Until You Actually Do Them: What’s behind the Democratic comeback summer? Chalk it up to voters seeing Republicans overturn Roe and Democrats making big moves on issues like climate change.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/09/09/democrats-comeback-summer-midterms-action/

 

Sarah Palin and the New Republican War on Ranked Choice Voting: The Alaskan’s defeat is about more than a voting system. It shows how intraparty savagery is hurting the GOP.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/09/06/sarah-palin-and-the-new-republican-war-on-ranked-choice-voting/

 

Indict Trump Over the Mar-a-Lago Documents? Don’t Indict? There’s a Third Option.  A grand jury report puts the facts out there—and avoids the risk of a hung jury.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/09/07/indict-trump-over-the-mar-a-lago-documents-dont-indict-theres-a-third-option/

 

The Big Lie Has Metastasized: The Big Lie is growing. It has metastasized into a cancer that’s dividing the nation and devouring our democracy.

https://www.laprogressive.com/elections/the-big-lie-has-metastasized

 

MAGA Distraction Strengthens the Duopoly: Biden said MAGA 13 times in his speech. Never before has a losing president or his supporters been elevated to such a level of attention by a current president.

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/maga-distraction-exposes-democratic-party-weakness

 

Mar-a-Lago search: Trump team and Justice Department suggest rival ‘special master’ candidates.  District judge to assess candidates put forward, as well as disagreements over the powers a special master would have to review retrieved documents

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/10/mar-a-lago-search-trump-team-and-justice-department-suggest-rival-special-master-candidates

 

Trump’s conservative imprint on the federal judiciary gives Democrats a playbook — if they win

‘The 45th President’: One in a series looking back at the Trump presidency

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/court-barrett-senate-trump/2020/10/25/d9eed9c0-16bc-11eb-befb-8864259bd2d8_story.html

 

Biden has appointed more federal judges than any president since JFK at this point in his tenure

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/08/09/biden-has-appointed-more-federal-judges-than-any-president-since-jfk-at-this-point-in-his-tenure/

 

Toddler In Chief: Mine, mine, mine, mine

https://steady.substack.com/p/toddler-in-chief?utm_source=email

 

Fighting Bob Fest – 2022.  Started streaming September 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLmN-egMXw

 

'Total hypocrisy': Franken pushes back on GOP strategist over SCOTUS - Sep 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iduU22_edDg

 

Social Security Under Attack Again Featuring Alex Lawson - Sep 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYW6uZ-c2VQ

 

Why North Carolina in 2022 Could Cost Biden Dearly in 2024: Republicans could be poised to return veto-proof majorities in the state houses. Goodbye, abortion rights. So long, voting rights.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167685/north-carolina-2022-cost-biden-dearly-2024

 

PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, September 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7NOixiLj7c

 

Political forecasts analysis

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/house/

 

How the outcome of Moore v. Harper could impact federal elections - Sep 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S17iNckMDT8

 

The "REAL" Reason Trump Wanted the Documents is Very Disturbing - Sep 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7jAhEMEFKs

 

Warner wants damage assessment from intel community over Trump documents - Sep 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyuoWaoawHk

 

BREAKING: Trump spotted on SECRET UNPLANNED TRIP to Washington DC as Speculation Goes Wild - Sep 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqG0g7zEWao

 

The Rise of Right-Wing Hacks in Federal Courts: Judge Aileen Cannon, of the now-infamous special master ruling, is the latest star of a conservative legal movement that gleefully engages in sloppy jurisprudence—with profound consequences for us all.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167693/alieen-cannon-critics-conservative-judiciary

 

Jamie Raskin issues MUST-HEAR update on January 6 Committee - Sep 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KBAJik9_SQ

 

Mary Trump stuns Trump with a bold move in one second. - Sep 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RnfMjJgd08

 

Opinion: Here’s who John Roberts should blame for the Supreme Court losing ‘legitimacy’

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/11/opinions/supreme-court-legitimacy-john-roberts-obeidallah/index.html

 

How the Invisible Army of Abortion Rights Voters Can Crush Republicans’ Majority Dreams: The right’s culture-war excesses have suddenly put Democrats on the front foot going into the midterm elections.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167715/roe-voters-flip-2022-midterms

 

Weissmann: We Either Have A System Where We’re All Accountable To Law Or We Don’t - Sep 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBloNB-uFp8

 

DOJ Subpoenas 40 Trump Associates Over Jan. 6 Investigation - Sep 12, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD0wQ81gGDI

 

President Biden Delivers Remarks on the Cancer Moonshot and the Goal of Ending Cancer as we Know It - Streamed live Sep 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syh_PAeRMyw&t=1326s

 

How to Vote: A Quick and Easy Guide

https://www.propublica.org/article/guide-to-voter-accessibility

 

Fully Half of All Republicans Believe Civil War Is in Our Future

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/09/12/republicans-civil-war.html

 

How Chuck Schumer Finally Got His Big Breakthrough: “I know everything about my caucus,” the Senate majority leader enthused. “I care about them. I love them.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/167718/chuck-schumer-inflation-reduction-2022

 

Trump’s Personal Coup Lawyer Looks to the Supreme Court for His Next Election Fix: John Eastman has some wild-eyed ideas about “independent state legislature theory,” and he’s hoping the high court’s majority will be willing to play along next term.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167721/john-eastman-independent-state-legislature

 

Trump Gets STUNNED With Surprising DOJ Decision - Sep 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaGRBQ1zeB8

 

How Billionaires Got So Powerful w/ @Good Morning, Bad News - Sep 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcf_3N-OsbA

 

Insider - Aug 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcVSC-BgTww

 

Yes, the Polls May Be Wrong Again. But Democrats Have Reasons to Be Optimistic.  The party is getting some subtantial things done—and catching a lot of lucky breaks.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167727/democrats-polling-2022-midterm-optimism

 

Mitch McConnell’s Refusal to Seat Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court Is Coming Back to Haunt Him: The right-wing court’s abortion decision could cost the Republicans the Senate—and thus deny McConnell another term as majority leader.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167735/mitch-mcconnell-merrick-garland-supreme-court-abortion

 

Republicans Are Spreading a Bogus “Rainbow Fentanyl” Panic Ahead of the Midterms: The GOP is ramping up its rhetoric about Biden, the border, kids, and overdoses.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167725/republicans-midterms-fentanyl-border

 

Federal Investigation Into Colorado Clerk Reaches MyPillow’s Mike Lindell

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/politics/mike-lindell-search-warrant-investigation.html

 

Why are educated people more likely to be liberal/progressive in the US?

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-educated-people-more-likely-to-be-liberal-progressive-in-the-US/answer/Randy-Weir-3

 

Opinion  New revelations show Biden was right: Trump does threaten democracy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/13/berman-revelations-show-trump-weaponized-doj/

 

US presidential narcissism linked to longer wars

https://phys.org/news/2022-09-presidential-narcissism-linked-longer-wars.html

 

The Greatest Threat to Democracy Is a Feature of Democracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/democracy-crisis-speech-trump.html

 

Caught on Tape: Doug Mastriano Prayed for MAGA to ‘Seize the Power’ Ahead of Jan. 6.  In a Dec. 2020 meeting with Christian Nationalists, the man who would become the GOP nominee for governor prayed Congress would "disregard" Pennsylvania's election results

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/doug-mastriano-donald-trump-christian-right-1234589455/

 

Andrew Bacevich | America's Post-Cold War Arrogance - Sep 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbiaVy3Zb7k

 

The Republican Party Agrees With Lindsey Graham’s National Abortion Ban Even if It Won’t Admit It: Here’s the takeaway: Far from leaving it up to the states, the Republican Party will move swiftly to act unilaterally if it retakes power.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167744/lindsey-graham-midterm-2022-abortion

 

‘Failure wasn’t an option here’: How Biden navigated a political and economic minefield at a critical moment in rail negotiations

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/15/politics/biden-white-house-railroad-strike/index.html

 

Cosmetics Billionaire Convinced Trump That the U.S. Should Buy Greenland: Ronald S. Lauder, the Estée Lauder heir, offered himself up as back-channel negotiator to purchase Greenland from Denmark, a new book says. Denmark said no.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/politics/trump-greenland.html

 

Is This When Democrats Finally Learn How to Message?  Republicans have been running circles around Democrats for decades. But finally the right has handed them a potent weapon. Will they recognize it and use it?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167615/democrats-finally-learn-message

 

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham looked out over the political landscape and decided it was high time for a bad idea—specifically, a bill that would impose a nationwide ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

https://mailchi.mp/tnr/po5ey181aj?e=d4f24fe293

 

House passes bill seeking to protect federal civil service employees from Trump

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3644826-house-passes-bill-seeking-to-protect-federal-civil-service-employees-from-trump/

 

Lindsey Graham’s Unbelievably Cruel Abortion Ban

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/opinion/lindsey-graham-cruel-abortion-ban.html

 

Sen. Whitehouse Blasts Right-Wing 'Scheme' To Control Supreme Court - Sep 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMS-QtvF1m4

 

Abbott campaign edits Beto O'Rourke audio for attack ad - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96PhTIW39kc

 

FURIOUS Texas Paul SLAMS Marjorie Taylor Greene for KICKING Youth Activist - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyJ4i8Utv2E

 

'HE IS UNFIT' Kelly DEMANDS Trump stop '2024 campaign' after B0MBSHELL 'mental' disease - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb6_GVkw3Hc

 

Ex-CIA officer calls judge's ruling in Trump case 'silly' - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trVqD1Qy9kM

 

Texas Doesn't Want You To Know How Many Died! - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEc5nLY6roM

 

Elections Matter - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyl8nUN8VjE

 

Breaking Trump News [6PM] - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unJccT6-fdk

 

Liz Cheney DISMANTLES Trump in SINGLE MINUTE, calling MAGA candidates as 'fundamental t.hreat' - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygc9egdmM_U

 

Cheney tells Tapper why she's worried about some GOP candidates - Sep 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsmM8YjH-AI

 

When reproductive health laws make cancer patients’ lives worse

https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/20593/66426714700383310

 

The National Pulse media bias rating is Right.

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/national-pulse-media-bias

 

Independent Americans episode that featured John Opdycke of Open Primaries: https://independentamericans.us/171-john-opdycke-opening-primaries-for-independents-who-are-independents-millions-blocked-from-voting-taxpayers-are-funding-closed-primaries-new-maine-law-opens-primaries-is-nebraska-the-future/

 

Veterans are forming chapters in every state to push reforms such as open primaries and ranked choice voting. As half the states have no initiative and referendum law, we have strategies for approaching legislators.

https://www.veteransforpoliticalinnovation.org/

 

Democrats: Steal This Move From Lindsey Graham. The South Carolina senator’s ideas may be bad—but wow, he’s so confident in them!

https://newrepublic.com/article/167769/lindsey-graham-media-midterm-2022

 

Labor Report from State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione

https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168233.1030.276&gen=1

 

Are Black Men The Key To Stacey Abrams Becoming Georgia's Next Governor? - Sep 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arxouyuGdRw

 

The Time Is Ripe for Commonwealth Countries to Ditch the British Monarchy: Will King Charles III oversee the final disintegration of this remnant of empire?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167772/time-ripe-commonwealth-countries-ditch-british-monarchy

 

PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, September 18, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfGrPNIWDLc

 

They have him surrounded: Trump now faces legal troubles in three states, plus D.C.

https://www.rawstory.com/they-have-him-surrounded-trump-now-faces-legal-troubles-in-three-states-plus-d-c/

 

The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would Unleash Violence Was Absolutely Right: The vindication of Bandy Lee.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/donald-trump-violence-mental-health-dangerous-jan-6-fbi-mar-a-lago-civil-war-bandy-lee-psychiatry-goldwater-rule/

 

Top Psychiatrist SOUNDS ALARM on Trump’s Deteriorating Mental Fitness | The Weekend Show - Premiered Aug 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DREKGn4nPhQ

 

Attacking MAGA Is as “Meat and Potatoes” as It Gets: Why Biden and the Democrats have to make hammering MAGA Republicans a central campaign theme

https://newrepublic.com/article/167747/biden-speech-philadelphia-attack-maga-meat-potatoes

 

The 11th Circuit Moves Staggeringly Fast On DOJ Motion To Lift Classified Docs Injunction

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/09/18/the-11th-circuit-moves-staggeringly-fast-on-doj-motion-to-lift-classified-docs-injunction.html

 

Andrew J. Bacevich | American Malaise & Decline of POWER - Sep 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj_dRoFsRZM

 

Expert warns of "violent threat" to U.S. democracy - Sep 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6u88FDNGlA

 

Berman: ‘I Sounded The Alarm Very Loudly’ About Interference In Trump DOJ Meddling - Sep 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elr6NZjNOtg

 

Trump’s Jan 6 sidekick Jeff Clark reveals MASSIVE CRIMINAL EXPOSURE that spells trouble for Trump - Sep 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZOanLNCRjY

 

President Joe Biden: The 2022 60 Minutes Interview - Sep 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1UC89H4Swc

 

The Supreme Court Gets a Chance to Revisit America’s Imperialist Past: A trio of American Samoan plaintiffs are asking the high court to end their status as second-class citizens.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167761/american-samoa-citizenship-fitisemanu-gorsuch

 

Stephen Miller Spent the Trump Years Testing the Bounds of Executive Authority. Now He’s Testing the Legal System.  The former White House adviser has a new nonprofit dedicated to hindering Biden’s agenda.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167635/stephen-miller-trump-legal-nonprofit-biden-agenda

 

The Nation OCTOBER 3/10, 2022, ISSUE

https://www.thenation.com/issue/october-10-17-2022-issue/

 

Judge Aileen Cannon Thinks Poor Donald Trump May Be Stigmatized: The Florida judge’s concern for 45’s reputation is not only laughable but flies in the face of constitutional law.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167789/aileen-cannon-justice-department-documents

 

Why Lindsey Graham Must Testify in Georgia: He cites a constitutional clause that should shield him from questioning. But he has the history and the precedent wrong.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167786/lindsey-graham-must-testify-georgia

 

How Big Money Smothers Conservative Voices hosted by New Jersey chapter of American Promise - Sep 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hHQa1tjQ-k

 

To Win the Midterms and Beyond: The authors describe the grassroots organizing that drove outreach and produced record turnout in 2020, particularly of low-income and voters of color.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/to-win-the-midterms-and-beyond

 

Calling All Continuity Editors: Like most societal shortcomings, our continuity editor-lessness comes straight from the top of the class divide: political and corporate elites.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/the-media/calling-all-continuity-editors

 

The Left Has a Language Problem. Call it Style Guide Liberalism: a well-intentioned fixation on inclusive jargon that ultimately alienates many Americans—and not just those on the right.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167792/left-language-problem-style-guide-liberalism

 

SCOTUSblog Coverage (SCOTUS Calendar)

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/reed-v-goertz/

 

“To Hell With Kings!” What Happened to American Skepticism About Monarchy? Tom Paine warned that enthusiasm for monarchy led to enthusiasm for aristocracy and oligarchy, while FDR denounced “economic royalists.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/queen-elizabeth-british-monarchy/

 

Putin issues ominous nuclear threat after losses in Ukraine - Sep 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARYZnB9rUIo

 

Ron DeSantis Did His Democratic Challenger a Huge Favor by Trafficking Migrants: Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for governor, raised $1 million in the 48 hours after news of the GOP governor’s Martha’s Vineyard stunt.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167806/ron-desantis-migrants-marthas-vineyard-backlash-election

 

What Joe Biden Could Learn From Harry Truman: He could take some lessons from the last Democratic president who relished picking fights with Republicans.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167821/joe-biden-harry-truman-republicans-midterms

 

Why Is It So Hard to Punish The Powerful? A Former U.S. Attorney Weighs In - Sep 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1DX7Nfns8A

 

It’s Fraud All the Way Down at the Trump Organization: The massive civil suit launched by New York Attorney General Tish James describes the former president’s family business as a nesting doll of financial chicanery.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167824/trump-organization-tish-james-fraud

 

Rep. Raskin BLOWS THE ROOF off the House, destroys Republicans in devastating response - Sep 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKoS_xi2_ss

 

Sen. Whitehouse Remarks on the DISCLOSE Act and the Crooked Influence Campaigns Funded by Dark Money - Sep 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZPQMqo9WYE

 

Democrats Are Dropping the Ball on Iran: Why is Tom Cotton the loudest member of Congress speaking about human rights abuses in Iran right now?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167835/iran-protests-mahsa-amini-democrats-drop-ball

 

Liberal group spends $4 million to boost secretary of state races: iVote, the organization behind the buys, is making its first major investment in the midterm cycle by launching TV advertising campaigns in Minnesota and Michigan.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/23/secretary-of-state-ivote-00058499

 

First look: Everytown launches $1 million ad buy attacking Ron Johnson on crime

https://www.axios.com/2022/09/23/ron-johnson-crime-ad-gun-safety

 

The Republican Plot to Weaponize the Government Against Political Enemies: Trump’s “Schedule F” plan to eliminate workplace protections for the civil service was averted in 2020. But the GOP still dreams of the purge.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167842/schedule-f-civil-service-trump-republican-plot

 

How the Sprawling Fight Over Permitting Reform Could Capsize Congress: The side deal that Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin cut to pass the Inflation Reduction Act now threatens to be the proximate cause of a government shutdown.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167851/manchin-permitting-reform-government-shutdown

 

Phil Gramm Goes There: Ebenezer Scrooge Has Been Misunderstood!  The former Texas senator also thinks the rich pay way too much in taxes. No word yet on debtor’s prison.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167827/phil-gramm-ebenezer-scrooge-misunderstood

 

Manchin’s Energy Permitting Bill Is a Failure of Democracy: Whether the outcome will be good or bad for the climate remains unclear. The process, though, was terrible.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167849/manchin-permitting-reform-oil-renewables

 

Iran protests, Trump the cult leader, Italy on the verge of putting a neo-Fascist in power: A new Lucid blog drawn from my Q&A introductory comments

https://lucid.substack.com/p/iran-protests-trump-the-cult-leader?utm_source=email

 

Only a Powerful and Broad Progressive Coalition Can Save Our Dying Democracy: One of this new coalition’s first tasks, and as difficult as it appears to be, is to find a way to end, or at least weaken, the tribalism that has left our country so divided.

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/save-our-dying-democracy

 

Drawbacks to Vote Splitting on Diverse Representation: Ranked Choice Voting can "unify the vote" from traditionally underrepresented communities, even when multiple candidates run

https://www.laprogressive.com/election-reform-campaigns/drawbacks-to-vote-splitting

 

Is America's Surveillance Capitalism So Different from Russia's and China's Surveillance States?  Why aren’t we hearing more about corporate surveillance of employees in the United States?

https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/surveillance-capitalism

 

Can Samarkand Spirit Revive the Word ‘Mutual’ in World Affairs?  Local conflicts not only threaten the security of the people who live there, but also pose a challenge to the SCO becoming more than a regional organization.

https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/can-samarkand-spirit-revive

 

Pete Buttigieg brings the house down with perfect response - Sep 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3MHwJij9e8

 

THREE CONVERSATIONS WITH DONALD TRUMP: The former president tried to sell his preferred version of himself, but said much more than he intended.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/donald-trump-maggie-haberman-mar-a-lago/671510/

 

News from the States – Sep 23, 2022 [The Big Lie, etc.]

https://statesnewsroom.salsalabs.org/eveningwrap_treasonrinserepeat?wvpId=35444be8-8984-4331-8f25-52703c68cda8

 

Congress Is Racing to Coup-Proof the Next Presidential Election: House Democrats on Wednesday passed their reform of the Electoral Count Act. The Senate has a different reform bill in mind. Only one can win.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167814/cheney-lofgren-electoral-count-act

 

The Supreme Court’s Public Legitimacy Crisis Has Arrived: Americans’ antipathy toward the high court is deepening—and for the first time, a slim majority favors expansion.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167846/supreme-court-legitimacy-crisis-dobbs

 

Are the Democrats About to Blow Their Big Chance to Oust Ron Johnson?  They have a charismatic young candidate and are facing the worst the GOP has to offer. Why isn’t the party doing more to win?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167856/democrats-wisconsin-2022-johnson-barnes

 

Trump’s Legal Troubles Won’t End Well for Him—or Us: With the former president facing accountability on multiple fronts, how desperate—and dangerous—is he going to become?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167862/trump-indictment-political-violence-james

 

Scientists Just Announced That After Sending This Message Into Space Something Finally Replied - Sep 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8HyIANC4NE

 

The Murdochs: Empire of Influence ( FULL MOVIE 2022 ) Rupert Murdoch Documentary | Watch Free Online - Sep 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14AC7yfxGJE

 

Ostensibly, the Royal Family Is Apolitical. That’s Why Americans Are Obsessed With It.  The monarchy offers a comforting fantasy of power without politics.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167843/royal-family-queen-elizabeth-apolitical-americans-obsessed

 

How to Rein in the Supreme Court’s Radical Conservatives: Right-wing judicial hegemony presents a daunting challenge for liberal leaders—but not an insurmountable one.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167863/liberals-confront-supreme-court-radicalism

 

Is Trump or DeSantis the Weaker Nominee? The Democrats Will Not Pick Their Poison.  The party may have spent the midterms meddling in GOP primaries to boost its preferred opponents, but it’s not planning on playing that game in the 2024 presidential race.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167876/democrats-primary-meddling-trump-desantis

 

The Democrats’ Working-Class Deficit: Why is the party of working people in danger of becoming the party of upscale voters? Don’t blame the left.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-working-class-deficit/

 

Steve Bannon’s Endgame: Despite facing legal defeats, Trump’s former adviser is scheming Trump’s return—and Trump’s revenge.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/steve-bannon-january-6/ 

 

The January 6 Hearings Are Not Going to Save Us: Liberals don’t seem to have learned much from the failures of James Comey and Robert Mueller to take down Trump.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/january-6-hearing-democracy/

 

Jewish Law Permits Abortion—So Is There a Case to Restore Reproductive Rights?  The Supreme Court’s transformation into a theocracy creates a Jewish First Amendment argument for abortion.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jewish-law-abortion/

 

Theocracy Now! The Forgotten Prophet of the Resurgent Right: Overshadowed during his lifetime by his famous brother-in-law William F. Buckley, L. Brent Bozell Jr. has proved the true prophet of the American right.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bozell-religious-right-gop/

 

The Dobbs Price: More people who need an abortion will now be unable to obtain one, which will plunge many of them into financial turmoil and curtail their ability to pursue their dreams.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/dobbs-abortion-economic-cost/

 

Letters From the August 22/29, 2022, Issue: Gay liberation… Hooded justice…

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/letters-from-the-august-22-29-2022-issue/

 

Democrats Should Make a Much Bigger Deal of the Threat Posed by Trump: Democrats will suffer in the midterms if they don’t make absolutely clear the possible consequences of the former president’s disdain for democracy and the rule of law.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-threat-democrats/

 

How Sonia Sotomayor Became the Conscience of the Supreme Court: The former prosecutor was never a liberal firebrand. But now it is she, more than any other justice, who puts progressive outrage into words.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/sonia-sotomayor-liberal-justice/

 

Smoke and Mirrors: What is the history of neoliberalism?

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/gary-gerstle-neoliberalism/

 

Our America: Cuba across the centuries.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ada-ferrer-cuba/

 

Letters From the September 5/12, 2022, Issue: Housing follies… A tale of two Nations… Protest in a new era…

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/letters-from-the-september-5-12-2022-issue/

 

Lessons for Progressives From Yuh-Line Niou’s Loss: Could the outcome in the NY-10 congressional race—a centrist going to Washington—have been avoided?

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/niou-democratic-primary-goldman/

 

What Will It Take to Stymie Right-Wing Supervillain Leonard Leo?  With the help of $1.6 billion, the man who helped engineer the conservative takeover of the courts is about to wreak serious havoc.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dark-money-windfall/

 

The Democratic Party Shouldn’t Be a Gerontocracy: Half the US population is under 40—someone born during the Truman administration can barely grasp what life is like for them.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-gerontocracy/

 

How Kansas Kept Abortion Legal: When voters, even in a deep-red state, had the chance to decide for themselves, they protected abortion rights.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kansas-abortion-vote-no/

 

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Deal With the Devil: The roots of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe go back 50 years, when zealots preaching a gospel of misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over America’s largest Protestant denomination.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/southern-baptists-roe-gop-dobbs/

 

Meet the Rhode Island Progressives Taking on the Democratic Establishment: The Rhode Island Political Cooperative is rebuilding community trust in the nation’s smallest state.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/rhode-island-political-cooperative/

 

Criminalized for Being Pregnant: The organization National Advocates for Pregnant Women is trying to make sure that law enforcement officials, prosecutors, medical providers, and others know how to prevent criminalizing people for their pregnancy outcomes.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pregnancy-criminalization-miscarriage-stillbirth/

 

The Trump Judges Are Officially Running the Show: The rulings by Judge Aileen Cannon on Trump’s behalf in the classified documents case aren’t just one-off legal absurdities—they’re examples of decisions to come.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/aileen-cannon-trump-judge/

 

We Need to Use the Word “Women” When Talking About Abortion: But we can’t let TERFs hijack the conversation. Luckily, there’s an easy solution!

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/women-abortion-erasure-terfs/

 

Democracy’s Fair-Weather Friends in the Mainstream Media: Their churlish response to President Biden’s Labor Day speech shows how the reflexive centrism of mainstream press overrides any concern for the truth.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-speech-maga-media-democracy/

 

The Most Painful Episode of the January 6 Insurrection …was watching Confederates take the Capitol. As the hearings resume, a Florida man reflects on his enemies—and ours.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/january-6-hearings-confederates-capitol/

 

The Prying Eyes of Social Media: The lack of regulation of online platforms puts our private lives up for sale.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/social-media-surveillance/

 

A Nation Within a Nation: Imani Perry’s capacious history of the South.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/imani-perry-south-to-america/

 

Letters From the October 3/10, 2022, Issue: One-state reality… Documenting January 6… Leaving water for migrants…

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/letters-from-the-october-3-10-2022-issue/

 

Progressives Didn’t Kill Manchin’s Permitting Reform Deal—but It Did Deserve to Die: Now that Manchin’s bill has failed to win enough support, there’s space for a better debate about how to streamline the approval process for new energy projects.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167884/permitting-reform-manchin-pipelines

 

The Friday Power Lunch is a weekly Zoom show produced by the unstoppable women of Network NOVA to amplify the voices and issues of the Virginia grassroots.

https://networknova.org/live/

 

BLUE VOTER GUIDE - Quick Instructions - Aug 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEQRxbzR0ag

 

BUILD YOUR BALLOT WITH BLUE VOTER GUIDE!

https://bluevoterguide.org/

 

Top Democrat goes MEGAVIRAL with speech of the year - Sep 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLAC4qxhGV8

 

Liberal Redneck - Biden's Gaffes - Sep 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_Y_QMVQac

 

Weissmann: Trump Appointed-Judge ‘Unfit’ To Serve - Sep 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz_KT5t43f0

 

Join Women's March, Ultraviolet, All* Above All, the National Women's Law Center, and activists all around the country for a #WomensWave this fall!

https://action.womensmarch.com/calendars/womenswave

 

Events and volunteer opportunities near you

https://www.mobilize.us/jan6hearings/?q=rally

 

Jan 6 Justice: Our Freedoms, Our Vote Mobilization.  We are calling for an end to the ongoing violent and criminal attacks by Trump and MAGA Republicans on our freedoms. We must protect our elections - the voters, the election officials and a free and fair process.  Please sign up for an event any time between Thursday, October 13 and Sunday, October 23.

If you have any questions, contact January 6 Hearings.

https://www.mobilize.us/jan6hearings/c/jan-6-justice-our-freedom-our-/event/create/

 

Andy Borowitz: How American Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber | Amanpour and Company - Sep 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GVHjgrkbM

 

The Case For Expanding The Supreme Court (Again) | The Mehdi Hasan Show - Sep 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1kNK8bv1Lo

 

Jan. 6th Committee Questions Ginni Thomas - Sep 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYliUFC8Xds

 

The Georgia Senate Contest Is All About Race, Actually: Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Raphael Warnock are facing off in November. Both men are Black. This does not mean—contra New York Times pundit Frank Bruni—that race isn’t a factor.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167898/georgia-senate-race-warnock-walker

 

In scathing statement, Democrat calls for new leaders in House

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3668732-spanberger-says-democrats-need-new-leaders-in-the-house/

 

Ron DeSantis changes with the wind as Hurricane Ian prompts flip-flop on aid: The Florida governor ‘put politics aside’ to ask Joe Biden for federal – unlike when he voted against help for Hurricane Sandy victims

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/30/ron-desantis-hurricane-ian-florida-sandy

 

January 6 Was a Dark Day for America. But Can Democrats Win by Running on It?  Some Democrats are hitting their GOP opponents with tough January 6 ads. Will they work? Control of the Senate could depend on it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167915/january-6-democrats-winning-message

 

The Memo: Beto O’Rourke, running out of chances, needs debate game-changer

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3665957-the-memo-beto-orourke-running-out-of-chances-needs-debate-game-changer/

 

Abbott faces pivotal debate amid 2024 chatter

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3667710-abbott-faces-pivotal-debate-amid-2024-chatter/

 

If We End Corporate Personhood We Can Define the Terms of a New Economy: How Corporations Became 'People' - and How You Can Fight Back

https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-we-end-corporate-personhood-we?utm_source=email

 

Labor Report from State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione, September 30, 2022

https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168302.1360.177&gen=1

 

Our Democracy Is in Trouble, but We’ve Been Here Before (With Heather Cox Richardson): Make no mistake, America’s experiment in popular sovereignty is in jeopardy. Here’s how this moment compares to past crises.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167878/democracy-trouble-heather-cox-richardson

 

Biden says political disagreements with DeSantis ‘irrelevant,’ plans to visit Florida

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3667281-biden-says-political-disagreements-with-desantis-irrelevant-plans-to-visit-florida/

 

The Left Should Double Down on Electoral Organizing: To build power and transform communities, socialists and movement organizers need to engage in the electoral arena.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/left-politics-aoc-bernie-sanders-elections-midterms-2022

 

The Roberts Court Takes Aim at the Voting Rights Act: In a case it will hear next week, the Court could side with Alabama and deliver a devastating blow to the landmark civil rights law.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/09/29/the-roberts-court-takes-aim-at-the-voting-rights-act/

 

Can Garland Keep Donald Trump From Office?  Realistically, there aren’t many ways to bar an ex-president from running for office, but a recent New Mexico case raises the possibility of success.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/09/27/can-garland-keep-donald-trump-from-office/

 

Hey, Democrats, It’s Time for Unity, Not Purity: The midterms are approaching, and Democrats are tantalizingly close to keeping their majority—if they stick together.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/09/26/democrats-congress-manchin-progressives-unity/

 

Patrick Leahy’s Long and Winding Road: At 83, the Vermonter is retiring after 48 years in the U.S. Senate, and in his new memoir, he somehow finds hope for the chamber—and the country.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/09/30/patrick-leahys-long-and-winding-road/

 

The Loneliness of Donald Trump: The former president says he made several secret new friends during his time in the White House. Not that they did him any good.

https://newrepublic.com/post/167918/trump-haberman-book-secret-friends

 

“He’s Blown the Barriers Off the System”: Katie Interviews Two Veteran Reporters About Their Deep Dive Into the Trump Administration

https://katiecouric.com/news/politics-and-policy/trump-book-divider-interview/

 

The Divider brings us into Donald Trump's Oval Office for countless scenes both tense and comical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6d53vknqg&t=361s

 

Women are registering to vote in Pa. in numbers far exceeding men since the Supreme Court abortion decision: Of the women who have registered since the decision, there are four Democrats for every Republican

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-women-voter-registration-dobbs-20220822.html

 

Jan. 6 Bombshell? ‘Significant Information’ Obtained By Committee Amid Ginni Thomas Interview - Sep 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_4a9i5TQ1Y

 

Send Off the Clown?  Donald Trump, Defendant; Case Closed

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Crowther.html

 

Democrats in Array

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Edit.html

 

Schizophrenic Senate Climate Bill

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Lingo.html

 

Letters to the Editor: Free Speech Hypocrisy; Projection; New Court Ranks Among Worst; End the Theocratic Supreme Court; Another Supreme Court Reform Proposal; A Kernel of Truth About Corn; CAFOs or Clean Water?

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Letters.html

 

Leaving ’Em on the Bench: a Study In -Ocracies

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Rollins.html

 

Those Erics in Missouri Poliics

https://www.populist.com/28.15.McMillen.html

 

Dispatches: FOX NEWS STRUGGLES TO DEAL WITH GOOD ECONOMIC NEWS: RIGHT-WING THINK TANK CLAIMS TO BE CHURCH. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WANT TO INVESTIGATE; WHINING TRUMP CONFIRMS FBI RAIDS MAR-A-LAGO; MATERNAL AND INFANT MORTALITY IS HIGHEST IN STATES THAT ARE BANNING ABORTION; McCONNELL SAYS PEOPLE FORCED TO HAVE CHILDREN DON’T DESERVE ANY MORE FINANCIAL HELP; BIDEN ADMIN HAS REUNITED NEARLY 400 CHILDREN TAKEN FROM PARENTS BY TRUMP ADMIN; SENATE REPUBS WANT TO WATER DOWN RESPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT; STUDENT LOAN PAYMENTS WILL RESUME AUG. 31, IF BIDEN DOESN’T EXTEND PAUSE.

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Dispatches.html

 

FROMA HARROP: Biden is obviously not too old

https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/froma-harrop-biden-is-obviously-not-too-old/article_0acb3d48-0de9-11ed-bdce-433f09accb1c.html

 

Take What You Can Get for the Sake of Sanity

https://www.populist.com/28.15.ArtCullen.html

 

GENE LYONS: The misinformation superhighway

https://www.albanyherald.com/opinion/gene-lyons-the-misinformation-superhighway/article_2ecd15aa-152c-11ed-8e11-5f1aaeb309e7.html

 

We Know What the Majority Supports; Will It Vote?

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Young.html

 

Opinion  The latest Trump grift? Burying Ivana at their golf club.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/01/ivana-trump-buried-tax-break-grift/

 

The Kansas Vote Is a Lot Bigger Than Abortion.  Today on TAP: It portends a winning strategy for Democrats in November and beyond.

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/kansas-vote-is-a-lot-bigger-than-abortion/

 

Red-State Kansas Sends a Message to Right-Wing Theocrats: Don’t Mess with Women’s Bodies

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Polman.html

 

The Republicans have a Nazi infestation

https://www.milescitystar.com/content/republicans-have-nazi-infestation-0

 

‘Distressing’: Republicans Support Plot to Purge Federal Workers.  “Schedule F would burn down the civil service system,” warned one public policy professor. “It would be a government of the lawless leading the incompetent.”

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Corbett.html

 

Decoding Modern LEL [Lying English Language] (Vea la versión en español a continuación

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Cintli.html

 

Judicial Dictatorship

https://www.populist.com/28.15.OLeary.html

 

One Fox News Sunday clip illustrates the fundamental divide between the parties: Acknowledging reality is too much to ask of Republicans.

https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/tudor-dixon-trump-big-lie-fox-news-sunday

 

Manchin: The Man in the Middle Moves

https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/jamiestiehm/s-2708383

 

Guns and Chicken Parmesan

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Friedman.html

 

Ralph Nader: Keep Calling Powerful Players–Even If They Won’t Answer

https://scheerpost.com/2022/07/28/callers-say-cant-get-through-callees-say-dont-want-to-let-them-through/

 

What Are Awards for?

https://www.unz.com/trall/what-are-awards-for/

 

Drifting Toward the Center

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Seggel.html

 

Opinion  In the GOP, the paranoid fringe is becoming the establishment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/03/mark-finchem-arizona-gop-fringe-win/

 

Anti-Abortion Extremism is Scaring Voters. It Should.  As conservative Kansas just showed, most voters simply don’t want politicians making personal medical decisions for them.

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Zimmerman.html

 

Trump’s Lawyers Have Some Explaining to Do: The law firm Jones Day was crucial to Trump’s presidency. How much responsibility does the firm bear for his legacy?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167778/trumps-lawyers-explaining-servants-damned-david-enrich-book-interview

 

PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, October 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljJuLg_LJvM

 

‘Big Liars’: Ashamed Yet?

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Edit.html

 

Jim Hightower: Finding reasons for progressive optimism

https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-finding-reasons-for-progressive-optimism/article_6f291a16-1f1a-11ed-bb0e-8fa75e7c4a44.html

 

Letters to the Editor: Get Involved to Save the Planet; Vote for Democracy; Civilians Should Not Have Assault Rifles; I Second That Amendment; Roe Reversal Set Back Freedom; Some Pregnancies Must Be Aborted; Hightower in ’24?

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Letters.html

 

Libraries Under Siege

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Rollins.html

 

Retirement for Politicians

https://www.populist.com/28.16.McMillen.html

 

Dispatches: BRIAN STELTER, RELIABLE SOURCES OUT, STAFFERS ANXIOUS AS CNN MOVES RIGHT; AMERICANS SEE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY IS NO. 1 THREAT AND SUPPORT TRUMP PROBES, POLL FINDS; MEDIA COLUMNIST PONDERS HOW TO COVER ANTI-DEMOCRACY POLS; CORPORATE AMERICA BRINGS JOBS BACK TO U.S. IN RESPONSE TO SUPPLY CHAIN GAPS; REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS CONTINUE TO BITE DEMOCRATIC HAND THAT’S CREATING GOOD JOBS FOR THEIR STATES; RIGHT-WING DARK MONEY GROUP GETS $1.6 BILLION DONATION FROM TAX-DODGING BUSINESS MOGUL.

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Dispatches.html

 

PDA Weekly Review and Preview for 10-01-22

https://pdamerica.org/pda-weekly-review-and-preview-for-10-01-22/

 

FROMA HARROP: What about embryos?

https://starherald.com/opinion/columnists/syndicated/froma-harrop-what-about-embryos/article_8b7303b0-2011-11ed-9026-87e3cbf6c656.html

 

Iowa is the Thumping Heart of the Midwest, Confirmed by Data

https://www.populist.com/28.16.ArtCullen.html

 

‘Funeral by Funeral, Theory Advances’

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Guebert.html

 

GENE LYONS: Things are looking up

https://www.goshennews.com/opinion/gene-lyons-things-are-looking-up/article_58b9f780-1f30-11ed-bdf3-03742e1582c0.html

 

Kansas Proved That Abortion Rights Can Win in Red States

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/08/19/kansas-proved-that-abortion-rights-can-win-in-red-states/

 

Mar-a-Lago and the Kerosene Right

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Watson.html

 

Can Liz Cheney Win By Losing?  Her long game may have rules of its own.

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Polman.html

 

Liz Cheney Product Warning Label: Today on TAP: How her crusade against Trump could backfire against Democrats and progressives

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/liz-cheney-product-warning-label/

 

Mary Sanchez: Every vote in America is now about abortion

https://triblive.com/opinion/mary-sanchez-every-vote-in-america-is-now-about-abortion/

 

Six Reasons the Democrats will Win the Midterms

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Joseph.html

 

How Alex Jones Helped Enrich the Global Elites He Railed Against

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-alex-jones-helped-enrich-the-global-elites-he-railed-against/

 

The worst memo in American history came from Lewis Powell

https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-reich-robert-08212022-20220816-zmeigy2lmzeq7dlys42prodhfq-story.html

 

Jesse Jackson: Democracy not a partisan issue

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/aug/22/jesse-jackson-democracy-not-a-partisan-issue

 

It’s a Civil War, Stupid

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Cintli.html

 

Republicans Incite Violence Against IRS Agents, Get the ‘Both Sides’ Treatment in Traditional Media

https://www.populist.com/28.16.McCarter.html

 

State of the Great Republic

https://www.populist.com/28.16.OLeary.html

 

Trumpworld incites the MAGA lunatic fringe against the FBI: It was a short journey from "back the blue" to "terrible things are going to happen."

https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/trump-incitment-mar-a-lago-raid-fbi

 

Why Fightin’ Joe Biden may be the most Consequential President in Forty Years

https://www.juancole.com/2022/08/fightin-consequential-president.html

 

A Sweet Summer Day In The Senate

https://www.dnronline.com/opinion/viewpoint/a-sweet-summer-day-in-the-senate/article_b080bce1-6cff-598e-bd22-b391ffc2ffa1.html

 

The 3 Rs: Reading, ’Riting, and Republicans

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Friedman.html

 

Watch Out for Big Corporations and Dangerous Politicians Breaking Our Established Norms

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/08/15/watch-out-for-big-corporations-and-dangerous-politicians-breaking-our-established-norms/

 

Why He May Not Get Away This Time

https://www.nationalmemo.com/why-he-may-not-get-away-this-time

 

OPINION: That red wave is looking more like a ripple. Here’s why.

https://lmtribune.com/opinion/opinion-that-red-wave-is-looking-more-like-a-ripple-here-s-why/article_22e27d75-d35e-5a1f-8613-a534e3496c8f.html

 

Politics, Affirmative Action, and the Court

https://www.populist.com/28.16.GNichol.html

 

The ‘Independent State Legislature Theory,’ Explained.  This dubious legal theory could have dramatic consequences for elections.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/independent-state-legislature-theory-explained

 

Five cases to watch as a conservative Supreme Court begins its new term

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3668846-five-cases-to-watch-as-a-conservative-supreme-court-begins-its-new-term/

 

How a Billionaire’s “Attack Philanthropy” Secretly Funded Climate Denialism and Right-Wing Causes

https://www.propublica.org/article/barre-seid-heartland-institute-hillsdale-college-gmu

 

Letters to the Editor: Justice in America; We Need Equitable Social Security; Constitutional Reform; Give Peace a Chance; Attention Mar-a-Lago Shoppers!; Who Saw Trump’s Purloined Papers?; Choose Choice Over Guns.

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Letters.html

 

Dispatches: GOP BEGS TRUMP TO SHOW SENATE CANDIDATES THE MONEY; DROPPING GAS PRICES HAVE R’S FRANTICALLY SEARCHING FOR NEW LINE OF ATTACK—AND CAMPAIGN FUNDS; YOUNG AMERICANS’ APPROVAL OF BIDEN SOARS AFTER STUDENT DEBT CANCELLATION; FOSSIL FUEL GIANTS TARGETED ACTIVISTS WITH ‘JUDICIAL HARASSMENT’: REPORT; PUBLIC DISSATISFACTION WITH US HEALTHCARE SYSTEM POINTS TO NEED FOR ‘PUBLIC OPTION.’; CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS PRETENDS HE’S STILL IN CHARGE OF SUPREME COURT; JUDGE BLOCKS ARIZONA LAW LIMITING FILMING OF POLICE; POLITICO’S NEW MAVERICK PUBLISHER IS A BIG FAN OF TRUMP, MUSK, NONPARTISAN CONTRARIAN CENTRISM.

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Dispatches.html

 

Froma Harrop: Donald Trump to the Democrats' rescue.  From the commentary: No, Trump is not going to give up his massive spotlight, not for the good of the party, much less America. It's Trump to the rescue for Democrats, though. That could finally pull the plug on him.

https://www.wctrib.com/opinion/columns/froma-harrop-donald-trump-to-the-democrats-rescue

 

MAGA’s War on Public Servants

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Young.html

 

Robert B. Reich: The most important battle of our lifetimes

https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-reich-09072022-20220903-ujnay6q4m5arjo6ux52ycor3mq-story.html

 

A Christian nationalist wave is testing U.S. secularism, overlapping religion and politics like never before

A nation of “blue religion and red religion” is causing some Americans to lose faith — and others to win elections.

https://www.grid.news/story/politics/2022/09/28/a-christian-nationalist-wave-is-testing-us-secularism-overlapping-religion-and-politics-like-never-before/

 

Supreme Court declines to hear case on DOJ ‘filter teams’ used in Trump search

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3671767-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-case-on-doj-filter-teams-used-in-trump-search/

 

'Both Parties-ism' Is Akin to 'Both Sides-ism'

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Cintli.html

 

Equality and Justice Would Be Nice

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Uretsky.html

 

The Conservative Deregulation Project

https://www.populist.com/28.17.OLeary.html

 

How many of her emails were classified? Actually, zero

https://www.timesrepublican.com/opinion/columnists/2022/09/how-many-of-her-emails-were-classified-actually-zero/

 

Was Joe Right to Drop the F-Bomb? (No, the Other F-Bomb.)

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Polman.html

 

Stiehm: Jan. 6 justice done — and alive again

https://www.standard.net/opinion/national-commentary/2022/sep/09/stiehm-jan-6-justice-done-and-alive-again/

 

What Karen Santorum’s ‘Abortion’ Teaches Us

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Friedman.html

 

Talking Common Sense To Voters

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Lingo.html

 

Make Congress Accountable

https://nader.org/2022/08/26/make-congress-accountable/

 

Will this Autumn Lead to Democracy’s Fall?

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/8/will_this_autumn_lead_to_democracys

 

Opinion  How reactionary is MAGA? Try the first century B.C.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/07/jd-vance-fascist-roman-imperialist-caesar/

 

WHOA: Dr. Oz’s campaign suffers CRUSHING blow with bombshell news - Oct 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=445yfolsK58

 

Was Trump Just Petty Criminal Playing Mob Boss? Featuring Michael Cohen - Oct 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY3SzgvF1bA

 

Will Congress Stop SCOTUS Before It's Too Late? - Oct 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3WoqocXlnU

 

Fetterman Hits Oz With Simpsons-Themed Attack Ad | Oz’s Dark History With Animals Uncovered - Oct 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCnWMeW91yw

 

As Christianity fades in America, why are prominent Republicans embracing Christian nationalism?

For most Americans, the quasi-theocratic movement is less appealing by the day. For Republicans, it’s increasingly the message.

https://www.grid.news/story/politics/2022/10/03/christian-nationalism-is-having-a-moment-experts-say-it-puts-democracy-at-risk/

 

Has the C.I.A. Done More Harm Than Good?  In the agency’s seventy-five years of existence, a lack of accountability has sustained dysfunction, ineptitude, and lawlessness.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/has-the-cia-done-more-harm-than-good

 

Why Fascism Isn’t Italy’s Biggest Problem: The American press has overhyped Giorgia Meloni’s fascist ties—and underhyped what a wreck the country has become under a series of populist “saviors.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/167940/fascism-italy-giorgio-meloni-media

 

Watch Rachel Maddow Highlights: Oct. 3 - Oct 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKp0qOaQvH8

 

Criminally deceptive

https://popular.info/p/criminally-deceptive?r=512c7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

 

Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in legal fight over special master

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3673943-trump-asks-supreme-court-to-intervene-in-legal-fight-over-special-master/

 

Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago documents case: Trump's request would put about 100 potentially classified documents back into the special master review.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/04/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-intervene-in-mar-a-lago-documents-case-00060300

 

Walker is RIGHT AT HOME in the MAGA-GOP - Oct 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkUEf--SDw

 

Mary Trump: Everything Donald Has Done Is A 'Prelude To Worse Things To Come' - Oct 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJQMGe2b0ys

 

Trump loyalists block probe into 'serious' allegations about Chinese campaign contributions

https://www.rawstory.com/cindy-yang-donald-trump/

 

Pete Buttigieg HUMILIATES Marjorie Taylor Greene ON FOX - Oct 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV7B5RWoeu4

 

Neal Katyal & Glenn Kirschner: Shut the F Up!? Some Trump White House Docs Still Missing. - Oct 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSLH3lOdGMQ

 

H.Res.1243 - Of inquiry requesting the President transmit certain documents in his possession to the House of Representatives relating to the Biden family's international business schemes and related information.  This resolution requests the President to transmit to the House of Representatives certain documents in his possession relating to specified individuals, including Biden family members; certain business entities connected to Biden family members or associates; specified property in the District of Columbia; foreign financial accounts of the individuals or entities; or any money laundering violations involving the individuals, entities, or property.  07/21/2022 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.  09/20/2022 - Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.  Ordered to be Reported Unfavorably in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 19.  09/26/2022 - Reported adversely (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Reform. H. Rept. 117-495.  Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 112.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/1243

 

The Supreme Court Might Be on the Brink of Making Corruption Easier—Again: Percoco v. United States would seem to be a pretty clear-cut case of political bribery. That the justices are even willing to hear it is a bad sign.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167949/supreme-court-corruption-percoco

 

The Run-Up Live with Cody Keenan - Oct 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKlLJ-RmKNY

 

Who Will Win the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature?  If Haruki Murakami wins, I will eat one of his fancy T-shirts.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167921/will-win-2022-nobel-prize-literature

 

Mobilize For Midterms.  Use Your Voice To Support Critical 2022 Candidates!  There are a lot of candidates running this fall, but we’ve narrowed down the list to the most important races.

https://demcast.com/midterms/

 

Why Rep. Cheney Will Go Down As A Titan Of 'Leadership And Integrity' - Oct 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3lifflMHtQ

 

PA Democratic Rep. Dean: “DeJoy Should Have Been Removed” | The Mehdi Hasan Show - Oct 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGSSquyI0s4

 

Prof. Laurence Tribe: Trump’s Special Master Appeal Is A ‘Sideshow’ - Oct 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B53KJnDPHfY

 

Inside McConnell and Murkowski’s battle over Trump’s impeachment

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3675410-inside-mcconnell-and-murkowskis-battle-over-trumps-impeachment%ef%bf%bc/

 

Maybe Federal Law Clerk Hiring Practices Should—Just Spitballing Here—Be More Normal?  A recent spat between a judge and Yale Law School forces us to consider whether the federal judiciary should continue to be a spoils system for the well connected.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167969/james-ho-yale-judicial-hiring

 

Young women are trending liberal. Young men are not

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3675477-young-women-are-trending-liberal-young-men-are-not/

 

Sasse to retire from Senate, become University of Florida president

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3677065-sasse-to-retire-from-senate-become-university-of-florida-president/

 

How Giorgia Meloni’s Win in Italy Helps Us Understand a US Senate Race: The formula: Meld right-wing economic populism with culture wars.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/how-giorgia-melonis-win-in-italy-helps-us-understand-a-us-senate-race/

 

John Brennan: Government Might Not Know What Documents Are Still Missing - Oct 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Br_mNxWvE

 

Liz Cheney Says Arizona GOP Candidates Threaten Democracy: PHOENIX (AP) — Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday said the Republican candidates for Arizona governor and secretary of state pose a huge risk for democracy because both say they will refuse to certify election results if they don't like the results.

https://nowthisnews.com/news/liz-cheney-says-arizona-gop-candidates-threaten-democracy

 

The Problem With Herschel Walker and His Republican Enablers Is Not Their Hypocrisy: The Georgia Senate candidate’s travails have neatly illuminated the GOP’s ugly core.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168035/herschel-walker-mcconnell-midterms-hypocrisy

 

American Christianity Is on a Path Toward Being a Tool of Theocratic Authoritarianism: As nonevangelical faiths lose adherents, it won’t be too long before the vast majority of Christians in America are seriously right wing. This is not good.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167972/american-christianity-path-toward-tool-theocratic-authoritarianism

 

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Deft Legal Reasoning Collides With Political Reality: The rave reviews that the newest Supreme Court justice received on her debut were well deserved, but they’ve created a set of outsize expectations that she can never fulfill.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168009/ketanji-brown-jackson-oral-arguments

 

Rep. Jamie Raskin: This Is What A Violent Insurrection Looks Like - Oct 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8kKLrGqk8Q

 

Judge rules to extend block on Ohio's 'heartbeat' abortion ban - Oct 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRQb6SMPZgw

 

Report: Walker encouraged woman to have second abortion

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-herschel-walker-congress-government-and-politics-9d7d9c68a802169994b9db719d8256c0

 

Arizona appeals court temporarily blocks enforcement of near-total abortion ban

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/arizona-abortion-ban-appeals-court/index.html

 

Is Gretchen Whitmer the Democrats’ Next Presidential Nominee?  The Republicans’ MAGA lunacy is making reelection a breeze for the Michigan governor. And if Biden opts out—or loses—in 2024, she may be the party’s next standard-bearer.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167979/gretchen-whitmer-2022-reelection-presidential-nominee-2024

 

A Lost Manuscript Shows the Fire Barack Obama Couldn’t Reveal on the Campaign Trail

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/obama-lost-book-manuscript.html

 

Oath Keepers and the GOP; No Q&A Today – October 7, 2022

https://lucid.substack.com/p/oath-keepers-and-the-gop-no-q-and

 

Freethought Equality Fund PAC 2022 ENDORSEMENTS

http://freethoughtequality.org/2022-endorsements/

 

Can We Transcend the Morality Police?  Morality is not something that can truly be “enforced” by violence. We must find it in our hearts.

https://www.laprogressive.com/the-middle-east/transcending-the-morality-police

 

The Crushing of American Socialism: The Never-Ending Impact of a Forgotten Blitzkrieg Against the American Left

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/the-crushing-of-american-socialism

 

How Voting Systems Work: Vulnerabilities and Mitigation.  Our new report explains how the vote-counting pathways in the latest generation of election systems works, their technical vulnerabilities, and some remedies.

https://www.laprogressive.com/election-reform-campaigns/how-voting-systems-work

 

Free Assange, Mumia and Palestine-Rally in Berkeley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VXdpS0MnnM

 

Look Out, Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson Came to Play: Clarence Thomas sat silent for years before he said a word. The court’s newest justice came out swinging at her first hearing.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168039/ketanji-brown-jackson-first-case-alabama-gerrymandering

 

Trump told advisors last year he'd return Mar-a-Lago files in exchange for 'sensitive' documents about the FBI probe of his 2016 campaign's ties to Russia: NYT

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-mar-a-lago-files-2016-fbi-russia-investigation-archives-2022-10

 

The Midterms, by Bernie Sanders - Oct 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G1xBOuz8I8