African-American radio host Cleopatra Draper is worried. The victory of Democratic Socialist Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Democratic primary for US Senate has revealed a growing political schism between Black and Arabic voters. According to the Cook Report, Stevens … READ MORE
I watched the late night yucksters like Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers get a bunch of cheap guffaws out of Trump’s supposedly inept attempt at comedy at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but his performance was at a level that took him a step above comic geniuses. The audience of not-too-clever journalists didn’t get it, while … READ MORE
Thom Hartmann, the historian and talk show host, has put on his Sherlock Holmes’ deerstalker hat and discovered that the Citizens United decision was based on the fraudulent reporting of a key Supreme Court case way back in 1886. A corrupt clerk … READ MORE
I laughed when Trump announced that the Chinese “hacked” a hundred million US voter files — voter’s address, party preference etc. If China spent money to hack this info, they overspent because… READ MORE
In his new film, The Welcome Table, Josh Fox has traded the point-and-shoot of his seminal Gasland for lush cinematography on five continents. But it ain’t some Discovery Channel travelogue. Fox has brilliantly melded the burning issues of immigration and climate change. Even if you just think global warming is a bunch of hot air (pun intended), this documentary will just knock you out. … READ MORE
Heather Cox Richardson had it right about Graham Platner. What the hell were Democrats doing running this guy for the United States Senate?
We have a President with zero qualifications for the job, who had zero experience. So Democrats decided, Why not? Why can’t we put in a guy with zero experience, zero qualifications, since the… READ MORE
When it comes to America’s semiquincentennial birthday, I feel like someone whose husband has gotten fat and surly and announced he’s going vegan. You just have to keep reminding yourself of those Good Old Days when he was a promising … READ MORE
Just when the Democrats thought they had it clinched because of high gas prices from the “little excursion” in Iran, Trump pulls off one of the most brilliant political moves of the last 60 years … READ MORE
There’s something dangerous happening to American democracy and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. Sometimes it looks like a computer algorithm. Sometimes it looks like a letter telling you that your voter registration needs to be verified. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all. And that may… READ MORE
Yvette Nicole Brown has a secret weapon. But we’re not going to keep it a secret anymore. Because last week, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to Jim Crow the voter rolls, ruling that Donald Trump could make up the list of citizens who can vote. Think about that. America does not… READ MORE
Yes, that’s me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I’m celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert Carl Cohen, who is celebrating his 96th birthday this year. Bob is the legendary history making documentarian, the first… READ MORE
The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again. The attack on drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because … READ MORE
You’ve seen it in a dozen World War II movies. Some menacing German officer in a Hugo Boss trench coat stops the family / spy / hero / refugee to demand citizenship papers. And now, it’s baaack! Trump’s Executive Order 14399 requires Americans to “show me your citizenship papers” to vote. But you can fight this … READ MORE
This is why I was banned from The Guardian for several years. Beginning in 1997, I was an investigative reporter for The Guardian of Britain and a columnist in its Sunday paper The Observer. Until I was banned.Here’s the story that did it: “Two Symbols of American Capitalist Hegemony“
I was, as far as I know, the only … READ MORE
Since that moment when George W. Bush Jim-Crowed his way into the White House, I’ve been on the racist “vote suppression” beat. “Vote suppression” — a polite term for screwing Black people of their vote. And Hispanic, Asian, students — targets spreading like Covid. And after exposing one vicious voter-blocking trick after another, look where we are: it’s like the 1950s but with AI. Gestapo-style citizenship tests to vote, the Post Office used as … READ MORE
Leading up to the 2024 election, 4.7 million Americans were wiped off the voter rolls, a daylight robbery of democracy, an outcome not based on the will of the voters but on the cruel, racially poisoned trickery we politely call “vote suppression.” To prevent another electoral crime wave sabotaging the 2026 midterms, we’re launching the counterattack. Joined with… READ MORE
