Democracy • Democratic Party • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power

Jay Kuo — The Status Kuo

Trump’s “Meet the Press” Tantrum Also Revealed His Midterm Plans

His attacks on California’s ongoing vote count are really about challenging the November midterms results.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Journalism • Social Media • Technology

Resistance Media

The Coup Starts in Your Feed

How Malicious AI Swarms Could Steal the Midterms

Corruption • Democracy • Elections • Financial • Legal • Regulations

Harold Meyerson — American Prospect

Hawaii Just Found a Way to Keep Corporations Out of Politics

A new law makes clear that corporations derive their powers from states, and they don’t necessarily include the right to spend on elections.

Culture • Democracy • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Resistance • White Supremacy

Richard Schrader — Bad Energy

Orban Turns to Dust

What a world, what a world.

Culture • Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Journalism • Resistance

Andrew Perez — Zeteo

Graham Platner Will Be Maine’s Democratic Senate Nominee

Zeteo broke the news of Platner’s campaign launch. Now the anti-war, anti-Israel oysterman is Democrats’ presumptive Senate nominee in Maine, after Governor Janet Mills suspended her candidacy.

Democracy • Elections • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • White Supremacy

William J. Barber, II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove — Our Moral Moment

Why Authoritarians Fear Moral Resistance

Where to look for hope as the legal victories of America’s moral movements are dismantled.

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Health

The Big Picture and Jay Kuo — The Big Picture

The MAHA-MAGA Breakup

The political marriage brokered by RFK Jr. was doomed from the get-go. And Republicans may pay a steep electoral price in November.

Democracy • Elections • Europe • Fascism

Jason Stanley — Front Left

Hungary shows the US needs a progressive to beat fascism

And not an American Peter Magyar.

Democracy • Elections • Legal • Resistance

Robert Reich — Robert Reich Substack

How to Impeach the Bastard, for Real

Now's the time to start organizing.

Democracy • Elections • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Resistance Media — Resistance Media (03/24/2026)

An Urgent Message to Indivisible

Is the NO KINGS coalition prepared for the national emergency straight ahead of us?

Democracy • Elections • Europe • Fascism • Global

Garry Kasparov — The Next Move

Hungary Is America in Miniature

Hungary's test is on Sunday. America's will come in November.

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

Doug Bock Clark — ProPublica

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms

“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.”

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Journalism • Social Media

Parker Molloy — The New Republic

The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism

Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal

Marc Elias — Democracy Docket

The DOJ's Fulton County Raid to Seize Ballots is Really About Future Elections

The department has demanded this highly sensitive data from all 50 states and has already sued 23 states, including DC, for refusing to comply. Pam Bondi even attempted to leverage the tragic killing of Alex Pretti to obtain this data from Minnesota.

Corruption • Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

The Last Election

The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.

Corruption • Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal

The Big Picture and Jay Kuo — The Big Picture

Trump Is Screwing with the Midterms. Will He Succeed?

Will Trump screw with the midterms? Will they be free and fair? Will we even have them?

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

The New York Times — The New York Times (Gift)

The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration Speech

"I stand alongside you, the tens of thousands gathered here in Lower Manhattan, warmed against the January chill by the resurgent flame of hope."

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Resistance

George A. Polisner — Leadership Matters

The Disappearing Thin Red Line

For decades, Republicans have relied on a rebranded cycle of political marketing—Silent Majority, Reagan Revolution, Moral Majority, Tea Party, MAGA—all designed to divide voters along emotional fault lines while stealthily consolidating wealth and power at the top.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Elections • Financial • Technology

Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims — Popular Information

The AI industry’s $100 million play to influence the 2026 elections

LTF has already secured more than $100 million, including $50 million from venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and another $50 million from OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections

Marianne Williamson — TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson (12/01/25)

Democrats, Look in the Mirror

Nothing less will be sufficient.

Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power

Anna Merlan — Mother Jones

Majorie Taylor Greene No Longer Trusts the Plan

After feuding with Trump, the congresswoman resigns and casts doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted on her way out the door.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Katrina Vanden Heuvel, John NIchols for The Nation — The Nation

From Mission Impossible to Mister Mayor

If Zohran Mamdani governs as he campaigned, he will prove that the people have the power to shape their own future.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections

Mike Brock — Notes from the Circus

The Democratic Establishment Is a Dead Man Walking

The entire Democratic establishment infrastructure built on donor dependency and focus-group optimization and managing coalitions through accommodation—all of it dead.

Corruption • Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

David A. Graham — The Atlantic (Gift)

Trump's Plan to Subvert the Midterms is Already Under Way

Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

Corruption • Democracy • Elections • Financial • Legal

Natalie Jonas — Open Secrets

Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark money

The proposed amendment to the state Constitution redefines what is considered legitimate business activity and acceptable corporate donations by limiting corporate charters.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Financial • Social Justice and Equity

Michael Beyea Reagan — In These Times

The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Trump—It’s Wall Street

Wall Street destroyed New York City’s social welfare economy in 1975. Avoiding that fate under Mayor Mamdani will require popular movements to discipline the super rich.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Social Justice and Equity

Frank Rich — New York Magazine

The Power Breaker

Why the Democratic Party, the New York Times, and the donor class got Zohran Mamdani so wrong.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Human Rights • Resistance

Tom Perkins — The Guardian

Democratic US Senate candidate seeks to replicate Mamdani’s success

Abdul El-Sayed’s bid for Michigan senator centers on bold leftwing populism similar to the NYC mayoral candidate

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Economy • Elections • Financial • Technology

Daniel Pinchbeck — Liminal News

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Occult

How Dominion's sale, the AI bubble, and ecological collapse reveal the occult logic behind America's authoritarian acceleration

Democracy • Elections • Fascism • Legal • Resistance

Christopher Armitedge — The Existential Republic

What Happens When Trump Tries to Cancel the Election?

Here's how we stop it from happening.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Resistance

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

From Silence to Spotlight: How a Democratic Shadow Cabinet Could Break Trump’s Spell

Voters don’t rally behind policy papers: they rally behind leaders they can see and believe in. Democrats must end the era of weak, divided messaging and rise with a chorus of commanding voices…

Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Resistance

Micah L. Sifry — The Connector

Keep Calm and Protect Democracy

Instead of "catastrophizing" ourselves into despair, pay attention to the regime's weaknesses, including among the MAGA base.

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • White Supremacy

John Knefel, Research Sophie Lawton — Media Matters

Steve Bannon just laid out the MAGA media playbook to subvert the midterms

The right-wing media plan for undermining the 2026 elections includes pushing for ICE to stalk polling sites and sending a band of election deniers on tour

Democracy • Economy • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Chris Armitage — The Existential Republic

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

Democracy • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal

The Big Picture and Jay Kuo — The Big Picture

Trump Plans To Steal the Midterms

Trump intends to undo the will of the voters in next year’s midterm elections. But there’s still time and a way to stop him.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Resistance

Aaron Regunberg — The New Republic

Establishment Democrats Are Going to Torpedo the 2026 Midterms

Having failed to learn the key lesson from last year’s defeat, party leaders are promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next year’s elections.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Legal

Eleanor Klibanoff — The Texas Tribune

Texas GOP flexes power to shut down Democrats' last tool of resistance

“To one degree or another, to be successful as a Republican, you have to emulate Trump’s speech, his attitude and take directions from the White House.”

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Resistance

Jared Abbott and Bhaskar Sunkara — The Guardian

A new generation of populists is showing Democrats how to defeat Trump

In difficult races, Democrats are leaning into economic populism with promising results

Democracy • Disinformation • Economy • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

Paul Krugman

Trump is Getting Desperate

We're in an extremely dangerous moment.

Democracy • Elections • Legal • Social Justice and Equity • White Supremacy

Brian Tyler Cohen

Supreme Court poised to permanently entrench Republican rule

The latest move by SCOTUS is a "five alarm fire"

Democracy • Elections • Financial

Esther Eriksson von Allmen — CREW

Corporate America has largely abandoned its post-January 6 promises on democracy

“By continuing to financially support anti-democratic lawmakers, these companies and trade groups fail to grasp the serious business consequences of such a dangerous political trajectory.”

Democratic Party • Disinformation • Elections • Fascism • Legal • Russia

Olga Lautman — Olga Lautman Substack

From Campaign Rhetoric to Fascist Threats: Trump Targets Obama

And YES, Russia attacked the 2016 election to install Trump

Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Legal

Jen Rice — Democracy Docket

Dems to Fight Texas’ ‘Illegal, Unconstitutional and Egregious Effort to Rig the Elections’

Republicans already hold 25 out of Texas’ 38 congressional seats – a much higher share of seats than their vote-share in the state should net.

Democracy • Elections • Executive Power • Legal • Regulations

Democracy Docket

Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift

Today, rather than standing up for voting access, Trump's DOJ is supporting and defending voter suppression laws and bringing new lawsuits to impose stricter voting rules.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Europe • Fascism • Global • White Supremacy

John Feffer — Common Dreams

Elon Musk's New Far-Right Nazi Party for America

It’s the opposite of Trump, who was interested only in building a vehicle for his own self-advancement. Musk is far more dangerous.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Disinformation • Elections • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Justice and Equity

Janine Jackson — FAIR

‘Media and Corporate Power Structures See Genuine Democracy as a Terrible Danger’

CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats

Democracy • Elections • Legal

Mark Bauer — Rank The Vote

How Michigan Is Organizing for Ranked Choice Voting

Getting RCV on the ballot isn’t easy. It’s a complex, legally binding process. The campaign must collect hundreds of thousands of valid signatures in a tight window of time. Every volunteer counts.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Social Justice and Equity

Anand Giridharadas — The.Ink

What Zohran Can Teach Democrats

This was not an airwaves campaign. It was a stoop campaign. As obvious as this might seem, it’s a lesson that keeps going unlearned.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Legal

Ross Rosenfeld — The New Republic

Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms

With Trump’s help, Republicans across the country are sowing doubt about next year’s congressional elections—and gearing up for 2028.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Resistance

Anand Giridharadas — The.Ink

A cure for Trumpism: Radical empathy and radical change

Some reflections on Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s playbook for a post-Trump America

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