• Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

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

    Doug Bock Clark

    ProPublica

    “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.”

  • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

    The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism

    Parker Molloy

    The New Republic

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

  • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

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

    Marc Elias

    Democracy Docket

    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.

  • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Social Justice and Equity

    The Last Election

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    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.

  • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

    Trump Is Screwing with the Midterms. Will He Succeed?

    The Big Picture and Jay Kuo

    The Big Picture

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

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

    The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration Speech

    The New York Times

    The New York Times (Gift)

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

  • Elections • Executive Power

    The Disappearing Thin Red Line

    George A. Polisner

    Leadership Matters

    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.

  • Elections • Financial • Technology

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

    Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims

    Popular Information

    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.

  • Democratic Party • Elections

    Democrats, Look in the Mirror

    Marianne Williamson

    TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson (12/01/25)

    Nothing less will be sufficient.

  • Elections • Executive Power

    Majorie Taylor Greene No Longer Trusts the Plan

    Anna Merlan

    Mother Jones

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

  • Democratic Party • Elections • Social Justice and Equity

    From Mission Impossible to Mister Mayor

    Katrina Vanden Heuvel, John NIchols for The Nation

    The Nation

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

  • Democratic Party • Elections

    The Democratic Establishment Is a Dead Man Walking

    Mike Brock

    Notes from the Circus

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

  • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

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

    David A. Graham

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

  • Elections • Financial

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

    Natalie Jonas

    Open Secrets

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

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

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

    Michael Beyea Reagan

    In These Times

    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.

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