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 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.
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.
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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The Prairieland 19 Case is a Test for Criminalizing Dissent
Nine members of the “Prairieland 19,” anti-ICE protesters in Texas who the Trump administration is dubiously accusing of domestic terrorism, are going on trial this week. The case is a test for how easily Trump might criminalize dissent going forward.
- 02/12/2026
War is 100% “America” and Michigan Wants its Fair Share
Questioning war and why we fight is imperative. It will require a courageous confrontation with a powerful taboo, a palpable force field that snarls and growls. But this is the end of the line. War at this scale is ecocide, a death wish.





