• Democratic Party • Elections • Social Justice and Equity

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    New York Magazine

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  • Democratic Party • Elections • Human Rights

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    Tom Perkins

    The Guardian

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  • Economy • Elections • Financial

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Occult

    Daniel Pinchbeck

    Liminal News

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

  • Elections • Fascism

    What Happens When Trump Tries to Cancel the Election?

    Christopher Armitedge

    The Existential Republic

    Here's how we stop it from happening.

  • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power

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

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    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…

  • Democratic Party • Elections

    Keep Calm and Protect Democracy

    Micah L. Sifry

    The Connector

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

  • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal

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

    John Knefel, Research Sophie Lawton

    Media Matters

    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

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

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

    Chris Armitage

    The Existential Republic

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

  • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

    Trump Plans To Steal the Midterms

    The Big Picture and Jay Kuo

    The Big Picture

    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.

  • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections

    Establishment Democrats Are Going to Torpedo the 2026 Midterms

    Aaron Regunberg

    The New Republic

    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.

  • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power

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

    Eleanor Klibanoff

    The Texas Tribune

    “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.”

  • Democratic Party • Elections

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

    Jared Abbott and Bhaskar Sunkara

    The Guardian

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

  • Economy • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

    Trump is Getting Desperate

    Paul Krugman

    Paul Krugman

    We're in an extremely dangerous moment.

  • Democracy • Elections • Social Justice and Equity

    Supreme Court poised to permanently entrench Republican rule

    Brian Tyler Cohen

    Brian Tyler Cohen

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  • Elections • Financial

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

    Esther Eriksson von Allmen

    CREW

    “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.”

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