Democracy
The Strongman’s Test Run, and Why the Next Deployment Will Be Bigger, Longer & Deadlier
Thom Hartmann
The Hartmann Report
Deploying troops without police training, defying the courts, and threatening the media, Trump is importing dictator tactics in plain sight and daring Americans to stop him...
Published On: 08/13/2025
Democracy • Resistance
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.
Published On: 08/13/2025
Democracy • Legal
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.”
Published On: 08/12/2025
Culture • Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Recommended
Hostile Takeover
Kenny Ausubel
Bioneers
At this hinge moment when the climate emergency demands an immediate systemic civilizational overhaul, this retrograde counter-revolution is working to drill, baby, drill, make feudalism great again, and colonize Mars.
Published On: 08/06/2025
Democracy
Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse
The New Republic and Greg Sargent
The New Republic
A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.
Published On: 08/02/2025
Democracy
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.”
Published On: 07/29/2025
Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom
The Paramount Skydance Sale Makes the Case for Public Media
Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders Substack
We must radically recommit to public media before every newsroom, every voice, is up for sale to the highest bidder or the ruling party’s favorite mogul. The time is now.
Published On: 07/25/2025
Corruption • Democracy
Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
Greg Sargent
The New Republic
The Oregon Democrat said that his investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged to the Treasury Department $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers involving Epstein, much of which appeared to be related to his massive sex-trafficking network.
Published On: 07/23/2025





