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Democrats Hold Power in the Senate With Win in Nevada

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Late Vote Counting in Western States Favors Democrats, So Don’t Count Control of the House Out Yet – By Glynn Wilson – Political Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defying the historical odds and the predictions of every famous, mainstream pollster and media pundit in the United States who said the Republicans were surging in the…

Tennessee Disenfranchised 21 Percent of Its Black Citizens

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By Bianca Fortis – ProPublica – Leola Scott recently decided to become a more active citizen. The 55-year-old resident of Dyersburg, Tennessee, was driven to action after her son was stabbed to death and nobody was charged. In August, Scott tried to register to vote. That’s when she learned she’s not allowed to cast a…

Critical Pennsylvania Senate Race Tightens as Election Day Nears

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By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The fate of American democracy could once again rest on the shoulders of the good people of Pennsylvania, where it all began in Philadelphia and may well have been saved on a battlefield in Gettysburg. In some very real ways we are fighting another civil war for the…

President Biden Goes on the Offensive Against Violent Extremism

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Staff Report – PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Speaking in prime time outside Independence Hall where American democracy was forged, President Joe Biden went on the offensive Thursday night by issuing an unprecedented warning of a “clear and present danger to democracy,” declaring that our democratic values are under assault by forces of extremism loyal to “pseudo-fascist”…

President Biden Signs Historic Climate Legislation

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By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden triumphantly signed the signature Inflation Reduction Act on Tuesday in the State Dining Room of the White House, praising the legislation as among the most significant legislative achievements in the history of the country. The ambitious package of bills takes direct aim at tackling global warming and climate…

Trump Fiddled While the United States Capitol was Overrun

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“We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.” – Liz Cheney “Every American must consider this. Can a president who is willing to make the choices Donald Trump made during the violence of Jan. 6 ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?” –…

Democracy is the Silver Frame Upon Which the Golden Apple of Democracy Rests

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House Select Committee Investigating Trump’s Insurrection on Jan. 6 Provides Clear Evidence of Trump’s Culpability in Seventh Hearing – By Glynn Wilson – The obvious seditious conspiracy to halt the Electoral College vote certification on January 6, 2021, and to break the peaceful transfer of power for the first time, was planned and incited by…

How Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ Became the ‘Big Ripoff’

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Surely There is a Crime Here Somewhere – By Glynn Wilson – It’s the biggest grifter con in history, and it’s still going on. If the public doesn’t get this by now, American democracy is doomed. Maybe that’s Trump’s intent. Even the most creative writer in the world could not make this stuff up. Only…