Politics

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…

Maryland Elects Its First Black Governor, as Voting Problems Plague Some Key States

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of people who waited until Election Day to vote cast their ballots on Tuesday in an American democratic tradition that is historically strained, to say the least, while millions more voted early by mail and in person, hoping to avoid any last minute problems or even violence…

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…

#CodgerPower – You Want a Civil War? Mess With Social Security and Medicare, Republicans

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — This is it folks. Another major turning point in our lives in this crazy 21st century hellscape world. It’s been a strange week since I came down from the mountains and set up camp inside the Beltway again just in time for Halloween and…

New Polls Show Definite Backlash Against Herschel Walker for Abortion Scandal in Georgia Senate Race

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By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – Four new polls all show a clear backlash against Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker not only for the abortion scandal, but also domestic abuse allegations used in political ads against Walker over the past couple of months. New polls from the Trafalgar Group, Quinnipiac University, Emerson College…

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…

Conservative Supreme Court Back in Session Facing Historically Low Public Approval

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By Glynn Wilson – Look out people. The United States Supreme Court is about to go back into session and more rights are on the line as the high court faces the lowest public approval in American history. According to the latest Gallup poll, nearly 60 percent of Americans disapprove of this conservative court, made…

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…

Democrats in the United States Senate Unite on Sunday to Pass Historic Climate Legislation, Lower Drug Costs and Tax Corporations

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By Glynn Wilson – If you care about democracy and the planet, you should be singing “Hallelujah” on Sunday night as a historic package of bills addressing the climate and energy emergency passed in the United States Senate on Sunday by a vote of 51-50, legislation that will also reduce the price of prescription drugs…

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…

Cheney Says Trump Faces ‘Multiple’ Criminal Referrals, and Hints the Justice Department Should Not Wait

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Staff Report – BREAKING NEWS – Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney strongly indicated Sunday in a national television interview that multiple criminal referrals were in the offing against former President Donald Trump, and gave the go ahead nod to the Department of Justice not to wait. “The Justice Department doesn’t have to wait for the committee…

Trump Ordered Washington Security to ‘Stand Down’ on Jan. 6, according to Sworn Testimony

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By Glynn Wilson – As we reported back in January, 2021 — now proved with evidence in testimony from a high level aide to Donald Trump’s last chief of staff as president who was in the room – Trump ordered the entire security infrastructure of Washington and the United States Capitol building to “stand down”…

Trump Tried to Manipulate Justice, Senate Passes Gun Bill, Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Something in the tumblers of the universe just shifted, and at least here in the United States, shockwaves began moving across the landscape between the waning hours of Thursday, June 23, and hit the land hard on Friday afternoon and Saturday, June 24-25, 2022. Days that will…

Trump’s Attempted Coup in Search of a Legal Theory Involved a Pressure Campaign with Threats of Violence and Death

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Staff Report – Donald Trump’s attempt to hold onto power even though he knew he lost the 2020 election was described as “a coup in search of a legal theory,” according a conclusion drawn by Adam Schiff of California, who led the questioning of witnesses Tuesday in the fourth gripping hearing of the Select House…

Poll: Nearly Sixty Percent of Americans Say Trump Should be Charged for Jan. 6 Insurrection

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A majority of Americans also think the Select Committee has been fair – Staff Report – Nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. The same number…

Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ Remains a ‘Clear and Present Danger’ to American Democracy

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By Glynn Wilson – Donald Trump’s big lie about the 2020 election and his big ripoff that continues remains a “clear and present danger to American democracy,” according to testimony before the House Select Committee investigating Trump’s insurrection by J. Michael Luttig, a retired conservative federal appeals court judge who advised Vice President Mike Pence…

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…

Will Liz Cheney Be the Unlikely Hero Who Saves Democracy One More Time?

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It Was Trump’s Plot All Along: Will We Hold Him Accountable? – By Glynn Wilson – The American experiment in democracy has been saved at critical points over the past 246 years by a number of brave actions, yes, but also a fair number of haphazard accidents — and a few political ironies. If this…