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…
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#CodgerPower – You Want a Civil War? Mess With Social Security and Medicare, Republicans
Critical Pennsylvania Senate Race Tightens as Election Day Nears
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
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
Staff Report – PHILADELPHIA, Pa. â 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”…
Trump Fiddled While the United States Capitol was Overrun
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ Remains a ‘Clear and Present Danger’ to American Democracy
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’
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?
Trump’s Criminal Presidency Returns to Prime Time
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Donald Trump’s criminal presidency will be back on the news tube front and center Thursday night when the House Select Committee investigating the seditious insurrection and unprecedented attack on the United States government and Capitol convenes the first hearing to begin showing its evidence to the American people.…
Trump’s First Amendment Lawsuit Against Twitter Dismissed by Federal Judge
The First Amendment Guarantee of ‘Free Speech’ Only Applies to Government Censorship, Not Moderation by Private Social Media Companies – By Glynn Wilson – In an important ruling that should make it clear to the American people why the Constitutional right of free speech does not apply to private companies, including social media platforms like…
Building the ‘Big Lie’ – Inside the Creation of Trump’s Stolen Election Myth
By Doug Bock Clark, Alexandra Berzon and Kirsten Berg – ProPublica – By the time Leamsy Salazar sat down in front of a video recorder in a lawyer’s office in Dallas, he had grown accustomed to divulging state secrets. After swearing to tell nothing but the truth so help him God, he recounted that he…
Let’s Recall What Exactly Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani Were Doing in Ukraine
President Trump’s former campaign chairman and former lawyer worked with, between them, a deposed authoritarian president, a bevy of oligarchs, Russia-oriented politicians and alleged Russian spies. By Ilya Marritz ProPublica. Though Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is just days old, Russia has been working for years to influence and undermine the independence of its smaller…
In State of the Union Address, Biden Focuses on Standing up to Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Controlling the Pandemic, Strengthening the Economy and Fighting Climate Change
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden stood before Congress Tuesday night and aside from a few stumbled words, delivered a commanding performance calling on all Americans, from all parties, every member of Congress, to stand up to Russia on behalf of Ukraine, to get onboard with his plan to fix the economy,…