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Mississippi Congressman and NAACP Sue Trump and Giuliani for Inciting Violent Capitol Insurrection

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By Glynn Wilson – A prominent Congressman from Mississippi and the NAACP filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday under a historic law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act charging the 45th president and his lawyer with conspiring to incite the violent Capitol insurrection to prevent the official certification of election results. The…

The Show Must Go On: But Is it Time to Red-Light Marjorie Taylor Green?

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  You know, there was a time in this country when being openly batshit crazy and totally full of shit was something you at least tried to hide, especially if you harbored ambitions of holding public office. Not anymore. American politics, at least on the Republican side, really…

U.S. House Votes to Impeach Trump Again for Inciting Violent Insurrection

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By Glynn Wilson – House Speaker Nanci Pelosi didn’t waste any time in pursing a second article of impeachment against lame duck president Donald Trump after coming very close to being assassinated in the United State Capitol building last Wednesday by an armed and dangerous insurrectionist militia ordered to storm up Capitol Hill by a…

Congress Stands Up to Trump’s Angry Mob, Confirming Biden’s Electoral College Win

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Democrats Win Historic Victories in Georgia and Take Control of Power in the Senate – By Glynn Wilson – On a historic day when all Americans should be celebrating a great victory for democracy, that news according to the visual media at least was overshadowed by a gang of delusional rednecks led to a fake,…

Morning Calm in the Sunrise Orange Glow Over the Smoky Mountains

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Democrats Projected to Win Both U.S. Senate Campaigns in Georgia – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — My eyes eased open just before sunrise this morning to that pre-sunrise orange glow coming up over the smoky mountains in view from the upstairs window facing east toward the peaks. You know,…

The Final Say on 2020: White Christmas Quiet

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — As the sun comes up over the smokies, reflecting the first morning light off a thick layer of Christmas white snow covering the ground and the trees, it’s amazing how quiet it can be in a city. As much as we love remote mountain…

So Life Comes Down to This: A Trump Supreme Court Justice Who Doesn’t Even Believe in Democracy

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This Will Not Stand – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Since October 15, 1957, I’ve been fortunate to live on this amazing planet Earth as a citizen of the great country of the United States of America. When I first came out kicking and screaming in that little hospital…

Trump Is Going Down and We Will Dance on His Grave

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All over the district and beyond, there is a growing fantasy in the land among Democrats that Donald Trump is not only going to lose the 2020 election in a massive landslide, but that when he tries to cling to power anyway, he is…

White Supremacy Rises as a Political Factor in West North Carolina Congressional Race: A Microcosm of a Nation Divided

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By Glynn Wilson – ASHEVILLE, N.C. — In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, fall is in the air and the people are starting to pay attention to politics with less than 30 days to go before the election November 3. And just as white supremacy has come to the fore in Donald…

The Great Gatsby: You Can’t Repeat the Past

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Donald Trump, His Followers and These Times Through the Lens of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – How many of you have read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby and watched one or more versions of the movie adaptations of the story? This…

U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Blasts President Trump for Trying to Defund Medicare and Privatize Social Security

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By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama blasted President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a statement Saturday night in the wake of the president’s signing of executive orders claiming to extend unemployment benefits, in the absence of action in the Senate to provide a second round of stimulus…

House Judiciary Committee Announces Articles of Impeachment Against President Trump

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By Glynn Wilson – In a historic move designed to take on the out of control White House and curb abuses that could lead to tainted elections in 2020 rife with foreign influence, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee formally announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday for abuse of power…

U.S. Senator Richard Shelby Keeps His Powder Dry on Impeachment as House Republicans Vote With Democrats to Rebuke Trump for Syria Withdrawal

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Impeachment Trial Could Begin by Thanksgiving – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress returned to the nation’s capital after a fall recess on Tuesday and immediately got to work rebuking President Donald J. Trump for his sudden military withdrawal from Syria, while Republican Senators are increasingly being asked to take a stand on…

News Polls: A Majority of Americans Support Trump Impeachment Investigation

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in his highly controversial roller coaster ride of a presidency, Donald Trump may be in real trouble. The news about the new impeachment investigation launched by House Democrats has reached the American people, and now a solid majority of 55 percent support the inquiry,…

Congress Skips Town for Spring Break Without Passing Disaster Relief Aid Package

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By Glynn Wilson – As farmers and victims of floods, tornadoes and hurricanes desperately await financial aid from the federal government, members of Congress took off for a two week Spring Break this week without passing a disaster relief package, stymied in a compromise by a threatened presidential veto over more funding to help the…

Trump Feels Cornered, Yet He Still Refuses to Condemn Hate and Violence

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By Robert Reich – What does a megalomaniacal president of the United States do when he’s cornered? We’ll soon find out. House Democrats are beginning a series of investigations and hearings into Donald Trump. Senate Republicans have begun to desert him: Twelve defected on the wall; seven refused to back Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.…

Trump’s Fixer Michael Cohen’s Damning Testimony Before Congress Puts the Legal Fix In for Trump’s Downfall

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By Glynn Wilson – Mr. Donald J. Trump’s lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen may have laid down a corner stone of the legal fix that could bring down a president. Testifying in Washington before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday, Cohen established through documents and testimony a legal pattern of criminal conduct on the part of…

Every Day Is a New Low in Trump’s White House

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The president steps over bright ethical and moral lines wherever he encounters them. Everyone in America saw it when he fired my boss. But I saw it firsthand time and time again. Editor’s Note: Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI, was named acting director of the bureau after President Donald Trump fired…

Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe Makes the Case that Trump is ‘The Threat’

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SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson – Another Sunday morning, another disjointed show on Face the Nation, with moderator and CBS News senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan misframing the issues in the never ending pretense of mainstream media to be “fair and balanced” and appeal to Democrat and Republican viewers and please corporate advertisers.…

Does Immigration on the Southern Border of the U.S. Really Constitute a National Crisis?

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An emergency is defined as “a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.” By Julie Slama – After agreeing to sign bipartisan legislation passed by both houses of Congress to keep the government open and provide $1.375 billion for border fencing, not the wall Trump wanted and far less than the $5.7 billion…