The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Biden's Declaration that Pandemic is 'Over' Hurts Struggling Workers the Most
The announcement could end pandemic-related federal safety net programs that millions of struggling Americans are still counting on to meet basic needs like food and shelter.
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New Leak Outing Cops as Members of Hate Group Confirms Need for Reform
An explosive report by the Anti-Defamation League reveals that more than 300 current or former elected officials and law enforcement professionals are members of the Oath Keepers, a militant white supremacist and anti-Semitic group seeking to instigate a new civil war.
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The Threat of Republican Fascism, Part III: Why Grassroots Direct Action Is Needed Now
If we seek to prevent large-scale violence against a unified fascist government, it’s important to make it impossible for fascists to unify.
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The Threat of Republican Fascism, Part II: The War on Fair Elections
It isn’t hyperbole to say that 2022 will be the year where Americans decide whether we want democracy or authoritarianism.
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The Threat of Republican Fascism, Part I: Vigilantism as a Political Tool
If the budding fascist movement that’s taken over the Republican Party takes over Congress in 2022, it’s likely that an emboldened Donald Trump could win back the presidency in 2024 and kill democracy for good.
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The worst president
“On Jan. 20, we can still presume Trump will be gone from the White House.”
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The ‘Great Reset’ is both a neoliberal fantasy and a right wing conspiracy theory
So many ordinary people choose to believe in grotesque conspiracy theories and often blame others rather than the deeply flawed free market system.
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Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro: This Rightwing Coronavirus Troika Fails to Respect Human Life
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
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Trump-Linked U.S. Christian ‘Fundamentalists’ Pour Millions of ‘Dark Money’ into Europe, Boosting the Far Right
A dozen American groups have poured at least $50 million of dark money into Europe over the last decade, backing "armies" of ultra-conservative lawyers, political activists and far right parties themselves.
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What Republicans and Billionaires Really Mean When They Talk About ‘Freedom’
If you ask the Koch brothers and their buddies—who slap those words "freedom" and "liberty" on pretty much everything they do—you’d get a definition that largely has to do with being “free” from taxation and regulation.
