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The right to vote is more important then owning property or guns This week, Georgia passed the most restrictive voter suppression legislation since Jim Crow. In actuality, the Georgia legislature proves that Jim Crow never completely ended. It's alive and well today, in part, and its principal proponent is the GOP.

Why Is America Not Holding the COVID Hitman Accountable? Greg Abbot thinks he can get away with murder because Trump did — At least so far…

More & more Americans are figuring out their feigned-outrage 40-year old scam Now that “conservative ideas” have been so badly discredited, Republicans are resorting back to Big Lie and faux outrage techniques to try to hold their base together.

Cranking up the culture wars won’t stop the destruction of our democracy…but it might win elections So, while the Senate was debating Joe Manchin's proposal to cut back unemployment benefits to Americans whacked by the coronavirus, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was reading Dr. Seuss out loud.

If we don’t stop Republican obstruction democracy is doomed HR1, the For The People Act, is probably the most consequential piece of legislation of the century. Consequential, at least, in the positive sense: with GOP voter suppression efforts spreading across the country, the future of both the Democratic Party and democracy itself is on the line.

Americans “have got to know” if our last president conspired to commit treason and murder to end American democracy Did Donald Trump and some of the people around him conspire to have others murder the Vice President and Speaker of the House in order to hold power and conceal his crimes for another four years? Time and evidence will eventually prove or disapprove that question, but the evidence before us right now is pretty grim.

At this critical moment there is something you can do. It’s no coincidence that in this same month that Republican state legislatures have introduced over 250 proposed laws to make it harder for people to vote, Arizona Republicans are also standing before the US Supreme Court trying to make voting more complicated, as well. There’s a long and largely hidden history here.

History shows that unions are the most powerful way to build a healthy and vibrant middle-class Joe Biden just took a remarkable step toward restoring the American middle class: he openly defended the right of workers in Alabama to unionize their Amazon facility.

If Biden & Harris don't act now, the window will close It looks like President Joe Biden is going to cave on the $15 an hour minimum wage. And it looks like Chuck Schumer is going to cave on ending the filibuster. While these are disappointing failures to progressives because of the harm they’ll do to working people, they’re also extraordinarily dangerous to the future of American democracy.

The terrorism we feared after 9/11 has now come to America but it came from within — it’s time to crush it It’s time for American media to tell the truth about what’s happening in the GOP: As the Republican Party continues to embrace Donald Trump and his white supremacist fascist ideology, that party is making the transition into a full-blown domestic-terror-supporting organization. No American political party should ever condone terrorists within its ranks.