2025 Archives

Stopping Politicians from Choosing Their Own Voters As noted earlier, the Supreme Court in 2019 threw open the door to political gerrymandering by whichever party can gain control of a state in an election year ending in 0 (the Constitution requires a census and reapportionment every decade). Legislation should be passed explicitly overturning this decision and providing for “good government” nonpartisan commissions to draw legislative districts.

Welcome to the Hunger Games: This is what happens when government shrinks... They’re lying to us again. The American government isn’t too big or too bloated: it’s too small. And the result of it being too small is a steady erosion of Americans’ freedom over the past forty-four years. As Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his March, 1933 inaugural address: “A necessitous man is not a free man.”

By Greg Palast for The Hartmann Report Greg Palast is a forensic economist and recipient of the Global Editors Award for Data Journalism. Watch Palast's latest film, "Vigilantes Inc: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen," produced by George DiCaprio and Martin Sheen. You can ignore Trump slyly hinting to the Lord's chosen that he just might call off the next election. "Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians." But don't ignore this: Trump won't be calling off the election because he doesn't have to. The Fix for 26 is already in. The Republican plan is to win next year's election this year. Yes, the voting will be bent, jacked and hammered this year, 2025, one year before the official voting. Because this is the year of The Great Purge. And if The Great Purge doesn't do the trick, Republicans are ramping up other vote suppression tactics they rolled out to win 2024, including a private army of MAGA-nauts who challenged over a million voters' ballots in 2024 and plan on way more by the 2026 midterm.

History warns us: When authoritarians seize power, they often light the match themselves... Get ready. The resistance to billionaires running our government is growing. Bernie Sanders is touring the Red State Midwest and drawing massive crowds. Federal workers are pissed. Republican politicians are in hiding, refusing to do town halls even when their constituents demand them or try to set them up.