2025 Archives

Voting is mandatory in Australia and Belgium—so why not here? Many people would loudly proclaim that compulsory voting is an anti-democratic idea, but it seems unlikely that anyone would argue that Australia and Belgium are dictatorships because they fine people who don’t vote. The $20 fine is high enough to make it worthwhile for voters to participate but low enough that it is unlikely to bankrupt someone or be burdensome to enforce. Australia implemented compulsory voting in 1924; the voter turnout in Australia has never been lower than 91 percent.

Trump, Musk, and their tech-bro overlords are engineering America's authoritarian future... The future of American democracy isn't being dismantled by accident; it's being systematically replaced to prepare the way for something entirely new. A radical ideology known as the Dark Enlightenment is fueling a billionaire-led movement to gut our government, erase democratic norms, and install a technocratic elite in their place.

First, they came for the immigrants. Now, they're coming for legal residents, tourists, and even citizens. Are you paying attention now? Imagine stepping off a plane in the United States, fully expecting to enter the country without issue, only to be surrounded by armed agents, handcuffed, and thrown into a freezing detention center. No trial. No lawyer. No contact with the outside world. In Trump's America, you are no longer guaranteed your rights or freedom—because now, it takes nothing more than an ICE agent's "suspicion" to make you disappear. This isn't a mistake. It's part of an expanding system of cruelty, where ICE—once an agency tasked with immigration enforcement—is now operating like an unchecked police force, targeting legal residents, visitors, and even US citizens with impunity.

History will remember him as the man who let fascism rise without a fight… Chuck Schumer had one job: to stand between Donald Trump and the complete dismantling of American democracy. Instead, he caved — again — handing Trump the power he craved without a fight, without a demand, without even a moment of real resistance. With every cowardly compromise, Schumer isn't just failing Democrats — he's enabling an autocrat in real-time. The question most Democrats want to ask of Leader Chuck Schumer in the Senate appears to be, "How's that 'keeping the government open to hold Trump accountable' thing working out for you?" Everything Trump does now going forward, when people or the press complain, he will say was authorized by "bipartisan legislation" with "the full support of the Senate Democrats." In fact, just hours after Schumer and a handful of timid Senate Democrats voted to pass Trump's Enabling Acts of 2025 legislation, the president issued an executive order gifting Vladimir Putin with the gutting of the Voice of America, Radio Liberty, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution.