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Trump’s 2020 election strategy in 25 steps
Trump will do anything to be re-elected. His opponents are limited because they believe in democracy. Trump has no limits because he doesn’t. Continue reading
Trump’s misjudgment at Tulsa/Nuremberg just might doom him
Imagine if Adolf Hitler had staged one of his infamous 1930s fascist Nuremberg hate-fests … and the stands were less than full, his speech fell flat, his flawless phalanxes dissolved into chaos, the fighting flags failed to unfurl. Continue reading
This is the most important presidential election since the last presidential election
Every four years without fail (and usually a little earlier in each quadrennial cycle), both “major” American political parties wind up and toss the same slow, fat pitch across the public’s plate: This is the most important presidential election of our lifetimes. Continue reading
Amy Klobuchar, Minneapolis police and her VP quest
When Amy Klobuchar was running for president, corporate media served as her biggest political base.
Eighteen years before Minneapolis police killed an unarmed black man named George Floyd on Monday, Minneapolis police killed an unarmed black man named Christopher Burns. Today, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar decries the killing of Floyd. Back then, Minneapolis chief prosecutor Amy Klobuchar refused to prosecute city police for killing Burns. Continue reading
Beware of the new Trump-Rove alliance
George W. Bush political dirty tricks and battleground state election rigging mastermind Karl Rove has been enlisted by the White House and the Trump re-election campaign to assist in a strategy to overcome presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s consistent lead in the polls. Rove, who, in 2016, called Trump a “complete idiot” and “graceless and divisive,” only to later meet with Trump at casino tycoon Steve Wynn’s home in Manhattan, has been in regular contact with Trump presidential adviser Jared Kushner and Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale. Rove attended a White House meeting last week with Trump and key Trump advisers. On the agenda was cutting Biden’s lead in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina, and Arizona. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Biden and the low point of black politics
Black folks perform phenomenal feats of mental gymnastics and self-delusion to convince themselves that Joe Biden is on their side. Continue reading
To save lives—and democracy—we need to vote by mail
We need tens of millions of fewer Americans voting at the polls. Sending ballots in the mail is the simplest solution.
For many Americans, vote-by-mail will be a matter of life and death come November. Continue reading
Civil rights groups vow to fight back as GOP builds massive voter suppression machine for 2020 election
‘We will use every tool in our arsenal to block efforts aimed at discouraging participation by eligible voters this election season.’
Civil rights groups are vowing to fight back against what they are calling a nationwide voter intimidation and suppression campaign by the national Republican Party and President Donald Trump that could have a “chilling effect” on voting rights and November turnout. Continue reading
Mission imperative: Come November, Trump must go
In case you needed a reminder, the pandemic reveals everything rancid about this presidency.
There must be one mission above all, one goal supreme: Vote this monster out of the White House. And along with him, tow to the nearest dump the clown car of malefactors who gave him license to cripple our republic. Continue reading
Republicans can’t seem to make up their minds about mail and voting
One laudable side effect of the COVID-19 panic is a nationwide effort to promote “vote by mail” as a universal alternative to standing in line at polling places. One reason that effort is laudable is that it would likely decrease vote fraud. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Joe Biden and the Black misleaders
The black misleadership class has no shame, only narrow ambitions. They are now called out to rescue the man who looks very much like a loser. Continue reading
Some progressives are in denial about Trump’s fascist momentum
Some say preventing the re-election of Trump isn't important. That amounts to ignoring political reality, an evasion with potentially vast consequences.
Two years after Donald Trump won the presidency, the author of “How Fascism Works” assessed him in a video. “It might seem like an exaggeration to call Trump a fascist,” Yale Professor Jason Stanley said. “I mean, he’s not calling for a genocide or imprisoning his own people without due process. But . . . if you use history and philosophy as a guide, it’s easy to see parallels between Trump’s words and those of the most reviled fascists in history. That scares me, and it should scare you too.” Continue reading
Election protection in 12-18 states will decide the fate of the Earth
The 12-18 states that will decide the presidency this fall are already being primed for voter suppression and election theft by the Trump GOP. Our ability to overcome will decide the fate of the Earth. Continue reading
A Machiavellian fiasco: How ‘centrist’ Gantz resurrected Netanyahu, Israel’s Right
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel’s Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come. Continue reading
How YOU can dump Trump
Grassroots action’s immense upset victory in Wisconsin shows we can overcome even a rigged election. Continue reading
Heroic angry Wisconsin Badger voters show the rest of the nation how to dump Trump Harvey Wasserman
This week’s astonishing people’s victory in Wisconsin has shattered the myth of an unbeatable Trump dictatorship. Continue reading
Trump’s ‘perfect plan’ to become dictator in November runs through 12-18 swing state legislatures
Donald Trump’s “perfect plan” to become dictator in November now runs through 30 Republican-controlled state legislatures, with the pivot in 12-18 swing states. Continue reading
Don’t be afraid. You do have places you can go
The definition of a “Judas goat” is a goat that is trained to lead sheep to slaughter. Continue reading
Will Trump’s GOP finally kill American democracy?
For Donald Trump’s GOP followers, the real issue in the 2020 election is democracy itself. Continue reading
Wisconsin’s unconscionable sham
The state’s election was a danger to public health and a democratic travesty—all to help Republicans suppress more votes.
Wisconsin might have just decided the November election for Trump at the expense of its own citizens’ lives. Continue reading
COVID-19 voter suppression: Trump admits GOP can’t win if many vote
Can democracy be protected during a pandemic? Even under the best-case scenario now being presented by officials, the United States may lose up to 100,000 people to the deadly COVID-19 virus. In the midst of this outbreak, it has become painfully clear that President Donald Trump has no intention of mounting a truly national response to the coronavirus, leaving the task of saving lives up to local officials. As uncertainty and fear take hold, it’s easy to forget that a national election—a true life-or-death vote—is fast approaching in November. Continue reading
We need universal mail-in ballots for the 2020 election
We’re all now party to the most critical election protection debate in U.S. history, one that has entered the coronavirus stimulus package to the tune of $400 million, which may be just a fraction of what’s really needed. Continue reading
Mission accomplished: How America has been slowly shutting down since 9-11
Are you planning to vote for Joe Biden? Sure, why not, go for it. Since 2001, you’ve already voted for Bush, Obama and Trump—so Joe is totally the logical next choice. Like his three predecessors before him, Biden is totally willing to escort America’s oligarchs just one more giant step up their fabulous Stairway to Heaven. Apparently Americans just love them some Deep State. Continue reading
Dirty system triumphs on mini-Super Tuesday
Tuesday results in six states for Dems largely replicated Biden’s pre-scripted week ago Super Tuesday triumph over Sanders. Continue reading
‘In a dark time, the eye begins to see’: The 2020 Bernie campaign represents a fight that must continue
Corporate media and corporate Democrats want the Bernie 2020 campaign—and the grassroots energy behind it—to melt away. That's not going to happen.
“In a dark time,” poet Theodore Roethke wrote, “the eye begins to see.” Continue reading
The president as political hit man
Donald Trump attempts to take out his electoral adversaries one by one, Mafia-style.
Donald Trump filed his paperwork to run for reelection only hours after his inauguration in January 2017, setting a presidential record, the first of his many dubious achievements. For a man who relished the adulation and bombast of campaigning, it should have surprised no one that he charged out of the starting gate so quickly for 2020 as well. After all, he’d already spent much of the December before his inauguration on a ”thank you” tour of the swing states that had unexpectedly supported him on Election Day—Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin—and visited Florida for a rally only a couple of weeks after he took the oath of office. In much the same way that Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky once embraced “permanent revolution,” Donald Trump embarked on a “permanent campaign.” Continue reading
Dems rigging things for establishment figure Biden?
The myth of moderate Joe belies his hardline agenda throughout a near-half century of public life as US senator and vice president. Continue reading
Joe Biden in 2020 duplicates Hillary Clinton in 2016
Hillary Clinton, of course, received the Democratic Party nomination in 2016 and was widely expected to beat Trump but she lost to him (though she won California by 4,269,978 in the popular vote, and so beat Trump by 2,864,974 in the nationwide popular vote, while she lost all other states by 1,405,002 votes, and so she would have been California’s president if she had won, but the rest of the nation wouldn’t have been happy). Continue reading
The greatest threat to the radical left is the radical left
The political left in the US is a political minority that is constantly misrepresented and abused. While the capitalist has captured the media and the political arena, flooding the country with its messages about the wonders of capitalism and the “American Dream” and the dangers of socialism and communism, the left has struggled to get its message out to the American people. Continue reading
Final Israeli election results
Tabulating March 2 election results took time to include absentee ballots. Continue reading
The opposite of progressivism? Pessimism
Polls show broad support for progressive ideas. So why aren’t more progressives voting for them?
Posted on March 19, 2020 by Jim Hightower
There’s a short-circuit in the political convictions of some progressive-minded voters these days. Continue reading →