You can't understand the modern right without understanding their fundamental contempt for democracy.
In what may seem a paradox, the worse off Illinois government gets the more the wealthy are willing to spend to gain control. It is part of a national trend that has seen ever escalating spending battles for even down the ballot offices. Down the ballot, a $1 million legislative race in Illinois used to be an oddity. Last year 23 topped $1 million, with five between $5 million and $6 million, according to Redfield’s analysis of state campaign finance records.
The testimony of the fired FBI director revealed a president who sees himself more crime boss than chief executive.
The calls for Impeachment deepen. Some are concerned that we then get Pence, then what. The impeachment process is drawn out, will take us into next year (2018), maybe even 2019. Organizing at the grassroots and nationally will tie into the elections. This can help us build a mass movement to repudiate the politics of Trump and Trumpism. Defeating a sitting President is no small thing. And, Katha Pollitt on why Russia-gate is not same as 50s McCarthyism.
Behind the formal structures of a once-functioning democracy is a political system run by corporate interests with the cynical aims of cutting taxes on the rich, selling weapons, and polluting with impunity. In Trump, they have found a shameless frontman.
Lacking even the veneer of bipartisanship, the Kobach Commission represents an assault on basic voting rights.
Powerful new quantitative tools are now available to combat partisan bias in the drawing of voting districts.
Theoretically, a bill or nomination could pass out of the Senate with the support of senators representing only 16.2 percent of the population.
Participatory mechanisms, argue the authors, are not powerful only because of what they may or may not achieve, but because of what happens in the very interactions that cause them to fail.
How a race riot in New York state inspired a generation to reconsider America’s vulnerability to fascism.
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