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Reader Comments: Fighting the Coup; Support for Public Employees Rising; Trump’s Tax Proposals; Texas Measles Outbreak Was ‘Inevitable’; Trump/Netanyahu Crime of the Century; ‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies March 7; lots more and Cartoons;

A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable. Our predecessors deposed a brain-addled king; crushed the violent insurrectionists of a slaveholding confederacy; they forced the robber barons to contend with workers.

Reader Comments: It Is a Coup; Trump Vowed To Champion US Workers – the Reality a Relentless Assault; Make America Corrupt Again; Vance, Racism, German Fascism; For Israelis, ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is a Reality. For Palestinians, It’s a Crime...

Many in Washington bristled at the public’s failure to register how strong the economy was during the Biden Administration but were they relying on flawed statistics? Unemployment was higher, wages lower, growth less robust than was claimed.

Instead of blaming the people they let down, the Harris campaign needs to look in the mirror and find fault with itself. Arab Americans and their concerns were given such short shrift by the campaign, it is wrong to hold them responsible for the loss

At the moment there is no one obviously positioned to take up the Sanders mantle in the 2028 presidential campaign. But we may have to make it our business to find one.

Senate rules were explicitly designed to protect the minority. Democrats should exploit them mercilessly to slow Trump and Musk before they destroy the country.

Reader Comments: Dictatorial UnConstitutional Power Grab; Anti-Trump Protests Brake Out; USDA IG Refused To Leave Was Investigating Elon Musk; Nightmare Over Washington (and in the Capitol); ICE Raids and Resistance; People's Guide to Project 2025

Faiz Shakir launched a last-minute bid for DNC chair and wants to mold it in to a working class, inclusive organization