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In the next year, anything could happen. Donald Trump, could go down, he could be convicted of one or more felonies. He could lose the GOP nomination. Or, a return would change Make America Great Again (MAGA!) to Make America Fascist Again (MAFA!)

If their plan works, these Republican toadies of the billionaires who fund and own them will rewrite our Constitution & state governors, the US Congress, and the President will have no say whatsoever…

The far right has a plan to remake America. They even wrote it down.

As rightwing supermajority starts third term, legal experts ask how far it will go in reconfiguring the legal landscape of US

Over a third of the faculty members have left. Many of last year’s students are continuing their education elsewhere.

Big Cities, Suburbs, and Many Rural Counties Voted Down Issue.1, the special election - hot August, a first, saw a 38% turnout - high for a special election, with over 3 million votes, with 652,000 votes from early or absentee voters.

A GOP presidential and congressional win in 2024 would bring a national abortion ban, national right to work law; more tax cuts for the rich; an eliminationist program for transgender people; Jim Crow 2; a new McCarthyism and COINTELPRO for the left.

Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives. Combatting the rising right and surging wildfires will take a progressive green industrial policy,