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Let us lick our wounds and reflect on the future. This election result was one that more of us should have anticipated as a real possibility. In either case, that the results were so close and that we did not have the ideal candidate to represent the new majority emerging in the USA remains for me a source of immense hope. The struggle certainly continues.

U.S. District Court Judge John Vazquez has given the party a deadline of 5:00 pm Tuesday by which time it must detail "agreements in any form between [the RNC] and the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump...regarding voter fraud, ballot security, ballot integrity, poll watching, or poll monitoring."

Based on the way Stephen Bannon, the new top gun in the Trump campaign, has run Breitbart News and according to statements he’s made in the past, here’s what can be expected from the Trump campaign under his leadership.

 Beating Donald Trump at the polls will be a necessary, but wholly insufficient step.

As Clinton’s speech recognized, a Trump presidency promises an unprepared, dangerous foreign policy. But her refusal to engage with the real, robust alternative offered by Sanders may say more about her own war-driven foreign policy than anything else.

While unauthorized immigrants contribute billions in taxes, they use shockingly little health care. Most of the federal health programs they help pay for (like Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA’s plans) exclude them. And those who pay for private coverage use very little care, so their premiums effectively subsidize other enrollees with private insurance.

Many of the most alarming statements and policy proposals Donald Trump has made are already reality in Israel, and supported by AIPAC.

How the people of Chicago silenced Donald Trump. Faced, not with the threat of violence but lack of control of the message or the montage, Trump retreated.