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Can Dems Win Back Gen Z Voters? Yes— But Not If They Keep Nominating Corporate-Friendly Candidates
I think most Democrats— and anyone who fancies themselves sympathetic to the resistance— would agree with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear: “I...
Howie Klein
Mar 1511 min read
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Democrats Need To Speak Up Loudly About Trump's Crypto-Corruption... The Way Chris Murphy Is
I’ve known Chris Murphy for 2 decades, since he was in the Connecticut legislature. He was never a radical or an extremist, always pretty...
Howie Klein
Mar 96 min read
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Trump’s Speech Last Night Was A Warning— And The Democratic Leadership Is Largely Ignoring It
History's Warning: Weak Opposition Enables Fascism After Trump had finished his 100 minutes of campaign rally lies and grievances, Jake...
Howie Klein
Mar 57 min read
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A Few— A Very Few— Republicans Are Gently Breaking With Trump Over His Alignment With The Kremlin
Musk Isn't Just Running DOGE, He's Also Running US Foreign Policy Now Republican Mike Lawler’s constituents don’t like in the Ozark...
Howie Klein
Mar 36 min read
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Who Is The Worst President In US History? Hint: He's An Abomination And An Embarrassment For America
"Trump World" by Nancy Ohanian The Guardian ran an OpEd by Bernie on Friday, America Must Not Surrender Its Democratic Values , right...
Howie Klein
Mar 26 min read
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Dan Pfeiffer Tells Democrats To Make Musk Into A GOP Albatross— Chris Murphy Shows How It's Done
On Monday, Ursula Perano and Ben Mause reported that congressional Republicans are starting to realize that Musk is going to drag them...
Howie Klein
Feb 268 min read
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Will Americans Rise To The Challenge In Time For The 2026 Midterms? Or Will That Be Too Late?
A Case For Chris Murphy Chris Murphy wrote that last week, Senate Republicans forced the Democrats “to debate their billionaire bailout...
Howie Klein
Feb 236 min read
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Hitler Had Himmler & Stalin Had Beria— The Senate Just Confirmed Kash Patel As Trump’s Enforcer
It’s impossible to say definitively at this point which Trump appointee will do the most damage. There isn’t a single one who won’t harm...
Howie Klein
Feb 225 min read
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Contrasting Chris Murphy's & Jamie Raskin's Activism With Schumer's & Jeffries' Non-Leadership
Desperate Times Do NOT Call For Incremental Measures Trump’s across-the-board headcount slashing— without regard to functionality— has...
Howie Klein
Feb 177 min read
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First They Came For Democracy— And Murkowski Helped Them... When ‘Moderates’ Enable Authoritarianism
This Hollow Resistance Is A Case Study In Republican Cowardice Douchebags in tracksuits Martin Niemöller was a right-winger who embraced...
Howie Klein
Feb 165 min read
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Chris Murphy vs. the Billionaire Class— Is He for Real This Time?
I had high hopes for state Senator Chris Murphy when he first ran for Congress in 2006 against mainstream conservative Nancy Johnson in...
Howie Klein
Feb 154 min read
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MAGA Voters Deserve All The Horrors Trump & Musk Will Inflict On Them—But What About The Rest Of Us!
Democrats Need More Aggressive Leaders In Congress Yesterday, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy e-mailed his followers that “This week a...
Howie Klein
Feb 138 min read
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Have Any Of The MAGA Scholars Ever Read Marbury v Madison In High School?
Yalie JD Vance claimed yesterday that federal courts “aren’t allowed” to overrule Señor T (and Musk and Big Balls) and their executive...
Howie Klein
Feb 103 min read
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Even The Most Trump-Friendly Democrats Oppose Confirming Project 2025 Extremist Russell Vought
Yesterday, Thune called a cloture vote to move the Russell Vought nomination as OMB head forward. Even Fetterman and Shaheen, the two...
Howie Klein
Feb 66 min read
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Is Fear Of Fascist Violence Keeping Congressional Democrats From Fighting Harder?
This Is An Anti-Democracy Coup In Slow Motion Chris Murphy: modeling a kind of vigorous, organic, authentic anger A couple days ago,...
Howie Klein
Feb 36 min read
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The Country Isn't Happy About Trump's Attempted Power-Grabs—He Just Backed Down From A Confrontation
“On Monday,” wrote Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby, “the Trump administration issued an extraordinary memo ordering federal agencies to...
Howie Klein
Jan 306 min read
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No Dem Should Help Trump Build His Regime— Every Vote For A Trump Nominee Is A Vote For His Agenda
Let's Stop Pretending His Cabinet Picks Are Normal There are a handful of Senate Democrats who continue giving Trump’s nominees the...
Howie Klein
Jan 305 min read
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If You Were A Democratic Politician, Would You Go On Fox News For An Interview?
Yesterday, Dan Pfeiffer ruminated about 3 ways the election changed his views about politics. One had to do with Democrats and Fox News...
Howie Klein
Jan 68 min read
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Is American Society Too Polarized Politically To Accomplish Anything Worthwhile For Its Citizens?
It's Time To Kick The Neo-Liberals To The Curb— Hard I saw an interesting Monmouth poll while I was sitting in a waiting room yesterday....
Howie Klein
Dec 13, 202410 min read
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Discounting Gaetz And Hegseth, Who’s The Worst Of Trump’s Appointments So Far? Tulsi? Kash? Musk?
Vought? Stephen Miller? David Sacks? Let’s not Forget RFK Jr Yesterday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said “I think this place should be on...
Howie Klein
Dec 7, 20246 min read
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