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Howie Klein
Dec 8, 20243 min read
The GOP Is The Anti-Democracy Party... Abetted By A Viciously Partisan Supreme Court
I’ve been looking at the voter turnout numbers for the 2024 election . Overall, participation was down from the 2020 presidential...
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Howie Klein
Jun 20, 20246 min read
Is The White House Messaging Team Doing What It Needs To Do To Defeat Trump?
Polling yesterday from Monmouth includes what Americans say their top concerns are— and a plurality say that neither Trump nor Biden, nor...
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Howie Klein
May 25, 20244 min read
Our First Memorial Day Weekend Post Is About The Threat Of Fascism In Oregon
In 2022, in the midst of right-wing blind fury over the COVID pandemic, violent, anti-government extremist Ammon Bundy decided to run for...
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Howie Klein
May 2, 20247 min read
Want To Know What Elections Are Like In No. Korea? Check On Buffalo's Special House Election Tuesday
The Democratic Party Protects Democracy, Right? Really... Right? Tuesday, state Sen Tim Kennedy (D) trounced West Seneca Town Supervisor...
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Patrick Toomey
Mar 28, 20243 min read
Biden, Blinken, Bibi And Ben Franklin’s Admonition
-by Patrick Toomey There is a famous quote from Ben Franklin at the close of the 1787 Constitutional Convention that has never been more...
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Howie Klein
Sep 8, 202312 min read
An Illiberal System-- Like Hungary's... Is That What 247 Years Since The Declaration Has Led To?
On Tuesday, Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney reported that some of the rats were looking to jump off the SS Trump to save their own skins....
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Howie Klein
Sep 7, 20235 min read
We'll Soon Find Out How Brittle-- Or Resilient-- Our Justice System Really Is
Trump-- The Kremlin Investment That Keeps Paying Dividends Recently, my sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She had surgery and her...
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Howie Klein
Jun 21, 20235 min read
Trump Slithered Into The White House Because Of So-Called "Small Town Values"
The Republican Party is still viable because of so-called “small town values.” Yesterday, inspired by Paul Waldman’s look at Doug Burgum...
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Howie Klein
Apr 11, 20236 min read
Extreme Wealth Accumulation Is A Serious Problem And Should Be Dealt With In A Serious Manner
According to this month’s Forbes, the 10 richest people in the world are all multi-billionaires. But none of them are the richest in...
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Howie Klein
Mar 25, 20234 min read
India Is Often Touted As The World's Biggest Democracy; Let's Be Real--Modi Has No Democratic Values
Gandhi Was Expelled From Parliament Yesterday A couple of days ago, when I was writing about the real-time disintegration of Israeli...
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Howie Klein
Sep 12, 20227 min read
Conservatives Oppose Democracy-- And There Is No Ironclad Rule That They Can't Win
Yes, Trump’s a stupid and dangerous asshole; but so are many— how many?— of his voters. And, yes, Republicans have nothing to offer the...
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Howie Klein
Sep 10, 20224 min read
It's September... So Democracy Must Be Under Attack In Red States
This morning, a trio of Politico writers, noted that “citizen-led initiatives have been used to legalize marijuana, expand Medicaid,...
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Howie Klein
Aug 20, 20229 min read
At This Point, Saving American Democracy And Stopping Trump Are One In The Same
Writing for The Atlantic this morning, Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic warned that the reason the top secret files scandal is so...
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Danny Goldberg
Jun 26, 20222 min read
Majority Rules
-by Danny Goldberg “Abortion will be on the ballot in November” insist Biden, Pelosi and Schumer but that isn’t necessarily true, and a...
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Howie Klein
Jun 4, 20226 min read
What's Worse, A Tyranny Of The Majority Or A Tyranny Of The Minority?
Raise Your Hand If You Think Democracy Is Working? Clear majorities favor a wide range of progressive issues from gun control and women's...
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Howie Klein
Apr 13, 202214 min read
Good Morning! Can Democracy Survive?
Although the House Republican conference is filled with nuts who believe all kinds of the crackpot conspiracy theories that circulate...
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Howie Klein
Jan 11, 20226 min read
The Democrats May Suck, But The GOP Is The Party Of Dysfunction, Perfidy, Anomie & Violence
Washington Post reporters Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett broke the news today that the Department of Justice has a new unit to address...
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Howie Klein
Dec 29, 20214 min read
Is It Too Late For Democracy?
Just before dawn-- right around the time our post about how Americans have turned against the Supreme Court went up-- the NY Times...
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Howie Klein
Dec 10, 20216 min read
Republicans Peel Off Their Masks And Show Their Ugly Anti-Democracy Faces
I'm not one to shy away from calling out conservative Democrats from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- the Blue Dogs and New...
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Howie Klein
Dec 6, 202113 min read
Does Anyone Care That American Democracy Is Inexorably Slipping Away?
Writing for the Associated Press early this morning, Brian Slodysko looked at how the far right-- think fascism-- is changing the GOP. He...
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