Down With Tyranny

feat. Howie Klein

Nov 86 min read

Bernie Didn't Run For President This Cycle— Still... His Ideas Would Have Beaten Trump And Vance

Electoral-vote made the point that it was turnout that did the Democrats in this cycle. “Trump collected 62 million votes in 2016, grew...

May 68 min read

We Want To Get Non-Voters To Start Voting— But What If They Turn Out And Vote for Fascists?

Or Can AOC Get Them To Vote For Democrats? She'd Have To Change Her Party First A New York Times column Saturday was titled The...

Mar 277 min read

Turning Out The Voters Is The Only Way To Win Elections— Dems Used To Be Good At That... Long Ago

We frequently talk about how important it is to run a candidate in every district, even when winning the seat is a long shot. It’s not...

Sep 7, 20234 min read

Maybe If There Were Better Candidates, People Would Vote-- We Like To Be Hopeful & Inspired

Politics Attracts A LOT Of Garbage... And Crooks After the 2022 elections, the Center for Politics reported that voter turnout ranged...

Aug 15, 20235 min read

If Trump Goes Down Will He Intentionally Take The Republican Party Down With Him?

Yesterday, Dan Balz tried to make a case for a DeSantis comeback. It’s too late for that. Trump defined him before he could define...

Jul 21, 20238 min read

Incredibly, Gerrymandering Is Still Defeating Democracy In 21st Century America

Southern man, when will you pay them back? I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking On Thursday, the Cook Political Report did one of...

May 3, 20233 min read

Startling New Report: Turnout Among Democratic Party Supporters Crashed In Last Year's Midterms

Voters decide which candidates to back based on all kinds of cockamamie criteria, some of it far from rational. Just look at this ugly...

Jun 19, 20224 min read

The More Votes That Get Counted, The Better L.A. Results Are Getting

Last weekend the L.A. Times published a column by Steve Lopez, Another anemic election turnout. Why most people don’t vote, and what to...

Jun 9, 20226 min read

Progressives May Have The Solutions, But The Corporate Democratic Party? Don't Make Me Laugh

"You really can’t win an election with a bumper sticker that says: 'Well, we can’t do much, but the other side is worse.'" -Bernie...

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