The DOGE Team Is Cluster Bombing Social Security »
Apr 4 2025Over the last decade or so, the younger generations have expressed increasing resentment that Social Security will not be there… Read More »
takeover
2020 election
How to Deprogram a Cultist Who Thinks 2020 Election Was Stolen »
Aug 24 2023Almost three years on, as many as two-thirds of Republicans still believe Donald Trump won the 2020 election and that Joe Biden is an illegitimate president.
In spite of that, in the first Republican debate just concluded, the question wasn't even asked whether the candidates agree or disagree. Fox News, which conducted the debate, was protecting them from having to… Read More »
the nation
Christian Nationalism Wants to Take Over Your Country »
Oct 22 2022A growing movement with evangelicals at the forefront says that America was founded by and for white Christians and accordingly our government should follow policies that adhere to Christian doctrine. An outlook that has always been conservative has shifted to one of "dominion", a theology that says Christians should move… Read More »
democracy
Big Lie Believers Don’t Get How Ridiculous It Is, and They Are »
Oct 8 2022FiveThirtyEight, the statistical website that tracks politics and elections, canvassed the country to find that nearly every state has candidates for office in this fall's election who agree with Donald Trump that the 2020 election was stolen from him (see their graphic below). They directly asked every Republican nominee for… Read More »
insurrection
Could Trump Really Be Prosecuted for Jan. 6? Part 1. »
May 11 2022That Donald Trump and the circle around him plotted to abort the constitutional transfer of power to steal the election from Joe Biden and give Trump another term as president is indisputable. Less certain is to what extent indictments 
will be brought…
Read More »
national security
The Big Lie Exposed, The Coup Plan Revealed, But Trump Will Run Again »
Sep 25 2021
From the election to the insurrection, more revelations
Without even touching on the troubles with Biden's economic plan, the border crisis, the debt celing, it has been a whirlwind couple of weeks with…
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the coup
Trump Staging America’s First Attempted Coup »
Part 1 Dec 17 2020Safe harbor day seemed to slam the door shut on Donald Trump's hope for overthrow. It was the day — December 8th this year — when, by an act of Congress in 1867, the states Read More »
the election
Refusing to Leave, Trump Schemes for Ways to Stay »
Nov 24 2020They seemed like paranoia, the editorials and op-ed pieces that predicted Donald Trump would refuse to leave, ours as well, but his every move since Election Day has borne out… Read More »
our democracy Here’s What’s Coming at Us
And this is without yet factoring in the president's illness
Oct 5 2020
Here’s What’s Coming at Us
in the Election from Hell »
And this is without yet factoring in the president's illness
Oct 5 2020
Well before midnight on November 3rd, Donald J. Trump will declare victory. Votes from the high percentage of Republicans who went to the polls will have put the president in the lead at that hour. Votes by Democrats, a high… Read More »
the presidency
Is the End Game at Hand? »
Sep 25 2018He had already made it clear that he intends to fire Attorney General Sessions after the midterm elections, when The New York Times handed President Trump justification for an immediate act of retribution: the report that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had last year, two weeks into the… Read More »
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the coup
Musk Rampages Across a Government Clueless About What He’s Doing »
The certainty is that everything he is doing is illegal Feb 7 2025A mere two days after his confirmation as Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent stunningly handed the keys of the… Read More »
insurrection
The Jan. 6 Case Against Donald Trump: Part 3. »
Parts 1 and 2 are below on our front page Jun 4 2022As the zero hour of January 6th approached, Trump lieutenants booked a suite of rooms at the luxurious Willard Hotel a block from the White House to make final plans for disrupting the certification of Joe Biden 
as the nation's 46th president. Led by…
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democracy
A Bigger Coup Than Trump’s Is Afoot: Call It America 2.0 »
Aug 17 2021As if further confirmation was needed, the plan in December of a Justice Department official to press states to review the 2020 election, and Trump's badgering Acting Attorney General Jeffery Rosen to publicly say the election was corrupt, finally made… Read More »
democracy
Yes, It Was an Attempted Coup »
Aug 17 2021Defenders of Donald Trump advance the belief that the president on January 6 did not have a coup in mind, notwithstanding his objective to have still Vice President Mike Pence overturn state elections in Congress that day, because hadn't he… Read More »
investigations
Republicans Snuff Probe of Why and How January 6th Happened »
May 29 2021Six Republicans were not enough when ten were needed to prevent a Republican filibuster from putting an end to any commission to investigate the causes of the worst attack… Read More »
the coup
Court Cases Failed, Trump Allies Try Overthrow »
Part 2 Feb 2 2021Safe harbor day seemed to slam the door shut on Donald Trump's hope for overthrow. It is the day — December 8th in 2020 — when, by an act of Congress in 1867, the states Read More »
the coup
Court Cases Failed, Trump Allies Try Overthrow »
Dec 17 2020Donald Trump's campaign to reverse his loss to Joe Biden is without precedent in U.S. history.
The President had been working all summer to implant in the minds of his… Read More »
the coup
Ugly Threats Against Fellow Americans »
Part 3 Dec 17 2020President Trump's relentless assault on the American democratic process, his insistence that he won the election, that it was stolen from him, has stirred rage among his loyalists who… Read More »
Trump’s Tariffs Reveal They’d Threaten a U.S. Meltdown »
Right-wing cable “news” channels try to spin their audience Apr 11 2025After Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement of staggering “reciprocal” tariffs triggered days of steep stock market plunges, the President painted… Read More »
insurrection The Scheme to Steal the Election.
May 22 2022
The Scheme to Steal the Election.
Part 2. »
May 22 2022
After the 2020 election, Donald Trump won the media's attention with incendiary claims that the election had been stolen, ultimately rousing his base to riot when Congress met to certify that Joe Biden was to be the new president. We covered that route to January 6th in Part One.
Occurring in… Read More »
the election
Why Do We Let the Big Lie of a Stolen Election Stand? »
Mar 7 2021
To examine the "facts and causes" of the January 6th attack on the Capitol, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for a commission like that which investigated the 9/11 attacks. House members on the…
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Americans
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Trump »
Jan 22 202177% of Republicans believe there was widespread fraud in the presidential election says a Quinnipiac poll. A Reuters poll says about half of all Republicans believe President Donald Trump “rightfully won” the election but that it was stolen from… Read More »