Trump Voters: You Were Warned
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, is taking a meat cleaver to every government agency in our country that he can get his hands. Many of these cuts...
Trump’s Cabinet: Incompetent Yes Men
December 2024 Letters From An American by Guest Author Heather Cox Richardson Over the holiday weekend, President-elect Trump continued to name the people he wants in his incoming administration. His...
Biden/Harris Made US Best Economy in World
Trump is still thought of by many voters as the president who was better on our economy. What is true is that Trump did a better job of claiming he...
The Truth Trump Doesn’t Want You to Know
Written by Guest Author Heather Cox Richardson Reprinted from Letters from an American, by permission of Heather Cox Richardson. “We’re producing more energy than ever before in this nation. We have the strongest economy in the world,...
How to Beat Republicans at Their Own Game
Why is it that even though Trump is out of office, it seems that the roots of Trumpism still have a hold on our democracy? It’s not only because of...
A Fix to Anti-democratic Laws That Republicans Won’t Like
Guest Post by David Pepper Almost a century ago, Justice Louis Brandeis extolled states as “Laboratories of Democracy.” His theory, echoed by others over the years, was that states can...
GOP is Using the Filibuster to Kill Biden’s Agenda
As Biden said on Memorial Day our democracy is “in peril”. The GOP has become an anti-democratic party. Across America Republican state legislatures are passing laws to make it extremely...
American Carnage Thanks to Trump
America is reeling from multiple crises. The murder of George Floyd by a white policeman, with three other cops who were accessories to the crime, was the last straw for...
Trump’s Newest Lawlessness: The Purge
This is a guest blog post by Steven Harper. Retaliation against a witness in an official proceeding is a federal crime. Twelve witnesses testified publicly at the House impeachment...