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Biden is Making America Great

Sheila MarkinAugust 17, 2022August 17, 2022

There’s not much debate anymore over whether Biden has been a consequential president. ---American Recovery Act: $1.9 trillion — Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: $550 billion — Chips and Science Act: $280 billion —...

The Wonderful Surprises of Overturning Roe

Sheila MarkinAugust 4, 2022August 4, 2022

IN KANSAS … A POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE — By a stunning, roughly 20-point margin, Kansas voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have given state lawmakers the chance to either further restrict...

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What Can We Do Now that Roe is Overturned? A lot!

Sheila MarkinJuly 5, 2022July 7, 2022

What Did We Just Learn? If at first you don't succeed, try try again. That is the take home lesson from the religious right's victory in Dobbs. They have finally...

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American Carnage! GOP Has Blood on Their Hands

Sheila MarkinMay 27, 2022May 28, 2022

On May 24th 19 school children and two teachers were massacred in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18 year old gunman who first shot his grandmother in the face and then...

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How to Beat Republicans at Their Own Game

Guest AuthorFebruary 25, 2022February 26, 2022

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...

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Can Trump’s Extremist Party Win National Elections?

Sheila MarkinFebruary 7, 2022February 7, 2022

The Republican Party on Friday officially declared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and events that led to it “legitimate political discourse,” and rebuked two lawmakers in the...

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What Can You Do Right Now to Save Our Democracy?

Sheila MarkinFebruary 3, 2022

Many readers are asking me what you can do right now to help save our democracy and break the grip of the MAGA infested GOP which is no longer a...

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Democracy Under Attack! We Can Fight Back!

Sheila MarkinJanuary 22, 2022January 24, 2022

The final nail in the coffin of voting rights bills in the US Senate came, ironically, just after Martin Luther King's birthday, but its demise was predictable long before then....

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Could Trump Be Found Guilty of Sedition?

Sheila MarkinJanuary 16, 2022

Stewart Rhodes and Eleven Other Co-Conspirators Are Charged with Seditious Conspiracy Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was arrested on Thursday and charged along...