Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act; Republicans Gerrymander to Hold Power
The U.S. Supreme Court, with its right-wing majority, on April 29 gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Now GOP-controlled state legislatures are gleefully doing Trump’s bidding, re-gerrymandering their election maps to steal the upcoming Congressional elections and preserve their political power. It’s an act of desperation. Why? Because Republicans know they will lose control of […]
Trump’s Chaos Is Catching Up: Polls Drop, Allies Crack, and the Odds Turn Against Him
by Bob Gatty If Donald Trump and his Republican butt kissers could do any more to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, I’d like to know what it is. This post just hit my inbox this evening and I thought I’d pass it along, hoping to lighten your mood. It sure made me feel […]
Peace in Our Time
By CJ Waldron When British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Adolph Hitler, in an effort to avoid an armed conflict, he conceded a section of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland in exchange for a promise that it would appease Hitler’s territorial desires. Upon his return to England, he made the boast that such a deal […]