If Trump and his cronies manage to pull off a coup, will he then be president for life? Or will we get him and his children for the rest of eternity? Welcome to the American monarchy.
‘Seditious abuse of the judicial process’: States reject Texas effort to overturn Biden’s election
The legal briefs from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin largely directed their fury at Texas’ attorney general.
Read in POLITICO: https://apple.news/AAQ5palb7RMONCgBCEXkHcQ
Prominent Republicans Reject Trump-Backed Lawsuit To Overturn Election
Ignore Trump: His Texas Election Lawsuit Is Going Nowhere
Don’t be fooled because the case was filed in the Supreme Court. It’s going nowhere — and Trump is still on his way out of the White House
Read in Rolling Stone: https://apple.news/AxbiIaCqwQjiiIZKRcJvZIg
106 House Republicans Support Trump-Backed Lawsuit To Overturn Election
While over half the House GOP caucus supports the lawsuit, just a handful of Republicans have gone on the record opposing it.
Read in Forbes: https://apple.news/AXuzz77Z0TnSzza7cFD5LWQ
US Supreme Court will likely hear Texas lawsuit against voter fraud in 4 states
The lawsuit was filed by the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday night, and seeks a temporary restraining order to keep states ‘from taking action to certify presidential electors or to have such electors take any official action including without limitation participating in the electoral college’
Arizona GOP asks followers if they’re willing to die in effort to overturn election results
‘I don’t know how this ends without violence and death’: Trump’s angry mobs spark terrorism fears
Hey Coup enablers, Does he have a hit on all of you and your familes or what? Traitors!
Krebs’ lawyer says that a ‘shadow group’ is plotting assassinations of ‘complicit’ Dems and Repubs
Turns Out Things Get Kinda Zany When You’re Prying Power Away From a Death Cult
It Is Well Past Time To Confront The Truth Of The Republican Party’s Threat To Democracy
Five years ago, the notion that Republicans were abandoning democracy was considered to be a somewhat important observation, something to be widely shared and discussed. Today? Well, let’s consider a few of the developments since this 2015 post:
- 1/2015 forward — Republican Senate engages in an unprecedented embargo on most all federal district and appellate court judges nominated by President Obama.
- 2016 — Multiple state and federal Republicans openly admit that “voter ID” and similar voter suppression laws are designed to hurt Democrats and allow specific Republican candidates to win.
- 3/16/2016 — Republicans block President Obama’s power to appoint Merrick Garland or any Supreme Court nominee.
- 9-10/2016 — Multiple Republican Senators declare that they will not confirm any Supreme Court Justice if Hillary Clinton wins the presidential election.
- 9/2016 — Republican Mitch McConnell blocks any bipartisan effort to disclose and condemn Russian interference in the 2016 election.
- 4/6/2017 — Republicans eliminate the Supreme Court filibuster to appoint Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
- 12/2018 — After Wisconsin voters chose to replace its Republican governor with a Democratic governor, Republican state legislators meet in a lame-duck session to strip existing powers from the Democratic governor and state attorney general and to limit early voting procedures in an effort to reduce Democratic voting.
- 12/21/2018 – 1/25/2019 — Trump forces the longest ever government shut down because Congress, on a bipartisan basis, refused to fund his pet wall project on the Southern Border.
- 2/15/2019 — After Congress refused to fund Trump’s wall, and an unsuccessful, extended government shutdown waged by Trump, Trump declares a “national emergency” and pilfers funds from the military budget to pay for his pet wall project.
- 3/14/2019 — Trump threatens violence from his supporters against Democratic voters who do not support him.
- 5/30/2019 — Computer hard drives of a deceased Republican operative turned over by his daughter reveal national Republicans’ efforts to use Census data to suppress minority and Democratic voting power and representation.
- 9/11/2019 — N.C. Republican state legislators tell their Democratic counterparts that the state legislature will not be in session on the 9/11 anniversary(!), and then secretly meet in a half-empty chamber to override the Democratic governor’s budget veto.
- 1/31/2020 — Republican Senators vote to block hearing any witnesses or evidence in the impeachment trial of Pres. Trump.
- 5/1/2020 — Trump tweets support for hundreds of gun-toting militia types who invade the Michigan State House to protest Covid response measures.
- 7/21/2020 — Contrary to the unbroken hundreds of years of constitutional interpretation and practice, the Trump administration announces that it will not count undocumented immigrants in the decennial census in an effort to reduce the number of House seats for Democratic states and to eliminate millions of federal payments to such states based on population.
- 10/5/2020 — In the teeth of a historic pandemic threatening death and injury to millions, the Trump campaign and compliant Republican state legislators embarked on an astonishing campaign to make voting more dangerous and difficult. A concise overview is provided by Mother Jones in “29 Ways Trump and the GOP Are Making It Harder To Vote.”
- 10/18/2020 — Days after the FBI foiled a plot by militia men to kidnap and publicly execute on TV Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer over Covid safety orders, Trump incites and encourages a Michigan crowd to further violence against her.
- 10/26/2020 — Republicans confirm Amy Coney Barret to the Supreme Court — one week before a presidential election, despite blocking Garland or any nominee by a Democratic president to fill a seat that opened nine months before an election.
- 11/3/2020 — How could the 2020 election be summarized in a bullet point? Pres. Trump refused to agree to a peaceful transfer of power. Trump has sued unsuccessfully (over and over) to overturn the election he lost. Trump has publicly lied about the election, sought to subvert state election procedures, threatened retribution against other Republicans, and incited violence. And — this is crucial — he has done so largely with the complicity of the Republican party generally.
- 12/5/2020 — A month after Joe Biden won the presidential election (by more than 7 million votes), only 27 out of 249 Republican Senators and House members would publicly admit that Biden won the election.
- 12/8/2020 — The Arizona GOP Party sends out a Tweet asking if its voters are “willing to give [their] life for” Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
- 12/9/2020 — The Republican majority leader of the Pennsylvania Senate said she would have signed a Trump letter declaring fraud in the 2020 election because “If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’ I’d get my house bombed tonight.”
- 12/10/2019 — The Trump administration continues to obstruct the transition to the Biden administration.
Folks — this is insane and an open, ongoing assault on the fundamental tenets of this country unseen since the run up to the Civil War.
Admittedly, defeating this Republican problem is hard and complex, and viable solutions will take discussions longer than this one post. But let me propose we rediscover an essential concept — Scandal.
The first, necessary step back requires that our country, our politics, and our media rediscover how to label, report and resist scandalous behavior. Remember Watergate? Whitewater? Benghazi? None of them compares to this threat to democracy (yes, even Watergate).
That means reporting this for what it is, and not having any co-conspirators on for polite interviews. It means having a panel of historians and civic leaders on regularly to discuss the scandal (not a D-list of political hacks). It means consistent front page reporting. It means not reporting this as “horse race” politics. And it means that Democratic leadership has to be fighting against this — openly and all the time. It means that a basic first step requires that we all begin to treat this as the five alarm fire scandal that it is.
I once called all this a “dark truth.” Five years later, sadly, it is an open, proud and largely unchallenged truth. We can’t let this continue.
Cartoon: Giuliani- Source close to Melania, on potential Trump 2024 run: ‘That might not go over well’
- Courts to Donald Trump: It’s over. No, really, it’s over. Do you need us to say it again?
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- Florida Republican loudly resigns after questionable raid on data scientist’s home
- Rudy Giuliani’s star witness was ridiculous when testifying, now she’s being ridiculously dangerous
- Mnuchin throws monkey wrench in COVID-19 relief negotiations with paltry, cruel offer
- Biden to name Rep. Marcia Fudge as first woman to lead HUD in 40 years, but there’s disappointment
- We can still ditch Mitch’s majority. Chip in $5 right now to Daily Kos-endorsed Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock and win a Democratic Senate for Joe Biden.
- From frivolous to frightening: 17 Republican states join Texas, ask the Supreme Court for a coup
- ‘Republicans in disarray’ doesn’t even come close to capturing the pandemonium racking the GOP
- Not just Trump: From Texas to Congress, the Republican Party is attacking America’s democracy
- Katie Porter has had enough of McConnell COVID-19 relief hostage taking
- Sign up for a two-hour volunteer phonebanking shift with Turnout2020. You can call Democratic voters in Georgia from home, no matter where you live, and help them make a plan to vote in the decisive January 5 runoff elections for U.S. Senate!
- Ammon Bundy’s organization descends on Idaho official’s home in latest misguided anti-mask protest
- Because he can’t get enough losing, Trump is setting up his first veto override
- Democrats’ hoped-for bounceback in Wisconsin seat won by Trump didn’t materialize
- Trump’s ‘Operation Warp Speed’ took an approach that guaranteed months of vaccine shortage
- Sign the petition to President-Elect Joe Biden: End sanctions on Iran.
- Georgia Republicans double down on racism in a desperate bid to keep Senate seats
- Georgia’s third-largest county to slash voting precincts by more than half ahead of runoff
- COVID-19 once again devastating Latinos in L.A. county amid surge
ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:
- Judge rips New York officials for disastrous election and orders thousands of votes to be reviewed
- Judge doesn’t just reject latest Republican effort to overturn Michigan vote, she sees through it
- George Stephanopoulos embarrasses Republican Senator spinning another voter fraud lie with reality
- A Black man was shot three times for carrying a Subway sandwich outside of his home in Ohio
- Trumpites bring guns, threats to ‘Stop the Steal’ protests while their numbers sharply decline
- The day the music died
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- Cartoon: Corruption coddlers
- Lame duck Trump rushes to go down in ignominy before being booted from office
- The very short and highly selective memory of the Trump supporter
- Please chip in to 16 frontline organizations working to turn out Democratic voters in rural, suburban, and urban Georgia.
- Trump’s coup attempt now includes phone calls pressuring Pennsylvania House speaker
- In last weeks of Trump administration, Barr loads schedule with five more federal executions
- A destructive legacy
- Click here to find, and sign up for, Get Out The Vote activities for the U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia that will decide control of the U.S. Senate. There are many ways to help out from home, no matter where you live!
- Republican senators invite anti-vaxxers and COVID-19 skeptics to keep right on killing Americans
- ‘He told Black boys you can be somebody’: Popular Baltimore math teacher dies of COVID-19
- Three important things you can do to help in Georgia and take U.S. Senate back from Mitch McConnell
- Sign the petition: Urge the Biden-Harris administration to address student loan debt crisis in the first 100 days!
- COVID-19 is taking an even more serious toll on communities of color than we thought
- ICE is using obscure laws to target women in sanctuary
- Sen. David Perdue was too afraid to debate. Jon Ossoff made the most of the opportunity
- Recounts, litigation, runoffs—it could take weeks to resolve every race. Sign up for the Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest to stay on top of them all.
- McConnell still holds COVID-19 relief hostage amid reports some Senate Democrats will cave in
- Biden announces top health and medical advisers, bringing science back
- ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:
- Judge doesn’t just reject latest Republican effort to overturn Michigan vote, she sees through it
- George Stephanopoulos embarrasses Republican Senator spinning another voter fraud lie with reality.
- Trumpkin pastor calls for Democrats and journalists to be executed
- Judge doesn’t just reject latest Republican effort to overturn Michigan vote, she sees through it
- Trumpkin pastor calls for Democrats and journalists to be executed
- Armed “protestors” target Michigan SOS and her four-year-old son at her home Saturday night
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- Cartoon: The empty-headed league
- McConnell moves one step closer to ramming through Trump’s anti-First Amendment FCC pick
- ‘We’re all victims’: Trump sells Georgians lies in exchange for ‘attempted coup’
- Help keep Georgia blue! Chip in to support progressive organizations working to once again mobilize a winning coalition of Black, Asian, Latinx, young, working class, and rural voters.
- Lyft drivers issue a warning in the wake of California’s Prop. 22
- New forms of testing could bring the pandemic under control before vaccines are widely available
- New York bar owner accused of driving into deputy because he can’t open bar when he wants
- Sign up for a volunteer phonebanking shift with NextGen America to help young voters in Georgia get ready to vote in the January 5 runoff elections! They provide the script, calling platform, training, and a community to connect with other NextGen volunteers.
- That new president can’t start soon enough
- Trump wants Georgia governor to hold a special session and disenfranchise every voter in the state
- Joe Biden to nominate Medicare For All proponent Xavier Becerra to be next HHS secretary
- Sign and send the petition: Demand the Senate focus on COVID-19 relief immediately!
- There can never be any ‘bipartisan reckoning’ over this country’s COVID-19 pandemic failure
- Rep. Porter: Giving Americans money to pay for food and shelter and heat is not ‘stimulus’
- Detained and quarantined: 28 asylum-seeking children face deportation and COVID-19
- Recounts, litigation, runoffs—it could take weeks to resolve every race. Sign up for the Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest to stay on top of them all.
- ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:
- The woman who is the face of Trump’s coup attempt in MI sent obscene pics to her boyfriend’s ex-wife
- Marco Rubio questions Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s work ethic and gets a lesson in work ethic
- Cartoon: America’s worst responder
A high school in Texas opened a grocery store for struggling families where good deeds are accepted as payment – CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/06/us/texas-high-school-grocery-store-good-deeds-trnd/index.html
A whistleblower says the FDA isn’t properly regulating vaccine facilities
While much attention has been given to approving a COVID-19 vaccine, there’s been little paid to the facilities where many vaccines are manufactured. A recent investigation in Vanity Fair features a former FDA inspector turned whistleblower who says that the FDA is not doing its job. Vanity Fair Contributing Editor Katherine Eban, the author of the piece, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.
Read in PBS NewsHour: https://apple.news/ARaAiTCu_SNWNQiSXNM3PBw
- Trump tells GA Gov. Kemp to ‘call off election’ because ‘it won’t be needed’
- The coming tsunami
- No longer ‘standing by,’ Proud Boys bring politics of intimidation to streets in defense of Trump
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- Flynn tires of staging a coup through the courts or legislature, demands the kind with bullets
- Rep. Katie Porter serves Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin his pink slip during hearing
- ‘They were wearing rhinestones’: Trump’s witnesses in Michigan fraud hearing make ridiculous claims
- Meshuggeneh chutzpah. Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. want to inherit daddy’s throne.
- Please chip in $1 to each of these sixteen organizations working to protect the results, engage voters and build a more progressive Georgia.
- ‘Thugs’: Trump resorts to namecalling in first televised interview since losing election
- Rudy Giuliani and his star witness incoherently fart their way through election hearing
- Religious hypocrite and moral coward Marco Rubio tweets scripture, gets avalanche of Bible lessons
- White man deems music too loud and kills Lucy McBath’s son. 8 years later, ‘tragic echo’ happens
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- Kamala Harris is already exhibiting a level of leadership impossible under Trump
- Kelly Loeffler tries to win over Black voters in Georgia and the result is high comedy
- Eric Trump simply can’t believe Joe Biden got 80 million votes
- Pence attempts disappearing act, trying to avoid going down with Trump’s ship
- Sign the petition: Fight back against Trump’s last-minute attacks on Social Security.
- Rich Trump allies want a new ‘Fox News’ competitor for only one reason: To bleed conservatives dry
- Trump lawyer DiGenova calls for the execution of former DHS cybersecurity chief Krebs
- Trump reportedly won’t attend Biden’s inauguration or invite Biden family to White House
- Recounts, litigation, runoffs—it could take weeks to resolve every race. Sign up for the Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest to stay on top of them all.
- The woman who is the face of Trump’s coup attempt in MI sent obscene pics to her boyfriend’s ex-wife
- A couple boarded a plane to Kauai despite positive COVID-19 tests. They were arrested when it landed
- The woman who is the face of Trump’s coup attempt in MI sent obscene pics to her boyfriend’s ex-wife
- A couple boarded a plane to Kauai despite positive COVID-19 tests. They were arrested when it landed
- Marco Rubio questions Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s work ethic and gets a lesson in work ethic
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- Donald Trump threatens to defund military because Twitter keeps pointing out that his lies, are lies
- Cartoon: America’s worst responder
- Florida attorney really should know better than to admit on camera to plans to commit voter fraud
- Cartoon: The red map
- We can still ditch Mitch’s majority. Chip in $5 right now to Daily Kos-endorsed Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock and win a Democratic Senate for Joe Biden.
- Subject of Trump pardon-for-pay scheme has apparently been revealed, but more mysteries remain
- Cartoon: Lucky Ducky and the return of the Deficit Hawk!
- Team Trump has another day jam-packed with court losses in effort to overturn elections
- ‘Tough choices on border wall’ actually not tough at all: Stop construction and cancel the contracts
- Sign up for a two-hour volunteer phonebanking shift with Turnout2020. You can call Democratic voters in Georgia from home, no matter where you live, and help them make a plan to vote in the decisive January 5 runoff elections for U.S. Senate!
- Pelosi: Stimulus proposal ‘not everything we want’ but ‘help is on the way from Joe Biden’
- Senate lurching toward $908 billion COVID-19 stimulus package patch
- As we lose thousands of Americans each day, GOP legislator makes light of COVID ‘cases’
- McConnell owns the Postal Service. We need to win Georgia to take it back
- Sign the petition: Urge the Biden-Harris administration to address student loan debt crisis in the first 100 days!
- Federal judge condemns ICE for ‘appalling’ handling of COVID-19 at private prison
- McConnell watches own constituents suffer and does nothing. We have to take his majority away
- Analysts create AI tool that can distinguish between conspiracy theories and real conspiracies
- Marco Rubio questions Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s work ethic and gets a lesson in work ethic
- Daily Kos relies on small-dollar donations to make ends meet. Please chip in $5 to help us close the books on 2020.
- Donald Trump threatens to defund military because Twitter keeps pointing out that his lies, are lies
- Cartoon: America’s worst responder
- Florida attorney really should know better than to admit on camera to plans to commit voter fraud
- Cartoon: The red map
- We can still ditch Mitch’s majority. Chip in $5 right now to Daily Kos-endorsed Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock and win a Democratic Senate for Joe Biden.
- Subject of Trump pardon-for-pay scheme has apparently been revealed, but more mysteries remain
- Cartoon: Lucky Ducky and the return of the Deficit Hawk!
- Team Trump has another day jam-packed with court losses in effort to overturn elections
- ‘Tough choices on border wall’ actually not tough at all: Stop construction and cancel the contracts
- Sign up for a two-hour volunteer phonebanking shift with Turnout2020. You can call Democratic voters in Georgia from home, no matter where you live, and help them make a plan to vote in the decisive January 5 runoff elections for U.S. Senate!
- Pelosi: Stimulus proposal ‘not everything we want’ but ‘help is on the way from Joe Biden’
- Senate lurching toward $908 billion COVID-19 stimulus package patch
- As we lose thousands of Americans each day, GOP legislator makes light of COVID ‘cases’
- McConnell owns the Postal Service. We need to win Georgia to take it back
- Sign the petition: Urge the Biden-Harris administration to address student loan debt crisis in the first 100 days!
- Federal judge condemns ICE for ‘appalling’ handling of COVID-19 at private prison
- McConnell watches own constituents suffer and does nothing. We have to take his majority away
- Analysts create AI tool that can distinguish between conspiracy theories and real conspiracies
ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far: