MUST WATCH: Jake Tapper slams Right, their ‘bumbling treasonous fools’ CW...
In what is likely the best admonition of the Right, Jake Tapper presented a clinic on their intransigence and outright racism.Jake Tapper nails themxxYouTube VideoSee full episodes here.One needed to...
View ArticleAbraham Lincoln puts Fort Sumter and George Floyd into Context.
Heather Cox Richardson has about 1.4 million followers on Facebook. Her daily history lessons are superbly engaging and worthy of one’s time. She is a professor at Boston College who covers current...
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News Media Exclusivity: The Coming Storm?
There is currently no more Republican Party. Just the name is still in use. It is an openly fascist party dedicated to dictatorship and one that is using white supremacy as its vehicle, which has long...
View ArticleThe civil war in the Republican Party is over, and the Republican Party lost
On Wednesday, House Republicans voted Rep. Liz Cheney out of her leadership position and replaced her with compliant quisling Rep. Elise Stefanik. On the same day, 100 current and former Republican...
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We the People: George Washington was Right!
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble...
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Police Reform: Why it's a Catch 22 Proposition
Police reform today has become a hot -- and controversial -- political topic. It’s import to understand why reform efforts, as commonly understood, are destined to fail in poor and destabilized...
View ArticleThe Memorial Day history forgot: The Martyrs of the Race Course
It has become a Daily Kos tradition for me to republish this Memorial Day story I wrote in 2016. I have ancestors, Black and white, who fought for the Union during the Civil War. This is posted in...
View ArticleGQP Using Memorial Day To Fan The Flames of Civil War
At a QAnon rally in Dallas today Trump lawyer Sidney Powell told the cheering throng of Gullibles that Trump could simply be "reinstated" as President. “He is simply reinstated and a new inauguration...
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The last Civil War veteran in RI (US Colored Troops)
The last known surviving Civil War veteran in Rhode Island, Edward P. Taylor, died in 1940, just before his 98th birthday. Even as an old man, he was active in the McGregor Post #14, Grand Army of the...
View ArticleThe Oath Keeper Plot To Destroy America
Earlier this week a Fourth Superseding Indictment was filed against what now totals as 16 members of the Oath Keepers organization. The indictment is noteworthy as one of the few that alleges a...
View ArticleThe Insanity of Doing Nothing
The Insanity of Doing NothingThis might seem unbelievable to the people who have only read some of my recent writings on this site, but I told myself near the beginning of the year to stop putting up...
View Article‘Boogaloo Boi’ killer was an active member of a secretive terrorist militia...
Despite the widespread media narrative blaming Black Lives Matter and antifascist activists for last summer’s protest violence, there were plenty of suspicions that far-right extremists seeking to...
View ArticleTraitors & Copperheads
Taking the measure of Republican stonewalling of vigorous —or any— investigation and prosecution getting to the bottom of the January 6 insurrection, I think of a passage from Ulysses Grant’s...
View ArticleThere is one freedom the Constitution doesn't ever allow
Over the past year and a half, we’ve learned an awful lot from Republicans about “freedom.” We learned, for instance, that refusing to wear a mask in public places to protect others from a deadly virus...
View ArticleThe sad story of southern slave owners, as told in 8th grade history books
Gather around, children. I want to tell you a tale, a story of a nation divided. A story about a war of values in the United States. A war where people were held in bondage, had suffered brutal...
View ArticleTexas’ 1836 Project is a big bag of BS, and we all know everything’s bigger...
The Republican Party’s war on democracy knows no bounds. With no policies and no meaningful solutions to the country’s problems to offer, conservatives have continued their efforts at retelling our...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Countries
In 1859 Charles Dickens wrote: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of...
View ArticleJuneteenth and Reparations
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Defeating Fascism: Is it Mission Impossible?
I would venture a guess that few of Trump's rank and file supporters have any idea what fascism is, or that they are supporting a fascist leader and movement. You can argue “so what, they’d still...
View ArticleMore than half of House Republicans stand with Confederate traitors in the...
The House voted 285 to 120 on Tuesday to remove statues of Confederate leaders from the U.S. Capitol and to replace the bust of the author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision with one of the first Black...
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