Gabriel Zucman on Twitter: @Gabriel_Zucman Buy The Triumph of Injustice – How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay HERE. Christopher Ingraham at The Washington Post: For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year https://t.co/v6LPTxDRce is now LIVE! 🥳 It's an open-source & user-friendly simulator allowing […]

The biggest mistake we can make is forgetting what Trump is good at Despite his relentless efforts to screw anyone who isn’t a billionaire and betray the nation in general, Donald Trump’s appeal to his shrinking party remains durable and inexplicable to many rational minds. Still, you can’t help but wonder where it comes from and how to undermine it […]

Sarah Kendzior on Twitter: @SarahKendzior Sarah Kendzior’s website: SarahKendzior.com Buy Sarah Kendzior’s book The View from Flyover Country HERE. Coming in 2020. Pre-order it here:https://t.co/exiGEvXgFq pic.twitter.com/fFj62xlrOc — Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) September 7, 2019 Sarah Kendzior’s podcast with Andrea Chalupa: Gaslit Nation Gaslit Nation on Twitter: @GaslitNation Gaslit Nation’s interview with Alexandra Chalupa is HERE. Desmond Butler, Michael Biesecker, and Richard […]

Trump knows propaganda works, which is why sticking together is our only hope Donald Trump’s attacks are all the same attack. His political career was born out of the baseless, racist assertion that Barack Obama couldn’t possibly be a citizen. And Democrats will only defuse his conspiratorial smear-mongering if they stand together and call out all his attacks for what […]

Back in 2012, Indiana became the second state after Michigan to pass an emergency manager law that allows the state to take control from locally, democratically elected leaders and put it into the hands of an appointed bureaucrat. The law covers any “distressed political subdivision” which, like in Michigan, includes municipalities or school districts. Furthermore, Indiana’s Emergency Managers have the […]

Democrats need to recognize Trump isn’t the only corrosive threat to democracy they face. Demand Mark Zuckerberg’s resignation today. This week audio leaked to The Verge revealed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckergberg’s fears of an Elizabeth Warren presidency: “You have someone like Elizabeth Warren who thinks that the right answer is to break up the companies … if she gets elected […]

Elissa Slotkin’s victory in 2018 to become the member of Congress of Michigan’s 8th District was probably the poster child for the ascendancy of Democratic voters after the election of Donald Trump. She defeated the Chief Pocket Lint Wrangler for billionaire Matty Moroun, Republican Mike Bishop, in a quite red district Bishop should easily have won. It took time, but […]

Rashida Tlaib on Twitter: @RashidaTlaib Rashida Tlaib’s campaign website: RashidaForCongress Rashida Tlaib’s Congressional website: Tlaib.House.gov This was my gift to my new member class. "To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men." – from Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem Protest. I am making sure we know our power in Congress to hold corrupt elected officials accountable. […]

The Clean Air Act requires U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for pollutants that are considered harmful to the public and environment. In order to do this, the EPA has a long history of including the advice of independent groups of scientists. However, in October of 2018, Trump’s EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler, appointed a […]

Which is why you should ignore the polls when it comes to saving democracy Two quick, new polls regarding impeachment show an exponential increase in support for the impeachment of Donald Trump in his own party. A POLITICO/Morning Consult poll that Tuesday night finds support among Republicans for the House pursuing impeachment proceedings rising from 5 percent to 10. A […]