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On April 29, the current Supreme Court's conservative majority handed down their ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, effectively gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act which since 1965 has stood as one of the principal protections of the right of Black Americans to vote. washingtonspectator.org/why-…
The panelists explain how the assault on Black voting power is the leading edge of a broader project, that ultimately aims to engulf everyone who relies on public schools, public health care, clean air, and a fair vote.
This revelatory exchange is for anyone concerned about the threat to democracy posed by the authoritarians and white nationalists currently in power. Read the full conversation in The Washington Spectator: washingtonspectator.org/why-…
In "Dancing in the Dark" series for The Washington Spectator, Mark Medish (Clinton's NSC Sr. Director) & Joel McCleary (Carter's deputy assistant) argue that this presidency isn't really organized around ideology or policy. It's organized around keeping power. washingtonspectator.org/its-…
Just when you thought it was safe to go outside - the Air Force is integrating AI into the command and control protocols of land-based nuclear missiles.
Read the full article: washingtonspectator.org/ai-i…
From our conversation with @RBReich: "I think people are so upset with feeling powerless that we are at a point in our nation’s history where they really do want agency."
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@RBReich taught for 45 years. "The cowardice of the presidents of universities is amazing to me because I lived through a period of civil rights and Vietnam where the presidents of universities actually were moral spokespeople and key actors in civil society."
Read the full conversation here: washingtonspectator.org/conv…
@RBReich has never seen anything like this. "Democracy depends upon people understanding it and valuing it and being willing to sacrifice for it."
"I never envisioned a president—and a political party—that would be so amoral. . . "
To recast the lawful administration of elections, political fundraising, protest against government abuses, and resistance by public officials as either threats to national security or actual crimes, #Trump has used claims of:
- Election fraud
- Domestic terrorism
- Foreign financing
- Organized political violence
@JonathanMaWiner in @WashSpec
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What happened to the Venezuelan oil money?
@JonathanMaWiner reports on Trump's Two Oil Mysteries in The Washington Spectator.
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Surely the most ironic feature of the celebration of the Declaration of Independence is that we are engaged, at the same time, in a massive expansion of the powers of the presidency.
This development runs completely counter to the country’s founding principles.
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"By limiting Congress’s ability to restrain the president, weakening voting protections and empowering the wealthy in politics, John Roberts, the genteel, non-revolutionary man, has helped create conditions where the democratic process is increasingly hollow—superficially intact with respect to procedure, but substantively diminished."
"U.S. democracy with a small 'd' could be shielded from the constant slide to autocracy, what pro-democracy advocates Tim Wirth and Richard Gephardt have called a 'rolling coup,' if only some Republican legislators would live up to their responsibilities under the U.S. Constitution and end their submissive support of a relentlessly imperial President."
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