Category: Electoralism/Democratism

MAGA Has Reached a Crossroads in Iran

By Ross Barkan, a political columnist for Intelligencer June 17, 2025 27 Comments Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Marjorie Taylor Greene, as usual, was furious. “Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA,” she posted on X. “We have […]

Republican House members are craven tools

Buyer’s remorse? Please…   Republicans in the House who forced Donald Trump’s spending-and-death-panels bill on us now claim to regret their votes. The New York Times reports: “Republicans who rallied behind the bill are claiming buyer’s remorse about measures they swear they did not know were included.”   […]

The Re-Emerging Anti-MAGA Majority

If voters had known in November what they know now—which could and should have been possible—Trump would have lost. By Michael Podhorzer May 24, 2025 Pierre Kattar/NPR (Washington, DC) This week we are in the midst of another spasm of 2024 retrospection, reviving two narratives. The first I’ll […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/21/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX, Flare, Saga, Fetch.ai, GoldPro Token, Amp and more…Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get early delivery, personalized stock alerts, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 21st, 2025   AI Startup Now OK’d […]

The Travails of Trumpification Revisited

Trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser. Save 25% while supplies last! The Travails of Trumpification Revisited With Donald Trump’s second presidential term now underway, it is the perfect time to pick up your copy of Timothy W. Luke’s The Travails of Trumpification, from Telos Press Publishing. Save […]

Is Trump Losing? A Debate

Is Donald Trump eroding American democracy and consolidating power for himself? Or is he trying to do that and failing? Is this what sliding toward authoritarianism looks like? Or is this what a functioning democracy looks like? And how can you tell the difference? Two articles came out […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/15/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX, Cardano, JOE, Saga, Silo Finance, Cobak Token and more…Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get early delivery, personalized stock alerts, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 15th, 2025   Tech Millionaire: “Here’s […]

I Shot the Tariffs

Sponsored by Poetry Foundation Nic Johnson Breaking the Conveyor Belt Motivated perhaps above all by culture-war grievance, in the past month Donald Trump has tried to radically reshape a century-old system of global trade. Zoe Guttenplan Spaghetti Underground The MTA’s new redesign of the New York City subway […]

The Soap Opera of American Politics

Troy Southgate Apr 11, 2025 I WAS casting my mind back to 2017, when an American diplomat suggested that Ivanka Trump’s distress over alleged gas attacks in Syria had ‘significant influence’ on US airstrikes. Professional nutcase, Alex Jones, on the other hand, had adopted a similar approach and […]

Greg Palast Returns

Episode 219 Sneak Peek Krystal Kyle & Friends Mar 27, 2025 On this week’s show, investigative journalist Greg Palast will return to expose Trump’s plot to steal the midterms and make sure that he will face no accountability for the insane, lawless and wildly unpopular way that he […]

“Two Perfect Months”

That’s how Trump sees his opening act. Believe him — or your own lying eyes. Andrew Sullivan Mar 28, 2025 Screenshot of plain-clothed ICE agents grabbing Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk off the street. (Video obtained by Daniel Boguslaw) O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, […]

Waltz Must Go

View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW      I don’t see how the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz organizing group chat with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg goes away without Waltz’s resignation. There may be some ambiguity about whether Signal, the app used for the chat, […]

A New Party of Progress

Manifesto of the National Labor Party Benjamin Stuart Reed Mar 07, 2025   The election of President Trump should be seen as the euthanizing bullet to the sick donkey long in decay. In truth, a Do Not Resuscitate order should have been affixed to it years ago, as […]

Trump Shows His True Colors

Rev. Chuck Baldwin Published: Thursday, March 20, 2025 Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to show his true colors. Trump won a landslide election last November primarily on […]

Trump Goes Even Further

by Alexander Dugin Alexander Dugin Mar 19, 2025 Alexander Dugin reveals the key levers of influence. Donald Trump’s dissolution of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) is an event of paramount importance, one whose significance can hardly be overstated. But why did this happen? First and foremost, […]

Civil war inside the White House

By Tom Woods View in browser It was bound to happen, but it’s manifesting itself sooner than many people expected: There’s a war brewing inside Trump circles on foreign policy. It was obvious that some Trump allies had been uncomfortable about all the antiwar talk, because they do […]