A Perfect Storm: An Authoritarian in Power, Fascists in the Streets, and a Nation that Refuses to Listen
In his most recent debate performance, Donald Trump again confirmed his intention to steal the election and his willingness to rely on far-right extremists to carry out his will through violence and intimidation. We’re facing a massive crisis.
Sectarian Violence: The Trump Caravans Signal a New Stage in the American Crisis
The Right is embracing vigilantes as supporters organize and drive caravans into so-called “Democratic cities.” The potential exists for unbelievable violence.
An Intentional Dismantling: Trump is Killing the Government to Maintain Power
Donald Trump has made it startlingly clear that he is dismantling the Postal Service in order to steal the presidential election. This is how an authoritarian operates, by destroying the government and twisting it to their own ends.
Potential Violence: The Right is Animated by White Supremacist Paranoia that has Defined America for Generations
Kamala Harris has only been the Democratic nominee for vice-president for a few short hours, but the Right has already revealed their attack. Like other white supremacists before them, they will paint Harris as a person of color with the potential for violence.
He’s Against God. He’s Against Guns: A Failing Authoritarian President Plunges Deep into the Right’s Paranoid Playbook
With Donald Trump and the NRA facing consequences, the Right is embracing the fascistic conspiracy theories they’ve used for generations even as the possibility of human tragedy looms.
A Crumbling Veneer: As Americans Die and the Country Declines, Donald Trump’s Incompetence and Inhumanity Shine Through
Jonathan Swan’s interview with Donald Trump has lit up America, but only because it revealed what our media and institutions have been hiding for so long: our president is dangerously and undeniably incompetent and delusional.
Totalitarian Creep: Authoritarians Poison Public Discourse, Destroy Democratic Institutions, and Use the Status Quo as Cover While Consolidating Power
Donald Trump has now openly floated the possibility of delaying the presidential election. Even as his authoritarian instincts become more obvious by the day, people of conscience continue to hide behind precedent and give him cover to destroy our institutions.
An Effective Political Strategy - The Trump Administration Played Politics With the Pandemic and Oversaw Genocide
Genocide. It is becoming clearer, with every passing day, with every new revelation, that the Trump Administration played political games with the coronavirus pandemic, using it as a weapon against Democratic opponents and damning hundreds of thousands to die and suffer.
“Our People”: Donald Trump’s Only Concern in a Generational Pandemic is His Own Fate
A new report reveals that Donald Trump only started paying attention to the coronavirus when an adviser told him it was affecting “our people.” The Muckrake examines the president’s failure to address the crisis and his continued deadly and narcissistic worldview.
Even the Children: The Trump Administration Bullied the CDC and Used Them to Push School Openings at Any Cost
The Trump Administration has been waging a quiet war on the CDC and has now used them to release a self-serving tome forcing children back to school. For these bullies, it’s just more of the same oppressive trick.
The Monster They Have Wrought: Fox News, Trumpism, and Festering Fascism
For two decades, Fox News has peddled white paranoia for profit and electoral success. In crafting this alternate reality, they have empowered fascism and radicalized their viewers. As always, Fox and its talent will follow the movement wherever it goes.
Solidarity: Faced with Growing Fascism and a Failing, Violent State, Organization is Our Only Option
The violence and extralegal measures are continuing in Portland, but protesters were joined this weekend by a coalition of mothers and concerned citizens. It’s time to recognize that, in the face of fascism, solidarity and cooperation is our best hope.
Secret Police: As the State Fails, Extralegal Measures Become the Norm
In Portland, Oregon, unidentified troops in unmarked cars are kidnapping protesters, holding them indefinitely, and denying them their Constitutional rights. It’s the beginning of a new, dangerous moment wherein a failing state has nothing left to offer but violence.
No Plan To Be Found: Why the Administration Refuses to Lead and Fails the People
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has no plan to protect America’s students. Her only goal is to dismantle public education, and in this destruction she fits in perfectly with Donald Trump’s anti-administration.
Any Scapegoat Will Do: Authoritarians, Public Failure, Conspiracies, and Self-Immolation in Times of Crisis
As Donald Trump continues to fail to lead during the pandemic, he turns to a fourth-rate game show host and begins his attack on his public-health expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Considering Trump is an authoritarian, terminally insecure, and terrified of experts, the move should surprise no one.
A Strange and Shrinking World: Inside the Increasingly Isolated, Paranoid, and Sad Alternate Reality of the American Right
The American Right have become a dangerous, fascistic movement lost in an alternate, paranoid reality that is shrinking by the day. Unfortunately, this is a self-fulfilling prophecy and only makes them more dangerous.
Learn to Die With It: A New and Tragic Phase of the Pandemic has Begun
As the coronavirus crisis grows worse by the day, Republicans like Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis have no intention to address the problem besides shoveling more and more Americans into the maw of a generational pandemic. They offer no solutions, only more and more tragedy.
A Cult Within A Cult: Qanon, Conspiracy Theories, and Growing Fascism
The Qanon conspiracy theory is growing by the day and radicalizing more and more people. Though it seems ridiculous and absurd, this cult within a cult endangers us all.
Independence Day: Reckoning With America in an Age of Plague
The Fourth of July has always been a holiday of bombast and excess. With the country reeling from the pandemic and festivities largely canceled, maybe Americans can use the moment to reconsider themselves and their country.
A Horror of Their Own Making: The GOP, Fascism, and the Crisis that Refuses to End
The old guard of the Grand Old Party is showing signs of realizing the horror they’ve unleashed, but after decades of lies, manipulation, misinformation, and disgusting game-theory, it’s too little too late.