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FBI Director Comey Doesn’t Understand the 1st Amendment

May 5, 2017 1st Amendment Civil Rights Criminal Justice International Relations Media Media Freedom National Security War Crimes Wikileaks Leave a comment

Truth Against the Machine Article: AR Police Maliciously Overcharge Diamond Pipeline Protester

March 25, 2017 Criminal Justice Due Process Environment Environmental Protection Legal Injustice Oil Pollution Truth Against the Machine Leave a comment

Breaking Down the GOP Health Insurance Proposal: Who will Benefit and Who will be Hurt

March 8, 2017 Austerity Conservative Donald Trump Economics extremism Health Policy Inequality Medicare ObamaCare Policy Republicans 2 Comments

Trump’s 1st Month in Office: A Rolling Catastrophe and International Embarrassment

February 23, 2017 Civil Rights Conservative Corporatism Corruption Donald Trump Educational Policy Environment extremism Immigration Policy Policy Racism Tax Policy Leave a comment

Betsy Devos Confirmed as Secretary of Education, Iceberg Ahead for American Students and Teachers

February 7, 2017 Corporatism Corruption Deregulation Donald Trump Educational Policy extremism Privatization Regulation Religion in Politics schools Leave a comment

President Trump Takes Office Today…Welcome to the Era of Idiocracy

January 20, 2017 Civil Rights Conservative Corporate Greed Corporatism Corruption Defense Policy Donald Trump Economic Crisis Educational Policy Environmental Policy Environmental Protection extremism Foreign Policy Health Policy Immigration Policy Insane Republicans Policy Tax Policy 1 Comment

Trump’s Presidency is the Perfect Time to Implement a Progressive Shock Doctrine

January 17, 2017 Bernie Sanders Donald Trump Health Policy Insane Republicans ObamaCare Policy Progressive Republicans Leave a comment

The Hidden Lead Crisis in the USA: Part #1

December 22, 2016 Environment Environmental Policy Flint Michigan Health Policy Lead 1 Comment

Beware the Intelligence Establishment Escalating Tensions with Russia

December 16, 2016 2016 Election CIA Conspiracy Theories Donald Trump Foreign Policy Hillary Clinton International Relations Iraq National Security Russia Voting 1 Comment
November 15, 2016 Abortion Civil Rights Donald Trump Educational Policy Environment Environmental Policy Environmental Protection EPA Health Policy Immigration Policy Policy Pollution Tax Policy Taxation Undocumented Immigration Women's Rights 5 Comments

12 Nightmarish Consequences of a Donald Trump Presidency – Part 1

November 14, 2016 Civil Rights Conservative Defense Policy Donald Trump Educational Policy Environment Environmental Policy Environmental Protection extremism Foreign Policy global climate change Health Policy Immigration Policy Partisan Fighting Policy Racism Supreme Court Tax Policy Torture 1 Comment

America Elects Trump, What this Means, How it Happened, and Who is to Blame

November 9, 2016 2016 Election Civil Rights Conservative Donald Trump extremism Insane Republicans Media Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Policy Progressive Republicans Voting 3 Comments

What to Look for as the 2016 Polls Close, State Results and Demographic Turnout

November 8, 2016 2016 Election Donald Trump Elections Hillary Clinton Partisan Fighting Voting 4 Comments

ObamaCare Premiums Increase and Choices Decrease, Signals Time for Major Push Towards Single Payer

October 26, 2016 Bernie Sanders Health Policy Inequality Obama ObamaCare Policy Privatization Progressive Leave a comment

Is Trump’s Decline in the Polls due to Voters Changing their Minds, or are Trump Voters Hiding their Vote?

October 19, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Current Events Democrats Donald Trump Elections extremism Hillary Clinton Republicans Voting 1 Comment

Catastrophe 2016: Trump Exposed as a Sexual Predator and Hillary’s Duplicitous Speech Transcripts Leaked

October 9, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bankers banksters Bernie Sanders Big Banks Corporatism Corruption Current Events Donald Trump Elections extremism Hillary Clinton Media Money in Politics News Regulation Sexism TPP Wikileaks 4 Comments

An Honest Argument for Hillary Clinton, from a Bernie Supporter

September 30, 2016 2016 Election Bernie Sanders Conservative Current Events Donald Trump extremism Hillary Clinton Insane Republicans Neo-Conservatives Policy Progressive Racism Terrorism Voting 2 Comments

Don’t let Rioters in Charlotte Distract from the Real Protesters’ Message

September 22, 2016 Black Lives Matter Civil Rights Criminal Justice Current Events Discrimination Inequality Media Police Police Brutality Racism 1 Comment

American Elections are Critically Vulnerable to Foreign Hackers

August 30, 2016 2016 Election Corruption Elections Foreign Policy Voting Voting Rights 5 Comments

DOJ Announces a Reduction in its Private Prison Usage…With One Enormous Caveat

August 23, 2016 Corruption Criminal Justice DOJ Immigration Policy lobbying Private Prisons Privatization Undocumented Immigration 3 Comments

CDC Reports on America’s Large, and Growing, Weight Problem

August 8, 2016 Current Events Economics Health Policy Medicare Policy 2 Comments

DNC Email Leaks Prove that the Primary was Unfairly Biased in Hillary’s Favor

July 25, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Corruption Dark Money democracy Democrats Hillary Clinton Media Money in Politics Voter Disenfranchisement Voting Voting Rights Wikileaks 11 Comments

Summarizing the GOP Convention: Fear and Loathing in Cleveland

July 23, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Civil Rights Conservative Corporatism Corruption Discrimination Donald Trump extremism Inequality Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting Policy Racism Republicans Social Conservative Tea Party Terrorism Undocumented Immigration War Crimes 1 Comment

Hillary Promises to Overturn Citizens United 30 Days After Election but Can’t Admit Why it’s a Problem

July 18, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Corporatism Corruption Dark Money Deregulation Hillary Clinton Money in Politics Multi-National Corporations Regulation Super-PACS Supreme Court Wolf-PAC 5 Comments

SCOTUS Erodes 4th Amendment, Legitimizing Evidence from Illegal Searches

June 24, 2016 4th Amendment Civil Rights Conservative Constitution Criminal Justice Discrimination Law and Order Legal Injustice Supreme Court 5 Comments

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