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Truth Against the Machine Article: Democrats Make a Critical Mistake in Letting the GOP Distance Itself from Trump

March 13, 2017 Austerity Deregulation Donald Trump extremism Immigration Policy Insane Republicans Racism Republicans Tax Policy Truth Against the Machine War 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

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

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

Donald Trump Campaign is the Real-Life Political Reenactment of Mel Brooks’s The Producers

August 11, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Campaigns Donald Trump extremism Insane Republicans Media Partisan Fighting Racism Republicans 2 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

House Democrats Boo Bernie, Accidentally Reveal Major Problem in Washington

July 11, 2016 2016 Election Bernie Sanders Corporate Greed Corporate Welfare Corporatism Corruption Dark Money Democrats extremism Hillary Clinton Money in Politics Multi-National Corporations Partisan Fighting Policy Super-PACS Supreme Court TPP 3 Comments

In Aftermath of Istanbul Terror, Trump wants us to Become More like ISIS

June 30, 2016 Civil Rights Donald Trump extremism Insane Republicans ISIS Islam Terrorism Torture War War Crimes 1 Comment

Terrorist Kills 50 in Shooting Rampage at Orlando Nightclub, Extremism a Real Danger in the Aftermath

June 12, 2016 2nd Amendment Civil Rights Domestic Surveillance Domestic Terrorism Donald Trump extremism Gun Control guns ISIS Islam Law and Order Racism Terrorism War 1 Comment

Donald Trump Could Be the Real-Life King of Qarth from Game of Thrones

May 24, 2016 2016 Election Donald Trump extremism Media Money in Politics 2 Comments

Democrats Need to Stop Underestimating Donald Trump

May 23, 2016 2016 Election Democrats Donald Trump extremism Hillary Clinton Insane Republicans Media Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Policy political candidates Republicans Tea Party Terrorism Trans-Pacific Partnership War 3 Comments

Trump is Uncontested in GOP Primary Contest…Sane Americans have Day of Mourning

May 6, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Conservative Corporatism Donald Trump extremism Hillary Clinton Insane Republicans Media Partisan Fighting Policy Republicans Sheldon Adelson Tea Party 5 Comments

Dear Republicans: Your Presidential Primary is Embarrassing the USA and Causing Real Foreign Relations Problems

April 1, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Discrimination Donald Trump extremism Foreign Policy Insane Republicans International Relations Racism Republicans Ted Cruz Terrorism Voting 3 Comments

Trump is Dangerously Close to Invalidating Godwin’s Law

March 16, 2016 Civil Rights Current Events Discrimination Domestic Terrorism Donald Trump extremism Insane Republicans Police State Racism Republicans Terrorism Torture 24 Comments

Using the 2016 Election to Illustrate the Problem With Identity Politics

March 8, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Conservative Democrats Donald Trump extremism Hillary Clinton Partisan Fighting Progressive Republicans Ted Cruz 3 Comments

Super Tuesday: The Democrats Run on While the GOP Continues its Slow Self-Immolation

March 4, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Conservative Current Events Democrats Donald Trump extremism Hillary Clinton Partisan Fighting Republicans Tea Party Voting 4 Comments

Donald Trump is the Auto-Immune Disorder of the Conservative Movement

February 26, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Conservative democracy Donald Trump extremism Partisan Fighting Political Primary Racism Religion in Politics Sexism Tea Party 3 Comments

Justice Scalia’s Death Puts 2016 Race into Overdrive

February 16, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Civil Rights Conservative Constitution Corporatism Corruption Criminal Justice Dark Money Democrats Donald Trump Elections extremism Hillary Clinton Jeb Bush Law and Order Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Republicans Supreme Court Ted Cruz 1 Comment

The New Hampshire Primary: Sanders and Trump Dominate

February 10, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Democrats Donald Trump Elections extremism Hillary Clinton Insane Republicans Jeb Bush Marco Rubio Media Republicans Voting 2 Comments

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