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    04 October 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News   Robert Reich | Trump Will Be on the Ballot in 5 Weeks Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog Reich writes: "My friends, make no mistake: Donald Trump is effectively on the ballot in the midterm elections, five weeks from tomorrow (voting has already begun in several states)." READ MORE The Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Killing the Voting Rights Act Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, FiveThirtyEight Thomson-DeVeaux writes: "The beginning of the end for the Voting Rights Act started more than 30 years ago. On Oct. 4, the end of the end is likely to begin." READ MORE Around the World, Protesters Take to the Streets in Solidarity With Iranian Women Laurel Wamsley, NPR Wamsley writes: "Protesters have gathered in cities around the world in recent days in a show of solidarity with women in Iran." READ MORE Russia No Longer Has Full Control of Any of Four 'Annexed' Ukrainian Provinces Luke Harding...

  It's  O ur  D emocracy! Biden to visit Florida and Puerto Rico in wake of Hurricane Ian Today's Top Stories: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Democrats "have already started the killings" of Republicans The Trump-loving, QAnon-espousing congresswoman from Georgia actually accused Democrats of literally plotting to murder Republicans. Sounds like a job for space lasers! Take Action:  Kick Fox News off the air for inciting violence against the government! Matt Gaetz votes no on relief money as Florida grapples with Hurricane Ian aftermath The embattled congressman from Florida is no stranger to voting against hurricane relief for his own constituents as he previously voted against a $15 billion relief package as Hurricane Irma — where at least 92 people died in the contiguous United States — approached Florida in 2017. Take Action:  Demand Congress pass the Respect for Marriage Act! Doctors. Teachers. Women. LGBT+ kids. The GOP is waging culture war against all of th...

    23 September 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News IS IT POSSIBLE PEOPLE VIEW RSN AS ENTERTAINMENT? Searching for a reason why so many people would come to RSN, read and participate but not contribute? Is it possible people view the material we publish as somehow entertaining? We are trying to publish material that we believe is of the most urgent nature, of immediate concern to the public. However, for some reason when we ask for support to help run the process it is extraordinarily difficult to get. Your contributions are of the utmost importance. Marc Ash • Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation!   FOCUS: Russ Feingold | Ruling the US Supreme Court Isn't Enough. The Right Wants to Amend the Constitution Russ Feingold, Guardian UK Feingold writes: "A conservative movement to rewrite the US constitution is gaining momentum - potentially plunging the US into a vast legal unknown." A conservative movement to rewrite the US constituti...

  September 12, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson Sep 13 Many thanks for all your good wishes on our marriage. Someone saw the picture and wrote, “Heather is betting on the future.” I am indeed. And there are reasons to be hopeful about that future. When I last wrote about the news, on Friday, Ukraine was launching a counteroffensive against the Russian troops occupying their territory, but it was still too early to be sure of what was happening. Now it is clear: over the weekend, Ukrainian forces drove Russian troops back, retaking more than 1000 square miles of Ukrainian territory and handing Russia a humiliating operational defeat. Ukraine had been indicating it would launch its offensive in the south, prompting Russia to move 15,000 to 25,000 troops to that front. Instead, it pushed forward farther north, moving with lightning speed as the Russian occupiers, already suffering from low morale, crumbled. Ukrainian plans reflected cooperation with U.S. intelligence, as well as support f...

  FiveThirtyEight  just reported  “60 Percent of Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall.”  This is serious. You and I know that Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans love nothing more than being the pot that calls the kettle black. So it’s no surprise that while every election denier is a bona fide member of Trump’s GOP, they’re only sinking deeper and deeper into the Big Lie. Take Trump’s words at his latest rally in Pennsylvania. Not his attacks on me personally, of which there were many, but this: “Think how bad they are. Think how  evil  they are…These are bad people.  They’re trying to destroy our country.  And we can’t let it go on any longer… The radical Democrats are engaging in a desperate attempt to keep me from returning to the White House.” Democrats are literally fighting to save our democracy. Trump and his cronies are literally trying to destroy it by overturning an election they clearly lost. We can’t allow ...

WORTH READING! I stole this from Twitter but I read the book a long time ago. My father had a copy of it in our house when we were kids and he was not a closet Liberal, but a self-educated man from Smuteye Alabama. From @MarkJacob16 "With all the arguments over whether MAGA Republicans are fascists, I reread William Shirer’s “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” to see how much the rise of Hitler and the rise of MAGA smell similar...Conclusion: They do. I'm not saying that MAGA will end up as horrifically as Nazism. I am saying that America 2022 feels too much like Germany 1932, and I don't want to take the risk of watching MAGA cultism play out. We have to stop it now."This thread lists 10 ways. Please take a look. 1. A big lie about treachery is used to foment resentment. Nazis: We didn’t really lose World War I. It was a “stab in the back” by Jews and other "November criminals." MAGA: We didn’t really lose the 2020 election. It was a “steal” by politicia...