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  Elon Musk. Peter Thiel. The MAGA Extremist network. Corporate PACs. They’re ALL writing blank checks to Republicans in 2025 and 2026, and they’ll spend whatever it takes to push their agenda and silence working Americans. But here’s what they don’t have: YOU! Grassroots Democrats across the country have the power to match MAGA dollar-for-dollar — not with billionaires, but with thousands of small-dollar donors standing together. That’s why my Democracy Defense Fund is teaming up with Resist Reclaim Rebuild to push back against the flood of corporate cash. If everyone reading this chipped in just $10, we could fully fund Resist Reclaim Rebuild's campaign budget this month. That means they’d be able to pay for organizers on the ground, digital ads to reach voters, and voter protection programs that ensure every ballot gets counted. Republicans are counting on us to give up before the fight even begins. Let’s prove them wrong. Will you split a donation right now? DONATE NOW TO DEF...

  Open in browser Remember Al Gore? 2000 vs. 2020 (and 2022) Dan Rather  and  Elliot Kirschner Aug 30 A few trendlines have collided recently that got me thinking of a former vice president, Al Gore. Remember him? For one, there is the existential threat of our climate crisis. It’s been 16 years since Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” debuted. During that time, the truth he warned about — our planet's spiral toward a new climate reality, fueled by human activity and significantly less hospitable to human existence — has become only more inconvenient, urgent, and dire.  Drought in the western U.S. Severe heat waves across Europe. Unusually heavy flooding in Kentucky and elsewhere. Scientists say these kinds of dramatic weather patterns will become more frequent as climate change progresses. We hear about 100-year storms or even 1,000-year floods, terms that are meant to indicate rarity. But it is increasingly clear such events are no lon...

    30 August 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News WITH REGRET: We cannot provide service to 100% of our Readership on the donations we receive from 1% of our Readers. A few of you DO help support the project. The vast majority do not. That is not fair to those who are sustaining the project, nor is it fair to the project we all want RSN to be. We love this project and this community, but we must ask you in the strongest terms to take the funding drives more seriously. In earnest. Marc Ash • Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation!   FOCUS: Jonathan Rauch | Trump's Second Term Would Look Like This Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic Rauch writes: "Ever since the U.S. Senate failed to convict Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection and disqualify him from running for president again, a lot of people, myself included, have been warning that a second Trump term could bring about the extinction of American democracy." The former pr...

  View in browser   BY  LISA KASHINSKY SCOOP:  DEPARTURE LOUNGE —  Quentin Palfrey is planning to end his campaign for attorney general as soon as today, according to three people familiar with his thinking. Chatter about Palfrey potentially exiting the Democratic primary  and endorsing one of his competitors has grown in recent days as new polls showed the former assistant attorney struggling to keep pace with Andrea Campbell and Shannon Liss-Riordan, and with key endorsements breaking for his rivals. He also cut $140,000 of his $231,000 in pre-primary ad buys, according to ad tracker AdImpact. Palfrey did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Palfrey began telegraphing his attorney general campaign over a year ago,  when the 2018 Democratic lieutenant governor nominee  told the Boston Globe  he would run for the state’s top law enforcement job if Attorney General Maura Healey ran for governor. He racked up endorsements from Democrat...