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  Glenn Kirschner 1.2M subscribers Apr 4, 2026 Talk about 'do as I say not as I do': Trump votes by mail and then signs an executive order restricting others from voting by mail. As is often the case, Trump's executive order is blatantly unconstitutional, and will quickly be struck down by the courts. I just sat down with Skye Perryman, CEO and President of Democracy Forward, to discuss this and other legal developments. Find Democracy Forward: https://democracyforward.org/ Find Glenn on Substack: glennkirschner.substack.com Ask Get answers, explore topics, and more Ask questions Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript

The real reason for Trump's Iran bombing Trump is nothing if not self-interested. His attack against Iran helps him and his party more than meets the eye. Brian Tyler Cohen Feb 28 I understand the inclination to believe that Trump is acting erratically when he seemingly arbitrarily bombs Iran. But this is the culmination of a long-term plan for which the chief beneficiary is, unsurprisingly, himself. You don’t have to look far for clues, either. This morning, while the bombing was underway, Trump wrote: Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States. Let’s be clear: Trump doesn’t care about foreign countries meddling in our elections. If he did, he’d be bombing Russia right now. So why then would Trump invoke Iran  interfering in our elections  as he bombs the country? Put simply, he is trying to validate the claim that our elections are not secure, so that he can use that as a pretext to usurp control of our electio...

  What Will It Take? Joyce Vance Mar 26 Why doesn't any of this break through? Why do Republicans still support Trump? The  reporting  in The Atlantic on the Signal chain? The voter suppression  executive order   Trump issued yesterday? The foul-ups in deporting supposed gang members who turn out not to be? Why aren’t Americans out on the streets protesting in massive numbers like we have seen people in other countries doing—Israel, Georgia, Turkey, South Korea, and others? In part, it’s because a large number of people who are Trump supporters just don’t care. Their guy can do anything, and they don’t care. They’ll believe any lie, and they’ll ignore any horrible; they’re all in for Trump for reasons the rest of us still struggle to understand. The question is, how many of the rest of us are there? By that I mean Americans who, regardless of party affiliation, still care about truth and democracy. Those words are no longer just philosophical notions to be bandi...