A recording from Liz Oyer and Glenn Kirschner's live video

A recording from Glenn Kirschner's live video

Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.

I live in San Diego & just ran up to my local grocer for a few things. People are usually quiet. Today, they are openly & loudly talking about how Trump is encouraging Iran to wipe us from this earth....

From the beginning of the war in Iran, I’ve warned one reason that Trump wants such a war is to provoke a terrorist attack at home. History is full of leaders — from Putin in Russia to Orban in Hunga...

For ten years, Donald Trump has taught Americans to see other Americans as enemies. This week, a crowd applauded when he talked about letting Iran “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego.

The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida.

The Justice Department blacked out Simon Andriesz from his FBI interview everywhere but one line. Britain's regulator wrongly told him being named had cost him his protection. He died last month.

Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity.

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Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share it...

Kharkiv Meditations, 10/10

Kharkiv Meditations, 9/10

If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing Missouri public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The real...

A recording from Robert B. Hubbell's live video

When a picture speaks a thousand words

Eisenhower's Death Camps: One of Many Dirty Secrets of World War II.

A wonderful novel -- read it

Weekly Reflection: What I shared in Prescott about power, citizenship and finding each other.

Friends,

John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Mid...

WATCH: Mamdani reminds everyone that decent social programs would cost “a fraction“ of what we’re currently spending on bombs: "We always seem to have money for war, but not to feed the poor.” Restack...

CRIMINALS: The Department of Homeland Security was just caught bulldozing Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to build Trump’s border wall! This is a valuable habitat for dozens of animal sp...

10 Hills I’ll die on: - Big corporations shouldn’t be able to buy elections - A good education shouldn’t just be for rich kids - Getting sick shouldn’t mean going broke - We should invest in child...

Jack Smith Does Not Play. “I will not be silenced by continued threats of prosecution from the president or others. As I appear before you today, it is my belief that the rule of law faces challenges ...

Turning Point USA spent years accusing educators of indoctrinating students. Now its multimillion-dollar political machine is moving into high schools—including here in the Verde Valley.

Dear thinkers: Tomorrow, Monday, 9/28, Tim will be hosting two great minds on his Substack Live: @Anne Applebaum at 10 a.m. ET (they will cover the geopolitics of our time and how to make sense of thi...

Elias Law Group is currently litigating 85 voting and election cases in 41 states.

Kharkiv Meditations, 7/10

The last 24 hours of news, as a woman: - A man jacks off to the woman next to him on a plane. United makes her return to her seat. - 7 frat boys drug and gang rape a student for hours, and adverti...

He’s the single worst Democratic hopeful now (almost) running for president. Democratic midterm candidates we warned: stay away from him.

Its purpose was to kill as many civilians as possible.

September 25, 2026

So, it turns out that now CNN and CBS News are under the control of the Ellison family, they are considering asking Elon Musk to join them. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you ag...

Six Weeks to the Mid-Terms

HEARTBREAKING: The sons of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who ICE agents killed in July, are now asking Congress: “What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad?” Restack if you want justice for th...

Representation is more than a title. It’s what someone chooses to do with the power we give them.

Kharkiv Meditations 4/10

Follow the money

Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...

No one should be shot in the back and denied urgent medical care. The shooting of Venezuelan DoorDash driver Wilber Garcés Pérez by ICE in Austin demands a full investigation. Abolish ICE. Prosecut...

Hear hear

A recording from George Hahn's live video

Kharkiv Meditations 1/10

Just like I predicted right here in this publication almost two years ago.