Thousands of local threats to our votes If you think that voter suppression laws are a threat to free and fair elections, you are right. While scary and upsetting, they do impact Republican voters as well. So there’s that. But something else in the fascist Republican playbook is perhaps a greater threat and it is…

But Be Glad She’s Here We don’t watch much television news. It’s all too often just the sensationalization of what we have already read. But yesterday I came upon a link to an interview by Chuck Todd (NBC, MSNBC). He spoke with Vice President Kamala Harris. Much like a President, one of a VP’s jobs…

Better late than never? I ripped off this piece from the NYTimes – so those of you who hit the “paywall” may read it. Sacheen Littlefeather was booed and cheered after she explained that she was representing Marlon Brando and that he could not accept the award because of “the treatment of American Indians today…

25 Years of Lies and Obstruction “The GOP is Sick. It didn’t start with Trump – and won’t end with him.” This is the title of an opinion piece in the Washington Post of August 4th. Many of you may hit a paywall when trying to read this essential piece by Dana Milbank. Here is…

A Blueprint for a Real Democracy Doomerism. Doom scrolling. Facing the “fire hose” of fascists finagling with our fragile democracy. It’s depressing and it is exhausting. It can cause us to shut down. A natural defense mechanism to prevent an emotional collapse. I get it. I suggest we compartmentalize this horror of a formerly legitimate…

Who thought he could get this much done? Many of you who receive this letter are also subscribers to Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson – American History professor and author. This year she was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Some of you read her letters regularly. Some occasionally.…

Senator McConnell threatens to betray his country I had written about this problem in a previous letter (Inflation Nation Part Two). And I had planned to follow up on the subject. But sometimes, someone else says it better. Thank you David Leonhardt. Finally, a bipartisan solution is in the table. And yet, the Republican leader…

A “leadership lesson” This popped up in an Axios Newsletter this morning. A refreshingly positive story. I needed that. I expect you might as well. Axios Finish Line: Ordinary people do extraordinary things Jim VandeHei BANDERA, Malawi — Nancy Economou is a kind, affable, middle-aged, single mother of five boys from the Chicago suburbs. She’s…

Common Sense Action Plan The following is the Independence Day substack piece by Robert Reich. You may think it is naive. You may think this plan is doomed to failure. But when our “founders” signed the Declaration of Independence, their chances of success were hardly assured. They were about to face the most powerful army…

Are these individual shooters just the price of “freedom”? Or are they the unwitting tools of the White Supremacists? Keep in mind that white supremacism is now a mainstreamed concept with the Republican Party. A party that is no longer “conservative”. It is the party of fascism. It’s the party that teaches the “Great Replacement…