JARED O. BELL – The real threat to American democracy was never a democratic socialist winning a city primary. It is a system in which a handful of billionaires can reshape public institutions overnight, enrich themselves through the levers of government, and leave the rest of us to argue about labels while we live with the damage.
Trump’s Nuclear Weapons Policies Make the Whole World Less Safe
TOM H. HASTINGS – The sum total of Trump’s erosion of nuclear safeguards belie his rhetoric about nuclear safety; he has done more to make Americans and the world less safe from nuclear annihilation than any US leader ever.
Why Biden’s Debate Disaster Two Years Ago Matters for the Future
NORMAN SOLOMON – Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Really – How is Our Resistance Doing?
DANIEL HUNTER – Each of us has a choice right now — do we get smaller, or bigger? More bold or less? I think we follow the folks in Ohio, in Minneapolis, in Georgia, in the streets and the jails and the capitol buildings and the Signal group chats. My encouragement: keep getting bigger.
Trump Is Already Telling Us He Will Steal the Midterms (If We Let Him)
THOM HARTMANN – Donald Trump is already telling us he’s going to try to steal the 2026 election, and the fact that he’s saying it now, months in advance, is the whole tell.
Being honest with ourselves 250 years after July 4, 1776
KARY LOVE – America must be vigilant against encroaching erosions of its great principles. Every generation must renew their commitment to defending and expanding those human rights, not only in rhetoric, but in the halls of Congress, the White House, and the courts, and the streets, until “liberty and justice for all” is the lived reality of “we the people.” Only then will the right to celebration of the Declaration be earned. And every generation must earn that right by carrying forward the struggle for the “inalienable” rights of all.