It’s been about a year now since Donald Trump started ramping up what had been an already-simmering campaign to destroy the public’s faith in U.S. elections. He’s certainly convinced his followers that the 2020 election was flat-out stolen by pro-Biden communists, but maybe even more concerning is the degree to …
Read More »Trumpworld's Fingerprints Are All Over Arizona's Phony Audit
Randy Pullen was in dire need of a lawyer. A former chairman of the state’s Republican Party, Pullen was helping run the sham election “audit” underway in Arizona‘s largest county. The state Democratic Party had just filed a lawsuit to block the self-styled audit, and so Pullen contacted Reince Priebus, …
Read More »Supreme Court Shoots Down Texas Attempt to Overturn the Presidential Election
One more nail is in the coffin of President Trump’s 2020 campaign. The Supreme Court rejected a Texas lawsuit that sought to overturn the results of the presidential election in four states Biden won: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In an unsigned order, the court rejected the case brought by …
Read More »Trump Turns to Randy Quaid for Guidance in Overthrowing Democracy
Randy Quaid has traveled a long, strange road since his beloved supporting turns in films like Christmas Vacation, Independence Day, and Kingpin. Somewhere along the line between then and now, it’s hard to tell exactly where, something, well … changed. In 2010, he and his wife fled to Canada to …
Read More »'Everything for Our Whole Family Hinged on This Election': International Students and Graduates Respond to a Biden Win
The afternoon before the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, Parisa Setayesh got word of another blow to her and her husband’s plans to live and study together in the U.S. Setayesh, who is from Iran, was informed that her husband’s student visa was being invalidated. Their plan was …
Read More »GOP Embarrassment: World Leaders Outpace Sitting Republicans to Congratulate Biden
Republican leaders continue to embarrass themselves by not acknowledging reality, and the growing number of world leaders who’ve shown no problem facing the truth is making the GOP look even more pathetic. Three full days have passed since the 2020 election was called in favor of Joe Biden and, astonishingly, …
Read More »Philadelphia Clinched the Election for Biden. Then Came the Celebration
Just as Amtrak train number 82 pulled into Delaware, Joe Biden’s home state and the site of his campaign headquarters, CNN called it. Donald Trump was done. Seventy-four minutes after departing from D.C., Trump’s Washington was literally in the rearview and Pennsylvania, which had just clinched it for Joe Biden, …
Read More »James Taylor Performs 'America the Beautiful' on Election Day
James Taylor attempted to soothe our Election Day anxiety by performing “America the Beautiful” from home. The singer-songwriter sang the patriotic tune in front of his fireplace, strumming his acoustic guitar in his newsboy cap. He also shared lyrics to his 2015 song “Before This World”: “The way ahead is …
Read More »Joan Baez on the 2020 Election and Painting Portraits for Social Change
Since retiring from touring last year, Joan Baez has shifted her creative focus to painting portraits. In the years before her farewell trek, she’d sit on her tour bus and paint before shows. “I wasn’t paying any attention to the concerts, really,” the folk icon says over Zoom from her …
Read More »How Donald Trump Plans to Overthrow American Democracy
Unless we awaken, the American people may well be sleepwalking into an electoral coup d’etat. If their own words are to be believed, Donald Trump and his operatives have been preparing for the election heist for some time. The rough model will be the 2000 Bush V. Gore election, when, …
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