Virginia says the resistance is real
Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a state constitutional amendment that permits a deliberate partisan gerrymandering of their state's congressional district maps to ensure that their delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives is overwhelmingly Democratic — until the maps are redrawn after the next U.S. Census. By then, the reasoning goes, Donald Trump will be out of office and some degree of sanity will have returned to our…
Keep your eyes on the midterms
In many quarters across the United States and around the world, Donald Trump is viewed as a thoroughgoing rebuke to decency. But whereas this unrivaled model of vileness and perfidy was on one occasion rejected for our presidency by a majority of American voters, he was twice elected to that office by American voters. As Trump emerges now as an enthusiastic war-maker in the second year of his second term, we who decry his pestilence of a…
Trump’s war: Just what is it for?
"Said the President, he's got his warFolks don't know just what it's forNo one gives us rhyme or reasonYou have one doubt, they call it treasonI said we're chicken feathers, all without one gutTryin' to make it real, but compared to what?"— from "Compared to What?," protest song written by Gene McDaniels and sung by numerous artists, including Roberta Flack on her 1969 album "First Take"
A profane protest near the White House
Considering the war news of this weekend, I ventured down to the White House on Sunday afternoon to see what demonstrations might be occurring there. All I found was a rather small but extremely loud and very, very profane anti-Trump protest. But on the edge of the tableau was an evangelist shouting a message of God's love and redemption. He rebuked the cursers, and they cursed him vigorously for his trouble.
Images from D.C., with an anti-Trump theme
Among U.S. cities, Washington is unique in being a federal district — the District of Columbia — established by Congress in territory carved out of the states of Maryland and Virginia along the Potomac and Anacostia rivers to host the nation's capital. One of the unique features of this city is that U.S. citizens living in this jurisdiction on the U.S.
The Declaration of Independence: A warning to Trump
For anyone who has forgotten or does not yet know, and especially for Donald Trump and those allied with him in an effort to destroy the United States' constitutional system and democratic norms, please know that this nation's sacred Declaration of Independence is all the license that We the People need to unseat anyone who tries to impose tyranny upon us.
Trump is desperate as midterms near
Donald Trump is increasingly desperate for a way to forestall the reckoning that he knows will begin when the 120th Congress is seated in about 11 months, and it appears that for him the solution is somehow to defuse the Republican-destroying grenade that is the midterm congressional elections coming up in November. Despite the fervent desire of Trump and the efforts he is making, I expect that in January 2027, Democrats will be…
Hey, Congress! Are you dead?
Dear Congress, I am asking you the question that a popular Chinese app asks users as a check for proof of life: "Are you dead?" The United States is in crisis. Donald Trump is turning the nation's immigration enforcement and border control agents into his personal murderous Gestapo. Americans are increasingly seeing the federal executive as an enemy of the people.
Trump’s grip is not as tight as he thinks it is
On the night immediately following ICE agent Jonathan Ross's fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, my sleep was disturbed by visions of the ensuing protests around the country exploding into an "American Spring." In Washington, D.C., where I live, I saw a vast rising of demonstrators besiege the White House, then overrun the place. The president and his key advisers fled the compound by…
A do-or-die year for U.S. democracy
It is often said that this election or that election "is the most important of our lifetimes." I make no such declaration about the congressional elections this year that mark the midpoint of Donald Trump's second term in the U.S. presidency. What I will declare is that 2026 is a crucial year of action for the conspiracy whose aim is to destroy American democracy and establish white-supremacist authoritarianism.
