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The Re-Emerging Anti-MAGA Majority

If voters had known in November what they know now—which could and should have been possible—Trump would have lost.

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The Emerging Anti-MAGA Majority

Jun 8, 2023 • Michael Podhorzer

How Trump “Won”

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The Courts Will Not Save Us

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Oligarchs Understand Power. Do We?

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The City of Angels Stands Up

A conversation with Anat Shenker-Osorio about Trump's war on our freedoms in Los Angeles

Jun 12 •

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Trump’s Split with Leonard Leo Is No Victory for the Rule of Law

The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.

Jun 10 •

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Court Accountability Action

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Data-driven journalism that matters: A chat with G. Elliott Morris

Why so much mainstream polling coverage gets it wrong, and how to do better

Jun 4 •

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G. Elliott Morris

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The broken guardrails no one is talking about

A conversation with Anat Shenker-Osorio

May 30 •

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Anat Shenker-Osorio

The Roberts Court and the Constitutional Coup

The Courts Will Not Save Us

We must resist the learned helplessness of judicial supremacy.

Mar 3 •

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The John Roberts Election

Politicians in Robes Part II: How the billionaires captured the Court to remake American “democracy” in their own image

Oct 29, 2024 •

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Politicians in Robes: Part I

The Roberts Majority: Dictators Since Day One

Oct 11, 2024 •

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Breaking the Law: Trump Is the Means, Not the End

The Federalist Society coup, in 16 charts.

Apr 30, 2024 •

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2024 Election

The Re-Emerging Anti-MAGA Majority

If voters had known in November what they know now—which could and should have been possible—Trump would have lost.

May 21 •

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How Trump “Won”

The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority

Jan 4 •

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Is This What Democracy Looks Like?

If we don't like it, it's "just too bad." -John Roberts

Nov 11, 2024 •

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Poll-Washing Trump's Fascist Plans

What Voters Don't Know About "Mass Deportation" Can Hurt Us All

Oct 25, 2024 •

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The MAGA Threat to Freedom

Change No One Would Have Believed

Audacious hopes recede in the rear view mirror

Jan 20 •

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The Great Forgetting

Dec 1, 2024 •

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The "Civil War" Was an Insurrection, Too

The threat posed by Trump and the MAGA movement, like the Confederate States, is not “conservative” or even “extremist” but criminally anti-democratic.

Mar 4, 2024 •

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Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport

2024 Is a De Facto Constitutional Referendum.

Feb 28, 2024 •

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The Two Nations of America

The Two Nations of America

E pluribus numquam: We were never really meant to be one nation.

Dec 4, 2023 •

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How White Christian Political Might Made the Republican Party Hard Right, in 8 Charts

The sources of MAGA madness and congressional kakistocracy have been hiding in plain sight.

Oct 29, 2023 •

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The Economic Divide

Blue and Red States Still Reflect Original Differences

Jul 3, 2023 •

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Congressional “Class Inversion” or Sectional Reversion?

Partying like it's 1928.

Apr 17, 2023 •

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Unions

The Trump Regime’s War on Working People: The First 100 Days

How Unions are Resisting Authoritarian Attacks on Workers’ Rights—and Why It Matters for Everyone

Apr 28 •

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Oligarchs Understand Power. Do We?

Unions make us strong.

Feb 6 •

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As Go Unions, So Goes America

Power concedes nothing but to collective action.

Sep 3, 2024 •

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More Than the Weekend: Unions, the Past and the Future of Democracy

WIthout strong unions, “democratic capitalism” is an oxymoron.

Apr 18, 2024 •

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The Problems with Polling

Terrible Food, and Such Small Portions

How survey-centric political reporting distracts and distorts our understanding of American politics

Aug 13, 2023 •

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Turns Out, Turnout Matters

…but only if you care about winning elections.

Aug 5, 2023 •

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All Politics Is Local; All Political Data Is National

In a divided America, what's average is rarely typical.

Jul 31, 2023 •

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Confirmation Bias Is a Hell of a Drug

The first step is admitting you have a problem.

Jul 25, 2023 •

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