by Hedrick Smith      The plot-line of the 2026 mid-term elections has been signaled for months in President Trump’s steadily sinking approval ratings. The wild card this year is not some unexpected 11th hour swerve in voter sentiment but the threat of Donald Trump’s fierce, fantasy war against our election system.         […]

2026 Midterm elections are a test of American Democracy. Will millions of disenchanted voters take their anger to the ballot box and slam the brakes on Donald Trump’s blatant attempt to hijack American democracy, or will there be a tepid protest vote that lets Trump roll on into one-man rule? Two trends are colliding this fall. One is massive grassroots discontent with Trump’s economy, his Iran war, his power grabs. The other is Trump’s plot to rig or steal this year’s elections. And that means even after Election Day, we may not know the final outcome for weeks, because of election lawsuits and legal wars,.

Gtrump;s demolition of the white House east wing is a metaphor for his presidency

As a former Moscow correspondent, I’ve seen how dictators operate – up close.  I’ve watched the Kremlin thunder its satellites into submission and witnessed KGB agents seize protesters in an instant. Now, seeing Donald Trump criminally prosecute his political enemies, threaten free speech and TV broadcast licenses, move the military into U.S cities, and send […]

We remember Abraham Lincoln as a great president, but he was also a great student of history and nearly a century ago, he predicted the presidency of Donald Trump. Not by name, of course. But he knew history and human nature well enough to warn us that someday America would see the rise of a […]

Wide and stunning defeats for Trump’s handpicked candidates in swing states have shattered the facade of Republican unity and set off an unprecedented public battle between pro-Trump and mainstream Republicans over future strategy and congressional leadership. In election< Repjblican defecftilns hurt trumpist candidates in Pennshylvania, Arizona, Georgia and other states

The fate of our Democracy is on the ballot this fall. The crucial test is whether a Constitutional coalition of Democrats, independents and Liz Cheney Republicans can stop the Trump attempt to win major offices and take control of running future elections in battleground states. The media treats the 2022 campaign as a rerun of the traditional Red […]

Olga, Washington – The media keeps telling us that 70 percent of Republicans still back the bogus claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. But for this November, keep your eye on the 20 to 30 percent of Republicans who reject the Big Lie. They’re likely to cast the deciding votes in […]

Washington – Partisan gerrymandering has run so wild and rampant since the 2020 census that, hard to believe, the next Congress promises to be even more sharply polarized and gridlocked than the current Congress, and there’s nothing voters can do about it – unless the courts step in boldly, right away. The media focuses on […]

Washington – You may have missed a hugely important story recently because the media soft-pedaled it. But Congress has just taken a major step toward hand-cuffing the unchecked presidential abuse of power that was a hallmark of the Trump Presidency. For four years and more, Donald Trump ran roughshod over the guardrails of our republic, […]