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
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 […]
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, […]
For all the uproar among Democrats over restrictive voting laws passed by Republican legislatures in 17 states, Democrats have only recently awakened to the more dangerous threat to American democracy – Republican moves to take partisan control of counting votes and even overturn the popular vote in future elections. For months, Democrats in Congress and […]
Washington – The ravaging of America by Covid-19 is so immense that most of us have trouble fathoming the depth of our national trauma. Corona has so engulfed our lives that we have become numb to our upward spiraling death toll. To make the enormity of our loss more tangible, more visible, more immediate, more […]
Washington – Republicans are rejoicing and Democrats are dismayed that population losses in the Rust Belt and gains in the Sun Belt, recorded by the 2020 census, will add Congressional seats in key Republican states and may tilt the 2022 elections. But don’t bet just yet on a GOP slam dunk. There’s more to this […]
Washington – Just when you think we are out of the woods and that, for all his histrionics, Donald Trump will surrender the White House on time, he’s conjured some new backroom cabal to subvert our democracy with truculent QAnon conspirators, armed vigilantes or unprincipled Senators. You may dismiss it as political theater or narcissistic […]
Hedrick Smith, who conceived this website and is its principal writer and architect, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy award-winning documentary producer for PBS and PBS FRONTLINE. more »
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