Month: 23 Adar 5783 (March 2023)

Since 2015 the persistent magical thinking inside the Republican establishment of Washington operatives, elite donors, and legacy conservative media has failed them repeatedly. DeSantis just did it to them again.

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace,” is a quote attributed to the well-known artist Jimi Hendrix. The words love and power caught my eye when I first came across this quote. I recognized what I saw and I had to say it out loud a couple times before I realized its deep meaning.

You can tell a political party is racing toward ruin when it attempts to appease the fringe by going along with extreme policies. What's happening in the GOP is even worse; they've abandoned policy altogether and are focused on satisfying the cranks and conspiracy theorists.

You don't play games with Putin. Full stop. It shouldn't even need to be said of a man directing his country to commit genocide against its peaceful neighbor. But, Reed Galen writes, the GOP 2024 presidential primary contenders are a collection of unserious people basing everything on pleasing MAGA and nothing in fact, policy, or ethics.

As a former SEAL, Dan Barkhuff is disappointed in the right-wing extremist turn that many vets made upon their return to the country they were sworn to protect. He pleas for other vets to do the important job of making sure their brothers in arms uphold their oath to protect American lives, not harm them.

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo has had to deal with the Russian propaganda machine attempting to silence, discredit and murder her since before she joined the battle in Ukraine. So far, all they've accomplished is lighting a fire in her to destroy the enemy and stop them from committing their crimes.

There's an all-out attack on our court systems in the U.S, and Georgia isn't exempt from this battle. Amee Vanderpool covers the latest attempt by the GOP legislature to control the state's district attorneys.