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Monsters and Their Enablers
A Weekend Reading Reboot
Sep 10
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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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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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Michael Podhorzer
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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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Michael Podhorzer
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From “Deportation” to Abduction
How the media and consultant class’s poll-washing enabled the abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—and what comes next
Apr 17
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Michael Podhorzer
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America’s Second “Redemption”
The accelerating MAGA assault on democratic freedoms echoes America’s first “Redemption,” a backlash to Reconstruction after the Civil War…
Mar 18
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Michael Podhorzer
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The Roberts Court and the Constitutional Coup
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The Courts Will Not Save Us
We must resist the learned helplessness of judicial supremacy.
Mar 3
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Michael Podhorzer
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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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Michael Podhorzer
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Politicians in Robes: Part I
The Roberts Majority: Dictators Since Day One
Oct 11, 2024
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Michael Podhorzer
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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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Michael Podhorzer
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2024 Election
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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.
May 21
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Michael Podhorzer
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How Trump “Won”
The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority
Jan 4
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Michael Podhorzer
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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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Michael Podhorzer
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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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Michael Podhorzer
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The MAGA Threat to Freedom
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Change No One Would Have Believed
Audacious hopes recede in the rear view mirror
Jan 20
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Michael Podhorzer
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The Great Forgetting
The Lost Years
Dec 1, 2024
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Michael Podhorzer
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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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Michael Podhorzer
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Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport
2024 Is a De Facto Constitutional Referendum.
Feb 28, 2024
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Michael Podhorzer
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The Two Nations of America
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The Two Nations of America
E pluribus numquam: We were never really meant to be one nation.
Dec 4, 2023
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Michael Podhorzer
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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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Michael Podhorzer
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The Economic Divide
Blue and Red States Still Reflect Original Differences
Jul 3, 2023
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Michael Podhorzer
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Congressional “Class Inversion” or Sectional Reversion?
Partying like it's 1928.
Apr 17, 2023
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Michael Podhorzer
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Unions
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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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Michael Podhorzer
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Oligarchs Understand Power. Do We?
Unions make us strong.
Feb 6
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Michael Podhorzer
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As Go Unions, So Goes America
Power concedes nothing but to collective action.
Sep 3, 2024
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Michael Podhorzer
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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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Michael Podhorzer
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The Problems with Polling
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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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Michael Podhorzer
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Turns Out, Turnout Matters
…but only if you care about winning elections.
Aug 5, 2023
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Michael Podhorzer
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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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Michael Podhorzer
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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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Michael Podhorzer
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