"...While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do." New York Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani It Was a Good Week! But We're Not Done Yet (And Neither Are They) Election lawyer Marc Elias said it best: Last week was a very good one --- for both Democrats and democracy. Democrats won...

How Low Will They Go??? GOP Shutdown Enters 2nd Month The federal government remains shut down as the GOP continues to refuse bipartisan negotiations aimed at extending health care subsidies and funding for other needed programs. Adding to the potential human costs, last week food banks across the nation were bracing for the administration's plans to put SNAP and WIC --- two anti-hunger programs that millions of Americans rely on --- in the cross-hairs in the budget fight. Trump's USDA had...

"The physical destruction of the White House is about as giant a metaphor as one can get. If suggested in a movie script, the demolition of the People’s House—an architectural symbol of our democracy—so that it can incorporate an ostentatious, disproportionate, gaudy ballroom designed by a tasteless real estate developer bent on transforming the presidency into an autocracy would be dismissed as clumsy, preposterous, and improbable. But it is pure Trump. . ." The Contrarian Administration...