Timothy Snyder is a Yale history professor whose pamphlet, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, provided progressives a historical road map for resisting the abuses of the first Trump administration. (First lesson: “Do not obey in advance.”) Snyder predicted that Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss could lead to …
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Elon Musk, the most important mega-donor of the 2024 presidential election, has spent the final stretch of the campaign awarding $1 million from his Super PAC to a different swing state voters daily in order to boost his favored candidate, Donald Trump. Such a giveaway is unprecedented in American politics, …
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During Donald Trump’s second of three rallies on Saturday (with six total planned on the last weekend before Election Day), he told the audience in Salem, Virginia his pick for leading up health in his administration should he return to the White House would be Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Meanwhile, …
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Polls are underestimating the importance of climate change to the average American. Every election cycle, pollsters hone in on core issues top of mind for the American public. These topics can make or break the American family as parents are getting kids ready for school in the morning and trying …
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On Oct. 5, 2024, Mayor Amer Ghalib convened a modest crowd in Hamtramck, Michigan, a densely populated enclave of metro Detroit, known as the only Muslim-majority city in America and home to a large Yemeni community. In footage live-streamed on YouTube, around 40 people gathered, some snapping selfies, others standing …
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A savvy camera operator fact-checked Donald Trump live. During his rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Saturday night, Trump bragged, “We have had the biggest rallies in the history of any country, and every rally is full. You do not have any seats that are empty. You did not have …
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At the beginning of his first rally on Sunday, Donald Trump said, “I love being off these stupid teleprompters because the truth comes out.” That statement was an omen of what was to come when the former president said he wouldn’t “mind” if a would-be assassin had to “shoot through” …
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Canvassers for Elon Musk‘s America PAC say that they were flown to Michigan and told they had to meet unattainable quotas or risk paying for their own accommodations and travel home. Then they were unceremoniously fired after some of them spoke to the press. The workers — many of whom …
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The hurricane split pine trees like toothpicks. It chewed up chain link fences and laid highway billboards flat on their faces. It peeled the roof off Tropicana Field, where the Tampa Bay Rays play, and uncorked dozens of tornadoes, including one that ripped through a retirement community in St. Lucie …
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House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi pointed to Donald Trump‘s violent comments about shooting at journalists as evidence “of his cognitive degeneration” and doubted the former president’s ability to “last as president for four years with his brain deteriorating at the rate that it is.” Pelosi was reacting to remarks Trump …
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