Richard Van Wagoner

Project 25 — Promoting Violence Against Dissenters to Accumulate and Wield Power that Isn’t His* Calling it by its name — FASCISM — now qualifies as promoting “domestic terror.”

The recent executive orders and speeches to the generals were unabashed incitements to political violence against Americans to suppress lawful dissent in his campaign to accumulate power.

He expects military top brass to devote loyalty to him over their sworn oaths to the Constitution. Will they?

A Gulag Awaits Those Who Speak Ill of Dear Leader* “That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn: the perfect time to say as little as possible.” A…

Trump declared negative coverage of him is now illegal with no 1st Amendment protection: “When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech.”

Some might say the media’s reporting of Trump, according to his own assessment, was nearly perfect — off by only 3 percent.

Dear Utah Governor Cox: I Have Questions About “Disagreeing Better”* My overarching question is this: With a president who prohibits disagreement with him and his authoritarian agenda altogether — viz…

Dear Gov. Cox:

Your description of the assassination fairly characterizes DJT's murder of “the American experiment,” his “attack on our ideals” which “cuts to the very foundation of who we are, of who we have been, and who we could be in better times.”

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Going Straight for the Extrajudicial Kill* Trump Summarily Executes 11 People on a Speed Boat in International Waters and Expands His Use of the Military for Conventional Law…

The message it sends to the international community is that the United States is not a country that can be trusted, is not a country of laws, does not honor or respect its treaties and alliances, does not respect constitutional due process, and has zero regard for human or civil rights.

The Chris Hayes Smack Down of MAHA’s “Crown Jewel” as a “Dangerous Crank”?* Photo by Mathurin NAPOLY / matnapo on Unsplash

The U.S. senate knowingly placed world-class agencies dedicated to life-saving research in the hands of a wildly dangerous conspiracy theorist, a medical charlatan, a fraud who used his family name and dynasty to make millions off quackery, threatening the lives, health, and safety of Americans.

All High Roads are Closed!* Tiresome are the toothless declarations that this or that is an “existential threat to democracy,” that “we are in a constitutional…

Trusting that Republicans believe in self-government, equal application of the rule of law, that the differences are in policy and not in the foundational principles that preserved democracy for centuries, paved a higher road that now leads to dead ends.

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