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Reasons to be Cheerful, Post-Election Edition

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That Was a Great Win, Now for the Hard Part

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Buckle Up: Preparing for Trump’s Big Push to Steal the Election

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Ignore America’s Young Voters at Your Peril

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Down to the Wire in a Battle for America’s Soul

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The Gathering Storm

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A Conversation with Timothy Snyder: Winning is Essential…But it is Not Enough

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Is it Time for a Lickspittle Hall of Fame?

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How Low Will the Mobster-in-Chief Go?

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25 Years After 9/11 and the Greatest Threats We Face Are From Within

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The New Acronym to Remember the Great Lakes is S-H-A-M-E

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No, No, Norm, It’s Much Worse Than That

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Lickspittles on Parade

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Trump’s Biggest War is Against the American People

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What to Do When Trump Tries to Steal the Next Election

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Dead or Alive, Mitch McConnell is a Bad Man

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America at a Crossroads for Our 250th Birthday

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Now Playing! Donald Trump and the Impeachables

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Breaking News: It Matters if the President is a Psychopath

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Meeting Trump’s Twisted Deviancy Halfway Is NOT The Answer for Dems

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Mary Trump: Donald is Losing it Fast

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The One and Only Way to Truly Defeat the Trump Crime Family

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Is Trump America’s Greatest Criminal Mastermind?

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Gerrymandermaxxing: Can Dems Still Win in November?

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The Disease that is Killing the Justice Department... and Much of DC

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It Is a Make or Break Moment for America

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We Need More Scorched Earth Dems!

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The Man Who Collects Raccoon Private Parts is Not the Biggest Loon in Trumpworld

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A Confederacy of Nutlicks

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Depravity as Far as the Eye Can See

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Top House Dem: Trump’s Got No Good Options in Iran

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A Fiasco Wrapped In A Disaster Inside a Catastrophe

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Kleptocracy, Kakistocracy, Nihilocracy, Schemeocracy! This is a F**ckedupocracy

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Trump’s Mental Meltdown (feat. Mary Trump)

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Our Chances for Restoring Our Democracy are Hanging by a Thread

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Special Edition: Why the SCOTUS Tariff Decision May Lead to More Abuses of Power by Trump

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American Democracy at a Point of No Return

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Surveying the Devastation of the Past Week of Business as Usual Under Trump

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Don't Believe the BS That Trump & His Goons Are Changing Tactics

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The One Big Thing We Need to Do to Save the Country

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The Steps We Must Take to Stop Trump's American Gestapo

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We Are Living in a Horror Movie...and the Monsters are in Charge

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In Search of Optimism About 2026

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Reflecting on Rob Reiner and his Legacy

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MAGApocalypse Now

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MAGA is Coming Apart at the Seams

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A Curmudgeon's Guide to What to Be Thankful For

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How Much Worse Can It Get? (Spoiler Alert: Way Worse)

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The Cruelty Is The Point

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We Moved a Step Closer to the End of MAGA This Week

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Crazier Craziness from Trump Lies Ahead

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Searching Through the Rubble of the White House for One Little Bit of Positive News

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The Government's War on Democracy is a War on You

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The Big Reason Trump and MAGA Must Be Held to Account

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Welcome to a Government Shutdown Only A Mussolini Could Love

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“Budgets? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Budgets!"

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Freedom of Speech in America is on Life Support

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Post-9/11 We Tried to Unite, Following the Kirk Shooting it’s the Opposite

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It's Time for an End to the Bland Leading the Bland in the Democratic Party

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Remember Voting? Those Were the Good Old Days!

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From Arby’s to Subway - a Week in Review

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Cartman is the New Walter Cronkite

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DSR: Hard Truths About the Hell of Gaza

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What Do the Kids from South Park Know About America Today That the Rest of Us Need to Learn?

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Never Mind Being Blind, Right Now Justice in the US is Near Death

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A Prescription for Saving the Country

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How to Celebrate This Independence Day

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Iran and Trump: Triumph or Fiasco?

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Trump's Violent Cult and What to Do About It

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Stop Waiting for Us to Become an Autocracy. We're Already There.

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They Are Monsters

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Lawless: How The Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

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A Bad Week for Norms (Except Our Norm)

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The Existential Political Issue Most Democrats Aren't Focusing On Yet

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Why Having an American Pope May Be Bad News for Trump

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Special DSR-Words Matter Mash Up Edition: The Last Waltz

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Lessons in Kakistocracy

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Who Knew You Could Dismantle Democracy in America This Quickly?

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Oy Gevalt

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Time for Dems to Channel Nancy Reagan: Just Say No

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Pulling the Stefanik Nomination is a Sign MAGA is Scared

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Three Bullets to the Heart of the Constitution

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American Pain

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How Do Dems Fight Back Effectively?

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Time For Dems to Stand Up — And We Mean it This Time

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It’s Worse Than You Think - What You Can Do About It

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Where Are the Leaders This Moment Demands?

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Screw Your Feelings, Time to Figure Out How to Fix This Mess

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Hearings, Hypocrisy, and the Inauguration

90

Get Ready for a Totally Turbulent 2025

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What Fresh Hell Is This? A Preview of the New Congress

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2024 Ends, Another Trump Term Begins

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Transitions, Nominations, Resignations

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Preparing for the Transition

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Where Do We Go From Here?

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The 2024 Election and Trump’s Future America

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October Spooks and Surprises: the Final Days of the Race

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Nervously Optimistic, Neurotically Confused

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Hurricanes, Hypocrisy, Healthcare and More

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Headlines Matter - the Jack Smith Report