We’ve been doom-scrolling the news just like everyone else, seeking updates on Trump’s health and on which public figure is the latest to contract Covid-19. Our own senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, were seated next to Sen. Mike Lee at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting last Thursday, and on Friday Sen. Lee announced that …
Category Archives: Autocracy
Video and Slides from our Live Readings of the Mueller Report at North Door Austin
Over the course of six nights at The North Door in Austin, TX, we read all 448-pages of the Mueller Report, complete with interactive slides (scroll down to download) and celebrity guests. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGu5aPDqZrkiyrMzFTaaacgZFd-OD_QnE One outcome of this project is that the organizers who participated are very familiar with the contents of the report. Here is …
How our elected representatives responded to the #MAGAbomber
Here are some quotes from our elected leaders in response to the multiple assassination attempts on prominent Trump critics. Sen. Ted Cruz “Let’s be clear. The anger and rage that we’ve been seeing on the far left is deliberately provoked and stoked by Democratic politicians. When Maxine Waters and Corey Booker tell the mob to …
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Why Net Neutrality Matters and What You Can Do About It
The debate over Net Neutrality can sound like a “first world problem” compared to life-or-death issues like DACA and healthcare. Here’s are two reasons why it matters: Net Neutrality is the concept that everyone should have equal access to websites and other Internet services. The FCC, helmed by former Verizon executive Ajit Pai, wants to end …
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Rep. Bill Flores’s Campaign Just Endorsed State-Sanctioned Execution of Political Opponents
Last night, the @flores4congress Twitter handle retweeted this tweet by Dinesh D’Souza. To get the obvious out of the way: Dinesh D’Souza is a convicted felon and the “uranium deal” has been debunked. (Yawn.) The biggest problem in this tweet is the photo comparison. On the right: Hillary and Bill Clinton. On the left: Julius and …
How Your Voices Made a Difference: Unraveling
Some weeks are tougher than others, and this was a rough one—between Donny giving companies the right to deny women health care coverage for birth control, to the EPA’s Scott Pruitt rolling back the Obama-era protections of the Clean Power Plan to replace it with his own dirty version and threatening to remove tax incentives for wind and solar …
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October 19: Sarah Kendzior in Austin
We are excited to kick off our new speaker series, “Understanding Autocracy,” with the writer Sarah Kendzior. Get tickets below or on Eventbrite. Kendzior has been eerily prescient about the Trump administration. Her essay “We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump,” published on November 18, …