HeyJaredDemocracy Defender 1787
Democracy Defender 1787 responds to the dangers posed to America's democracy and the rule of law by Trump II and the MAGA movement.
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Incapacitating Inspectors General: Another Trump Assault on Democracy (opens the original)
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Transparency and accountability make democracy work. Transparency lets us know what’s happening in our governments and we use that information to hold our elected officials accountable in elections. No transparency and accountability, no democracy.Donald Trump’ gargantuan ego can’t tolerate accountability so he hates transparency, which is why he’s been eliminating and politicizing Inspectors General. Independent, nonpartisan IGs for most federal agencies were created by statute in 1978 as part
Which Party Hates America? (opens the original)
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Republicans don’t have much to run on this year and voters have soured on Dear Leader. So they’re trying to scare everyone: trans women in bathrooms! in sports! socialists! communists! And my favorite: Democrats hate America.What would hating America even look like? It could mean attacking what America stands for, her guiding principles, her foundations. Hating America would reject the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.If a party hated America, it would:Refuse to follow the Consti
Good News from the Supreme Court, for a Change (opens the original)
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By now you know that the Supreme Court did not cave to Donald Trump’s attempt to use mail-in voting to cheat in the midterms. Halleluja!Seven to two, the court refused to lift the lower court’s injunction halting all work on Trump’s US Postal Service rule that would have enabled Trump to limit the mailing of absentee ballots to those approved by the administration. So the rule is dead, at least for this election.Justice Kavanaugh’s concurrence rested not on the unconstitutionality of the rule bu
MAGA History is Bad History and Bad for Us (opens the original)
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“History remains a key battleground in the struggle for the soul of the nation,”(1) which is why MAGA has been whitewashing American history for years.In March 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” including:“Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth. This revisionist movement se
Voters Don’t Know What Democrats Stand For? Really? (opens the original)
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Pundits and reporters keep telling us that voters don’t know what Democrats stand for. They know that Democrats despise Trump, but what, exactly, are they FOR?I don’t think it’s obscure at all, or maybe it’s a “messaging” problem, or maybe the Democratic brand is in the dumps, or maybe Democrats have been too effectively defined by MAGA media as white and men hating, police defunding, drag-queen and trans loving, open border socialists and communists. Or maybe some of all of these.As I listen to
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