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===2020 Big Picture=== George McGovern warned that, if Lyndon Johnson pursued the Vietnam War, “our dreams of a Great Society and a peaceful world will turn to ashes.” In my new book, [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== Republicans are recruiting an estimated 50,000 volunteers to act as “poll watchers” in November, part of a multimillion-dollar effort to police who votes and [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== “American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, and those [...]

1) Context: Remember when @GovWhitmer refused to give in to (the president’s) demands to end social distance restrictions in Michigan? Michigan is now down to 250 new cases a day. Meanwhile [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== In 1988, Jesse Jackson proposed to tax corporations and fund programs that serve all Americans. The DNC rejected Jackson’s “Fair Tax” platform plank [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== The Revolutionist: Film & Discussion (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vRzEkndJs0 June 2019 Sanders: Trump wants socialism for corporations and rich people In a [...]

An explanation for why Fortenberry, Bacon, Smith, Fischer and Sasse sit on their hands… Why John Bolton Book’s Revelations Won’t Make a Difference in Trumpland [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== Poor People’s Campaign Holds a Nationwide Virtual Rally Somebody has been hurting our people and it has gone on too long. We won’t be silent anymore [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== This week’s headlines on what went wrong during recent primaries, voter registration issues and the latest lawsuits. https://bit.ly/3flD35y Debate Defends Democracy [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== Henry Wallace, FDR’s vice president, argued 75 years ago that Democrats had to go big on economic and social and racial justice. That’s still true. [...]