While there was a Democratic “blue wave”, it was modest, in line with usual midterm shifts, particularly when one party is in charge of all the branches of government. Trump will celebrate this as a victory, which is not without merit. By Cas Mudde The Guardian (11/7/18) Many people have dubbed the midterm elections a referendum on Donald Trump. The president himself agreed, having toured the country extensively, crowding out rational messages by Republican candidates about the booming economy with a emotional message of nativism. Trump made the elections about him and his openly far-right agenda. That left little space for…

That brings the total to 142 Wisconsin communities that have called to clean up our elections. Wisconsin United To Amend (11/7/18) Madison, WI (November 7, 2018) – On Tuesday, November 6th, Wisconsin residents in nine communities voted to amend the U.S. Constitution to clarify that only human beings should have inalienable human rights and money is not the same thing as free speech. All referenda passed with overwhelming majorities in three counties: Jackson (69%), Sauk (72%) and Wood (80%); the villages of Readstown (91%), Westfield (87%) and Weston (83%); and the towns of Kickapoo (85%), Rib Mountain (78%) and Vermont (86%). That brings the…

By Lauren Gambino The Guardian (11/6/18) If Democrats reclaim the House on Tuesday night, the progressives in their midst are planning for anything but politics as usual on Capitol Hill. Leaders of the House Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) have been laying the groundwork to transform what was described as a one-time “social club” and an “informal coalition” into a more powerful political force pushing the party to the left. “We’ve always had the largest membership within the Democratic caucus, but we kind of had skinny, weak arms,” said CPC chairman Mark Pocan, a Democrat from Wisconsin. “We didn’t have the muscle to flex because we…

  A fierce longtime critic of the Democratic Party and its support for war and neoliberal policies, but he is calling for the public to mobilize to elect Democrats in the midterm elections. Democracy Now! (11/1/18) The 2018 U.S. midterm elections mark a critical point in the era of President Donald Trump, as the potential Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives has unleashed a torrent of white supremacist vitriol in the run-up to November 6. In the past week alone, a militant Trump supporter was accused of mailing three pipe bombs to CNN and 12 bombs to people Trump frequently criticizes;…

Take Nothing For Granted! Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore is cautioning voters against taking the election for granted, like we did in 2016. Link to 13-Minute Video

“The youth of our nation won an important decision.” By Andrea Germanos Common Dreams (11/3/18) The nation’s top court on Friday turned down the Trump administration’s latest attempt to put the brakes on a landmark lawsuit brought by a group of young people who charge that the federal government has violated their constitutional rights by actively causing climate instability. “The youth of our nation won an important decision,” said Julia Olson, executive director and chief legal counsel of Our Children’s Trust and co-counsel for the youth plaintiffs. She said the finding by the U.S. Supreme Court “shows even the most powerful…

The Fire This Time Will Keep Burning Long After The Polls Close. [Editor’s Note: Let’s hope there are good results with tomorrow’s elections but understand, the real work begins the day after. The work to blunt the Trump fascism and reform the democratic party has just begun. The stakes couldn’t be higher. This is a long, long game, folks. — Mark L. Taylor] By William Boardman Reader Supported News (11/3/18) Perhaps enough Americans in enough numbers in enough places have woken up to the wildfires consuming our country. Perhaps these woke Americans will throw some water on the fires in…

Burning of the German Reichstag parliamentary building provided Hitler with the justification to seize power. By Noor Al-Sibai The Raw Story (10/29/18) In a fiery interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, former GOP operative Steve Schmidt compared last week’s right-wing terror attacks to the rise of Adolf Hitler and explained the Republicans’ role in the rising tide of white supremacist violence. Schmidt noted that the “sick” and “evil” people who shot black people in a grocery store, mailed pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN and killed multiple Jewish people in a synagogue in the last week were radicalized by Fox…

As election day approaches, the darkness is palpable.  By Harvey Wasserman Reader Supported News (10/31/18) Trump’s November 6 blitzkrieg depends on stripping our right to vote and flipping the vote count. To hold back a potential Democrat “Blue Wave,” Trump has formed a RED WALL to disenfranchise millions of Americans while counting only those votes Trump wants. As in 2000, 2004 and 2016, corporatist Democrats are doing little to counteract the GOP attack on our electoral system. But independent citizens’ groups like Progressive Democrats of America, the Lakota People’s Law Project, the Romero Institute, Freepress.org and others have brought a sense of desperate…

  By Jeff Bryant OurFuture.org (10/25/18) Local issues hold the key to many midterm elections, despite all the talk about how President Donald Trump is nationalizing these races and Democrats should follow his lead and do the same. It’s important to know that in many places, voters still care first about issues that affect them at home, more than the latest outrage coming from the White House. One of those places is Wisconsin, where deep cuts to education by the incumbent Republican governor, Scott Walker, have put it at the top of many voters’ priorities. Wisconsin, which went for Trump in 2016, has been under Republicans’ control in…