A Liberal Lives In Wisconsin

       QAnon congresswoman and resident idiot Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced the articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden the day after he took office. What reasons did she give? She claims he abused his power as vice president. 1.) No, he didn't. 2.) You can't impeach a president for something you allege he did as vice president. Trump was president when he incited the Capitol insurrection; Joe Biden was not president when you claim he abused his power.       Greene also claimed Biden cheated to win the election. Considering the conspiracy theories she has embraced, it comes as no surprise that she believes a man who lost the popular vote in 2016 and never polled above 50% could not possibly lose an election.       While the chances of its passing are nill, Greene and her soon-to-be-former colleague Lauren Boebert have made themselves the new standrard bearers of the GOP: conspiracy theory-believing terrorists. I...

           While politicians at the federal level already aim to oppose concrete legislation to fight climate change, states and companies continue to make progress in this effort. 1. Washington, Minnesota, Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Maine, Virginia, New York, Oregon, and Nevada, as well as Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., have all set targets of 100% renewable energy by 2040-2050. 2. Despite not having lesgislation, Governor Tony Evers established a commission and signed a flurry of executive orders designed to get the state of Wisconsin to 100% renewable energy by 2050. 3. New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Arizona, and Massachusetts have proposed legislation to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2040-2050.  4. Delaware has a target of 40% renewable energy by 2027. 5. Vermont and Colorado have a target of 90% renewable energy by 2050. 6. Maryland has a target of 50% renewable energy by 2030.

       The federal government owns nearly 30% of American land as well as all of the nation's oceans. In a huge announcement, President Joe Biden has ended new oil and gas leases on federal territory, meaning that all new offshore oil drilling will cease and massive fossil fuel projects, especially in the West, will have to be cancelled.       President Biden, in his first week in office, also ordered all government agencies to undo Trump's environmental rollbacks, cancelled the Keystone XL Pipeline, and protected the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from fossil fuel exploration.       Biden has called for rebuilding the nation in an eco-friendly matter, including carbon neutrality by 2035. His other major climate announcement called for a new global climate conference to set a goal for world carbon neutrality.      This sweeping action has positioned Biden to be the most ambitious American president in terms of f...

     Nine months. 270+ days. That's how long it has been since Wisconsin's Republican-controlled legislature passed a law. Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, has had to rely mostly on executive power to make any progress.       It did not have to be this way. In 2011, Governor Scott Walker redrew election maps to make sure a Republican could not lose, and for nearly a dozen years this hold has continued. Done at a private law firm by those sworn to an oath of secrecy, this act disenfranchised millions of Wisconsin voters. One of Evers' top priorities is creating a bipartisan redistricting committee during the next session to ensure that more progress can be made.      The legislators are paid approximately $55,000 per year, meaning nearly $5.5 million has been paid to legislators who have done no work. This does not factor in their employees and the cost of running government offices and buildings. It is expected to get worse: in two years...

       Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, has been trending for three weeks as dozens of pieces of evidence surface regarding her threatening and conspiracy-driven activism on behalf of the GOP.       Perhaps her most odd theory is that Hillary Clinton participated in a Satanic ritual in which a child was molested and killed, her face cut off, and her blood served as a beverage. Greene is urged by the author to resign or her position or wait to be expelled and to seek serious psychiatric help.

       Marjorie Taylor Greene has demonstrated her racism, and quite plainly, her insanity, through her belief in dozens of conspiracy as well as her constant threatening of high-level Democrats.      Her beliefs about Barack Obama, however, are especially odd. Her belief is that he is a Muslim somehow tied to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. She believes that a plane never hit the Pentagon, and she has also called Obama a murderous gang member.      She claims he ordered the murder of Seth Rich, a DNC staffer, as part of his membership in an "MS-13 Gang." Force this insane, racist threat to our country to resign by contacting your legislator and urging them to support censure or expulsion!

     From the death penalty to LGBT2SQIA+ rights, from environmental destruction to free press, from economic equality to women's rights and education, the world is a place of action, passionate people making a difference. While we should focus our activism on local, state, and federal issues, it is worth noting these achievements around the world for two reasons: they keep us optimistic and they remind us that the principles we fight for our universal principles of human dignity and prosperity.      Every Saturday, we will read about victories and pressing issues for the matters that matter most to you!

     Another insane video from just last year shows Marjorie Greene Taylor,  a representative from Georgia, claiming that Nancy Pelosi committed treason against the nation and that treason was punishable by death.      She has previously posted approval of shooting Pelosi in the head on social media, expressed support for QAnon, introduced articles of impeachment against President Biden, threatened to arrest an entire news team, claimed election fraud, and harassed and threatened a school shooting survivor.

       In one of his first acts as president, on January 29th, 2009, Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a landmark piece of legislation that allowed thousands of women to successfully sue for hundreds of millions of dollars in wages lost due to discrimination. Introduced by Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), this bill fulfilled one of Obama's major campaign promises.

       Georgia GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the wife of a multimillionaire construction company owner, flew to Washington, D.C. to harass an 18-year-old Parkland school shooting survivor, David Hogg. Following and filming him for a number of minutes, she accused him of being a paid actor and asked why he did not defend his students. She also claimed that she was a victim who had nothing.      Apparently a threat, she also mentioned that she had a gun on her as she followed him, her shouting growing more loud and angry. She ran unopposed for a Georgia seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020 and won.      She has also introduced articles of impeachment against newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden, accused the election of being rigged, shown support for executing Nancy Pelosi, and expressed her belief in QAnon conspiracy theories.

       Private prisons are perhaps the ultimate examples of the injustice that can occur in the justice system. Kids as young as twelve can receive prison sentences for petty crimes because the judge receives kickbacks from private facilities. The very idea of profiting off of incarceration should raise red flags, and a massive step forward has just been taken.      President Biden has signed a directive ordering the attorney general to immediately end contracts with private prisons, meaning almost 15,000 people will be transferred to regular facilities. The president is also committed to ending the crack-cocaine discrepancy, decriminalizing marijuana, closing down youth boot camps, and taking other actions to give nonviolent and youthful offenders clean slates.

       Donald Trump did not incite the insurrection on January 6th... not by himself, at least. State GOPs spent weeks talking of "martyrdom" and "fighting the steal." Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene called for the execution of Nancy Pelosi. A West Virgina state lawmaker and a former Pennsylvania state lawmaker were charged and lost their job respectively. An Oregon representative let rioters into the state capitol when the results were being certified there in December.      Now, the Oregon GOP has joined the ranks of the Arizona GOP in spreading dangerous pro-Trump conspiracy theories. They claim that the terrorist attack that resulted in four rioters being killed, a police officer being killed, two officers committing suicide, and at least 100 officers being seriously injured while death threats, pipe bombs, and guns were deployed was a "false flag" by Democrats to make the GOP look bad.      These two branches and any o...

       In Wisconsin and many other states, as well as at the federal level, work is already underway for the 2022 midterms.      Wisconsin, in particular, is in need of major organizing. With open racists and homophobes holding elected office, rights for all are relatively limited. In 2011, gerrymandering kept the Republican Party in power for 12 years despite public opinion shifting dramatically. Ron Johnson, by blocking the COVID relief checks and opposing the election, has earned the title of "worst senator in America."      Stacey Abrams flipped Georgia through her progressive organizing. Here are some fantastic organizations to support in Wisconsin: 1. WisDems: The official Democratic Party of Wisconsin, recent programs were launched to organize at campuses and the local level while working to defeat Ron Johnson and reelect Tammy Baldwin. 2. Fair Wisconsin: This organization is advocating for equality for the LGBT2SQIA+ community in...

       As of right now, there are a number of bills before Congress to satisfy the ambitious agenda that President Biden has laid out: 1. A federal decriminalization of marijuana. 2. The legislation of DACA and a path to citizenship for childhood arrivals, also known as the DREAM Act. 3. A bill to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state. Puerto Rican statehood is also being discussed. 4. The abolition of the federal and military death penalty. 5. An increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour. 6. The Equality Act, which would be the most significant LGBT2SQIA+ rights legislation in American history. Other bills would ban conversion therapy and protect adoption rights. 7. The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, designed to end voter suppression in states like Georgia and Texas. 8. This is on top of the impeachment of Donald Trump, the cabinet confirmation process, and the bills providing coronavirus relief and containment.      Contact your legislator to support...

       On January 23rd, 2021, a FOX News anchor, one of the myriad of basic blonde women to appear on the show by virtue of being able to read, accused Joe Biden of not keeping his promise of containing coronavirus and putting a million shots in the arms of Americans daily. He took office on January 20th. 1. The 100 million in 100 days was a goal set. That does not mean that there will be exactly a million a day. 1.1 million one day and 900,000 the next is an average, as any third grade child could explain. It means that, by April 29th, there need to be 50 million+ Americans fully vaccinated, and President Biden hopes to surpass that. 2. Deaths are never parallel to infections. People usually take a month or two after being infected to show symptoms, get sick, be hospitalized, get put on a ventilator, and die. Until March, Trump's lack of response will put coronavirus on track to being the deadliest event in American history.

       Marjorie Taylor-Greene has already managed to disgrace her home state as a representative. For a woman who grew up down the street from the Georgia Military College (I had a friend attend), she should appreciate logic and order. Unfortunately, it does not seem so. A known supporter of QAnon conspiracy theories that claim all actors are deep-state pedophiles, she introduced articles of impeachment against Joe Biden for signing executive orders. Apparently, she is still learning on the job how this whole government thing works.      Now, it has been revealed that she has expressed her support for executing Democrats, including liking comments that called for Nancy Pelosi to receive "a bullet to head." In three weeks, she has found three different ways to make a fool of herself, and she is quite possibly among the worst people to serve in the 

       Donald Trump's legacy defined in one word? Self-centeredness. He ran for president to promote his business. After losing the popular vote and having a disastrous term in the White House, he was impeached for soliciting foreign aid in an election, refused to take responsibility for coronavirus, pardoned allies, let coronavirus aid hang in limbo to get some praise, claimed fraud in an election he lost, golfed more than any president in history, pressured officials to overturn election results, refused to attend Joe Biden's inauguration, and was impeached again for inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.      Unlike presidents like Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, who devoted their retirements to repairing their legacies to the fullest extent they were able, Donald Trump is unlikely to have a chance. Already banned from Twitter and losing contracts with businesses, he has no chance of getting a book deal. His old charity and university are u...

     Joe Biden's press secretary, Jen Psaki, has almost a decade of experience stemming from various press roles in the Obama administration, and she also worked as a reporter herself. Therefore, the climate in which White House press conferences are held has changed dramatically since President Biden took office. Psaki began her first conference not by lying, but by recognizing the reporters for their contribution to educating the public and free speech. When she did not know an answer, she indicated as such instead of making a number up on the spot.      This trend has continued in recent press briefings. No insults were hurled at reporters and no shouting matches have broken out. Even President Biden has indicated that he will fire press relations staff who treat reporters with disrespect and has taken even the most semmingly-hostile questions with grace and striven to answer them.       This is an important change for the press-White...

       Joe Biden faces among the most difficult situations of any incoming president in American history. Over 400,000 Americans have died of coronavirus; with many others still ill, the virus is poised to become the deadliest event in American history. The economy, meanwhile, has spiraled downward as millions of Americans remain out of work. Racial tensions from the previous summer have yet to subside. Aside from confirming his cabinet, Biden has to try Trump in the Senate while still trying to bring the nation closer together and seek justice for the assault on the U.S. Capitol. Seeking to reverse Trump's executive orders, he has also promised to secure landmark legislation to decriminalize marijuana, raise the minimum wage, combat climate change, ensure racial justice, protect LGBT2SQIA+ Americans, etc. In 2022, the Senate and House midterm elections will occur. This means the next two years will be among the most difficult a president (aside from Lincoln, Washing...

       Georgia played a pivotal role in the 2020 election, providing Joe Biden critical votes to cement his win for the White House and giving Democrats control of the Senate.       In 2022, it will also be a decisive state. Raphael Warnock, who won a special election, will face the regular election for Senate. Brian Kemp, the governor who used fraud to beat Stacey Abrams in 2018, will run for reelection. The state gubernatorial elections and the federal midterms will determine if Democrats can keep control of the legislature and possibly serve as an indicator for how Georgia votes in 2024.      If Joe Biden can get the same momentum he did in 2020 in Georgia, he will likely win a second term. If not, he could be defeated. Georgia has tended to lean Republican, with the exception of Jimmy Carter in 1976, and the 2022 and 2024 elections will decide if Georgia's results were a direct response to Donald Trump or a new enthusiasm for th...

     While there is no doubt that China and North Korea are threats to national security, turning a blind eye to Russia does nothing but put politics over the American interest.      Unfortunately, that was essentially the approach Donald Trump took for four years. When reports surfaced that Russia paid Taliban fighters to kill American troops, he refused to address them. When the same country that was alleged to have helped him win the White House in 2016 engineered an attack on the SolarWinds firm in 2020, he did nothing for months on end.      President Biden, however, has hired cybersecurity experts and launched a multipronged investigation into these assaults on American liberty.

     In his first four days on the job, Joe Biden has done more to combat coronavirus than Donald Trump did in almost a year. He has returned the United States to the World Health Organization and recreated the pandemic response team that Trump destroyed. In terms of prevention, he instituted a federal mask and social distancing mandate that applies to federal property, employees, and contractors as well as interstate commerce. He has restored daily coronavirus briefings and vowed to lead by example through wearing a mask.      He has also announced plans for relief and legislative action as his cabinet continues to be confirmed. He extended the Trump administration's freeze on evictions and frozen student loan collection and extended unemployment benefits. His legislative proposals include using the National Guard and pharmacies to distribute vaccines (100 million in 100 days) while focusing especially on racial inequities in the virus and creating federal...

       Think of Trump as a gay man who wants a wedding cake and Twitter as a bakery. Kicking Donald Trump and his cronies off of Twitter, taking away their degrees and deals, etc. is the least trouble they could face for the murderous sedition pepetrated against the Capitol.       Suddenly, the epidemiologists and climate scientists who earned their degrees in internet chat rooms now believe they can interpret constitutional law. The first amendment guarantees freedom of speech on the part of governments, not companies. A company may do whatever it likes in terms of banning content, and people who do not like it have a right to be upset but no constitutional grounds to object.      Even if it were to apply to companies, the Supreme Court, over 200 years, has consistently ruled that hate speech and incitement are not protected forms of free speech. Telling someone you will murder them is not freedom of speech, and neither is telling ...

      The Joy Thieves is a Chicago industrial supergroup collaboration of dozens of musicians around the country. Their "Genocide Love Song" is a direct shot at the Trump administration's handling of coronavirus as well as Donald Trump himself.       Linkin Park is... well, everyone knows Linkin Park. Their album Minutes to Midnight  features songs like "What I've Done," which is about global issues, and "Hands Held High," "No More Sorrow," and "The Little Things Give You Away," which took shots at George W. Bush, the war in Iraq, and the handling of Hurricane Katrina.      Icarus Bell is an independent duo from Austin, Texas. Their song "Aces" is a criticism of Donald Trump and almost mocks his constant lies and broken promises.       YG 's "FDT [F*** Donald Trump]" is, well, self-explanatory.        Red Hot Chili Peppers have been active supporters of Bernie Sanders in recent presidential elections...

     Brian Kemp became governor of Georgia in the most corrupt election in American history. In the role of sitting secretary of state, this gubernatorial candidate was tasked with voter registration, and, in the greatest act of modern voter suppression, purged 700,000 votes, mostly of black, urban voters not likely to cast their vote for a man who pointed an assault rifle at a teenager and threatened to swipe up illegal immigrants in a pickup truck. He also claimed, two weeks before the election, that the Democrats had hacked their software. It turned out to be a routine security test conducted by Kemp's own office.      In 2020, when a man of principle was in charge of voter registration, the voters Kemp oppressed came out in record numbers to give Joe Biden the White House and the Democrats the Senate. Until at least 2025 in the White House and 2027 in the Senate, Georgia's Republicans are out at the federal level.       In 2022, if S...

       By appointing John Kerry, decorated war veteran and the former secretary of state who negotiated the Paris Agreement, as a special climate advisor, President Joe Biden was able to skip the process of Senate confirmation. Kerry's job will be to guide the climate policy of Joe Biden.      Other promising signs include a pair of executive orders. The first made the United States the last nation to join the Paris Climate Agreement, which Donald Trump officially left on October 1st, 2019. This agreement sets targets for the United States to reduce carbon emissions, mostly by phasing out fossil fuels. The second cancelled construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, a U.S.-Canada pipeline that President Barack Obama vetoed repeatedly and Trump was only able to secure via executive order.      This executive order also cancels oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and orders all government agencies to review and reinstate ever...

       Kelly Loeffler, to begin with, was an easy target for losing the Georgia runoff. Unlike Perdue, she was not elected, as Governor Kemp appointed her in 2020. However, what she and Perdue did and did not do, as well as what Kemp himself did, killed both of their chances for reelection.      David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler were among the Republicans who allowed 400,000 Americans to die of coronavirus in the name of vague notions of independence. Their stories, however, were particularly heinous. Unlike the rest of their colleagues, the two, both of whom received their briefings in January of 2020, used their knowledge to rearrange their stock portfolios while denying the virus was a threat to the public.      Kemp's election in 2018 was even more corrupt. At the time, he was the sitting Georgia secretary of state. He purged almost 700,000 legitimate votes from primarily-black urban areas and wound up "winning" by a slim 50,000 votes....

       In 2017, one of Donald Trump's worst and first actions as president was to implement a ban on Muslims entering the United States. He later pledged to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Of the 2,000 miles of border, 400 miles of fencing were already in existence. When he hit funding issues and declared a state of emergency in 2019, he managed to build an extra 50 miles of wall. In four years, he kept two percent of his promise.      Within a few hours of taking office, the man Republicans called "Sleepy Joe" undid Donald Trump's entire immigration legacy. His executive orders ended the Muslim ban, stopped construction of new wall, sent home the National Guard troops at the border, and restored DACA protections. Biden has also appointed the first Hispanic man and first immigrant as Secretary of Homeland Security, and he is expected to undo Trump's harsh regulations and increase the number of refugees.

       From the start, Donald Trump was an oddity, a man who inspired more division than any, the oldest president at the time and the first to have no political or military experience. While he has prided himself on controversy, history will not look kindly on him: 1. From calling for a Muslim registry, to mocking a gold star family, to making racist remarks towards minority congresswomen, to banning Muslims, Donald Trump is a hateful man. 2. From calling Mexicans "animals" to killing kids in cages while advocating for a wall and sending in the National Guard when immigration rates were at their lowest, Trump is a hateful man. 3. From calling African countries "shithole countries" to being sued by the Justice Department as a businessman, to having parents in the KKK, to refusing to condemn white supremacy, to calling black people "naturally lazy," to calling white supremacists "fine people," Trump is a hateful man. 4. From charity and university...

       Has there been a more pathetic president than Donald Trump, or a more corrupt, dangerous, self-centered, bitter, hateful one? Donald Trump was impeached twice after losing the popular vote, mishandled the greatest crises of the century thusfar, and incited a coup after months of lying to the American people and threatening public officials in acts of sedition. When he was called out, he sought to prevent national unity by skipping inauguration.      He also, having lost in 2016 and 2020, drew a small crowd for his inauguration, and he even felt the need to lie about this particular insecurity. If he sought to do this much damage to protect his pride, we can do some damage to that pride by making Joe Biden's virtual inauguration the most attended in American history.      Click here and pick your favorite source to stream the inauguration, noon ET tomorrow, Wednesday, January 20th, 2021.

     As noted by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, 75 percent of all terrorist attacks-- three out of four-- committed on American soil are organized by right-wing groups like Proud Boys and the KKK or lone wolves holding those perverted beliefs. Islamic terrorism makes up most of the rest, while left-wing terrorism makes up only around five percent.      Still, right-wing Americans are the ones who believe everything FOX News tells them, that they are all law-abiding citizens waiting to be victimized by violent minorities and hippies. They run their campaigns on law-and-order when windows get broken at Target. Vandalism is never justified, but the pipe bombs, noose, terrorist threats, white supremacists, and murders and assaults of police officers at the Capitol in an act of sedition punishable by 20 years in prison make petty vandalism look not-so-bad by comparison.      It is one of many hypocritical right-wing beliefs. They det...

     Kevin Sorbo needs to be the next "cancel culture" fatality. When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, he cheered them on. When five died, he claimed ANTIFA was framing Trump supporters. When Trump was banned from Twitter for inciting violence, he said it was time he moved. He previously came to the defense of Mel Gibson by saying that Jewish people killed Jesus. I would call for his accolades as an actor to be taken away, but he has none. Instead, let's take away his platform to spread lies and incite violence. Sign here .

     The gubernatorial election in 2018 showed the worst of Georgia. Brian Kemp, an uneducated white man, used his position as secretary of state to suppress black votes and steal the election from Stacey Abrams. He ran on hatred and division.      2020, however, showed the best of Georgia. With the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, Georgia became a contentious state in the racial tensions of the year. Stacey Abrams applied herself once again, and mobilizing black voters, turned negative emotions into positive energy that helped hand Joe Biden the White House and handed him control of the Senate.      2018 showed the division and racism that still exists there. 2020 showed that Georgia is a diverse state of passionate people willing to vote for something that means to them, for racial justice and democracy. Joe Biden ran on restoring the soul of the nation, but the soul of Georgia, at least, has shown its true good nature.

1. Joe Biden was a county councilman in New Castle from 1970 to 1972 before serving as a senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009. During this time, he served on the Judiciary Committee from 1981 to 1997, where he oversaw half a dozen Supreme court confirmations and passed landmark legislation like the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act. He was also active in foreign affairs, serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1997 to 2009, where he stood up to Apartheid, advocated for the SALT treaty, authored a joint resolution to invade Kosovo, and chaired the International Narcotics Control Caucus from 2007 to 2009. From 2009 to 2017, he served as vice president under Barack Obama. He oversaw the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, led the Middle Class Task Force, Task Force on Gun Violence, and Task Force on Campus Sexual Assault, secured passage of the 21st Century Cures Act, and eliminated waste from the 2009-2011 econo...

       Representative Mike Nearman casually strode out of the Capitol building in Oregon on December 21st as the electoral votes were being counted. The Republican from Independence unmistakably recognized the white supremacist mob as he left, with their Confederate flags, Patriot Prayer patches, unmasked faces, and chants to "arrest Kate Brown" (the Democratic governor). His response? He held the door open for them.       The crowd immediately began fighting with police officers, several of whom were assaulted with bear mace and projectiles. Numerous arrests have been made and more are expected.       For assisting in the coup, Nearman is facing criminal charges. When asked for comment, he simply asked where the video footage was discovered and refused to offer any answers. If he does not resign, he could also face the loss of committee assignments, pay, and even his job. UPDATE: Mike Nearman has been charged with two misdemea...

     If anybody deserves to be governor of Georgia, it is Stacey Abrams. A bright young scholar, intern, speechwriter, author, lawyer, activist, and entrepreneur, she was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 2007, serving until 2017, and she was Minority Leader from 2011 to 2017.       In 2018, she ran for governor of the state. Brian Kemp, her opponent, also happened to be the Secretary of State in charge of elections, and he purged hundreds of thousands of black votes. She ended up losing by only 50,000 votes, and the voter suppression is widely recognized as the cause of her defeat.      As a passionate black woman with a business and legal career and praise for preventing a middle-class tax hike, she was an obvious choice. Despite being able to justifiably claim she had an election stolen from her, she founded an organization that mobilized millions of voters across the country, including in Georgia.     ...

  1. Richard Barnett, an Arkansas man, was arrested after he posted a picture of himself with his feet on Nacy Pelosi's desk and stole her mail. 2. Derrick Evans, a lawmaker from West Virginia, was arrested on federal charges after he posted video of himself breaking into the Capitol building. He has since resigned. 3. Adam Christian Johnson, of Florida, was arrested after he took pictures of himself stealing Nancy Pelosi's lectern. 4. Cleveland Meredith, of Georgia, sent text messages threatening the life of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 5. Lonnie Coffman, of Alabama, was arrested with 11 Molotov cocktails and two illegal firearms outside of the Capitol building. 6. Christopher Alberts, of Maryland, was busted with a firearm on Capitol grounds. 7. Matthew Council, of Florida, assaulted a police officer after breaking into the Capitol. 8. Jacob Chansley, of Arizona, was the man who was dubbed the "QAnon Shaman" after standing in the dais of the Senate. 9. Joshua Pruitt ...

     There has been quite a bit of controversy surrounding the possible impeachment (for the second time) of President Donald Trump. Why use taxpayer money to impeach a president who will leave office in 10 days? 1. Precedent: As noted by Bernie Sanders, losing a reelection bid is the consequence of mishandling the economy or a crisis, and, while Trump has done both repeatedly, he is not being impeached for this. He has incited a coup against the United States, and he must face consequences for his actions. This will deter this from happening in the future. 2. National Security: Donald Trump is a threat to national security. As more people than ever die of COVID, he sought to disenfranchise millions of voters, abused power and threatened officials, pardoned war criminals and family, vetoed military pay and aid, incited a coup, and announced he would skip the inauguration of Joe Biden. This man has control of the National Guard, the military, nuclear weapons, and more. He ...

     The Founding Fathers created the First Amendment, but they did not support lawlessness. The idea that the white supremacists and anti-semites who stormed the Capitol are anything but seditionists and murderers is absurd. The people who simply hung signs outside did not commit a crime, but those who rioted in the capitol, ultimately killing five, face possible death sentences: 1. Many of the rioters clashed with and assaulted police officers, stole government property, stole mail, forced entry, damaged government property, etc., all of which are federal felonies. 2. A police officer was among those killed, and, if people die while someone commits a felony, they are guilty of murder. Those involved with the dead protestors and who beat the officer to death may face the death penalty, which Trump ironically restored at the federal level in 2019. 3. The people who constructed a noose while shouting, "Hang Mike Pence!" are guilty, under a law passed in 1996, of "attempte...

       As destructive, hateful, and ignorant as Trump supporters can be, one really cannot blame them for what they believe. Humans tend to surround themselves with sources that tell them what they want to hear rather than anything that would question their worldview, and this is especially true for conservative Americans.       FOX News and other far-right media sources spent months defending Trump through all ill deeds, especially in 2020. When he was impeached, it was disloyalty on the part of his staff. When coronavirus occurred, Trump was a defender of freedom victimized by mainstream media reporting "fake news." When the racial tension occurred, Trump was a champion of law and order opposed to "terrorism."       Donald Trump has been the most divisive president in history. What Trump supporters, unlike Biden supporters, fail to see, is that, for everyone who loves Trump, there is someone who hates him equally as fervently...

       Sedition. Rioting. Treason. Disagreement in politics is not only healthy, but the very premise of politics. While George Washington warned against forming political parties, they are a natural and necessary part of a democracy. America has survived and thrived for 250 years and will for 250 more.       However, what happened at the Capitol exposed the GOP for who they were. They have lost the popular vote in all but one presidential election in the past 30 years, and the "Grand Old Party," once of American heroes like Lincoln and Grant, has become something of a cult, a group unable to hang on to old ideas that even conservatives no longer find favorable, unable to adapt to the youth and diversity of modern America.      In the seiges that took five lives thusfar, they attacked democracy in pursuit of their own perverted self-righteousness. They have broken any notions of justice, law, and order, bringing the country the clos...