Voter Surging is Trump’s Kryptonite How Massive Turnout Topples Dictators

Hungary tells us a lot about what could happen in our own elections in 2026 and 2028.

Trump's Chilling Threat and the 25th Amendment YouTube video by The Tell

We talk the 25th Amendment, presidential power, and why Isiah loves my UCSD crop top. Also: no wine was spilled.

Voter turnout is also what pushed Pinochet out of power in Chile.

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

Barbara F. Walter (@barbarafwalter) Trump just had a brutal day. He effectively put a gun to his own head by closing the Strait of Hormuz to deny Iran tolls, guaranteeing higher oil prices. And his role model in how to dismantle a dem...

Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

America Still Won't Talk About Race (But We Will) YouTube video by The Tell

Check out our new conversation on The Tell: youtu.be/EBzkP9Fqwuw?...

Still an anocracy.

Trump is Coup-Proofing the Military What the Pentagon Purges are Really About

Wrote something about Trump's plan for the military.

Why Trump Started the One War (Iran) Every President Avoided And Why This Won't End Well

The Iran war was Trump's Hail Mary pass to boost his popularity and its been an epic fail.

This is one of the most insightful statements I’ve read in a long time.

Democrats are missing something obvious.

Conservatives spent years building Project 2025 - a plan to reshape government the moment they took power.

Where is the equivalent plan to rebuild American democracy?

Democrats need this in place for 2028 or they will once again come up short.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Trump Says He Will Send ICE Agents to Airports on Monday

For god’s sake, Democrats, if Trump does this LET HIM. ICE is hugely unpopular and it will only hurt Trump. Do not fold because Trump will.

Yup.

This is absolutely true.

History Will Judge the Complicit Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

Why would elites voluntarily support horrible, horrible leaders?

Trump's Gamble for Resurrection in Iran When Autocrats Go to War to Save Themselves

When autocrats are in trouble at home, they start wars abroad. Here's the playbook Trump is following.

Everything Trump does between now and November is about keeping a Republican majority in Congress. That’s the whole game. Keep that in mind, and everything else will make sense.

Absolutely true.

Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Strike Iran as Trump Calls for Overthrow of Government

Trump and Netanyahu are two aspiring dictators using war to distract from their power grabs at home.

What the Hell, Barb??!! Think I'm exaggerating? Read this.

What the Hell, Barb??!!

Fine. Let’s do this.
Here are the questions my friends and skeptics keep asking.

Who Is Losing Faith in American Elections? New Research from UC San Diego gives us the answers:

We said goodbye to our sweet sweet dog Murph on Saturday. He was always at my feet when I did my writing. I miss him terribly.

Why I'm Starting...The Tell For years, I’ve written about democratic decline and the political instability and violence that tends to follow.

Why I'm Starting...The Tell.

Come join me and my dear friend Isiah as we talk politics and a bit of fashion each week. There will be wine.

That’s going to piss off American voters like crazy. There will be skuffles and eventually someone will get shot and it will backfire badly on Trump. I predict that Trump will not follow through with this threat because he (or his advisers) know this.

Pay attention to what the Republicans are trying to do here. This is a big, bad voter suppression bill.

Why Trump Is Obsessed With the 2026 Midterms (And Why Your Vote Still Really Matters) Donald Trump is obsessed with the 2026 midterm elections.

How to try to win elections when you don’t have the votes.

Voters No Longer Run American Democracy How Power Shifted to Money, Media, and Force

Why voters started mattering less and less after 2010.

Yup.

Power Is Never Given. Only Taken. Why American Democracy Survives Only When Citizens Use Their Power Part 1 of a series on peaceful resistance and democratic survival

This will only stop when we take our power back.