"... [C]uts to regulation and taxes helped money—more than $50 trillion—move upward to the richest 1% of Americans. With it moved political power. Republican-dominated states suppressed voting by likely Democratic constituencies until we are now, in 2026, seeing people having to wait for hours to vote or having to march to distant polling places while billionaire Elon Musk pumps at least $446 million into the midterms to buy Republican control of Congress.
"Still worried about losing, the administration is trying to rig the midterm election. After losing repeatedly in the courts over their demands to segregate 20,000 California ballots they insist might have been cast by noncitizens, it today appealed the question to the United States Supreme Court. California officials have said the list was haphazard and inaccurate, and today, in a different case, a Department of Justice lawyer told a judge it was “fair” to say the list has a 'high' error rate.
"This evening, the Supreme Court denied the administration’s emergency appeal to require California officials to set aside those 20,000 ballots.
"The Republicans’ fear comes from the fact that the open looting of the government in Trump’s second term appears to have revealed to a majority of the American people that the policies the Republican Party has enacted since 1981 benefit only a few. Once again, it seems, Americans are coming together, ready to follow the pattern of the past and rebuild a government that works not just for the wealthy, but for everyone." (our emphasis) -- historian Heather Cox Richardson, concluding a valuable Substack essay yesterday on how this moment is far bigger than the Malignant Fascist -- it represents one of the times in our history when people awoke to the looting of our government by the rich and powerful supporters of the Republican Party. A really fine historical perspective on how we got to where we are today (and how we might be getting out of there).
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