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Impeachment manager Raskin’s last word on Trump: He’s ‘a traitor’

February 22, 2021 By PAI

“We proved, in the court of history, that one Donald John Trump, a corrupt liar and a traitor, had incited rebellion,” Raskin told the American Federation of Government Employees' legislative conference.

Profiles in cowardice: Mitch McConnell

February 18, 2021 By Berry Craig

Mitch McConnell and 42 fellow Republicans who acquitted Trump earned their niche in history, right next to the jurists at Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch trial.

For the sake of democracy, kill off the Senate filibuster

February 17, 2021 By John Bachtell

The arcane Senate practice enforces a form of Jim Crow and discriminates against people in states with large working-class populations.

Trumpite terrorists planning attacks all over the country

January 15, 2021 By John Wojcik

While authorities scramble to protect Washington, concerns grow about the threat in state capitals.

Trump impeached again, but he’s not the only threat to democracy

January 13, 2021 By C.J. Atkins

The president will be out in a week no matter the pace of a Senate trial, but the coup at the Capitol proved the threat of fascism won’t disappear with him.