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Select House committee digging into GOP lawmaker roles in Trump coup attempt

November 10, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Ten new Trump allies get subpoenas; Court tells Trump he can’t claim executive privilege.

Expel Jan. 6th coup conspirators from Congress and prosecute them

October 27, 2021 By C.J. Atkins

With the House's inquiry heating up and criminal consequences looming, some of Trump’s lower-level foot soldiers are turning state’s evidence. Two people involved with organizing the Jan. 6th rallies that resulted in the storming of the...

Malevolent Mitch drives U.S. democracy into a ditch

October 25, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Instead of invaders sporting buffalo horns, the threat to democracy is being committed by legislators wearing suits who are backed by corporate cash.

Woodward and Costa’s book ‘Peril’ shows Trump as Mussolini-in-waiting

October 22, 2021 By Joe Sims

Those who think the fascist danger is overblown or mask it in classless, “authoritarian,” and “white nationalist” vagaries, would do well to consider that some closest to the process, while late in sounding the alarm, had...

Congress must reclaim its constitutional authority to subpoena witnesses

October 18, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Nothing in the Constitution says the legislative branch must go to the administrative or judicial branches to compel testimony.