The best kept secret in the electoral struggle for the battleground state of Pennsylvania is that voters who have requested mail-in ballots can easily trade them in at their local polling places and vote in person on Election Day.  This is the only way to be sure they will be counted before Trump goes to a newly-stacked Supreme Court to stop the count process, and it is the best way...

By: John Giovanni Pierni and Sam Haut A new Supreme Court ruling lets the votes in Pennsylvania be counted up to three days after polls close on Election Day, as long as the ballot is postmarked by 8pm on November 3, so more poll workers are needed to count all the ballots. Due to COVID-19, about 250,000 poll workers will be sitting out this election, based on data from Pew Research,...

From #Sinking to “woman & klansmen first!,” failed boat parade lifts the opposition tide. After four years of bottomless hypocrisy, insults and over 20,000 verified lies, Trump not only invites ridicule, he deserves it. With deceit at the core of both his governance and reelection strategy, one can safely say that the best way to know President Trump is lying is that his lips are moving. The sinking of four small...

Last week, Trump decided to double down on his campaign to attack Biden’s religious faith, spreading the lie that Democrats refused to say the word “under God ” during the opening of each day’s Democratic Convention invocation.  This came just a few weeks after Trump’s outrageous statements that his devout, church-going Catholic opponent was “against God” and that Biden wanted  to “hurt the bible.” Trump’s attacks were similar to, and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CktKPHNJUWE&feature=youtu.be   12 INDICATORS THAT TRUMP WOULD CREATE A FASCIST DICTATORSHIP IN HIS SECOND TERM Narrator: With just one more supreme court appointment, which is inevitable during the next four years, because Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is now eighty-seven, Trump will be given a rubber stamp to exercise the limitless power, he believes he is entitled to. Based on Trump’s past words and actions, these are the 12 Indicators that Trump would replace...

(This article originally appeared in the Washington Post on July 10 2020) He lies about voter fraud, admires authoritarians, tries to suppress free speech and uses the law against those who would hold him accountable. President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump watch the fireworks on the Fourth of July. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) People have debated whether Donald Trump is fascist since he announced he was running for president. In 2015,...

(This article originally appeared in The Sonoma Independent on March 8th 2020)   There is only one reason that Biden has surpassed Bernie in the Democratic primary.  It is because voters believe the dubious hypothesis, widely amplified by the media and Democratic Party establishment, that Biden is the best and only option that voters have to beat Trump. But as an independent investigative journalist with 40 years of professional experience, I believe...

(This article originally appeared in The Sonoma Independent on February 25th 2020)   A widespread sense of collective cynicism has blanketed America’s oldest and wealthiest generation. It is the audacity of hopelessness: a political choice in opposing Bernie Sanders’ candidacy that 90% of  seniors are making that despite their relative affluence, they are the only demographic that deserves Medicare-style socialism. Seniors 65 and older handed Trump the 2016 election, in many states...

(This article originally appeared in The Sonoma Independent on November 2, 2019)   Bella Bella, the new off-Broadway play about the indomitable 1970’s congressional titan Bella Abzug, feels timely and significant in this, the season of Donald Trump’s impeachment. In early 1972, Bella made history because, as Hillary Clinton wrote in a Facebook post that coincided with the play’s opening on October 22, “In the midst of a crisis in our democracy with eerie...

The Democrats should not assume that Nancy Pelosi’s decision to begin impeachment this week will be sufficient to bring critical documents and witnesses to the congressional oversight process. Trump has fought tooth and nail to quash each and every subpoena issued by Congress to investigate him. It  was only his arrogance, and the clarity of the whistle blower statute, that forced Trump’s hand in making the Ukraine shakedown complaint...

(This article first appeared in the Washington Post here on June 14, 2019.) How did Donald Trump, a self-serving promoter who lost billions of dollars for his investors, convince the world that he is a financial genius? It wasn’t just by fabricating tales of his success. It was also by bullying and silencing people who could have stopped those deceits — particularly reporters and Wall Street analysts — forcing all but a...

(This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post on September 28th 2016)   Donald Trump brings shame to our entire gender. He is the living, fire-breathing, fear-evoking, hate-mongering, violence-threatening, sexist, racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, avaricious, insecure, intolerant, egomaniacal, bombastic, braggadocios, greedy sexual harassing manifestation of everything that is wrong with American men. In the presidential debate, Donald Trump modeled all of the worst qualities associated with male behavior. The latest revelation about his...