A head for an eye: The government’s war on the American people
We are trapped in a vicious loop of nonsense, mania, political demagoguery and manufactured spectacle while the country goes to hell in a handbasket.
We are trapped in a vicious loop of nonsense, mania, political demagoguery and manufactured spectacle while the country goes to hell in a handbasket.
In a recent AFP op-ed, Yvonne Surette noted that congressmen Ben Cline is labeling Democrats as communists. That may be a positive sign for his Sixth District opponent, Beth Macy, as Republicans typically resort to this branding when they are worried.
Last week, our congressman, Ben Cline, appeared on “Mornings with Maria” on Fox News. He was there to expose the terrifying menace of Democratic Socialism.
The number of ED visits to Virginia hospitals by people without health insurance increased 49 percent between 2022 and 2025 – and that number is going to go up with the Trump/MAGA Big Beautiful Bill taking millions off the rolls.
Republicans use framing to deride universal health care when they use the terms “free health care” and “socialized medicine.” UHC is neither free nor socialized medicine, but the terms stick.
There’s an alternate universe, in which the Virginia Supreme Court follows the law instead of trying to write it, in which Adam Dunigan is running for a congressional nomination in a district that represents Augusta County.
Sentient department store mannequin John McGuire, who seems to think he’s going to cruise to re-election in the Fifth District, is out there brazenly introducing a bill that even some in the red meat-eating MAGA base might have issues with.
South Carolina MAGA Sen. Lindsey Graham died late Saturday night after “a brief and sudden illness,” according to a statement from his office, hours after returning from a visit to Ukraine, where he had Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday.
How is it possible that the Republican Party, at the peak of American power and at the new dawn of the country’s 250th anniversary, became a cult of personality around a leader they know to be a felon, a liar, and a danger to the constitutional order?
Ben Cline, trying to raise money for his Sixth District re-election campaign, went to the big news, in his mind, in the world of sports from last week: the “huge victory for women’s sports” from the Trump Court.
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