Trump Regime

Pundits took the Democrats' strength in the midterms as a referendum on Republican extremism and support for moderation. But the results really show that voters want more from Democrats, not less.

The Virginia Republican Party has fully embraced the far-right culture wars.

Whatever demons drive Americans to kill massive numbers of innocent citizens, they’d be stymied without easy access to lethal weaponry.

In the battle between the “corporate Mouse” and the political rats in Tallahassee and elsewhere, the Left has no natural allies.

A look back at the late 1940s and its lost opportunities ought to give socialists pause as we consider the left's situation today.

Through voter suppression tactics and and locally focused organizing schemes, Republicans are setting up conditions to favorably contest the next presidential election.

Famed union leader Richard Trumka died suddenly last month at age 72. Socialists should remember his legacy to ensure labor's revival.

From Bush-era "alt" rock to verbose left-wing magazines: a common path for the millennial Left.

Trump is gone, but the pandemic nightmare his administration failed to acknowledge remains.

Trump's regime ended with an insurrection at the Capitol. The attack failed, but revealed the wells of hatred that infect much of the White working-class.

In mid-December the United States passed a grim milestone: 300,000 lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. How do we even begin to process how many have died?

DMV socialists took to the streets of Washington in order to highlight the dire need for bold federal action to address the ongoing suffering of the working-class.

It was a mixed-messages kind of election - Trump was defeated but not fully repudiated. How should we make sense of where we are now?

Trump’s two-pronged strategy—litigation and political pressure—to remain in the White House is sputtering on all cylinders, but unlikely to succeed.

Making sense of DC's local political campaigns, which are continuing on in the shadow of what is shaping up to be a tumultuous general election.

Donald Trump intends to steal the 2020 election. We can't let that happen.

An amusing look at how a small right-wing college serves as academic cover for a classic push-poll about the dread menace socialism.

The treatment of the District during both the COVID-19 crisis and the Black Lives Matter protests provides yet another argument why the District needs self-government.

Does the Left’s eagerness to remake the country in the face of the crisis make it the mirror image of the nationalist right?

With the democratic primary effectively over, how did the left fail to rally decisively behind Bernie?

The majority of the country is opposed to Trumpism, but this opposition is much more heterogeneous than the right-wing alliance. This poses big challenges to a Left that wants to build broad unity in defeating the Trump and the GOP in the 2020 elections.

People moving to improve their lot in life has been a constant and sometimes this movement takes place across the arbitrary lines known as borders.

The country can live without athletes hobnobbing in the Rose Garden. What will be harder, though, is repairing the damage that Trump’s toxic racism unleashed on the nation.

Through force or fraud, through sanction or election, the Trump administration is attempting to install its preferred candidate atop the Venezuelan people.

Bill Mosley examines the right wing's longstanding rationale behind the late, great and once and future (?) Shutdown – further eroding public confidence and trust in government.

Review of a new book from John Sides, Michael Tesler and Lynn Varveck which explores the intersection of race, identity, and the working class.

We in the DSA recognize that no one is free or safe while this system of detention, deportation, fear, and intimidation, continues.

What the Trump administration is proposing would leave the US with weaker fuel efficiency standards compared to those of the EU, Japan, China, India and even Saudi Arabia, and this could cut into Detroit’s future overseas sales.

Bill Mosley examines why confronting the malefactors in the Administration in their public and private lives is necessary in this Age of Trump.

Trump administration zealots aim to remove provisions that protect populations of endangered species.

Anyone who has studied crafting of the Constitution would find it laughable to think that the Founders took so much time and energy in crafting Article II only to immunize him from federal crimes.

Top Democrats have the ability to appeal directly to swing voters by recommitting to their party's traditional pro-worker pro-peace values.

Emboldened hate groups followed Trump's example in a march on Charlottesville. Thousands, including dozens of members of Democratic Socialists of America, marched in a counter-demonstration to show with their presence that hatred and intolerance cannot go unanswered.

Sam Knight, one of the Metro DC DSA members to go to Charlottesville for the antifascist protest last weekend, provides an on-the-ground account of the events.

National parks are under severe threat from the extraction-first mania of the Trump administration. Andy Feeney contextualizes this latest barbarism.

Applying the lessons learned from the Reagan Reduction in Force (RIF) to the threat to federal workers posted by the Trump administration.

Four tips for identifying honest info from salacious misinformation.

A Free Concert Of Thelonious Monk's Work brings the thought: If we ever achieve socialism here in the United States, will the revolution provide equal access for everyone to see performances like this?

ATC privatization has been prevented for now, but privatization has powerful backers who aren't ready to quit after 30 years of trying, and it is likely to be resuscitated in the near future.

Though we saw populism in both the Trump and Sanders campaigns, it is right-wing populism that represents a threat in American politics.

There is a wall of resistance to Trump and his agenda that will be difficult to break. Tim Snyder's review helps us build out a resistance strategy built for the long-term.

The Federal Communications Commission in Trumpland is allowing big telcom companies to sell more of your personal data.

Trump's taking of the White House offered the possibility of shattering liberals' illusions of the neutrality of the state

To avoid the trap of allowing misleading rhetoric to dictate our policies, we need to continue to articulate and organize around an alternative world view.

Much has been written on the formation of fascist regimes -- Trumps' march matches them.

Even as cities across the country declare themselves as sanctuaries, DC has come under special scrutiny due to its colonial status.

There are impressive coalitions of climate activist groups forming, both at the local level and nationally to contest Trump's suicidal climate agenda.

Brutal restructuring borne on the backs of workers is forthcoming -- Trump is positioning himself to take credit for halting that.

In preparing for resistance to Trump's incoming regime, the ACLU hosts a talk recounting proper protest strategy.

Rex Tillerson made his fortune slow-roasting the planet with full knowledge of the consequences.

Kashkari, in introducing his proposal, stated that before Congress approved the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill during the Obama administration, the risks of the U.S. suffering from another big banking crisis amounted to some 84 percent. The enactment of Dodd-Frank significantly reduced such risk to just 67 percent, Kashkari added. But this is still much too high, especially given the ability of major financial crises to cause trillions of dollars in losses to the U.S. economy and the world.

DC residents can't appeal to a member of Congress to stop a Trump nominee. So stop asking us...

Some analysts think Trump's clawback scheme could yield big stock buybacks but little capital investment.

For class-conscious readers with a little larceny in their souls, Westlake's novel may help chase away depression as Trump prepares to take office in Washington.

Trump's outreach to Mexico's business elite are better understood within a bigger historical frame, one defined by the very beginnings of neoliberalism.

In fighting Trump, socialists should look to build power in small pockets of power.