Hong Kong’s Chinese masters have shorn the city of its democracy. Leung Kwok-hung and his supporters offer at least a chance of regrowth https://t.co/d14gOc4Wwd ...

For many of you, this year's Independence Day might have felt a little different, a bit out of sorts, almost like peering through the proverbial looking glass, as if we're honoring something that once was. And in a way, we are. This year, the holiday arrived at at a precarious moment for our democracy. As Donald Trump continues to take a wrecking ball to the very institutions built to protect our democracy. Commenting on this state of affairs, a friend of the show, Dean Oadala, shared this observation yeste ...

His mission has been to fight the Chinese authorities’ assaults on Hong Kong’s autonomy and democracy since Britain handed over the territory. But the origins of his politics are in the colonial Hong Kong in which he grew up https://t.co/4EdQLyilRU ...

It has been a divisive, chaotic week in Trump's America with the opening of his cruel migr migrant detention center the administration has dubbed alligator Alcatraz. You see that sign there and the passage of the massively unpopular so-called big beautiful bill as well as his growing list of political targets he's threatening. People who were once buddies or members of Congress who dared to defy him, news organizations.It's no wonder that most Americans and more than half of Republicans even say democracy i ...

RT gfodor.id (@gfodor)For all the people who want to see the Democratic Party destroyed, not many have considered what that actually looks like. What it looks like isn’t Republican super-dominance in all future elections. What it looks like is the Democratic Party becoming the new “3rd party” choice. ...

Following the fade out of his friendship with Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk has a new fixation, trying to form a new political party. Musk has been a vocal critic of Trump's mega bill and vowed retribution against those who voted for it. He posted a poll on the 4th of July about the creation of the quote America Party, floating the idea of focusing on winning about two to three Senate seats and eight to 10 House seats in order to try to influence legislation in Congress.Former Congressman Connor Lamb ...

in Congress. A retired brigadier general in the Air Force, Bacon was first elected to the House in 2016, the same cycle as Donald Trump's first presidential election. In the decades since, Bacon's become known as one of the few Republicans who's been unafraid to speak his mind based on his principles, his beliefs, and what he thinks is best for his constituents, even if that doesn't sit well with his party.Announcing his retirement, Bacon told the New York Times, quote, "I'd like to fight for the soul of ou ...

Creeping autocracy doesn't just roll onto Main Street with tanks. Though under President Donald Trump, one might argue we're closer to that sort of thing than we'd like to admit. More often, autocracy starts with a list, a government list, then more lists, then bigger lists, and the names on those lists begin to face the full force of the state with blatant disregard for the rule of law and for basic constitutional rights.If you followed our coverage, you know the warning. Autocrats don't go after the avera ...

The only way to save America is a new party https://t.co/fZiCqmKXPnElon Musk (@elonmusk):By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom. ...

Almost all prominent pro-democracy activists are now either behind bars or in exile. Fears are growing about who is next in the line of fire https://t.co/0IrnIi27u8 ...