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  1. The Trump Resistance Plan: Step 5 – Presidential Corruption Matters Trump Tower in Chicago. (Photo by Daniel Huizinga / Flickr CC 2.0)
    3 Mar 2017 … Paine’s line should resonate with former White House attorney Fred Fielding. As deputy and associate counsel to President Richard Nixon during Watergate, he witnessed the truly alarming spectacle of a president undermining the office’s integrity. Donald Trump must be giving Fielding unpleasant flashbacks. Continue reading
  2. The Trump Resistance Plan: Step 4 – Brand the Opposition President Donald Trump, speaks with US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) prior to signing H.J. Res. 38, disapproving the rule submitted by the US Department of the Interior known as the Stream Protection Rule, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Feb. 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2017 … Donald Trump and his compliant Congress don’t care that Russia interfered with the 2016 election. Coupled with the events on the Trump/Russia Timeline, their refusal to urge creation of an independent bipartisan commission aimed at finding the whole truth renders Continue reading
  3. A Timeline: Russia and President Trump Composite: Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images); National security adviser Michael Flynn (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images); President-elect Donald Trump (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2017 … Investigative reporters have begun to flesh out the Trump/Russia timeline. To keep everything in one location, here’s an updated summary (so far). Continue reading
  4. The Trump Resistance Plan: Step 3 – Russia Interfered People hold up a drawing of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin kissing during the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2017 … The Trump Resistance Plan focuses on two messages that are central to our democracy: “Russia interfered” and “Presidential corruption matters.” This installment covers the first one: “Russia interfered.” Continue reading
  5. The Trump Resistance Plan: Step 2 – Unity Is Strength Diane Knutson (left) and Sandy Hartman of Seattle hold signs as people gather to protest President-elect Donald Trump on Green Lake in Seattle, Washington on Nov. 19, 2016. (Photo by Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2017 … Americans acting in good faith are destined to disagree on many issues of public concern. Colonists fighting the Revolutionary War couldn’t agree on much either, but they fought side by side for independence from foreign governments and the rejection of official Continue reading
  6. The Trump Resistance Plan: Step 1 – Understanding the Three D’s Jake Tapper questions Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway on CNN's The Lead on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 — just days after the network refused to let her appear as a guest on Tapper's Sunday talk show. (Screen grab)
    1 Jan 2017 … When the victors write history, the resulting narrative often focuses on why things happened. Far more important to the contemporaneous participants is the question of how. Mounting an effective resistance requires understanding an adversary’s strategies. Donald Trump’s most effective delivery system is Continue reading
  7. The Dangerous Normalization of Donald Trump
    1 Jan 2017 …   Americans are living through the dangerous effort to normalize the abnormal candidate who won the presidency with a record popular vote deficit of nearly 3 million ballots. Donald Trump has about the same popular support as losing candidates Michael Dukakis (1988) and John Continue reading
  8. Meet 204 Republicans Who Don’t Want to Punish Companies That Steal Workers’ Wages House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) laughs as he walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
    6 Jun 2014 … Many corporations that receive hundreds of millions of dollars a year in federal contracts—including Hewlett Packard, AT&T, and Lockheed Martin—have a history of wage theft. Continue reading
  9. Folk Music and Movements: The Tradition Continues Oscar Isaac plays fictional folksinger Llewyn Davis in the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis. (Image: CBS Films)
    5 May 2014 … For over a century, American activists have employed folk music as an instrument of change. Continue reading
  10. No Excuse for Hungry Students
    4 Apr 2014 … If we hope to improve educational outcomes, we need to demand policies that ensure that students can come to class well-fed and ready to learn. Continue reading