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Bettina O’Brien
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I stand for Peace, Love, and Freedom, and a World that works for Everyone.
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January 8, 2026
On MS NOW today, columnist Philip Bump broke down when talking about the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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The Department of Justice has sued 24 states and the District of Columbia for access to sensitive voter data on more than 100,000,000 Americans.

My law firm has intervened on behalf of voters to fight DOJ in 23 of the 25 cases. Tomorrow we will do the same in the remaining two. Stay tuned.
January 8, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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Renee Nicole Good Is Dead. Benjamin Franklin Warned Us This Would Happen…
The Founders didn’t build this country for secret police and point-blank executions…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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The Quantum Mind: How Dr. Stuart Hameroff’s Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness is Finally Gaining Ground
What seemed like fringe science in the 1990s is now finding unexpected support from cutting-edge research, forcing us to reconsider one of humanity’s greatest mysteries.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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The Depraved New White House Website Isn’t Just a Lie: It’s an Invitation
Once a government convinces its people that what they saw with their own eyes never really happened, what’s left of democracy in that republic is already on life support…
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January 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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January 6, 2026
“They say that when you win the presidency you lose the midterm,” President Donald J.
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January 7, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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January 5, 2026 (Monday)
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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Trump Didn’t Merely Borrow Strongman Tactics: He Imported an Entire Doctrine Built to Kill Democracies
By treating sovereign borders and international law as optional, the Trump regime embraces the worldview that fueled Hitler, fortified oligarchs, and now threatens the American Experiment…
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January 5, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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Many states controlled by Democrats also have barriers to voting and insufficient protections against bad actors at the local level. Rather than play defense, these states should embrace reforms that will enfranchise voters and provide strong safeguards against election deniers.
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now
Read more here.
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January 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Part III: The Global Damage
Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink"
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January 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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The Plan To Carve Up the World Is Underway
Dugin’s “multipolar” strategy plus the “Dark Enlightenment” equals the coup-de-grace for the post-WWII world order
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January 3, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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Let Venezuela Make America Great Again!
Regime change abroad to boost power at home
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January 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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January 2, 2026
Just after midnight on January 1, in a private ceremony in the long-closed former City Hall subway station in Manhattan, New York Attorney General Letitia James swore Zohran Mamdani into office as may...
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January 3, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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Living in the Storm: Preparing for 2026 and the Battles to Come
We're in the thick of a pivotal moment in our lives and history. It's time to take a breath and look at where we're heading.
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January 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@lucid)
If we take Musk at his word that DOGE was designed to improve government efficiency, the project appears to have failed. But efficiency was only a façade.
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January 1, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Why Do Third-Party “Dreams” Keep Turning Into Republican Power?
A warning to every progressive voter: In America’s election system, your third-party vote can be a gift-wrapped victory for the GOP…
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December 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The Brazen Cruelty of the Trump Regime
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The Brazen Cruelty of the Trump Regime
Its plan to warehouse immigrants has shades of Nazi concentration camps and America's shameful imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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DOGE's Real Purpose Has Nothing to Do with Efficiency
Assessing the damage from DOGE and the way it represents an authoritarian innovation
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December 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Santa Claus for Billionaires, Debt for You: Thanks Trump
The playbook that showers the rich, spikes the debt, then demands you sacrifice Social Security and healthcare…
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December 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Talking Turkey — Marty Documents Trump’s Unsavory Retribution Feast
Retired IRS criminal investigator Martin Sheil reports on how ‘the revenge president’ is striking out
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December 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Deregulation Was Never About “Freedom”—It Was About Permission to Poison
They turned clean air into “socialism,” turned polluters into victims, and turned America into a profit center with our kids as casualties…
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December 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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December 22, 2025
This afternoon, President Donald J.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Is a New "New Deal" About to Wipe Out the Old Political Order?
The commons, unions, and a livable wage built the first mass middle class. Now younger voters want to reboot that machine at full throttle…
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December 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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December 21, 2025
Speaking today at Turning Point USA’s annual “AmericaFest” conference, Vice President J.D.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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The Unified Theory of Trump (and Why He's Screwed)
His numbers keep sinking on the economy, his Chief of Staff is spilling to the media, and Democrats are poised for a huge 2026.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM