This is one of four Congress resolutions adopted at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP, held from July 31 to August 5, 2022.
Two years after former president Trump and his Republican allies tried to overturn the Constitution, the aspiring dictator and the social and political forces that supported him remain free and are openly plotting their next coup.
The ultra-right Republican representatives will be over-represented on committees whose main efforts will be to conduct investigations of the Biden administration.
As evidence continues to accumulate against Solomon Peña, the failed Republican state House candidate turned shooter, Democrats issue calls to “agree to disagree.”
Bongino’s installation under Kash Patel at the FBI underscores the transformation of the reactionary police/intelligence agency into a personalist force loyal to Trump.
Patel’s chief qualification in leading the largest federal domestic police/intelligence agency is his unswerving loyalty to Trump and his program of fascist retribution.
There is nothing new in the efforts of Jacobin and the DSA to sow complacency and politically disarm the working class. This was their response to Trump’s attempted coup of January 6, 2021.
Dozens of high-level officials in the DoJ and FBI have already been dismissed for lawfully investigating the failed coup, with many more facing the chopping block.
Democratic congressional leaders have claimed falsely that they are “powerless” to fight Trump and in “shock” over the speed of his actions.
The mass pardoning of those who attacked the Capitol sets the stage for widespread violent attacks on those who oppose the policies of the Trump administration.
Those who had their sentences commuted include the former leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, and former Proud Boys Chairman Henry "Enrique" Tarrio. Both had been convicted of seditious conspiracy and still faced years in prison.
Trump-supporting Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk released an “interim report” on the events of January 6, 2021, that recommended criminal prosecution of Cheney, rather than the coup plotters.
Prior to January 6, 2021, well placed informants provided detailed information to their FBI handlers on the violent plans of leading members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys militia groups, which were ignored by the FBI and in follow-up investigations into the failed coup.
Woods repeats Trump’s fraudulent claims of being an anti-establishment figure while minimizing the dangers the working class faces from a Trump presidency.
In an interview with NBC, Trump said he would deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, together with millions of their children who are US citizens.
Former D.C. Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Shane Lamond exchanged hundreds of encrypted messages and phone calls with Proud Boy leader and FBI informant Henry "Enrique" Tarrio in the lead-up to the attack on the Capitol.
The US judicial and political system has proved itself completely incapable of defending the democratic rights of the population.
As Trump and his Republican co-conspirators continued openly to plot to overturn the vote should the fascist ex-president lose the election, Harris and Obama issued no warning and made no appeal for popular resistance.
Having fertilized the soil with the Big Lie, Trump, his network of lawyers and his allies in Congress and state legislatures are preparing to delay and block the certification of votes at the local, state and federal levels. The plan is based on violence.
The scandal-ridden US Supreme Court has begun its new term facing public hostility not seen since the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision of 1857.
Republican groups are flooding the courts with suits designed to sow chaos, confusion and delay in the event of a Harris victory, while Trump and his fellow fascists in the GOP incite para-military violence on the basis of anti-immigrant agitation along the lines of their hysterical campaign against Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
The 165-page filing conclusively demonstrates that Trump, and his Republican co-conspirators, knowingly sought to overturn the 2020 election with deceit, falsehoods and violence.
The 90-minute debate between Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz put on display the basic agreement between the two right-wing corporate parties.
Emboldened by the complicit Democrats, Trump, with the Republican Party behind him, is mounting a fascist campaign aimed at suppressing the vote on the way to a presidential dictatorship.
