This is democracy in reverse, where politicians have decided that instead of the voters picking their representatives, the representatives have a right
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This week while our minds turned to voting rights and our eyes turned to Texas, or more accurately, Democratic Texas legislators in Washington, D.C., a lot of big stuff was also going on. Ali Feldman explored the Biden Administration’s expanded
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It was another banner week for the USA. As we sifted through the fallout from the 1.6.21 Attack, Republicans — many of whom stoked or outright incited the rightwing militants with their
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The new graphic we introduced last week for Last Week in DemCast already feels dated. We believe — though please correct us if we are wrong — that an entire year has
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Well, 2021 didn’t start out as the quiet, calm year which we’d been hoping for and which we deserved. Instead, the ceremony where a joint session of Congress counts and certifies the
MoreWe finally made it to 2021! Of course, if you’re like us, you think the new year should actually start on January 20. . . . But seriously, who out there isn’t
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Georgia,Georgia, Georgia – while the outgoing President plays golf, ignores the raging pandemic and spends his Twitter time lying about being a loser, DemCast has been focusing on the Peach State. DemCasters
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Last week DemCast writers looked to the future, discussing changes needed to our inhumane immigration system and lessons we should learn from our past history of racism. We were part of a
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This past week the Supreme Court dispatched the biggest, most desperate and most cynical Trump lawsuit, and we all let out a sigh of relief. Texas had sued Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and
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Well, we made it to December. President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris are busy with the transition to sanity in government, while lame-duck Trump continues to have superspreader rallies and claim (with
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It’s close to two weeks since the election was called for Biden and the outgoing president still hasn’t conceded nor has the GSA administrator signed off on transition papers. While COVID rages
MoreWe told you a week ago that we were going to try and catch up on our sleep, and we made a good start, but the world kept turning and DemCast’s writers
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