Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 60. Sunrise is 5:41 AM and sunset 8:01 PM for 14h 20m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 26.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1916, Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits…
Republicans
Daily Bread, Kleefisch, Republicans, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 1.11.22: Kleefisch’s Potential Challengers
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 27. Sunrise is 7:23 AM and sunset 4:42 PM for 9h 18m 39s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 66.8% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater School District’s Policy Review Committee meets at 9 AM and the city’s Public Works…
Daily Bread, Economy, Government Spending, Hypocrisy, Never Trump, Republicans, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 12.15.21: Trumpism Has No Coherent Economic Policy
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Daily Bread, Elections, Law, Republicans, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 11.19.21: The WISGOP Push to Take Over the State’s Elections
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 39. Sunrise is 6:53 AM and sunset 4:27 PM for 9h 34m 38s of daytime. The moon is full with all of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1863, Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery…
Public Health, Republicans, Vaccines
Delta, Disinformation, and the GOP Dance
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Elections, Law, Legislation, Republicans, Voting Rights, Wisconsin, WISGOP
WISGOP Moves to Restrict Voting
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Across America, Republicans are doing all they can to restrict voting access after Trump’s decisive loss in the presidential election. (Ceaseless lies won’t make up a 7-million-vote margin.) The WISGOP is no exception to this trend. Molly Beck and Patrick Marley report Republican lawmakers seek to overhaul voting in Wisconsin, including new rules for absentee…
America, Congress, Crime, Disinformation, Insurrection, Medicine, Republicans, Trump, Trumpism
Eyes Averted
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
As video of Capitol riot played, some GOP senators turned away: Almost every senatorial eye in the chamber was glued to the screens as lead House manager Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) played a 13-minute video depicting the events of Jan. 6 to introduce the impeachment case against Trump — with a few notable exceptions. While the…
Never Trump, Republicans, Trumpism
Trumpism Is the Contemporary GOP
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Presidential race 2020, Republicans, Trump, Trumpism, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Republicans Mean Nearly Nothing To Trump
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Here in Wisconsin, there’s an election recount in two counties, and there are repeated Republican objections to the recount there. This is a curious turn, as Patrick Marley accurately reports that The Wisconsin voting system Donald Trump is attacking was built by Republicans: MADISON – In his move to overturn Wisconsin’s election results, President Donald Trump…
Authoritarianism, Law, Never Trump, Race, Republicans, Trump, Trumpism
Trump’s Refusal: Explanations Particular and General
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
There’s more than one explanation for Trump’s refusal to concede: that he cannot manage the narcissistic insult of defeat, that he wants to support Georgia’s Republicans in a January 5th runoff, or that he wants to bolster his chances of a following after January 20th (for a television network, another campaign, or simply to vacuum…
Elections, Presidential race 2020, Republicans, Trump, Voting Rights
GOP Election Lawyer Ben Ginsberg: My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Veteran election lawyer Ben Ginsberg writes My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump: President Trump has failed the test of leadership. His bid for reelection is foundering. And his only solution has been to launch an all-out, multimillion-dollar effort to disenfranchise voters — first by seeking to block state laws to ease…
Republicans, Trump, Unfit
113 Reasons Republicans Aren’t Voting for Trump in 2020
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Republicans, Trump
Republican Voters Against Trump: Elizabeth Neumann, former Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention in Trump’s DHS
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Elizabeth Neumann – the former Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention in Trump’s DHS – says that the U.S. is “less safe today” because of Trump’s actions. Are you a Republican, ex-Republican, or Trump-voter who won’t support the president this November? Share your story here: https://rvat.org/tell-your-story To get involved in the project, go to https://rvat.org/get-involved To help…