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Trump-endorsed candidates are performing badly in primary ballots.
Sen. Graham repeatedly moved in the direction South Carolina and Republican politics were headed rather than where they had been.
Most Trump supporters remain in his camp, but some independents, young people and Black Americans who voted for the president in 2024 would not do so again in an election do-over.
The House has passed a bill to require proof of citizenship for voting. Although it likely won’t become law, the bill raises constitutional questions.
In 1946, young men in khaki shirts marched through Atlanta performing Nazi salutes and promising racial vengeance. They lasted 10 months. Today’s fascists aren’t as easily banished.
Charlie Kirk and his organization connected students and the GOP in new and effective ways. But the slain conservative spread misinformation and thrived on outrage and intimidation.
Donald Trump isn’t the first GOP president to have courted segments of the labor movement, dividing a key Democratic constituency, only to take actions that make unions weaker.
The attempt by Texas Republicans to gerrymander more GOP legislative districts could backfire and deliver the party dummymandered districts. A political scientist explains the stakes.
The Republican and Democratic parties are united in protecting their chokehold on American politics, despite the view by America’s founders that parties had no legitimate place in the republic.
Just having plenty of money does not guarantee success fo an insurgent political movement in the US.
Past experience suggests that adding work requirements to Medicaid will strip health services from millions of American without increasing employment.
Public media can’t replace everything that’s been lost during journalism’s economic crisis. But it has plugged some major holes, particularly at the local level.
Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.
The Constitution does not grant Congress authority to set voter-eligibility requirements in federal elections.
In some cases, long Senate speeches don’t produce clear results. In other cases, they can help pass or prevent new legislation.
Disparaging people who get government benefits to make ends meet, especially if they’re Black, is no longer a recipe for political success in America.
Many of Trump’s executive orders mirror plans laid out in Project 2025, a conservative policy plan developed in part by the Heritage Foundation.
Thought-provoking reads for the critical thinker on your gift list. Each book connects with a past Don’t Call Me Resilient episode. Listen alongside reading to bring the scholar & their ideas to life.
Donald Trump won North Carolina in 2016 and 2020, but that doesn’t mean he can win again in 2024. Such is the nature of elections in a purple state.
In 2020,the #StopTheSteal movement built over months of false claims of fraud, culminating in the violence of Jan. 6, 2021. Is the same foundation being laid by local GOP activists today?



















