Outside the Beltway

The disconnect between perception and reality about elections.

None of this is good for the quality of our democracy (not that it was great to begin with).

Authoritarianism is popular.

Are Red and Blue states even part of the same country anymore?

Most of the world knows that PR is a better way to elect legislatures.

Here we go again.

Tit-for-tat is maybe good power politics, but is any of this good for democracy?

Trump asks Texas to further gerrymander the state.

Because of course.

Both the policy issues but also the way it illustrates the politics of us versus them.

An attack on the First Amendment in plain sight.

They’re talking a big game now, but they’ll likely bend a knee. Again.

Of course you realize this means war.

This one was in Tuskegee, AL (and this isn’t a photography post).

Like in NJ, ICE rejects a Representative from seeing a facility in CA.

Half the counties in America have moved more Republican in each of the last three elections.

He now faces a federal indictment.

The boxing great and grill pitchman is gone at 76.

Can we say the administration is putting people in camps?

No more woke crap.

It made history in many ways.

The sadly predicted has come to pass.

Don’t let the door . . .

Letting wild claims drive the policy discourse.

The data are clear (and the predictions were correct).

A hellscape of fire and destruction.

Pornhub has banned itself in nineteen states to the delight of legislators.

It’s not known if they’re related.

The dark side of federalism.

A GOP member of Congress on deportations.

Turning a campaign slogan into policy.

The consequences of the post-Roe world.

Plus some thoughts on mass deportation.

And yes, Trump fits the definitions all too well.

Democrats and Republicans alike are less supportive than they were four years ago.

The legendary singer, songwriter, and actor is gone at 88.

The New College of Florida invites a white supremacist to campus.

The skews may offset.

A regional pilot program could be expanding.

More data shows a more complicated picture.

Going electric may require reversing a decades-long trend.