Jason Sattler

Marcy Wheeler’s singular reporting reveals how MAGA has gotten away with framing the president’s son. Hunter Biden is a screwup. So are you. Who isn’t? Ok. You’re probably less of a screwup than Hunter Biden. He had a pretty bad addiction and a tough childhood followed

When the coup hit the Supreme Court, the Republican Justices joined in. Samuel Alito's undeniable terribleness is finally getting a smidge of the attention it deserves. But there is something far worse than his words, his disdain, and his wife’s freak flags. That would be his actual

Messaging expert Anat Shenker-Osorio explains that victory in November depends on convincing low-information voters that the MAGA threat is real. Donald Trump’s greatest advantage is that he is treated like a clown. This is true even after he has been found culpable of not just falsifying business records to

The power of repetition and the price of normalizing betrayal. It’s been more than a week since Donald Trump echoed his 2016 public request for Vladimir Putin’s help in winning a presidential election, and the press remains determined to ignore it.  The convicted felon, presumptive GOP nominee, and

Give us an hour, and you’ll understand why Trump's narcissism gave him no choice but to join Putin’s attack against our democracy. After a life of fraud that began at age eight, Donald Trump has finally suffered a criminal consequence. Whether that consequence leads to an

Donating directly to candidates is almost always better than giving to PACs. One of the most alarming things right now is the general lack of alarm about this November’s elections. Expect that to change. And it could change in a flash. It could be the verdict in Trump’s

But they have more big money and love their tax cuts. And that’s the problem. Last week served us a nice sampler plate of why fascism looks favored in the fall. Media Matters for America, one of the few left-leaning organizations that continually dents the right-wing media, announced a

Last Thursday was one of those days when the alarm bells around democracy were ringing so loud that few could hear them. That was the day when, for some reason, we finally found out that just before Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States and just

In Ball of Thread, Marcy Wheeler unwinds the story of the attack that has brought us to the brink of fascism so that we can step back. America, if you’re listening, please ask yourself one question. How the hell did we get here? How did we get to the

We know nothing about his medical situation and everything about his mendacity. We all falter. But Robert Kennedy Jr. is horrible in a way that suggests he’s less a Measles-loving nepo baby and more a biblical plague sent to punish America for our fixation on political dynasties. First, let’