Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Most Americans Disapprove Of Trump Aggressive Actions Against Cuba
The charts above are from the YouGov Poll -- done between February 25th and 27th of a nationwide sample of 1,094 adults, with a 4 point margin of error.
The Misnamed "Save America Act" Is Actually Anti-Democratic
The following is part of a post by Jennifer Rubin at The Contrarian:
Rather than address the cratering economy, undertake their constitutional responsibilities to end a reckless and illegal war, hold Donald Trump accountable for his financial corruption and pedophile racket cover-up, and/or reform rogue, widely loathed immigration shock troops, Republicans at the behest of Trump (who also insisted on the re-redistricting scheme that has backfired spectacularly), are debating the inappropriately-named SAVE America Act. . . .
The SAVE America Act is based on the “groundless assertions that U.S. elections were rife with fraud,” and the equally groundless notion that millions of people who are not legally permitted to vote are casting ballots. Each time this has been investigated, Republicans have identified — at most — a handful of suspected cases (and those may be clerical errors). The “solution” in search of a problem is actually Republicans’ thinly disguised plot to sow massive confusion and disenfranchise as many voters as needed to keep them in power. That’s their election strategy to counteract the public’s overwhelming disapproval of their MAGA agenda. They aren’t “saving” anything except their own political careers. . . .
The SAVE America Act is not about fraud or even about photo ID, which many states already require. The SAVE America Act would require voters to show a passport or birth certificate as proof of citizenship to register or re-register to vote. Roughly 21 million Americans don’t have ready access to those documents. About half do not even have a passport. Millions of women (approximately 7 million women in California, 5 million in Texas, and 4.7 million in Florida, according to the Voter Participation Center) whose married names are not on their birth certificates or passports would face barriers to registering. Election officials who make good-faith clerical errors would face civil and even criminal penalties.
Those registration requirements would go into effect immediately, creating chaos and preventing millions from voting. And to boot, the SAVE America Act would require voters to show their passport or birth certificate in-person to register (or each time they re-register when they move or change other information) — thereby eliminating registering by mail or online and severely hampering automatic voter registration. It would also hamper voting by mail by imposing a new requirement to send in a photocopy of the voter’s ID (something only one state currently requires).
This massive disenfranchisement push mimics Jim Crow legislation (e.g., requiring a passport, which can cost $165, is akin to a poll tax; obtaining a birth certificate may involve travel to the county clerk in one’s place of birth and paying a fee). It is blatantly unconstitutional, a gambit by the most lawless and corrupt regime in history (whose identity is rooted in election denial) to take over elections from the states. . . .
In short, there is no “saving” in the SAVE America Act, if one accepts that America is a democracy in which voters hold power. It seeks to eliminate voters, eliminate threats to White supremacy, eliminate MAGA control, eliminate the constitutional directive that states control elections, eliminate privacy (when the unredacted voter rolls go to the feds), and, most of all, eliminate democracy. If only a fraction of the eligible electorate gets to vote, we do not have majority rule by the “people”; instead, we have anti-democratic white nationalists cherry-picking the electorate to stay in power. . . .
The “SAVE America Act” makes a mockery of language, giving the false image of conserving voting when it instead aims to blow up the entire democratic election process. Democrats should call the bill what it is: The Jim Crow Act.
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Most Americans Think The War With Iran Is Not Going Well
The chart above reflects the results of the YouGov Poll -- done on March 16th of a nationwide sample of 25,660 adults.
Republicans Holding Airport Security Hostage To Protect ICE's Thuggish Behavior
Why is this happening? Because TSA agents are not being paid. Congressional Democrats refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security unless ICE agents were required to rein in their thuggish (and sometimes even illegal) behavior. That was reasonable, and supported by most of the public (who are upset by ICE actions).
The problem is that ICE is not the only part of the government funded under the Department of Homeland Security. Airport TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard are also funded by DHS money. This gave the Republicans the opening they needed to try and protect ICE from needed reforms. While ICE got extra money from the last funding bill (and can continue to operate), TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard did not.
That means airport security agents are not being paid, the Coast Guard is not being paid, and disaster victims are not getting the help they need. The most immediate problem (the one making the national news) is the long lines at airport security. That is intentional - as Republicans want to use that to try and force Democrats into abandoning reforms to ICE.
But those long lines at airports are not really the fault of Democrats. Democrats have repeatedly offered to separate and fully fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard. Congressional Republicans refused. They know the American people want the reforms to ICE, and refusing to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard is the only pressure they have to protect ICE from the reforms.
Don't believe any Republican who tells you the long airport lines are the fault of Democrats. They are not. Those lines exist because the Republicans want them to exist - and they think the American public is stupid to believe their lies about it.
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