Author name: Teri Kanefield

As I’ve been doing lately, this blog post started out as a 15-minute video. You can see it here. What follows is an edited transcript. This week Senate Republicans voted to kill a bipartisan commission to look into the January 6th insurrection. They are also trying to outlaw teaching Critical Race Theory in schools. Critical […]

As with my post last Sunday, this blog post started out as a video. You can see it here. What follows is an [edited] transcript. This week I want to talk about totalitarianism—which is something we don’t talk about enough. There is an aspect to totalitarianism that helps explain a lot of what we are

This blog post started out as a YouTube video. What follows is an [edited] transcription. A few days ago, Republican Senator Ted Cruz published an Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal, and Tweeted the conclusion: Social media understood right away this was a stunning admission that Ted Cruz takes corporate money in exchange for

This morning I gave a talk to this group: Here is an [edited] transcription of the talk along with citations and a list of sources at the end. The title of this talk is  “What We Learn from the History of the Second Amendment.” The history of the Second Amendment of course includes the history

I understand why people are saying that Trump got off on a technicality. The idea is to emphasize that most of the Senators who voted to acquit Trump did so even though they thought he was guilty. To be precise, it was a made-up technicality. The “jurisdictional” problem the Republican Senators found was not one

I had a hard time answering this question⬇️ because it brought back an unpleasant memory: The time I tried to explain on Twitter that the voting machines in Georgia were secure. So before I answer this question, let me tell you a story. First, my credentials. I monitored polling places and machine vote tabulation in

Last night two things happened thirteen minutes apart. At 4:30 pm California time, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision in the Wisconsin dispute over whether late-arriving mail-in ballots should be counted. Kavanaugh’s concurrence raised some eyebrows. Exactly thirteen minutes later, Trump tweeted something so inaccurate that Twitter hid it from view

One of my followers on Twitter suggested that Trump supporters don’t understand that he poses a danger to democracy. I disagree. There may be a few Trump supporters who don’t understand the danger posed by a president who openly says that the way for him to stay in power is to “get rid of the

I finished reading Stuart Stevens’ book, It Was All A Lie. There’s so much to talk about with this book, I’ll have to do more than one blog post. This is Part I: The Making of the Modern GOP.  Spoiler: We already knew a lot of this. For example ⤵️ The power a small group

Information for this post is from Book 6 in my Making of America series, Thurgood Marshall. Marshall was born in Baltimore in 1908. His interest in law, and his awareness of racial injustice was awakened early (excerpts from my book)             Thurgood’s seat in one classroom was by a window giving him a view of the

The GOP believes that it is tyranny when a government takes steps to save lives, and good government when the wealthy get tax breaks. That’s because the GOP is the party of hierarchy. They don’t believe fairness and equality are possible. Hierarchy people think there’s a natural order. Some people belong on top. Others belong

Today is an important anniversary. 73 years ago, on April 23, 1951, in Farmville, VA, Barbara Johns led a walkout of her segregated high school to protest the unfair and deplorable conditions of her school. What?! You don’t know who Barbara Johns was? She led her walkout more than 4 years before Rosa Parks refused

The Zelensky-Trump phone call was released by the White House and is here. In his riveting testimony last February before the House Committee on Oversight, Cohen explained how Trump pulls people in and gets them to lie and cheat for him. Cohen quotations from here. Trump doesn’t order anyone to lie or commit crimes. He’s