This is apparently happening in multiple areas in the capital. The DC board of elections has been made aware of it and have been in touch with the National Guard to address it. It’s no accident.

DHS really trying to put the "secret" in "secret police"

The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?

Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy.

I'm old enough to remember when Americans were shocked at the ISIS execution videos and pointed to them as a very particular kind of savagery.

On Dec 3 no less, in between your Hallmark Christmas movies.

Not the odds, but the stakes. That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in election coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes. Sep. 11, 2023

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

oh my GOD

16/ The test for a healthier democracy is whether people can vote, belong & live with equal protection under the law. A country can be quiet because people feel secure, or because those denied rights have been silenced. We should be clear about which peace we are being offered.

Excellent quote. This article also pairs well with Backlash Presidents, which takes on the historical and institutional dimensions of this problem but shares the same basic conviction.

It's the same problem that I tried to get at here.