A Manchurian Candidate, as initially defined in Richard Condon's 1959 novel and the 1966 movie, is a nation’s leader controlled by that country’s enemy. These works...
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Conservatives claim that Donald Trump’s electoral victories show that his Republican Party, not the Democrats, now represent the working class.
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This year, our nation experienced the mobilization of the lowest economic class against the establishment controlled by the elites for the second time. It’s...
Former President Donald Trump blames Vice President Kamala Harris for the assassination attempt on him. He told Fox News Digital that the would-be assign had “believed the rhetoric of...
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Protestors of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza are accused of being anti-Zionist and, therefore, antisemitic. Those defending the protestors argue that they don’t...
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Former President Donald Trump spoke to the...
Both Russia and China are manipulating our democratic election process to benefit their foreign policies.
Russia has been attempting a soft regime change in America...
Jan. 6 footage had been displayed in the background before former president Donald Trump told his campaign rally in Waco, Tex., in March 2023, who to expel from the government.
Conservative commentators and politicians attack the reliability of the "media" since they believe the liberals control it. They often point to television and some...
Graffiti in Licata, Sicily, by N. Licata
The Democratic and Republican parties have flipped their basic philosophies since being founded. Currently, we strongly associate each with being...
Republican MAGA movement folks have been predicting another civil war. The federal government’s deep state is trampling upon their freedoms and those of former...
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Both parties provoked Federal debt crises for decades, yet they willfully deny the possibility of the US defaulting on future loan...
There is a Strategy for Not Defaulting on Federal Loans
Unfortunately, the media and both parties have tended to conflate a shutdown with defaulting. That...
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President Biden is the only person in government who can break Congress's record of failure.
No pundit can predict what heated issue will dominate the...
Their performance foreshadows the 2024 elections.
Dr. Mehmet Oz at Service Nation Summit
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Two core beliefs define the MAGA movement....
The Red Wave was a ripple; nevertheless, reactionary Republicans will be crashing down on Congress's House.
Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy is bargaining his way into...
Was there really an attempted coup?
Bennie Thompson, chair of the House of Representative's select committee investigating the insurrection at the US Capitol, said, "January...
Two different approaches to shaping America's future
The Republican Party, through Donald Trump and their primary system, has repeatedly fanned fears among white Americans of crime coming...
A day doesn't go by without news that the Republicans are making another move to oust Democrats this November from Congress and state governments.
Democrats...
Followers of Donald Trump are methodically placing election deniers, those who believe Biden stole the election through fraudulent voting, in crucial state positions who...
Recently there has been extensive reporting on how a select group of the wealthiest Americans promotes Donald Trump's accusation that he won the election,...
Both the Democrat and Republican parties employ Fear and Hope messaging in marketing their campaigns.
The Republicans present Fear like a paperback novel you can’t...
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The major networks and cable news channels largely ignored research findings showing who were the "incited terrorists" that invaded the Capitol. Instead,...
While Congress was in session, the Capitol's violent invasion illustrates the power of conspiracy theories to grip average Americans.
The FBI believes that most who...
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After Joe Biden won the presidential election, there has been a proliferation of right-wing Trump rallies. Is this a movement...
Written by Nick Licata | Originally published 11/15/2020
Trump’s firing of Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, two months before leaving the White House, may mean...
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Even if Biden had clearly won enough electoral votes after the November election, Trump’s attorneys are prepared to go nuclear.
Two recent...
Written by Nick Licata | Originally published 10/11/20
The Senate Judiciary Committee begins hearings Monday, Oct. 12, on the appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to...
Written by Nick Licata | Originally published 9/17/20
Citizenship should support a democratic republic that protects individuals’ freedoms and the community’s welfare. We need it...
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Defanging Repressive Immigration Legislation City by City
The party conventions televised a growing chasm in our nation.
Under Biden, the...
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In five swing states, local officials must have mail-in ballots in hand
by Election Day, or they will not be counted.
Thirty-four states...
Each discusses strategies on how the election could address minority and racial injustices that have long been ignored.
The recent killings of unarmed Black citizens...
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President Donald Trump from his New Jersey private golf club tweeted this past Friday morning June 12, that “The terrorists burn...
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This month, President Donald Trump boldly continued to promote the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a protection against being infected by COVID-19....
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Realistically the focus for the Democrats should be to sway public opinion, more than persuading the Republicans to convict Trump
House Managers...
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As a Senator, John F. Kennedy authored Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage in 1957 to highlight the integrity by eight United States Senators...
While the televised debate among the Democrat Presidential Candidates has dominated the public’s attention, what has been missing is a detailed comparison of what...
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Fifty years ago, this June, the Students for a Democratic Society held its last United National Convention. It was torn apart...
Urban Politics – US 9/26/17
By Nick Licata – author of Becoming a Citizen Activist
www.becomingacitizenactivist.org
The answer to that question is not simple but I do...
Six Strategies
To empower your constituents and help get you the votes you need to pass progressive legislation
“What has fueled Seattle’s progressive victories, isn’t some...
President Trump faces a new challenge from city governments. These are the cities where many progressives live and feel powerless to challenge the Trump...
Talking to citizen activists & politicians in the Twin-Cities as they struggle to adopt Minimum Wage & Paid Sick Leave
I’m speaking on Tuesday, Sept...
Remembering Attica's Lessons
Forty-five years ago today, the inmates of New York’s Attica prison initiated the largest revolt of prisoners this nation had ever seen....
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By Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata
From Democracy and Media’s PR Watch 7/30/15
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/07/12894/blowing-whistle-alecs-little-brother-acce
You’re Not In Kansas Anymore
It’s true. I plopped down my $50 and became...
By Nick Licata
First appeared in CrossCut 1/6/16
http://crosscut.com/2016/01/a-seattle-liberal-ventures-into-a-den-of-conservative-activism/
The conservative American Legislative Exchange Council is the most successful political force, left or right, producing state legislation...
By Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata
First appeared in Huffington Post December 23, 2014
Progressives have been getting their asses kicked by conservatives, and it's not...