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Ted Millar is a writer and teacher. His work has been in featured in myriad literary journals, including Straight Forward Poetry, Better Than Starbucks, the Broke Bohemian, Caesura, Circle Show, Cactus Heart, Third Wednesday, and The Voices Project. He is also a contributor to Liberal America as well as hosting the podcast "The Left Place", available on all major podcast outlets.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025With a federal database being compiled, we can kiss the Fourth Amendment goodbye The Felon-in-Chief squatting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is about to fulfill his dream of a dystopic surveillance state.
Monday, May 26, 2025Latest GOP $4 Trillion Tax Scam Makes the Last One Look Modest How much do the economic royalists plan to steal from America's poor and middle class this time? $4.5 trillion. How is that "making America great again"?
Wednesday, May 21, 2025"The American" Used to Be a Badge of Honor. Now It Might Be a Reality Show. Who can even tell any more what's news or satire? But I can assure you what you are about to read is 100% true.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025Mentally Incompetent People Should Not Have the Nuclear Codes This should not be a partisan issue. It's serious. The current president of the United States is mentally ill, and mentally ill people should definitely not be given access to the nuclear codes.
Monday, May 5, 2025"Then they came for the journalists" There are dark days ahead, but they won't destroy us if we don't let them. IF we don't let them.
Friday, April 18, 2025Disappearing of US Citizens is Right Around the Corner How long until all of us have to wonder if that thing we said in passing to our next door neighbors about tariffs, or the signs in our yards supporting Democratic candidates, will get us branded and shipped off to an El Salvadorian gulag in the dead of night? The answer is, probably sooner than we think.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025New York Shield Law Could Be the Canary in the Coal Mine When it comes to red states, it's "states' rights for me but not for thee".
Thursday, March 20, 2025We are All Mahmoud Kahlil Mahmoud Khalil is a name that should be on the tip of the tongues of all Americans who value the sacrosanct first amendment. If you aren't yet familiar with him, be prepared to be outraged by the time you finish reading, because this Columbia University graduate student is only the first victim of the Trump regime's evisceration of Americans' right to peaceably assembly and redress our grievances.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025The Only Thing the S.A.V.E. Act Would Save is More Republican Victories It's a new scheme in a long line of vote suppression efforts compliments of the political party whose sole winning strategy for the past four decades has been making it harder to engage with the most fundamental democratic act our country practices.
Monday, February 24, 2025We Are the Company We Keep The United States, the nation democracies the world over once looked to for guidance, strength, and leadership, has abandoned its moral high ground for a partnership of dictators, oligarchs, and rogues.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025Oh, yes, they WILL deport Americans They're happening -- but it isn't just "illegals" being deported as it was initially sold to the xenophobes and bigots.
Sunday, January 19, 2025Instead of Watching a Racist Get Inaugurated on MLK Day, Let's Spend the Day in Service to Our Communities There are things we can do to keep our blood pressure in check and fulfill the call to service to which Dr. King dedicated his life.
Monday, January 6, 2025New York Students and Teachers Won't Have to Take the Heat Much Longer New York has raised the bar again, this time protecting the health and educational well being of its students and educators, challenging other states to follow suit.
Thursday, January 2, 2025The Time for Democrats to Get Serious About Medicare for All is NOW Now that the convicted felon is returning to his old job, and republicans have a (very slim) majority in Congress, the Democratic Party needs to make Medicare-for-all a serious campaign issue for the 2026 mid-terms. It could mean winning back Democratic seats by impressive margins--or condemning the party of Franklin Roosevelt to perpetual defeat ad infinitum.
Saturday, December 28, 2024Some (not entirely apolitical) holiday poetry These are some poems I wrote over the last few years. Enjoy!
Tuesday, December 24, 2024Biden Isn't Going Quietly Into that Good Night Joe Biden will go down in history as the most legislatively consequential president in modern history.
Tuesday, December 3, 2024An Oligarchy En Route to Anocracy. Dictatorship Could Be the End Point. Are we still a democracy? A republic? A constitutionally limited democratic republic? Or an oligarchy, an anocracy? I suppose we'll find out soon.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024Is this the genesis - or denouement - of progressive media? Can we realistically work toward creating a network or series of networks that could compete with such well-funded juggernauts as CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and the king of infotainment propaganda, Fox so-called "news"? Progressives need a sugar daddy.
Monday, November 11, 2024Don't Give Away Your Power Willingly This is the time to make more art as acts of resistance. I refuse to give up my power willingly. Don't anyone do it either. Ben Franklin famously said, "A republic, if you can keep it" when asked what kind of government the framers of the Constitution designed. On Tuesday, we chose not to keep it any longer. But we will survive this -- if we don't give up our power willingly.
Monday, November 4, 2024The GOP's "Little Secret" to Steal the White House Under the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, if a presidential candidate fails to achieve 270 Electoral College votes, the House of Representatives chooses the president. With 26 of 50 House delegations in GOP hands, Donald Trump would be installed as president again.
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