A President Or An Autocrat In The Making?
Just days after taking the presidential oath of office and swearing to “faithfully execute” his office and “preserve, protect, and defend” the Constitution, Donald Trump […]
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50+ Civil & Human Rights Organizations, Including D21, Urge Senators To Oppose Kash Patel’s Nomination To Lead FBI
|Press Releases |Kash Patel TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellAhead of Friday’s Senate confirmation hearing on Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director, 58 civil and human rights organizations, including Democracy 21, have urged […]
D21 President Fred Wertheimer To Receive The Prestigious Paul H. Douglas Award For Ethics In Government
|Press Releases |by Jackie HowellDemocracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer has been awarded the 2025 Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government. The prestigious award is given annually by […]
Trump 2.0 — “Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss.”
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Jan. 6 pardons TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellSome people seem to be giving President Donald Trump a pass these days. As he himself recently noted: “In the first term everybody was fighting […]
Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons & Commutations Are A National Disgrace
|Press Releases |Jan. 6 TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellStatement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer President Donald Trump’s pardons and commuting of sentences today of convicted criminals who carried out the January 6 […]
Mr. Super Rich Goes To Washington
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Big Tech Money In Politics TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellIn the 1939 movie Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Jimmy Stewart, as newly appointed Sen. Jefferson Smith, arrives in Washington to fight against government corruption. In […]
Trump Can’t Rewrite History, No Matter How Hard He Tries
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |2020 Election Jan. 6 TrumpWatchby Jackie Howell“Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note” is coming out on Tuesday instead of Thursday this week, out of respect for President Jimmy Carter, whose state funeral will […]
Fred’s Weekly Note Returns January 9
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |by Jackie HowellFred’s Weekly Note and our Wertheimer’s Political Report newsletter are on a short break. Both will return on Thursday, January 9, 2025.
Is It “President Musk” Now?
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Elon Musk TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellIn recent days, we have seen a lot of bending the knee to Donald Trump by high-powered corporate leaders and the Super Rich. And when you […]
Kash Patel: In His Own Words
|Press Releases |Kash Patel TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellIn a Truth Social post on November 30, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Kash Patel to be the director of the FBI. Last week, […]
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