An Open Letter Rejecting Presidential Attacks on Nonprofit Organizations
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500+ Organizations, Including D21, Condemn Political Violence And Stand Together Against Trump’s Threats To Nonprofit Groups
|Press Releases |TrumpWatchby Terri RitterThe following open letter, signed by more than 500 organizations including Democracy 21, was released this week: We the undersigned unequivocally condemn the murder of […]
Wertheimer Political Report, September 18, 2025
|Newsletter |by Dave WagnerTRUMPWATCH 2.0 Slavery Disappeared by Trump Administration “The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, […]
John Roberts’ Historic Failure as Supreme Court Chief Justice, Part II
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Democracy Reforms John Roberts Supreme Courtby Dave WagnerAs I wrote in last week’s Note, “Roberts has taken the lead in writing a series of opinions that have destroyed essential rules governing our […]
John Roberts’ Historic Failure as Supreme Court Chief Justice, Part 1
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Democracy Reforms John Roberts Supreme Court TrumpWatchby Dave WagnerChief Justice John Roberts is smart and skilled. He will be remembered, however, as a historic failure. This is not a claim to make lightly, […]
NBC News: In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court ‘s handling of Trump cases
|News, Op Eds, Press Releases |John Roberts Supreme Court TrumpWatchby Dave Wagner“Federal judges are frustrated with the Supreme Court for increasingly overturning lower court rulings involving the Trump administration with little or no explanation, with some worried […]
Meet the Faux King, the Successor to “Mad King” George III
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Campaign Finance Reform Democracy Reforms Public Financing TrumpWatchby Dave WagnerIf you doubt that President Trump considers himself beyond reproach, just note two recent Trump declarations. On August 22, Trump proclaimed (falsely), “I am actually […]
Federal Judge and U.S. Attorney’s Office Detailed Reasons for Ghislaine Maxwell’s Sex-Crimes Felony Convictions and Her 20-Year Sentence
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Ghislaine Maxwell Jeffrey Epstein TrumpWatchby Dave WagnerBy Fred Wertheimer President, Democracy 21 On December 29, 2021, a federal jury found Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of five felony counts, including conspiracy to transport […]
Fred Wertheimer In Slate: “There’s Only One Conclusion to Draw From Trump’s Newfound Leniency for Ghislaine Maxwell”
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Ghislaine Maxwell Jeffrey Epstein TrumpWatchby Terri RitterThe following op-ed by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer was published on Slate: Read on Slate or below: Slate | 8/14/25 There’s Only One Conclusion […]
Americans Have Never Accepted Corruption And Will Not Now
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Campaign Finance Reform Democracy Reforms Public Financing TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellThe Robber Baron era of the late 19th century. The Watergate scandals of the 1970s. The soft money influence-buying scandals of the 1990s. All horrendous […]
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