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People taking to the streets for democracy.

The president is deeply unpopular, his policies are failing, and Republicans are losing--everywhere.

Trump's tariffs and immigration raids are driving the latest farm crisis. White farmers have stood by him year after year--and still do.

And yet, that's what the Supreme Court appears prepared to do.

We may already be on a superhighway to the sort of class- and race-stratified autocracy that it took Russia so many years to become after the Soviet Union collapsed.

Since September 2, the US has carried out more than 20 strikes on vessels suspected of drug trafficking in both the southern Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. At least 83 people have been killed.

Jasmine Crockett can win the Texas Senate race--if voters of color get to the polls.

A legal fight could restore the state's power to set its own limits on contributions to super PACs and encourage public financing.

The multibillion-dollar takeover bids targeting Warner-Discovery show how Trump's corrupt model of governance-by-payback could destroy Hollywood.

On this episode of Start Making Sense, John Nichols has our political update, and Sean Wilentz talks about the latest release in the Dylan Bootleg series.