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Closer to the Edge: Jessica Denson<\/a><\/h2>\n![\"How](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/How-to-block-an-illegal-presidency.webp\" "\\"How")
<\/a>Her name first appeared in the public record as a plaintiff, not a pundit. In 2016, she worked inside Trump\u2019s campaign. When she reported harassment and discrimination, the campaign responded with a $1.5 million arbitration demand designed to bury her. It didn\u2019t. Representing herself, she challenged the campaign\u2019s NDA, won, and freed hundreds of former staffers who\u2019d been forced into silence.<\/p>\nThat case could have been her curtain call. Instead, it became her starting gun.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Denson has remained one of the most persistent presences in Washington\u2019s ongoing standoff between power and accountability. Her activism isn\u2019t built on outrage\u2014it\u2019s built on procedure, law, and follow-through. She\u2019s been in the streets since January: organizing, lobbying, and pressing lawmakers to enforce the Constitution they swore to defend.
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\n(Closer to the Edge more…)<\/a><\/p>\nIsaac Saul: Democrats sweep the 2025 elections.<\/a><\/h2>\nJennifer Rubin: Democrats in \u2018Array\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nIn the next year, Democrats face multiple tasks.<\/p>\n
\n- First, Democrats would be wise to put the elections in context. …\n
- Second, Republicans have already telegraphed their silly line that New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani represents the entire Democratic Party. Mamdani got roughly 1 million votes and was elected by one of the most liberal cities in America. Faced with the alternative of a corrupt opponent backed by Trump and other billionaires, liberals preferred a socialist. Two moderate women with national security backgrounds won the governorships of two populous states with a combined total of approximately 3.5 million votes, including over 55% of self-identified independent voters. So, which branch of the party dominated Tuesday?\n
- Third, many consultants, pundits, and operatives insist Democrats need a \u201cpositive message.\u201d …\n
- Finally, governing<\/em> still matters. …\n<\/ul>\n
(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 4, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump\u2019s social media account announced that the White House intends to ignore the court\u2019s order, but hours later White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said \u201cthe administration is fully complying with the court order.\u201d<\/p>\n
Myah Ward, Alex Gangitano, and Dasha Burns of Politico<\/em> reported last Friday that Trump expected the Democrats to fold and accept Republican terms to reopen the government no more than ten days into a shutdown. His frustration that they are not doing as he expected is showing, especially as more Americans blame Trump and MAGA Republicans for the shutdown than blame Democrats. Last week, Trump demanded that Senate majority leader John Thune of South Dakota end the Senate filibuster, enabling the Republicans to pass the House Republicans\u2019 continuing resolution with a simple majority vote. This was a nonstarter, since the filibuster has become central since 2009 to the ability of Republicans to block most Democratic legislation.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a>
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Thomas B. Edsall: Why It Would Be Trump\u2019s Honor to Pay for Food Stamps<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nWhile Trump has signaled that he will at least partially accede to court orders requiring him to fund SNAP, Democrats and other advocates of the poor should not hold their breath. Back at the end of the first Trump administration, Trump and Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, tried to cut more than $180 billion over 10 years<\/a> from the program; their proposals were dropped once Joe Biden took office. The Republicans\u2019 \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d did SNAP no favors<\/a> \u2014 in effect, it cut that same $180 billion plus from the program.<\/p>\nIn other words, Trump and Vought have not given up their dream of gutting what Trump derisively calls \u201cDemocrat programs,\u201d and SNAP, Medicaid and Obamacare rank high on that list. The reality is that despite some of the new proposals coming from their side of the aisle, neither Trump, Vought nor many other Republicans seem to recognize that it is no longer accurate to describe these programs as \u201cDemocrat programs.\u201d Whether they will pay a political price for their ignorance is another question.
\n(Thomas B. Edsall more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Rebecca Solnit: Protect Our Neighbors: The Journey of a Sign<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nAnd we must remember how many people are now living in fear, afraid to speak, sometimes afraid to leave their home, afraid to go to work, afraid to walk down the street or go to the store or school. It’s important to remember that lives are wrecked not just when they’re actually seized by ICE, but when they live under the threat that this could happen to them, as tens of millions now are. Seized by fear, and act on it by giving up some of their freedom and confidence, some of their ability to participate in society as students or workers, as churchgoers and community members. Timothy Snyder famously wrote<\/a>, immediately after the 2016 election, “do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” But I would assume he means those of us who have secure status in this country, people like him, people like me (and while Snyder is now based in Toronto, he continues to speak up in the US). Power has taught immigrants, refugees, and those who resemble them what it can do.
\n(Rebecca Solnit more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Michele Hornish: You, Too, Can Lift A Car: Life Demands Courage<\/a><\/h2>\nYou’re more powerful than you think<\/p>\n
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Jay Kuo: Not Everything Can Be An Emergency<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Verge: Why Trump hijacked the .gov domain<\/a><\/h2>\nDonald Trump\u2019s vicious, meme-driven ethos has started seeping into the US government\u2019s official internet presence.
\n(Verge more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Sarah Jones & Jason Easley: Jamie Raskin Releases Evidence That Trump Killed An Investigation Into Epstein’s Co-Conspirators<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Joyce Vance: Prosecutors Can Indict a Ham Sandwich, But Can They Convict?<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nIs this case a good use of federal resources? Might the community U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro\u2019s office serves feel better served if they\u2019d been used, for instance, to complete the investigation into border czar Tom Homan, who reportedly accepted a $50,000 bribe for steering government contracts to businessmen instead? Do we need to bring in the feds over a thrown sandwich? Perhaps the loss of the defendant\u2019s job suffices as punishment.
\n(Joyce Vance more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Decoding Fox News: Trump’s CBS 60 Minute Interview – The Cutting Room Floor<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a>Her name first appeared in the public record as a plaintiff, not a pundit. In 2016, she worked inside Trump\u2019s campaign. When she reported harassment and discrimination, the campaign responded with a $1.5 million arbitration demand designed to bury her. It didn\u2019t. Representing herself, she challenged the campaign\u2019s NDA, won, and freed hundreds of former staffers who\u2019d been forced into silence.<\/p>\nThat case could have been her curtain call. Instead, it became her starting gun.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Denson has remained one of the most persistent presences in Washington\u2019s ongoing standoff between power and accountability. Her activism isn\u2019t built on outrage\u2014it\u2019s built on procedure, law, and follow-through. She\u2019s been in the streets since January: organizing, lobbying, and pressing lawmakers to enforce the Constitution they swore to defend. … (Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n Trump\u2019s social media account announced that the White House intends to ignore the court\u2019s order, but hours later White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said \u201cthe administration is fully complying with the court order.\u201d<\/p>\n Myah Ward, Alex Gangitano, and Dasha Burns of Politico<\/em> reported last Friday that Trump expected the Democrats to fold and accept Republican terms to reopen the government no more than ten days into a shutdown. His frustration that they are not doing as he expected is showing, especially as more Americans blame Trump and MAGA Republicans for the shutdown than blame Democrats. Last week, Trump demanded that Senate majority leader John Thune of South Dakota end the Senate filibuster, enabling the Republicans to pass the House Republicans\u2019 continuing resolution with a simple majority vote. This was a nonstarter, since the filibuster has become central since 2009 to the ability of Republicans to block most Democratic legislation. … In other words, Trump and Vought have not given up their dream of gutting what Trump derisively calls \u201cDemocrat programs,\u201d and SNAP, Medicaid and Obamacare rank high on that list. The reality is that despite some of the new proposals coming from their side of the aisle, neither Trump, Vought nor many other Republicans seem to recognize that it is no longer accurate to describe these programs as \u201cDemocrat programs.\u201d Whether they will pay a political price for their ignorance is another question. … You’re more powerful than you think<\/p>\n Donald Trump\u2019s vicious, meme-driven ethos has started seeping into the US government\u2019s official internet presence. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" curated news excerpts & citations Closer to the Edge: Jessica Denson Her name first appeared in the public record as a plaintiff, not a pundit. In 2016, she worked inside Trump\u2019s campaign. When she reported harassment and discrimination, the campaign responded with a $1.5 million arbitration demand designed to bury her. It didn\u2019t. Representing herself, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6592,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions\/6592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n(Closer to the Edge more…)<\/a><\/p>\nIsaac Saul: Democrats sweep the 2025 elections.<\/a><\/h2>\n
Jennifer Rubin: Democrats in \u2018Array\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nIn the next year, Democrats face multiple tasks.<\/p>\n\n
\n\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 4, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/p>\nThomas B. Edsall: Why It Would Be Trump\u2019s Honor to Pay for Food Stamps<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nWhile Trump has signaled that he will at least partially accede to court orders requiring him to fund SNAP, Democrats and other advocates of the poor should not hold their breath. Back at the end of the first Trump administration, Trump and Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, tried to cut more than $180 billion over 10 years<\/a> from the program; their proposals were dropped once Joe Biden took office. The Republicans\u2019 \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d did SNAP no favors<\/a> \u2014 in effect, it cut that same $180 billion plus from the program.<\/p>\n
\n(Thomas B. Edsall more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nRebecca Solnit: Protect Our Neighbors: The Journey of a Sign<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nAnd we must remember how many people are now living in fear, afraid to speak, sometimes afraid to leave their home, afraid to go to work, afraid to walk down the street or go to the store or school. It’s important to remember that lives are wrecked not just when they’re actually seized by ICE, but when they live under the threat that this could happen to them, as tens of millions now are. Seized by fear, and act on it by giving up some of their freedom and confidence, some of their ability to participate in society as students or workers, as churchgoers and community members. Timothy Snyder famously wrote<\/a>, immediately after the 2016 election, “do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” But I would assume he means those of us who have secure status in this country, people like him, people like me (and while Snyder is now based in Toronto, he continues to speak up in the US). Power has taught immigrants, refugees, and those who resemble them what it can do.
\n(Rebecca Solnit more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMichele Hornish: You, Too, Can Lift A Car: Life Demands Courage<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nJay Kuo: Not Everything Can Be An Emergency<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nVerge: Why Trump hijacked the .gov domain<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Verge more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSarah Jones & Jason Easley: Jamie Raskin Releases Evidence That Trump Killed An Investigation Into Epstein’s Co-Conspirators<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nJoyce Vance: Prosecutors Can Indict a Ham Sandwich, But Can They Convict?<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nIs this case a good use of federal resources? Might the community U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro\u2019s office serves feel better served if they\u2019d been used, for instance, to complete the investigation into border czar Tom Homan, who reportedly accepted a $50,000 bribe for steering government contracts to businessmen instead? Do we need to bring in the feds over a thrown sandwich? Perhaps the loss of the defendant\u2019s job suffices as punishment.
\n(Joyce Vance more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDecoding Fox News: Trump’s CBS 60 Minute Interview – The Cutting Room Floor<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
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