The Supreme Court’s coming decision on the Voting Rights Act could trigger a “second Reconstruction.”
The GOP’s war on norms and media control marks a slide toward open authoritarianism.
Democrats must stop whispering about progress and start owning their wins — loudly and daily.
What emerges here isn’t nostalgia for the past but a demand for moral clarity in the present. The same forces that once enforced Jim Crow now wear suits and call it governance, and the only antidote is courage loud enough to be contagious. Harrison’s defiance and Edwin’s faith in ordinary people cut through the static of fear and fatigue, reminding us that democracy survives when citizens stop waiting to be saved.
The question isn’t whether America can fix its faults — it’s whether we still have the will to try. Every generation gets its test, and this one is about whether decency can still outlast power. It’s a conversation about choosing meaning over noise, freedom over obedience, and truth over performance.
Tune in to this week’s edition of It’s the Democracy, Stupid.
CBS News' MAGA Makeover
CBS News broke a big story last week that uncovers multiple discrepancies with the Jeffrey Epstein jailhouse footage recently released by the Trump Administration. The detailed analysis found that the jail video was edited before being released to the public, not raw footage as Attorney General Pam Bondi and others have repeatedly claimed.
