Democrats’ Misguided Treatment of the Mueller Report
Are Democrats in 2020 going to again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory—or at a minimum lower their margin...
Read MoreThe Rising Tide of Republican Racism and Lies
The Washington Post on May 14 published an op-ed by Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Republican leader...
Read MoreTomlinson Running for U.S. Senate Seat
Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson has announced she is running to be the Democratic nominee in 2020 for the United States...
Read MoreRepublicans to Georgia on Disaster Relief: “Drop Dead”
From U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson’s latest newsletter, May 3, 2019: "On Tuesday, Senator Perdue and I held a bipartisan press...
Read MoreReagan Daughter to Republicans: Stop Abusing My Father’s Name
IndieDems.com Bulletin – May 3, 2019 “At this moment in America’s history when the democracy to which my father pledged...
Read MoreCobb Transportation Plan Up for Public Review
Cobb County Government Announcement An ongoing series of public meetings offers residents something they can’t always get while sitting in...
Read MoreNo Impeachment for Now
I understand where the Democrats and commentators who say the Mueller findings require Trump's immediate impeachment are coming from. But...
Read MoreWilliam Barr: Another Morally Corrupt Republican…
...conservative Christian white male--and Trump lapdog to boot. IndieDems at the beginning of the Trump presidency predicted that he would...
Read MoreThe Incredibly Shrinking Johnny Isakson
IndieDems has noted numerous times the fact that Senator Johnny Isakson has remained a faithful lap dog for Donald Trump...
Read MoreThe Moral Bankruptcy of Johnny Isakson’s Republican Party
The moral sewer that Georgia Republicans accept as normal Two years and four months of the Trump presidency have proven...
Read MoreDemocratic Policies Have Always Reflected Christian Values
Media pundits are in full throttle trying to deal with the novel fact that some Democratic candidates are talking the...
Read MoreDemocrats Appealing to Religion: What’s Up for Christianity?
The media are paying increasing attention to the Democratic presidential candidates who are using the language of religion as a...
Read MoreHey, Democrats. Time to use religion as a weapon.
A breakthrough for Democrats: Pete Buttigieg invokes religion in his appeal Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana running...
Read MoreNielsen Firing Portends New Heights for Republican Misgovernance
The firing of Homeland Security Secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, one of Trump’s most faithful lap dogs, because she could not implement...
Read MoreBy, By Biden
I’m a Democrat, I admire and respect Joe Biden, and I know this: I don’t want to spend the next...
Read MoreRegulating Social Media: The Dilemma
The British Government has come up with a plan to regulate allegedly harmful content on social media: Britain unveils plan...
Read MoreThe Equivalency Principle Rears Its Misguided Head
A recent decision by Senate Majority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, to change Senate rules on limiting debate set off a...
Read MoreFor God’s Sake, Democrats. Stop Playing Trump’s Collusion Game
To those of you Democrats enmeshed in endless debate over details of the Mueller report: please drag yourselves out of...
Read MoreStacey Abrams as Biden VP Candidate? Say It Ain’t so, Stacey
I am a Georgian. My long-time admiration and respect for Stacey Abrams increased considerably when she ran a campaign for...
Read MoreRepublicans’ Mind-numbing Cowardice
Senators Isakson and Perdue Once More Bow Down to Der Fuhrer—uh, President—Trump President Trump this month declared a national emergency...
Read MoreThe Neo-Nazi Trumpists, cont.
There are two examples of the foreign policies followed by Trump and his rabid Republican followers that conclusively demonstrate Republicans...
Read MoreTrump as Hitler Twin: The Link Tightens
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank offers the following: This is how submissive Republicans have become to Trump By Dana Milbank...
Read MoreGA Senate Votes Today (3/13/19) on Disputed Electoral System Reform
The Georgia State Senate votes today, Wednesday, March 13, on a bill that provides for a new statewide voting system....
Read MoreRacist Incident on KSU Campus Sparks Opposition
Cobb activist Richard Pellegrino has sent us the following notice about a racist incident incident on the KSU campus: "I...
Read MoreFree Speech on Campus: Is Trump Moving in Right Direction?
Students with a leftist bent have stirred controversy in recent years by protesting the speeches by right-wing advocates on their...
Read MoreCobb EMC May Support Innovative Financing of Home Energy Efficiency Upgrade
Environmentalists nationwide are teaming with electric utility companies to implement an innovative program to foster energy efficiency upgrades in homes...
Read MoreUtilities Polluting Georgia Groundwater
The Georgia Water Coalition has provided us the following link to a report on how Georgia’s coal-fired power plants have...
Read MoreThe Republican Legacy: 70 Years Spiraling into the Gutter
Two years into the Trump presidency, here is what the empirical evidence based on the track record shows. Republicans are...
Read MoreYou Can’t Support Donald Trump and Be a Christian
"Republicans descend into sheer thuggery" - By Jennifer Rubin, conservative commentator Excerpts: Republicans in two dramatic ways demonstrated Tuesday (February...
Read MoreThe Democratic Party Is the Party of Family Values
Democrats are already far head of Republicans in supporting family values. While not perfect, Democrats stand in stark contrast with...
Read MoreA Plea for Republican Lawmakers to Cease Enabling Trump’s War on Democratic Norms
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA): An open letter to my Republican colleagues In his letter, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman...
Read MoreMitch McConnell, GOP Congressional Caucus Enable Trump’s Trampling on Constitution
“If the U.S. has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy...it is Mitch McConnell."...
Read MoreTrump’s National Emergency: Right Out of Hitler’s Reichstag Fire Playbook
“The term 'Reichstag fire' has come to refer to false flag actions perpetrated or facilitated by an authority to promote...
Read MoreThe Tentacles of Trump/Republican Racism Reach Far
Substitute teacher in NC reveals herself as exemplar of Republican know-nothing bigotry News article: ‘She was trying to put us...
Read MoreRepublican Hypocrisy Reaches Breathtaking New High
News report #1: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the entire Democratic leadership on Monday condemned Rep. Ilhan Omar for suggesting...
Read MoreHelp Save Rural America from a New Socialist Horror!
IndieDems has been shocked, shocked to discover that, just as Trump has launched a campaign to make “socialism” a bad...
Read MoreSenator Isakson Doubles Down on Opposition to Another Government Shutdown
On Thursday, January 24, Georgia's senior U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson took the unusual step of joining five other Republican Senators...
Read MoreGov. Kemp’s Electoral System “Reform” Rests on Cronyism at Its Worst
In his prior position as Georgia Secretary of State, Brian Kemp left Georgians with a corrupt, compromised, and outmoded electoral...
Read MoreSenator Isakson Breaks with Trump, Backs Democratic Bill on Shutdown
Credit Where Credit Is Due--However Temporary It Might Be Senator Johnny Isakson on Thursday broke with his Republican colleagues and...
Read MoreRepublican Governance: It Just Keeps Getting Worse
Donald Trump's Administration and the Republican Party--yes, the whole damn Party--have produced such a disaster, for IndieDems to bother to...
Read MoreCobb County Events: Democratic Watch Party. – Tea Party Address.
EVENT: Carolyn Hadaway Video Watch Party SUBJECT: “Reversing Roe”: The likely effort to overturn Supreme Court decision DATE: Thursday, January...
Read MoreTwo Foreign Policy Experts Reveal Trump as Russian Asset
Here are 18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset By Max Boot. Boot was a senior foreign policy adviser...
Read MoreGovernment Shutdown Takes GA GOP Leaders’ Moral and intellectual Bankruptcy to New Heights
To no one’s surprise, Georgia’s Republican Congressional delegation has rallied behind the pack of lies Donald Trump is spouting to...
Read MoreThe Horrendous Impact of Trump’s Deregulated Rapacious Capitalism
And Georgia Republicans like Senators Johnny Isakson and David Perdue, Representative Barry Loudermilk, and governor-elect Brian Kemp could not give...
Read MoreWhat Do GA Republicans Look for in a President? Liar/racist/xenophobe/sexist/immoral/Etc.
After two years, the words spoken by normal Americans to respond to Trump’s daily assault on truth, honor, civility, and...
Read MoreAmerica’s Fate in Hands of Isakson, Perdue, Other GOP Senators. Prognosis Is Dire.
Let it never be forgot: the Republican majority in Congress are as guilty as Trump for letting the shutdown of...
Read MoreTrump Mimics Terrorists by Using Gov Shutdown as Blackmail.
A national newspaper recently published an editorial saying there is an obvious compromise to resolve the impasse over the shutdown...
Read MoreNo Compromise with Terrorists’ Demands or Trump’s Blackmail
A prominent newspaper recently published an editorial saying there is an obvious compromise to resolve the impasse over the shutdown...
Read MoreGOP Senators’ Sycophancy Toward Trump Blocks Legislative Compromise
In a recent exchange in the media, one participant suggested that Democrats should go around Trump and negotiate directly with...
Read MoreRepublicans, like Johnny Isakson, Hell Bent on Maintaining Trump’s Chaotic, Incompetent, Corrupt Regime
Trump may be physically alone, but he is far from being politically alone. He is solidly backed by the whole...
Read MoreRepublican Senators Like Isakson, Perdue Now Chief Prop of Trump’s Failed Presidency
The Washington Post in a recent editorial posited that with Mattis' departure as Secretary of Defense, Congress should be the...
Read MoreMedia Keep Fueling the Nikki Haley Myth
Why, oh why, do commentators keep trying to make a hero out of Nikki Haley? Nikki Haley has been one...
Read MoreGeneral Mattis Shames Sen. Perdue’s Craven Support for Donald Trump
(Editor'snote: Readers will note we are repeating this post but using different Georgia Republicans as the subject. Rather than lump...
Read MoreTrump & Republicans* Give Green Light to Slaughter of Our Kurdish Allies
President Trump and his Republican supporters* have become active enablers of a murderous attack Turkey is preparing against its minority...
Read MoreGeneral Mattis Shames Sen. Isakson’s Craven Support for Trump
"To put it as bluntly and succinctly as possible, Senator Isakson: General Mattis confirms everything I ever said about you."...
Read More“This Week in (Isakson) Inhumanity: Keeping a Mother from Her Dying Toddler”
As our readers know, we are honoring our Georgia Republican politicians for their unstinting support for the Presidency of Donald...
Read MoreDid Johnny Isakson Die, or Has He Just Retired in Place?
Johnny Isakson seems to have abandoned any concept of serving the interests of his constituents, beyond tapping the federal pork...
Read MoreAftermath of Trump Associates Convictions: Republicans Dive Deeper into His Sewer
Georgia Republicans swim the deepest. December 12, 2018 marked a watershed in United States politics. The sentencing of Trump’s former...
Read MoreJohnny Isakson’s Definition of Good Government: Destroy Democracy
Senator Johnny Isakson’s definition of good government: “The Democrats (in Wisconsin) won the popular vote in State Assembly contests by...
Read MoreJohnny Isakson’s Standards for Being a Good President
Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson has remained a staunch advocate for the Presidency of Donald Trump through thick and thin. His...
Read MoreFlyover Republicans: Want Respect? Try Adhering to America’s Moral Values
"You Republican flyover yahoos want respect? Earn it by giving up your racist, xenophobia, ignorant ways. First steps: stop the...
Read More‘George H.W. Bush’s Funeral Was a Powerful Renunciation of Isakson’
As our readers know, we are honoring our Georgia Republican politicians for their unstinting support for the Presidency of Donald...
Read MoreMy Special Pleading : A Wolf Is Killed in Montana
Full disclosure: This is about a non-political issue that arouses my special passion, Doesn't mean it isn't an important issue,...
Read MoreNever Forget: Republicans Gave us Donald Trump (I)
Say it. Shout it. Proclaim it. Tweet it. Instagram it. Snapchat it. Repeat it. Over and over and over, etc.:...
Read MoreNever Forget: Republicans Gave Us Donald Trump (II)
A media columnist recently, in discussing Trump’s deception about his Russian dealings while seeking the Republican presidential nomination, seemed to...
Read More‘Isakson Is Compromised by Russia’ etc.
We continue to honor Senator Johnny Isakson for his unstinting support for the Presidency of Donald Trump by substituting his...
Read More‘Perdue’s racist policies have been even worse than we feared’
We continue to honor Senator David Perdue for his unstinting support for the Presidency of Donald Trump by substituting his...
Read More“In defense of Betsy DeVos’ Title IX plan”
I agree with none of DeVos' educational policies, but I support her proposed overhaul of the Obama-era campus sexual harassment...
Read MoreIndieDems Honors Senator Perdue’s Unstinting Support for Trump
IndieDems is embarking on a new way to show respect for Georgia Republicans, especially those in Georgia's Congressional delegation. After...
Read More‘Isakson’s racist policies have been even worse than we feared’
We continue to honor Senator Johnny Isakson for his unstinting support for the Presidency of Donald Trump by substituting his...
Read MoreIsakson’s Ugly Image of America’s Future Takes Shape
Peas in a Pod In August 2017, neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, staged a parade right out of the...
Read MoreA New Way of Honoring GA Republicans’ Staunch Support for Trump
IndieDems is embarking on a new way to show respect for Georgia Republicans, especially those in Georgia's Congressional delegation. After...
Read MoreAnother Powerful White Male Asks Us to Sacrifice for His Principles
The Washington Post today published an op-ed by its former owner and publisher, Donald Graham: Do it, Congress. Build the...
Read MoreHillary Pulls a Hillary
In a newspaper interview on November 22, Hillary Clinton said "Europe must get a handle on immigration to combat a...
Read More“How the Khashoggi Killing Ruinously Defined (Isakson)”
The Washington Post on November 23 published a column headlined "How the Khashoggi Killing Ruinously Defined Trump." Since Georgia Senator...
Read MoreThe Importance of Georgia’s December 4 Runoff Election
Georgia Runoff Election on December 4 The most critical office yet to be decided: Secretary of State, the official who...
Read MoreJohnny Isakson’s Continued Kowtowing to Trump Disgraces His Office
The Senator's putting love of Trump above love of country becomes more untenable every day In the recent election, the...
Read MoreThe Media’s Whitewashing of Trump’s Racism & Personal Insults. CNN & MSNBC Included
On November 15, I made the following comment on the Internet: The most chilling fact about Trump's latest overt display...
Read MoreThe Corrupt, Convicted Godfather of Trump’s Republican Party
On November 15, the Washington Post published the following: The man who pioneered Trumpism - How Spiro Agnew first blazed...
Read MoreSlaveowners, Segregationists, Communists, Republicans: Eradication the only Answer
Political eradication, of course. Trump’s supporters are beyond redemption. They embrace and revel in Trump’s words and deeds that any...
Read MoreCowardice and Lies: The Republican Way of Life
In a recent back-and-forth debate on the web, one participant said Trump was a coward for refusing to listen to...
Read MoreThe Laughable Idea of Nikki Haley as Trump Alternative
I would hope U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s stamp of approval to Trump’s transparent tolerance of the brutal murder of Khashoggi...
Read MoreRepublicans Mimic the Segregationists and Unleash the Wolves of Hate
“When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe.” --Atlanta Constitution editor Ralph McGill,...
Read MoreTrump’s Litany of Lies and Racism Nakedly Revealed. GA Republicans Approve It All
Georgia Republicans Johnny Isakson and David Perdue; Reps. Barry Loudermilk and Karen Handel; and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp have given...
Read MoreYes, It Was a Democratic Wave
As much of the media remain focused on the “deeply divided” America supposedly reflected in the split in control of...
Read MoreAll the Ugliness of the Trump Campaign Is on Display in Georgia
An editorial in the Washington Post on the eve of the election has nailed the fact that Georgia Republicans are...
Read MoreA Conservative Speaks: “Vote against all Republicans. Every single one.”
An op-ed by prominent conservative and former Republican Max Boot: Vote against all Republicans. Every single one INDIEDEMS COMMENT: IndieDems has...
Read MoreInterior Secretary Zinke: More Republican Gutter Ethics–Approved by GA Republicans
Ryan Zinke, Trump’s Interior Secretary, Faces Increased Ethics Scrutiny IndieDems Comment: Another of Trump's Republican Cabinet Secretaries shows his absolute...
Read MoreWhere Are American Christians as Trump’s Demagoguery Rivals Hitler’s?
Trump’s lies and demagoguery about the migrant “caravan” allegedly posing a grave danger to the security of the United States...
Read MoreGeorgia Republicans Plunge Deeper into their Trumpian Extremism
More Republicans Desert the Trump Shipwreck—Leaving GA Republicans More Isolated in Their Extremism Editor’s note: This first draft of this...
Read MoreDemocrats: Stop the Public Confrontations
IndieDems states without reservation: the public confrontations that some so-called liberals, progressives, or Democrats have staged with Republican officials as...
Read MoreGA Republicans Endorse Trump’s Escalation of Lies & Demagoguery
No a single Georgia Republican has bothered to criticize Trump's flagrant, craven demagoguery conveyed in these latest reports. Their silence...
Read MoreReminders of How Vile Trump & His Republicans Really Are
Why bother with more reports of the hideous damage Trump and his Republicans are inflicting on America? Because the very...
Read MoreAmerica “Deeply Divided”? Says Who?
Ben Sasse, a Republican, represents Nebraska in the Senate and is the author of the new book “Them: Why We...
Read MoreCobb Sierra Club Meets 11/1 to Examine New Initiatives, Including for Cobb EMC
Event: Monthly meeting of the Centennial Group, the Cobb/Fulton chapter of the Sierra Club Date: Thursday, November 1 Time: 6:30pm,...
Read MoreA Look at the Five Proposed Constitutional Amendments on Georgia’s Ballot
Georgians will vote on five proposed amendments to the Georgia constitution on their ballot in this year’s election. Two proposed...
Read MoreTrump Chickens Come Home to Roost for Soybean Farmers
Media report: North Dakota soybean farmers, caught in the trade war, watch the season run out on their crop IndieDemsComment:...
Read MorePost-Kavanaugh: It’s a Great Day to be a Democrat
It’s a great day to be a Democrat. We Democrats know that Hillary got 3 million more votes than Trump,...
Read MoreDemocratic Watch Party To View Ruth Bader Ginsburg Documentary – 10/25/18
Event: Cobb Democratic Watch Party Topic: “RBG” Documentary on Ruth Bader Ginsburg Date: Thursday, October 25 Time: 6:30pm Place: Private...
Read MoreGA Advance & Absentee Voting Now Underway + Amendments, Down Ballot Candidates
For Cobb County Early Voting In-person Now Underway at Select Sites Click here for Advance Voting information on CobbElections.org for...
Read MoreAre Hispanics and Women the Democrats’ Achilles’ Heels?
The Democrats’ optimism about becoming America’s undisputed majority party hinges largely on the expanding minority population, especially Hispanics and blacks....
Read MoreKemp, GA Republicans Commit Massive Voter Suppression
This issue has now been so thoroughly covered in the media, IndieDems has nothing to add. Below are some selective...
Read MoreThe Nikki Haley Myth, Created Right in Front of Our Eyes
U.N Ambassador Nikki Haley's resignation has triggered a media frenzy of gushing praise of her as a person and politician,...
Read MoreThe Real Lessons of the Kavanaugh Fight
I urge my fellow Americans to lift themselves above the partisan rancor over whether Ford or Kavanaugh is telling the...
Read MoreWhat the Pro-Kavanaugh Cabal Ignored
The flawed, circumscribed, and almost worthless FBI "investigation" received wide publicity. The other factors Republicans ignored in order to make...
Read MoreThumbs Down on Senator Susan Collins
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank on October 6 published "Susan Collins’s Declaration of Cowardice." IndieDems Comment: Thank you, Dana Milbank,...
Read MoreJust Wondering. What Does Justice Kavanaugh Say to His Children…
When they ask him, “daddy, what does shithole mean?” And “daddy, is it really OK for famous men to touch...
Read MoreWhy Democrats Are Having a Good Day
Republicans are having a field day celebrating their success in getting Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. Some even accuse Democrats...
Read MoreKavanaugh Fight Reveals the Truth: Christian = Hypocrite
The Facts The news this week confirms it: Donald Trump is the worst person ever to be president By conservative...
Read MoreQuestion about Cobb EMC’s New CEO: Why Him?
In March 2018, the Cobb EMC Board of Directors announced the selection of a new president and CEO, Peter Heintzelman....
Read MoreNew Cobb EMC CEO & Mueller’s Russia Investigation
In a separate post, IndieDems analyzes Cobb EMC’s appointment in March of Peter Heintzelman as its new CEO (Question about...
Read MoreKavanaugh Mess Makes Clear: GOP a Bastion of Sexism & Misogyny
The fallout from the Kavanaugh nomination has starkly confirmed what we already knew to be the truth: the Republican Party...
Read MoreToday’s Republicans & 1960s Segregationists: Peas in a Pod
As a native Southerner, I’m sensitive to signs that current politics is mimicking the period of segregation and Jim Crow...
Read MoreCobb Meeting to Hear Expert on Major Flaws in GA Electoral System
The Problem 6 million Georgia voters' records exposed: 'Could have easily been compromised' CNN - August 14, 2018 (Excerpts) A...
Read MoreTrump Trying to Destroy Government Experts on Russian Organized Crime
The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering By David Leonhardt- New York Times, September 9th, 2018 (Excerpt) The latest...
Read MoreNew “Deep Throat” Deserves Praise, Not Condemnation
On September 5, The New York Times took the unprecedented step of publishing an anonymous op-ed, "I Am Part of...
Read MoreSurprise! “Braves, Cobb in Legal Dispute over Millions in Stadium Costs”
AJC 9/7/18: "Braves, Cobb in Legal Dispute over Millions in Stadium Costs" (Excerpt) Cobb County and the Atlanta Braves are...
Read MoreGeorgia’s Younger Voters Trending Democratic
AJC 9/7/18: Georgia’s Democratic future may begin with those born after 1974 (Excerpt): "It is among voters born after 1974...
Read MorePoll Shows Kemp, Abrams Tied in Governor’s Race
DEAD EVEN: AJC/Channel 2 poll shows Georgia governor’s race is tied
Read MoreKavanaugh Sinks Deeper into Trumpists’ Swamp
News item: Hours before Kavanaugh nomination hearings, Bush lawyer releases 42,000 pages of documents to Judiciary Committee IndieDems Comment The...
Read MoreUpdate on Cobb EMC Elections, Now Underway
Please see our earlier post, Critical Cobb EMC Elections Begin This Week, for more details and recommendations for challenger candidates to vote...
Read MoreMcCain Affair Sends GA Republicans Beyond the Pale with Trump
Donald Trump’s despicable actions regarding John McCain following his death, and the acquiescence of Georgia Republican Congressional delegations in Trump’s...
Read MoreMcCain Imbroglio Reveals Extremism, Isolation of Trump & Republicans
Nothing has more graphically revealed the startling separation of the Republican Party from mainstream America than the Trump-created imbroglio over...
Read MoreTrump’s Craven Character Shown in His Pettiness Toward McCain
News story: "Trump rejected plans for a White House statement praising McCain" (Excerpt) "President Trump nixed issuing a statement that...
Read More“The Full-spectrum Corruption of Donald Trump”
A life-long Republican writes the (for now) ultimate word on the depths of Donald Trump's moral turpitude--and of his supporters....
Read MoreKavanaugh Needs to be Asked Searching Questions
Judge Brett Kavanaugh makes a big deal of his commitment to his Catholic faith. He is deeply involved in Church...
Read MoreSen. Perdue Clinches Title of Dumbest Senator
Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) has called Donald Trump "America’s Winston Churchill." On August 20 he tweeted @sendavidperdue a fawning accolade...
Read MoreNeeded: A Fresh Look at the Kavanaugh Nomination
The Catholic Church has been roiled by another chapter in its sex abuse problem. A Pennsylvania grand jury this month...
Read MoreIf Democratic Socialism is So Bad, Why Is Norway So Great?
If democratic socialism is so bad, why is Norway so great?
Read MoreIsakson, Perdue, Handel, and Loudermilk’s Betrayal 0f America Nakedly Revealed
If you want a quick summary of why IndieDems has nothing by scorn for Donald Trump and his Georgia Republican...
Read MoreLawsuit: Kemp Left GA Electoral System Dangerously Vulnerable
6 million Georgia voters' records exposed: 'Could have easily been compromised' (Excerpts) Georgia's shotgun-toting, Trump-style Republican candidate for governor Brian...
Read MoreCobb Democratic Video Watch Party: August 23
Event: Carolyn Hadaway’s Video Watch party Topic: Single Payer Healthcare – Why the U.S. spends 2 ½ times per person...
Read MoreKill More Birds, and More: Trump’s (and GA GOP’s) Assault on the Environment
The latest: Cruelty without consequence is Trump’s way Trump’s Interior Department has announced that it will no longer enforce key...
Read More“The Myth of Watergate Bipartisanship”
We’re scooped! IndieDems has begun drafting an article on what a bunch of horse manure it is to claim that...
Read More“Brian Kemp, Enemy of Democracy”
Brian Kemp, Enemy of Democracy (Excerpt) Hackable polling machines, voter roll purges, refusing to register voters until after an election,...
Read MoreCritical Cobb EMC Elections Begin This Week
Notice to all customers/members of Cobb EMC: Mail-in and online voting begins soon in elections to determine whether CEMC moves...
Read MoreIsakson, Perdue, Loudermilk, Handel & Staffs: Natural Swamp Dwellers All Along
Three days ago, I started drafting a post on how Georgia’s Congressional Delegations are deeply enmeshed in the culture of...
Read MoreTrump’s GOP GA Lapdogs Support His Role for ACLU in Reuniting Migrant Families
Headline August 3, 2018: "Trump administration puts burden on ACLU to find deported parents separated from children" What kind of...
Read MoreThe Lies of Johnny Isakson
It is an established fact that Republicans accept lying as a way of life. The proof of this fact: Donald...
Read More“In Georgia Race, a Defining Moment for a Southern State”
In Georgia Race, a Defining Moment for a Southern State
Read MoreGeorge Will on Donald Trump: “Our Socialist President”
George Will for most of his adult life was a prominent voice for conservatism and the Republican Party. He was...
Read MoreTrump vs.Cohen: Just Two Pathological Liars? Baloney.
The apparent decision of Trump's former personal lawyer--or "fixer"--Michael Cohen to abandon the President and maybe help Mueller in his...
Read MoreChristian Hypocrisy Reborn under Trump/Republicans
For the past few weeks, America has awakened to the growing analogy between Trumpism and segregation, between the Trump Republican...
Read MoreCobb Democratic Video Watch Party July 26
IndieDems.com Special Bulletin #4 - July 25, 2018 Cobb Democratic Watch Party, July 26 Event: Carolyn Hadaway’s Video Watch Party...
Read MoreMDJ Reports Georgia, Local Runoff Primary Results
From the MDJonline.com: Kemp wins Georgia GOP governor runoff 7 hrs ago ATLANTA (AP) — With a damning secret recording...
Read MoreThe Rising Tide of Racism, Fueled by Trump and His Republicans
The Washington Post and the New York Times on Sunday published articles that deliver an alarming message about the extent...
Read MoreLetter to Christian Clerics – December 2017
IndieDems.com Tom Barksdale, proprietor 1025 Rose Creek Dr. Suite 620 – PMB 223 Woodstock, GA 30189 “You don’t save Christianity...
Read MoreTrump and Georgia Republicans Rush to Bow Down to Putin
IndieDems.com Special Bulletin #3 – July 20, 2018 Trump’s Georgia Republican Lackeys Go Along with His Doubling Down on His...
Read MoreGeorgia’s Congressional Republicans Shrug Off Trump’s Treason in Helsinki
Georgia’s Congressional Republicans Continue Their Supine Support for Trump Despite His Treasonous Performance in Helsinki Johnny Isakson, David Perdue, Barry...
Read MoreTrump Commits Treason against United States as World Watches
IndieDems.com Special Bulletin #1 – July 16, 2018 Donald Trump Commits Treason against United States as World Watches And in...
Read MoreRep. Handel, Stop Betraying Your Country over Russia
Dear Representative Handel, Are you truly unaware that you are committing treason against the United States? The question of what...
Read MoreSenator Isakson, Stop Betraying Your Country over Russia
Dear Senator Isakson, Are you unaware you are committing treason against the United States? The question of what you will...
Read MoreRep. Loudermilk, Stop Betraying Your Country over Russia
Dear Representative Loudermilk, Are you truly unaware that you are committing treason against the United States? The question of what...
Read MoreSenator Perdue: Stop Betraying Your Country over Russia
Dear Senator Perdue, Are you truly unaware that you are committing treason against the United States? The question of what...
Read MoreGeorgia Republicans: Stop Betraying Your Country over Russia
Note to Georgia’s Republican Congressmen and Senators: Are you aware that you are committing treason? Keep reading. The announcement on...
Read MoreNice Guy Kavanaugh: Reminds Me of the Ol’ Southern Segs
The Washington Post today published an op-ed written by a mother whose daughters attend the same Catholic school as Judge...
Read MoreTrump’s Montana Speech Gains Force as Emblematic of His Moral & Intellectual Bankruptcy
Trump's Montana speech on July 5 is increasingly viewed as a watershed in establishing beyond a doubt that he is...
Read MoreGA GOP Congressional Delegations Sink Deeper into Trump’s Sewer
(Editor's note: This post first appeared as a Newsletter on July 7, 2018) Within the last 24 hours, a plethora...
Read MoreTrue Conservatives Flee Trumpist Republican Party
I left the Republican Party. Now I want Democrats to take over. by Max Boot, conservative (i.e., in the traditional...
Read MoreSenator Isakson and the Kidnapped Refugee Children
In a separate post, IndieDems publishes Senator Johnny Isakson's reply to our criticism of Trump’s implementation of the “zero tolerance”...
Read MoreSenator Isakson’s Reply on Child Immigrant Crisis
IndieDems has roundly criticized Republicans for creating out of whole cloth a crisis involving the kidnapping of thousands of immigrant...
Read MoreThe Republican/Segregationist Analogy Gains Steam
Two separate columnists today in the Washington Post and the New York Times used a famous quote from Martin Luther...
Read MoreCobb Democrats’ Video Watch Party June 28
Event: Carolyn Hadaway’s Video Watch Party Topic: “Do you Trust this Computer.” How politicians are mining massive data from our...
Read MoreTime to Highlight GOP Staffers Complicity In Crimes against Humanity
It's Tuesday, June 26. We are approaching the three month anniversary of the Trump "No Tolerance" policy that led to...
Read MoreTrump and Republicans Cross Over into Outright Racism
Trump over the weekend removed any doubt that racism that is the true guiding force of the Republican anti-American and...
Read MoreSarah Sanders Gets Booted Out of a Restaurant
Incredibly some commentators are depicting the denial of service to Sarah Huckabee Sanders as a partisan political act. What a...
Read MoreNew Definition of Republican: Supporter of Mass Child Abuse
News reports: Polls consistently show at least 55 percent of Republican voters support the policy of President Donald Trump of...
Read MoreLetter to Rev. Bryant Wright, Chief Pastor, Johnson Ferry Baptist Church
June 20, 2018 IndieDems.com Tom Barksdale, proprietor 1025 Rose Creek Dr. – Suite 620 Woodstock, GA 30189 ‘Gut-wrenching’ recording captures...
Read MoreRepublicans Using Detained Children as Pawns to Get Border Wall
Recording of the Trauma Suffered by Immigrant Children Separated from their Parents Anyone who can listen to this recording and...
Read MoreTaxpayer-subsidized GA Sports Complex Files for Bankruptcy
Once more, the promises of the economic miracle that will result from taxpayer-subsidized businesses proves to be false. Bankruptcy means...
Read MoreLeader’s Disgrace Deals Heavy Blow to Southern Baptists
The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary on May 30 fired its long-time President, Paige Patterson, for allegedly lying about and mishandling...
Read MoreThe Republican Sewer Deepens, cont.
Michael Gerson, former George W. Bush speechwriter and one of the few true conservative voices left in the Republican Party,...
Read MoreAmerica’s Leading Republican Yahoo (i.e., Trumpist) Strikes Again
IndieDems note: Gary Abernathy is a contributing columnist for The Washington Post and publisher and editor of the (Hillsboro, Ohio)...
Read MoreThe Word that Won the National Spelling Bee has Georgia Connection
AJC: Koinonia is a Winning Spelling Bee Word with Georgia Connections You will also be galvanized by a book written...
Read MoreGeorgia’s U.S. Senators Isakson and Perdue Swim Happily in Trump’s Sewer
The chaos, lies, incompetence, and corruption of the Trump Administration are now so glaringly evident, it's useless to even try...
Read More“Trump Exposes the Hypocrisy of Christian Republicans”
Editor's note: Once more, we turn to Republican/conservative columnists to make the most telling case against Trump and the deluded...
Read MoreGA Republicans Unmoved by Trump Staffer’s Atrocious McCain Remark
Well, good golly. Miss Molly. Republicans have repeated their by now classic Republican Hypocrite response to the latest Trumpist assault...
Read MoreVideo Watch Party Spotlights Abuses at GA Immigration Detention Center
Event: Carolyn Hadaway’s Monthly Video Watch Party Date: Thursday, May 24 Time: 6:30pm – 9:00pm Place: Private home near the...
Read MoreGeorgia Republicans Firmly in Ranks of Tut-tut Republicans
Headline: Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) blasts White House aide’s McCain remark as ‘pretty disgusting thing to say’ IndieDems Comment: The...
Read MoreThe Neglected Role of Women in the Early Christian Church
If you do not read any other posts on IndieDems, see the link in this one. As pointed out in...
Read MoreSouthern Baptists Discover–Gasp!–Misogyny in Their Ranks
On May 7, conservative columnist and former GW Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, a vociferous critic of Donald Trump and the...
Read MoreTrump National Security Adviser Applies Iraq War Justification to Iran
President Trump's National Security Adviser, John Bolton, this week wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post justifying Trump's withdrawal from...
Read MoreJohn Bolton: The Foreign Policy Clone of Rudolf Giuliani
President Trump's National Security Adviser, John Bolton, recently wrote an op-ed praising Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear accord. Comments...
Read MoreBreak with Boy Scouts Takes Mormons to New Heights of Hypocrisy
Headline: "Mormons Break All Ties with Boy Scouts" (Excerpts) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said on May 8...
Read MoreGeorgia’s Old Boy Network in Full Throttle
How do you get to serve 27 years on Georgia's Department of Transportation Board, helping make the multi-billion dollar decisions...
Read MoreDebates in Georgia Primary Races Available Online
The Atlanta Press Club and Georgia Public Broadcasting are making available debates among candidates in key races in the primary...
Read MoreThe Plank in the Media’s Eyes that They Ignore
The media are in full throttle reporting the fallout from Michelle Wolf’s acerbic and occasionally vulgar comedic monologue at Saturday’s...
Read MoreRepublicans’ Reaction to Comedian’s Words Highlights Their Hypocrisy
The annual White House correspondents' dinner this year, on April 28, invited comedian Michelle Wolf to deliver the evening's comedic...
Read MoreGeorgia Republicans Continue Assault on Decency
Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker today published a column “Decent society is unraveling right in front of us.” Her most...
Read MoreLetter to U.S. Clerics with Questions on Trump They Refuse to Answer
In December, I sent the letter below to several American religious leaders, quoting the growing chorus of religious and conservative...
Read MoreThe Known Facts about the Crime and Malfeasance in Trumpgate
The New York Times today published a detailed look at the known facts about the crimes and acts of malfeasance...
Read MoreNikki Haley’s Feet of Cay, cont.
Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman and current TV/newspaper commentator, recently wrote that he does not believe Trump will run for...
Read MoreGeorgia Republicans Comfortable with Colleagues’ Racist Speak
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has addressed President Trump's recent words referring to immigrants "breeding" in America's sanctuary cities. He...
Read MoreChristian Leaders’ Feckless Tolerance of Trump Continues
Michael Gerson, conservative commentator and former G.W. Bush speechwriter, recently published a column "Are these evangelicals ready to topple the...
Read MoreCarolyn Hadaway’s April Video Watch Party
Democratic Video Watch Party Date: Thursday, April 26, 2018 Time: 6:30PM Place: Private home in Woodstock slightly east of Hwy...
Read MoreApproaching Deadlines in Georgia’s Primary Voting
Georgia’s primary election takes place May 22, 2018. The deadline to register to vote is Tuesday April 24th Georgia citizens...
Read MoreNikki Haley a Trump Giant Killer? Are You Kidding?
Last Sunday, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley appeared on Meet the Press and stated the United States would announce new economic...
Read MoreGiuliani Joins League of Republican Adulterers
Trump, unable to get high-level prominent lawyers to represent him, has appointed former New York Mayor Rudolf Giuliani as his...
Read MoreA Christian Universal Get-Out-of-Jail Pass?
The Reverend Frank Graham on April 4 tweeted the following: How does someone not fear death? Because of the assurance...
Read MoreRepublican Family Values in Full Flower
"Republican National Committee Official Admits to Payoff to Pregnant Playboy Model" (Excerpt) A top GOP fundraiser and prominent backer of...
Read MoreHomelessness Grows, as Does Republican Indifference
Headline: "Homeless Deaths Surge." Opioids, extreme weather, soaring housing costs contribute to the spike across the country IndieDems Comment: Our...
Read MoreAre Trumpists behind Little League Plot to Bean Girl Player?
Headline: Two youth baseball coaches reportedly hatched plan to bean 11-year-old girl IndieDems Comment: Not hard to believe, is it,...
Read MoreTrump’s anti-Mueller Tirade Is an Attack on Rule of Law
Trump blasts Mueller probe as ‘attack on our country’ IndieDems Comment: Trump's tirade yesterday was a brutal, frontal assault on...
Read MorePaul Ryan’s Exit: “A Scam of a Party Says Goodby to Its Top Fraud”
Paul Ryan has announced he will not seek re-election in November, stating as his main reason the need to spend...
Read MoreHow Does David Perdue Betray America? Let Us Count the Ways…
“With the blessing of Republican leaders, the lickspittle wing of the GOP is now firmly in charge. The existence of...
Read MoreTrumpism Is Normal? Like the Republicans’ Previous Normal, McCarthyism?
Gary Abernathy, the publisher and editor of the Hillsboro (Ohio) Times-Gazette and a Washington Post columnist, has written another apologia...
Read MoreThe New Roseanne: Remember When Saying ‘Martin Luther Coon’ Was Funny?
The Washington Post on April 4 published an article by Gary Abernathy, "I don’t care if ‘Roseanne’ is pro-Trump. I...
Read MoreChristians Choose Trump over 10 Commandments, Golden Rule
America's religious leaders and their ignorant yahoo followers who are apologists for Trump can dodge and weave all they want,...
Read MoreBesides Trump, Evangelical Leaders Face sex Scandals of Their Own
In an age of Trump and Stormy Daniels, evangelical leaders face sex scandals of their own (Excerpts) As white evangelicals...
Read MoreHave Christian Leaders Forsaken Bible to Accommodate Trump?
In December, I sent the letter below to several American religious leaders, quoting the growing chorus of religious and conservative...
Read MoreHow Has Johnny Isakson Betrayed America? Let Us Count the Ways
“With the blessing of Republican leaders, the lickspittle wing of the GOP is now firmly in charge. The existence of...
Read MoreGeorgia Republicans Welcome Dr. Strangelove as National Security Chief
President Trump has selected right-wing hawk John Bolton as his new National Security Adviser. Bolton’s chief credential for the job...
Read MoreTrump’s Derangement and Extremism, i.e., The Republican Mainstream
President Donald Trump’s history of tweets and words show him to be an unhinged, deranged person and an outright racist....
Read MoreGeorgia Republicans’ Separation from Basic American Values
Read the following with this in mind: Georgia Republicans like Senators Johnny Isakson and David Perdue, and U.S. Representatives Barry...
Read MoreConservatives Denounce Trump
Prominent American conservatives are among the most severe critics of Donald Trump. Here is a sampling of their commentary. David...
Read MoreGeorgia Republicans Follow Trump into the Sewer
The publication of Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury” has sent the Republican Party into free fall, setting off a...
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