Kavanaugh 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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