Ross Bogen

Ross Bogen examines why hope for 2026 must be paired with vigilance, action, and clear-eyed realism in the face of ongoing threats to democracy.

And widespread outrage there was, mostly over the failure to force any major concessions… With the clarity of hindsight, there is a fundamental question: How were we thinking, realistically, this would end?

Intro Even if you're not greatly interested in constitutional issues, you probably know about the Citizens United case that loosed the flood of corporate “dark money” currently overwhelming our elections, and want to something about it. You probably also believe, as Americans have been told since the Supreme Court ruling in 2010, that only a constitutional amendment – or the Court itself – could reverse it. It turns out, as a group of “crosspartisan” democracy activists in Montana discovered...