Hello Readers! This newsletter is less measured and more polemical than usual — the stakes in the battle to save American democracy are higher, and the time left to to do so grows ever shorter. We’ve got two pieces for you here: The first — “DeSantis Bombs in Martha’s Vineyard Regional Political Theater Debut,“ details DeSantis’ criminal miscalculation in kidnapping asylum seekers and trafficking them to Massachusetts; the second — “Better Days Ahead,” outlines precisely how progressives can take advantage of a unique opportunity to seize the initiative and begin righting the ship of democracy.