The Barras Report Blog

DEMOCRATS ended 2025 with important victories that steadied a rattled party still reeling from Donald Trump’s return to power. Yet even after those wins, Democratic approval ratings remain stubbornly low. A recent Quinnipiac University poll found only 18 percent of voters approve of the way congressional Democrats are handling their jobs. A record low of 73 percent disapprove. In stark contrast, congressional Republicans have a 35 percent approval rating while 58 percent dis

I kept thinking of the Bamiyan Buddhas as I watched Donald Trump engage in an aggressive campaign of cultural cleansing the last 12 months.

Trump and his minions have severely and deliberately narrowed the definition of political violence. As is their practice, they have massaged and manipulated language, thrusting their version of Webster’s into the public sphere and bullying the media, elected officials and others into adopting it.

Trampling on home rule has been a nonpartisan affair.

Five months after DC voters approved the “Make All Votes Count DC” ballot initiative that could bring semi-open primaries and the...

“I was born and raised in Miami, Florida, and part of my life was lived during segregation. My family protected us. They also educated...

Dorothy Gibbs chanted “save our parks” from her wheelchair while holding a sign that read “97 years old, still fighting for public...

As they say in horror movies, the call is coming from inside the house.  Under Donald Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...

Facing the dire effects of a resolution to continue funding of the federal government approved by the Republican-dominated U.S. House of...

DONALD Trump’s playbook has always been to campaign like a populist and govern like an oligarch. But it is still shocking just how...

RATEPAYERS beware. Team Trump’s eagerness to enrich his fossil fuel industry cronies with his “drill baby drill” (and export baby export...

RAW emotions consumed me as I reflected on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s accounts of her meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and her...

The challenge in Ward 8 right now is comparable, in my mind, to the one confronting millions of mostly rural citizens nationally, who...

ANTI-DEMOCRATIC authoritarianism is on the rise–both around the world and here at home. Sometimes it is easier to recognize overseas....