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Well, the first full week of January feels a lot like an entire years worth of news, but who better to help recap the week than veteran and trans activist, Charlotte Clymer, writer of Charlotte’s Web Thoughts on Substack.
In the wake of the senseless shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Charlotte and Edwin look at the actions of ICE — and not only this week. They examine the past six months, cementing the group as the American Gestapo and wondering how accountability for them has gone out the window.
“After they kill her, they have to then slander her, to make her out to be a criminal … So everybody they kill, they’re going to have to slander,” Edwin points out the ways the right-wing seems to be looking for ways to justify Renee’s murder.
The conversation also looks at the invasion of Venezuela, with Charlotte walking us through comparisons to the illegal actions in Iraq. And she provides insight from her military days as to why Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro and our actions in South America is “complicated territory.”
So how should we be holding MAGA to account for helping Trump? Charlotte calls for everyone in this administration must be “ruthlessly prosecuted” when Democrats retake power. But until then, she wants people to use social consequences, banning them from public spaces and ostracizing them.
As we continue to cover the crucial midterm elections, make sure to tune into It’s the Democracy, Stupid every Friday.

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