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6 Legislative Efforts to Protect YOUR Right to Vote
6 Legislative Efforts to Protect YOUR Right to Vote
The biggest story happening right now nationwide that is not getting any attention from the mainstream media are the campaigns, ballot proposals, signature drives, and legislative efforts going on RIG ...
28 May, 2019
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12 min read
2020 and Beyond: The View from County Road T
2020 and Beyond: The View from County Road T
For the last several years, I’ve been spending time in rural Wisconsin in a small farmhouse set on 130 heavily-wooded acres on County Road T, Polk County. This is the northwestern Wisconsin of hardscr ...
15 May, 2019
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10 min read
OPINION: Lincoln Was Wrong; Government Of, By, & For The People Was Always Aspirational
OPINION: Lincoln Was Wrong; Government Of, By, & For The People Was Always Aspirational
Seven score and sixteen years ago, President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most memorable speeches in all of human history in his Gettysburg Address, though he wrongly presumed the world would ...
10 Apr, 2019
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4 min read
Political Competition a No-Show in 2018 Elections
Political Competition a No-Show in 2018 Elections
The “wave” election swept in a few Democrats, but — like most U.S. elections — rolled over democracy’s basic premise that elections should offer meaningful competition and choices for voters.The newly ...
27 Mar, 2019
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2 min read
Is SCOTUS About to Finally Give Voters a Win on Gerrymandering?
Is SCOTUS About to Finally Give Voters a Win on Gerrymandering?
All rise. The fearsome gerrymander is back before the Supreme Court of the United States.In the days since SCOTUS announced its decision to review partisan district-drawing cases in both Maryland and ...
11 Jan, 2019
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2 min read
OPINION: Partisan Games are Damaging Our Democracy - Here’s How We Can Fix It
OPINION: Partisan Games are Damaging Our Democracy - Here’s How We Can Fix It
It has been one month since the 2018 midterm elections were decided. Much in our politics has changed: the Republicans built on their majority in the US Senate, while Democrats won back the House of R ...
13 Dec, 2018
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3 min read
Showing the World, and Ourselves, that Democracy Means Accepting Defeat
Showing the World, and Ourselves, that Democracy Means Accepting Defeat
Among the many moments of President Bush’s life celebrated last week, I have a particular reason to focus on November 3, 1992, when President Bush delivered what to me were the most important words of ...
11 Dec, 2018
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3 min read
GM Announcement Lays Bare Shortcomings of Trump's Economic Agenda
GM Announcement Lays Bare Shortcomings of Trump's Economic Agenda
“Bringing manufacturing back to America, creating high wage jobs, was one of our campaign promises and themes” Donald Trump proclaimed to a room full of reporters in early 2017, less than one month af ...
30 Nov, 2018
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5 min read
Pennsylvania to Dump Paperless Voting Machines, Agrees to Election Audits
Pennsylvania to Dump Paperless Voting Machines, Agrees to Election Audits
HARRISBURG, PENN. - Dr. Jill Stein won a major legal victory in Pennsylvania as state officials agreed to a settlement in her post-2016 election lawsuit. Gov. Tom Wolf's administration guaranteed voti ...
29 Nov, 2018
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2 min read
Hillary Clinton's Chief Strategist: She's Running in 2020 – But to Settle a Score, Not for The People
Hillary Clinton's Chief Strategist: She's Running in 2020 – But to Settle a Score, Not for The People
In a Monday appearance on Fox and Friends, Hillary Clinton's former chief strategist said: "Do not underestimate Hillary’s positioning to run again. Clintons never stop until they get where they want ...
12 Nov, 2018
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4 min read