After getting their asses kicked in an election, most political parties take stock and modify their message to appeal to a broader range of the electorate. And that's sort of what the GOP is doing right now. Instead of whipping up white nationalist hysteria over a nonexistent ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Feb 1, 2019
• Opinion

Truthout reports on a new recruiting ground for white nationalists of the alt-right: The anti-choice movement. Attacks on reproductive rights are nothing new, but fascist groups’ infiltration of anti-choice groups and recruiting around anti-choice organizing in their genocidal ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Dec 20, 2018

Among the many rumors flying around Michael Cohen's lengthy interviews/interrogations with Robert Mueller and his team is the possibility that Trump has paid multiple women to have abortions: What, indeed, would Trump's fanatically loyal Evangelical base think of their ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 13, 2018

In their zeal to turn America into New Gilead, the anti-abortion, anti-woman right is now putting the lives of women in danger to satisfy their own egos: An Ionia woman is demanding that Meijer discipline a Petoskey pharmacist and implement a company-wide policy for how ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Oct 19, 2018

While we're focused on the big ticket items like the Mueller probe and Michael Cohen's impending polonium poisoning, it's important to keep track of all the other horrible things Trump is doing if for no other reason than to keep conservatives from claiming they were innocent ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Apr 19, 2018

Republican lawmakers in Arizona put forth Senate Bill 1394 that seeks to require more information about why a woman is getting an abortion. There are 11 proposed check boxes for women to look over and decide what best suits their decision to end their pregnancy. Reasons include: ...read more

• By Michele Zipp
  Nov 9, 2018

For anyone who has spent time in rural America, the notion that the pro-life movement is going to disappear in the near future is completely ridiculous. It is well funded, well organized and as culturally acceptable in red states and rural areas as gay marriage is in San ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Today, Trump tweeted this out in support of the Right to Life march on Washington: For those familiar with Trump's incessant flip flopping, this is yet another example of his astonishing ability to lie at any given moment without a hint of shame. Because despite Trump's new ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence spoke at the 43rd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. and bragged about the GOP's success at pushing anti-choice legislation through. Pence proclaimed "life is winning" to the crowd of conservatives who wish to strip women of their ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

Well, that was fast. One of the more interesting facets of Trump's election is how quickly Republicans have dropped much of the pretense they use to sucker right-wing voters. First they rushed to repeal Obamacare to give the rich a massive tax break on top of the massive tax ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 9, 2018

Described by a local news station covering the story as “a little girl with a really big heart,” 6-year-old Keelan Glass ran a half-marathon – 13.1 miles – to raise money for “a charity,” as national news outlets choosing to focus on her age and physical achievement put it. ...read more

• By Virginia Pelley
  Nov 9, 2018

I start every piece on abortion the same way, by stating my view that it should be safe, legal and rare.  The problem is that while the landmark Roe v. Wade decision made federal laws barring abortion unconstitutional, it remains rare but not necessarily safe or legal.  Moreover, ...read more

• By Alyson Chadwick
  Nov 9, 2018