Voting Rights
Your Right to Vote is Under Attack. Now It's Time to Fight Back.
The Resistance has stopped Trumpcare, but that doesn't mean we can sit on our laurels, even for a day. Put the cork back in the bottle and get to work, because if Vanita Gupta's op-ed from today's New York Times doesn't leave you quivering in your boots, we're in big trouble. Our ...read more
Montana Republicans Attack Their Own Bill Because It Makes Voting Too Easy
It's no secret that when more people vote, Republicans lose. This is the reason the GOP works so hard to suppress voting rights under the guise of "protecting our elections from voter fraud." However, even though we all know this is true, right-wing lawmakers never openly admit ...read more
How Racist politicians in Alabama Are Trying to Restrict the Black Vote
Time and time again, black people in this country have been a piñata for hatred and the recipients of brutality and disdain. As a group, black people have experienced two hundred years of enslavement and its impact on millions of families has been devastating. America engaged ...read more
This Interview Shows Why Bernie Sanders is Losing African American Support
Senator Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) presidential candidacy, buoyed by a national media anxious to take former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton down multiple pegs, has created a lot of excitement among a particular segment of the Democratic base, but not among the coalition of white ...read more
The Genius of Hillary's Voting Rights Speech Was What She Didn't Say
Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential frontstomper Hillary Clinton may have sewn up the 2016 election Thursday, as she continued to chart a course that will turn out the coalition of voters who propelled President Obama to victory in 2012. In a speech at ...read more
Why Photo Social Security Cards Are a Stupid, Dangerous Idea
The issue of voting rights is beginning to gain some suction with the mainstream media, a trend that should be encouraged. One idea that should not be encouraged is former President Bill Clinton's suggestion that Social Security cards should have a photo option, in order to ...read more
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Ohio Continues to Be Ground Zero in the Republican War on Voting
There's something seriously wrong with a party that wants to make it more difficult to vote, but easier to buy a semi-automatic assault rifle. That's today's Republican Party. Cloaked in tri-corner hats and patriotic bumper stickers, the GOP has been endeavoring to restrict the ...read more
Things Get Nasty With a Racist Republican Troll
Whenever I post an article about racism or African Americans, angry, white, middle aged internet trolls flood the comments section with an astonishing amount of venom. I'm guessing they have some sort of automatic alert that pings them when someone writes about subjects ...read more