by Dave Johnson | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Election 2016
Republican voter suppression turned Arizona's primary into a fiasco that forced people to wait in five-hour-long lines to vote. Many were turned away. Wisconsin Republicans are also disenfranchising citizens with laws designed to discourage voting by groups that might...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 31, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
On a road trip to visit relatives in Georgia, our family traveled across the states that have become the newest battlegrounds in the latest phase of the “culture wars.” With my husband’s family in Michigan and my family in Georgia, we don’t visit very often. When both...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has reversed what was the expected outcome of one of the most important cases facing the Supreme Court, demonstrating the importance of who is and is not on the court. The case, Friedrichs vs. California Teachers...
by Burning Issues Video | Mar 25, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy, Democracy
[fve]https://youtu.be/d4FKwJluPTE[/fve] Berta Cáceres was an indigenous and environmental activist in Honduras who was the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize winner for her success in blocking the Agua Zarca dam project, which would have decimated the communities and...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 22, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy, This Is The GOP
Senate Republicans are flipping off the President of the United States by refusing to conduct a confirmation hearing for his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. By doing this, the majority party in the Senate is saying it doesn’t acknowledge that Barack Obama is the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 21, 2016 | Democracy
Cable news viewers on Sunday morning got an opportunity to meet for perhaps the first time the woman who was propelled by grassroots people power in line to become Chicago's next state's attorney. She is Kim Foxx, and if she wins in the general election for Cook...
