by Sulma Arias | Nov 3, 2022 | Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Vickie D. King, Mississippi Today (CC) LEA EN ESPANOL The right’s decades-old strategy to divide voters has taken a dangerous turn. What can bring us back together? It’s said a frog will sit calmly in warming water until it boils. Will we do the same?...
by Sulma Arias | Sep 19, 2022 | Biden, Democracy, Election, Featured
LEA EN ESPANOL Earlier this month, President Biden asked us to “save the soul of America” in a speech he gave at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. “The soul of America is defined by the sacred proposition that all are created equal,” Biden said. “All are entitled to...
by Sulma Arias | Aug 5, 2022 | Blog, Democracy, Featured
LEA EN ESPANOL LISTEN TO THE PODCAST “It’s got to be about how we are creating opportunities for folks on the ground to build their power. Because that is the only thing that we are about.” - Bill Przylucki, GroundGameLA The movement for racial and economic justice in...
by Sulma Arias | Jun 30, 2022 | Blog, Democracy, Featured
LEA EN ESPANOL LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Protesters have poured into the streets following the Supreme Court’s decision to end reproductive freedom. As a mother of three, I share this anguish and anger. I fear for our lives in a country that so easily takes away a...
by Sulma Arias | May 26, 2022 | Democracy, Featured, Violence, White Nationalism
LEA EN ESPANOL My heart has been breaking for the last several weeks. The racist murders in Buffalo, the looming end of reproductive freedom in so many states across the country, and now the tragic murder of 19 young children and two teachers in Texas. There is a deep...
by Sulma Arias | Apr 27, 2022 | Blog, Democracy, Featured
In his 2004 book What’s the Matter with Kansas, Thomas Frank describes how working-class voters in his home state came to support a party that does not stand with them on policies that affect their livelihood and ability to make ends meet. Why, he asks, do they vote...
