A Kossack's 13-year Journey from High School Lurker to 30-Something Candidate
I pretty much grew up on this website. I first visited here on Election Day 2004 to see the exit polls showing John Kerry’s lead. I was 17 years old then, angry about our disastrous war in Iraq, and...
View ArticleTell Ohio: 27 Executions Are Too Risky; Innocence Matters
It’s been three and a half years since Ohio conducted an execution – and for good reason. The last time Ohio carried out an execution, state officials used a dangerous, untested combination of drugs...
View ArticleVP Pence Spreads Fake News, While Promoting Trumpcare. He Lies About Medicaid...
The Trump administration will do anything to pass their health care tax cut bill. Now this from the people who scream “fake news,” here is fake news from Vice President Mike Pence reported by the...
View ArticleWith ObamaCare Repeal on the Brink, Admin Ups Its Lies About It: 'BradCast'...
Guest: Ned Resnikoff of ThinkProgress...On today's BradCast: There was a time when we used to debate the pros and cons of various public policy in this country, rather than whether one side was simply...
View ArticleThis is what mass deportation looks like
Jesus Lara, an Ohio father of four American citizens, was deported to Mexico earlier today after nearly two decades in the U.S. Lara had no criminal record, was a taxpayer, and followed ICE’s rules by...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Sherrod Brown (D) Keeps Up The Fight Against Trump's Assault On The...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s (D. OH) re-election campaign:Lake Erie provides drinking water for three million Ohioans. It generates $1.8 billion in tourism revenue and...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Watch Sherrod Brown (D) Destroy Trump's White Supremacist Citing,...
Damn straight:xYouTube VideoA Kentucky lawyer nominated to fill a vacancy on the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wrote blog posts under a pseudonym that equated abortion with slavery, questioned...
View ArticleOhio attempts to become the execution capitol of the country
Next week, the state of Ohio plans to resume executions, after a three-and-a half year hold precipitated by the botched execution of Dennis McGuire. They intend to hold 27 executions...
View ArticleFormer OH AGs and Conservative Pastor Add to Widespread Opposition to Ohio's...
With less than a week to go until Ohio’s first execution in over three years, a diverse coalition of thousands are making their voices heard, including several high profile concerned citizens of Ohio....
View ArticleOH-Sen: Josh Mandel (R) Stands By "Pizzagate" Alt-Right Bloggers, Attacks...
Asshole:xSad to see @ADL_National become a partisan witchhunt group targeting people for political beliefs. I stand with @Cernovich& @JackPosobiechttps://t.co/N3nC78t4CSâ Josh Mandel...
View ArticleAlert! Murkowski and Capito now receiving more pro Obamacare repeal calls...
Topher Spiro from the Center for American Progress Gives us this update:xð¨ ALERT: We're hearing from Republican sources that calls into Capito and Murkowski recently swung from anti-repeal to...
View ArticleRepublican governor warns senators against 'one-sided deal the American...
Ohio Gov. John Kasich is out with a statement against the “one-sided deal that the American people are clearly against” and has called on Republican senators to table their scheduled vote tomorrow and...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Sherrod Brown (D) Keeps Up Momentum To Protect The ACA & Medicaid...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s (D. OH) re-election campaign:Senate Republicans are pushing forward with a plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act and make major cuts to...
View ArticleThis week in the war on workers: Here are the economic issues Ohio swing...
We hear a lot about the economic populism that Donald Trump supposedly tapped into and that Democrats must reclaim to win. But what does that look like on the ground? Working America canvassed 355...
View ArticleWI, OH, HI, VT & MA-Sen: DFA Helps These Progressives Keep Up The...
Received this e-mail yesterday from Democracy for America:As you no doubt know by now, the Senate vote to repeal significant parts of the Affordable Care Act failed early this morning, 49 to 51. This...
View ArticleVoting Rights Roundup: Court nixes special elections for redrawn North...
Leading Off●North Carolina: On Monday, a federal district court declined to order special elections this year for a slew of North Carolina legislative districts that will have to be redrawn after the...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Sherrod Brown (D) Keeps Pushing Congress To Take Action On The Opioid...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s (D. OH) re-election campaign:It's time for Congress to take real action to address the opioid epidemic in America.The Commission to Combat...
View ArticleThe right to vote in Ohio: use it or lose it
Just before I went to vote in Detroit’s mayoral primary, a headline caught my eye. Something about the Department of Justice (DoJ) changing position on voter purges.It was almost 5:00 p.m. I put off...
View ArticleJustice Dept. abets bigotry, reversing Obama administration's opposition to...
The Department of Justice has switched sides in an Ohio case contesting the purging of voter rolls of the names of registered citizens who have not recently cast a ballot. The case is another in a...
View ArticleCivil Rights Division Of Justice Department In Conflict As Jeff Sessions...
For 50 years, conservatives have been working to weaken the Voting Rights Act and Jeff Sessions knows this. He has not been idle, whether Donald Trump has been haranguing him or not. Sessions has been...
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