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That great "Trump economy" isn't so great in much of America. Including the...
I didn't watch a minute of Chuck Todd's absurd interview with President Trump yesterday, but I did see the follow-up on social media. And I took extra notice of this comment, which came right after...
View ArticleSupreme Court undermines free and fair elections by refusing to limit...
On Thursday, the Supreme Court dealt a historic defeat to redistricting reformers when it ruled 5-4 along ideological lines that challenges to partisan gerrymandering could not be adjudicated under the...
View ArticleVoting Rights Roundup: Supreme Court deals landmark defeat to foes of...
A note to our readers: The Voting Rights Roundup will be taking next week off. We'll resume publishing in two weeks.Leading Off●Supreme Court: On Thursday, the Supreme Court's Republican majority dealt...
View ArticleRepublicans' Stolen SCOTUS Issues 'Nightmare Scenario for Voting Rights':...
Guest: Slate's Mark Joseph Stern; Also: Biden plummets, Harris and Warren spike in new polling after first 2020 Dem debate; Callers ring in...After our two-day Special Coverage of the first 2020...
View ArticleWant to Save our Democracy? Join the Fight for Fair Redistricting - A Report...
Last week’s split verdict by the US Supreme Court on issues of gerrymandering has created more confusion than ever over the ongoing, and in many cases, decades-long battle to reform redistricting — the...
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This Week in the War for Women: Fighting-for- Independence-Well-Armed Edition
Readers may want to quick-scroll down for a fast notion of what’s here. Feel free to pick’n’choose, since it’s pretty long — my feelings won’t be hurt, and anyway you can always come back again later...
View ArticleBiden blaming Sen.Harris+Booker for response to his praising...
This is not a hit piece on Joe Biden. I don’t write hit-pieces. I will support Joe Biden with every fiber in my being if he wins the nomination. He is certainly far better than Donald Trump. Joe Biden...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: Warblers of Magee Marsh (Ohio)
Good morning birders, twitchers, twitchy birders, bitchy twirlers, and anyone looking for a feathered respite from our bird-brained politics.In mid May, my wife and I spent three days in northwestern...
View ArticleA project to end abortion in America
Ohio has recently passed a six-week abortion ban, in addition to increasing funding for religious counseling. While discussing this issue with people I know, a couple of interesting things came up that...
View ArticleBY GOD, We're Gonna Take Back Ohio in 2020. Here's a List of Places You Can...
We all watched in dismay as one of the worst people in America, Donald Trump, won the state of Ohio in 2016. Barack Obama had carried the state twice, so it was jarring to watch Hillary Clinton lose...
View ArticleGeneral Motors wants to become a tech company, but it will mean making...
I once saw an interview with director Michael Moore of Roger & Me fame where he juxtaposed two images. One image depicted a destroyed building which had been hit by a U.S. smart bomb somewhere on...
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Ohio Presidential PVIs, 1876-2016
Ohio has been a close state for most presidential elections in the last 140 years, with a slight Republican Partisan Voting Index (PVI) for most of that time.Ohio voted significantly more Republican in...
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BREAKING: Kamala Harris at 73% in new Buckeye Poll
My Indivisible group did some voter registration yesterday in Columbus, Ohio, trying out a roadside corner BBQ run by a small Baptist church in the South Linden neighborhood . The demographics of the...
View ArticleHonduran Family Seeking Asylum Staying at our Church
We are hearing so much in the news about the problems with migrants at the border, and the malfeasance of the Trump regime detaining people in inhumane and squalid conditions. I wanted to share with...
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Humans of the resistance
Some scenes from registering voters in Columbus, Ohio in June and July. Indivisible OH-12 has a goal of registering 1,000 in this Summer of Action—not too bad for an off-off year. Let’s get excited...
View ArticleOhio law forces everyone to bail out nuclear and coal plants, ends support...
Everyone in Ohio will now get the privilege of bailing out noncompetitive nuclear and coal plants, even if they don’t use power from either of the companies that operate those plants. On Tuesday,...
View ArticleMonmouth Poll of South Carolina, Biden +27, Harris 2nd
This is a Monmouth University poll of 405 LV conducted July 18-22 MOE+/-4."Biden 39%Harris 12%Sanders 10%Warren 9%Buttigieg 5%Booker. 2%"SC Monmouth pollI had an earlier diary up on OH with...
View Article'It Didn't Change Anything, It Changed Everything': Making Sense After...
Guest: Heather Digby Parton on the former Special Counsel's testimony and what's next; Also: Everyone giving everyone else the finger...Both Democrats and Republicans alike -- on Capitol Hill and in...
View ArticleSo you want to help the Democratic candidate for president win in 2020?
So, you want to help the Democratic candidate for president win in 2020? Start planning ahead now. In late summer/early fall of 2020 make your way to one of these...
View ArticleFive vice officers involved in trumped up Stormy Daniels arrest are facing...
Back in July of last year, Ohio vice police arrested Stormy Daniels and two other women for violating state laws governing a strip tease show she was performing. Daniels, a high profile adult film star...
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