Category Politics

Here’s what the media should be telling you about the debt ceiling crisis. The crisis is manufactured. Raising the debt ceiling doesn’t add to the debt or the deficit. Budgets do. The current debt ceiling needs to be raised to…

It’s a really scary time for the trans community and this may not offer much comfort. And on the side of DON’T GIVE UP!, a lot of these bills are not being voted on by their state legislatures, let alone…

No. Conservatives like to say that the United States is not a democracy, but a constitutional republic. Here’s what they mean: It’s an excuse for conservatives to install people who they want in power, in power.

Above is a portion of a 2023 bill that South Carolina republicans are debating about the death penalty for women having an abortion. This is how you read bills that republican lawmakers are trying to pass. When they say Abortion…

Here’s a partial reprint of Jessica Cravens’s incredible newsletter Chop Wood, Carry Water. Good news all around so I thought I’d reprint some of it here. Make sure you subscribe to her newsletter to get the rest, it’s way worth…

This happened last week. The REPUBLICAN majority in the Mississippi State House killed every single Medicaid expansion bill without even debating it. These are bills that would’ve provided healthcare primarily to the working poor. 80% of Mississippians favor Medicaid expansion,…

Politics and Politicians They are not beholden to their constituents, they are beholden to the money that backs them. And that money is increasingly from small groups of right-wing billionaires supporting republican lawmakers. Politics has become a reality TV show.…

The republican supreme court members have been placed there by a shadowy organization of lawyers called the Federalist Society, with an agenda that’s not good for the American people. The attempted coup that happened on January 6th, 2021 was unsuccessful.…

If you voted for republicans, is this the country you want to live in? Do you want to live in a country where school teachers are being jailed for teaching the wrong subjects according to republicans? School teachers, who could…

Do you say, “I don’t wanna get involved in politics” or “I don’t wanna get political”? The fact is, everything we do is political because politics simply means how we solve problems. Politics is all about the way people solve…