Ken Scott Baron Podcast

The number of Latino-majority districts in California has grown to 16 from 10. Although the state lost a congressional seat, the independent redistricting commission’s maps approved last month give Latinos more power. The 16 majority-Latino districts make up nearly a third of the state’s now 52 congressional seats.  Can Democrats take advantage of those new […]

Republicans are jockeying for advantage in next year’s elections and beyond, Democrats are trying to squeeze everything they can out of their limited leverage, marginalized groups are lobbying state officials to maximize their voting power and lawsuits are looming. Redistricting is happening in every state, even those with only one congressional district, because state legislative […]

Dr. Fauci, President Biden’s top medical adviser for the coronavirus — is under attack in Pennsylvania, where Mehmet Oz, a television doctor who has entered the Republican Senate primary there, calls him a “petty tyrant.” In Nebraska, an ad shows Jim Pillen, a Republican running for governor, dressed in hunting gear and cocking his gun […]

So now, it is fascinating to watch as people work themselves up about Joe Biden committing to choosing a Supreme Court nominee from a group that has long been overlooked: Black women. It is identity politics and affirmative action, they scream. The irony here is that Ronald Reagan, the Republicans’ patron saint before the rise […]

Freedom of speech and thought — has long been a key element of the American idea. This is despite all the ways in which we have failed to live up to our self-image, above all the vast injustices that sprang from the original sin of slavery, Everyone knows about the Big Lie, the refusal by […]

Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema made it clear that they were not in favor of altering the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. Activists have been fighting this battle for nearly a year without much support from the White House. Biden gave a big voting rights speech in Philadelphia calling the Republican assault on […]

Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Biden’s Covid plan. Welcome all of you and especially those suffering and have suffered from COVID. You may be fortunate like myself, and have been fully vaccinated or survived the Covid infection. And so, you may be wish we all would be vaccinated. And you are irritated that many are […]

Biden needs to change I am a big fan of President Biden, but his poll numbers keep sliding. Americans, including many of the people who voted for him, are not happy with him. They want him to someone different. I am activist and impatient for change in the US. Change in equality, in vouting and […]

Democrats seem to be always hungering for criticism of their fellow legislators. It seems that Kamela Harris’s media coverage, she’s not merely mismanaging an apparently restless, frustrated staff. She’s bursting into flames and incinerating everything in her midst, including Democrats’ hopes of holding on to the White House in 2024. And word of Joe Biden […]

Mississippi with its distinction as the state where the tide of progress is blocked and pushed back, is in the news. It is in an abortion case before the Supreme Court. But first, some history. During Reconstruction, Mississippi became a Black power center in this country. There were not only more Black people than white […]