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New House Speaker Johnson is a clear rebuttal to the overall liberal societal drift that’s happening in the United States. His views are far out of step with the average American and even with a significant number of Republicans. White evangelicals still have a very strong hold on the modern Republican Party. They are losing […]

Defending Democracy Young and Old Voters Should Republicans be worrying? Yes because turnout among MAGA supporters may be less important than how many MAGA voters there are in the 2024 election and in which states they are.” Over 56 percent of self-identified MAGA voters are over the age of 65 as of 2020. By 2024, […]

New Mexican voters should feel safe and supported as they cast their votes. This year, Common Cause New Mexico is ramping up efforts and beginning to train volunteers over the summer in advance of early voting. What follows could be a template for action in any state. In 2008, Common Cause New Mexico created a […]

We are looking at a full-on attack on our hard-fought, hard-won freedoms including our very democracy. Much of this is thwarted by Congress or the courts. The stakes of the election are stark as the GOP is trying to reverse generations of racial progress in America. We have the lowest Black unemployment rate on record […]

Politicians are trying to use a distorted idea of patriotism and a distorted definition of nationalism to whitewash white nationalists and white nationalism. White supremacy, white nationalism and white terror were fundamental to the creation of America. Those facts don’t change because they make some uncomfortable or others angry. No one has the power to […]

The Supreme Court rules against people at the margins in three cases. These are harsh  measures that deal blows to students and LGBT people. We live in two countries now: one in which basic civil and human rights are recognized and enshrined in law, and another in which ideological extremists can decide how everyone else […]

The Supreme Court, surprised us deciding that Alabama had diluted the power of Black voters by drawing a congressional voting map with a single district in which they made up a majority. Chief Justice Roberts  wrote the majority opinion in the 5-to-4 ruling. He was joined by Kavanaugh and the court’s three liberal members, Sotomayor, […]

America’s regular mass shootings leads to the hand-wringing that our politics is so polarized that there’s no way to move forward. AR-15-style rifles may be here to stay, so    which have some bipartisan consensus. There is substantial progress, but now we need more. The F.B.I.’s Background Check System, stitches together three databases of state […]

Uganda’s Parliament passed a sweeping anti-gay bill in late March that threatens punishment as severe as death for some perceived offenses, and calls for life in prison for anyone engaging in same-sex relations. The authorities kept saying, ‘We will hunt you. You gays should be killed. We will slaughter you,’” he said. “There was no […]

Women were instrumental in helping during the AIDS crisis, and so I am always an ally in the fight for women’s rights. Since a federal judge in Texas last week invalidated the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, states led by Democrats have been scrambling to adjust to a possible […]