Mississippi Goddam
This week’s Say It In Song choice features Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam” — still as timely now as it was then. How’s voting against your own interests working out for you, Mississippi?
View ArticleThe Great Equalizer: Your Vote
The billionaire Koch Bros.’ ALEC and the 2010 crop of Tea Party Republicans have been hard at work making it harder for you to vote. Everything from summary disenrollment from voter rolls, reduced...
View ArticleGet There Early!
What’s this? Big Bird is on a bread line? We all know that Mitt Romney, during the first Presidential debate of this campaign season, promised to cut all funding for Public Broadcasting, which only...
View ArticlePlaying For Keeps: How the GOP Voting Endgame Seeks to Ensure Tilted Elections
By now, anyone who followed the elections heard that there were statistically insignificant occurrences of voter fraud (in terms of those casting their vote) to the point that the justification for...
View ArticleWomen’s Equality Day: The 19th Amendment and the right to vote
On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees American women’s right to vote, was certified by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. Ratification and certification of...
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