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including David Pepper's "Pepperspectives" (a free subscription)

March 24, 2025

How to Act Like a Dissident Movement

Jonathan V. Last--editor of The Bulwark--outlines steps to take in fighting Trumpism...but the way to protect America's institutions is to rally around leaders who commit to reforming those institutions.

March 4, 2025

Bernie Sanders' Blistering Response to the State of the Union

The Senator from Vermont points out the outrageous lies Trump told in his address to Congress and how not one word was said in a 90-minute speech about the economic reality facing 60% of Americans.

February 18, 2025

Moreno, Husted and the GOP Congress Let Musk Rip Apart Programs Serving Ohioans

Marilou Johanek condemns Jim Jordan of the House Oversight Committee for his subservience to Trump and Musk...while Senators Husted and Moreno look the other way casting party line votes for every Trump cabinet nominee worse than the last.

February 4, 2025

How Evangelicals Embraced MAGA

The University of Findlay welcomed Dr. John Fea, distinguished professor of American history at Messiah University in Pennsylvania. The author of six books--including "Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump"--gave a lecture on "Roads Not Taken" which detailed the path the Christian Right chose to follow in the late 1990s eventually leading to supporting Trump. WHEN YOU CLICK THE UFTV BUTTON, SCROLL AHEAD TO 15 MINUTES 29 SECONDS WHERE THE LECTURE ACTUALLY BEGINS.

January 13, 2025

When Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight

Award-winning columnist Tony Norman writes about how Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes quitting brings back memories of another cartoonist who was censored.

January 10, 2025

Damn the Democrats' Diffidence

Bulwark Policy Editor Mona Charen thinks Democrats are in a haze. It's time for the opposition to shake it off!

January 8, 2025

How to Dismantle a Democracy in 53 Days

Historian Timothy W. Ryback writes in The Atlantic about how Hitler used the German constitution to shatter the constitution.

January 7, 2025

Congress Has Learned Nothing from Jan 6

In the wake of the peaceful certification of election results, Congress apparently hasn't learned anything from the violence of four years ago.

January 6, 2025

I Was Nearly Killed on Jan 6. Four Years Later, I Feel Betrayed

Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell writes about the people whose lives he protected sided with his attackers. But they weren't the only ones to let him down.

December 22, 2024

We Are On Our Own

Marc Elias of Democracy Docket writes that "Institutions that assured us they would be in the fight for democracy are backing down. [They] are not going to save us. Only we can do that."

December 13, 2024

The People vs Big Corporate Interests

The Ohio Supreme Court refuses to reconsider their 4-3 GOP decision that consumers should expect to find bones in boneless chicken wings.

November 30, 2024

The Fight to Strengthen Liberal Democracy Should be Primary

In her podcast, historian Heather Cox Richardson points out that today’s Conservatives are undermining our country’s central principle: protecting the rights of individuals requires a strong government.

November 27, 2024

Lesson Unlearned: When Political Violence Faces No Accountability

David Pepper compares the dismissal of the January 6 indictments to the warning from our censored past.

November 12, 2024

The 5 Stages of Grief: Denial

Political cartoonist Kevin Necessary begins a series of cartoons dealing with his reaction to the election.

November 9, 2024

What Would FDR Say About Today's Billionaire Takeover?

David Pepper remembers FDR's 1936 speech calling out "economic royalists."
"Here in America we are waging a war for the survival of democracy."

November 7, 2024

How Did This Happen?

MSNBC's Alex Wagner examines the MAGA themes that drew voters to Trump

November 6, 2024

What Does A Second Trump Presidency Mean For American Democracy?

Veteran federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner considers the possibilities of what comes next

August 26, 2024

How They Broke Education In Ohio

David Pepper writes about turning a top-ranked system of common schools into three broken systems

The 2022 Democratic Creed   

Jim Purvis & Democrats 101

* WE BELIEVE all people are created EQUAL, that this is America’s fundamental ideal. * WE BELIEVE that America is a democracy, by and for the people: ruled by the Constitution and its interpretations, protected by the Bill of Rights, and inspired by the Declaration of Independence. * WE BELIEVE these founding documents demand Freedom, Justice, and Opportunity for all Americans, in full and equal measure…regardless of who you are, what you believe, or where you live.  * WE BELIEVE that the Duty of Government is to strive endlessly to make the ideals of Freedom, Justice, and Opportunity a reality for all. * WE BELIEVE that the Purpose of Government is to protect our nation, defend our democracy, and to endlessly promote the welfare of each and every one of us. * WE BELIEVE that fighting for these ideals is our purpose as a political party.

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