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

David Pepper outlines the history of the ongoing illegal rigging of Ohio's Congressional districts--from unconstitutional maps to making the State Supreme Court partisan to intentionally confusing voters to defeat the anti-gerrymandering Amendment in 2024. With Ohio's few Democratic House seats at stake in 2026, David recommends how we can fight back.

Joyce Vance remembers Senator Joe McCarthy who destroyed people’s careers by accusing them of being Communists in the early 1950s. No one stood up to him until a lawyer asked McCarthy in a televised confrontation “Have you no sense of decency?”
Now we can stand up to Trump who is abusing the powers of the presidency to bully individuals and institutions. Make him face a Democratic majority in Congress next year when every seat in the House (including Bob Latta’s) and 33 seats in the Senate (including Jon Husted’s) will be on the ballot. But we must vote.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on why defunding NASA and other science agencies is bad for America. If the goal is to save money, NASA's budget is only four-tenths of one percent of your tax dollar.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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."

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

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.

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

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

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