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On Friday, Evers vetoed bills that would have created barriers to the ballot box for voters with disabilities, older voters, communities of color, and voters in nursing homes.
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Group vetted more than 100 local candidates who shared core values of clean water, clean energy, and an equitable, robust democracy.
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Jackson needs to be sworn in before she’s officially a justice on the Supreme Court. Justice Stephen Breyer, whom she is succeeding, has said he will step down over the summer.
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FDR and the greatest generation of WWII had the courage to expect freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear for the whole world. Today's Americans are just afraid.
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Those alarmed by the actions of the radical right are going to have to warm up to agitation and provocation. American now stands at a crossroads.
ALTOONA, WI - Several decades ago three young students journeyed through dusty rural California in hopes of meeting famed migrant farm worker organizer Cesar Chavez. Once they found Chavez, they sat with him and asked, “Cesar, how do you organize? ” Chavez replied, “well, first you talk to one person, then you talk to another person, then you talk to another person….”
The students assumed Chavez misunderstood their question and clarified that they wanted to know how mass movements are built. Chavez repeated, “first you talk to one person, then you talk to another.”
The key to making change is as elementary as Chavez’s secret of organizing.
It comes down to discomfort.
Comfortable people don’t move. They stay where they are because they are comfortable where they are. To make them move, they have to be made uncomfortable.
It’s like the basic law of physics . . . and object at rest will remain at rest, unless some force makes it move. A corrupt political establishment will stay corrupt and a failing political system will keep failing us, unless some force makes the powers-that-be change their ways.
That force is discomfort.
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