Category Archives: voter suppression

Help SAVE Women’s Votes!

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Dave Bradley

A bit long, but very detailed Marc Elias from Democracy Docket )17 minutes) Voter suppression is the MAGA crowd’s biggest single weapon in any election these days. After years of chewing bigger and bigger holes in eligible voter roles – … Continue reading →

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Advice From Rachel Bitecofer

Posted on September 21, 2024 by Dave Bradley

Ran across a tweet from Rachel Bitecofer. If you are not familiar with her, she is a political scientist who is often on MSNBC with a progressive view of the current political scene. Last week she sent an ominous message: … Continue reading →

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When Did It Become Acceptable To Oppose Democracy?

Posted on December 3, 2022 by Dave Bradley

This is the question asked by Attorney Marc Elias in an article from last July on the website democracydocket.com. Elias is probably best known for his work on behalf of the public in thwarting Donald Trump’s repeated attempts in court to … Continue reading →

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This Week’s The High Five

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Dave Bradley

As noted before, The High Five is a daily email from Progress Iowa that keeps the public abreast of what is going on in the Iowa Legislature. In this time of Iowa’s Republican domination , it is smart to keep … Continue reading →

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Voter Suppression In Georgia

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Dave Bradley

Republicans can’t win elections, so they must steal them. From the Rachel Maddow Show of 3/25/2021 (Last Thursday). As usual, Rachel goes extra deep to ferret out the real meaning:  

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What Could Possibly Be Next?

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Dave Bradley

In my formative years I was an avid reader of the Des Moines Register’s Donald Kaul. His column ran on the editorial page of the paper three times a week. When football was no longer being played and the corn … Continue reading →

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Learning Republicanese

Posted on December 12, 2020 by Dave Bradley

There we are enjoying breakfast as much as anyone can these days listening to NPR’s Morning Edition. The Iowa news segment is on and the story is about the incredibly close election in Iowa’s second district. As the story states: … Continue reading →

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Simple And Easy Change Or Voter Suppression?

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Paul Deaton

As chair of the Iowa House State Government Committee, Representative Bobby Kaufmann was quick to get out into the newspapers in his district to explain the last minute dealings regarding voting process as the second session of the 88th Iowa … Continue reading →

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In Contrast, Democrats Will Install Competent Government

Posted on February 29, 2020 by Dave Bradley

The previous post today allowed me to do some venting on the incompetence of Republican led governments in general, and also the utterly miserable incompetence shown by the current administration. While the previous post concentrated on how the American people … Continue reading →

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Thom Hartmann Interview, Part I

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Paul Deaton

If the Iowa precinct caucuses created doubt about the efficacy of our voting process, we are not the only ones with concern. Thom Hartmann, the number one progressive-talk-show host in the United States wrote the book, The Hidden History of … Continue reading →

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