Parents read social media outcry instead of book and try to get it pulled from high school library

The effort to ban (and/or burn) books is bad enough when we see elected officials sowing hysteria over it, but it’s really frustrating when actual parents are calling for valuable books to be removed …

Voting Rights Roundup: Conspiracy-driven Wisconsin GOP looks to take over election administration

Programming Note: The Voting Rights Roundup will be taking a break the week of Nov. 27 for the Thanksgiving holiday but will return the following week.

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● Wisconsin: In a chilling new …

Kansas school district pulls 29 books off library shelves, including major award winners

A Kansas school district is pulling 29 books out of its school libraries based on a single parent complaint, and guess what—the books are overwhelmingly by authors of color and women authors and LGBTQ …

Kansas GOP senator’s two day DUI jail sentence highlights issues of serious inequities

Only in America are the rules so skewed in favor of some people, while others never catch a break. State Sen. Gene Suellentrop, a Wichita, Kansas, Republican is one of those lucky few Americans who …

Voting Rights Roundup: ACLU sues over Ohio GOP's new maps after governor’s startling admission

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● Ohio: The ACLU has filed a lawsuit with Ohio’s Supreme Court asking it to strike down the new legislative maps that the Republican majority on the state’s bipartisan …

After passing mask mandate, school board threatened by angry parents: ‘We’re coming to your house!’

Stories of anti-mask violence at school board meetings are taking over the internet. Every day it seems that another school district is encountering violence at the hands of anti-maskers who would …

Health care staffing CEO resigns after ties linked him to anti-mask group

On Friday, Overland Park, Kansas-based company Krucial Staffing announced that CEO Brian Cleary would be stepping down. The company provides emergency health care staffing. Cleary’s ties to anti-mask …

Voting Rights Roundup: Texas GOP unveils new voting restriction bills after Dems blocked last one

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● Texas: Texas Republicans have returned for a special legislative session and unveiled their proposed new voting restriction bills, which you can find here for the state Senate and House, …

Mistaken for an election official in Kansas? You could be charged with a felony and imprisoned

Voter registration groups and voting rights nonprofits in Kansas have been forced to suspend voter registration drives following passage of a new law that could land their volunteers in jail if …

Voting Rights Roundup: Texas Dems stop GOP voting restrictions with walkout, but the bill may return

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● Texas: In a dramatic turn of events, Texas Republicans finalized the details of a far-reaching voting restriction bill and tried to pass it in the middle of the night over the Memorial …

Republicans want a fight over raising taxes on the rich and big corporations? Bring it on

Perhaps the single most consistently held policy position in American politics over the past century is this: The Republican Party wants the rich to pay as little in taxes as possible. Currently, the …

Proud Boy who hid ax handle in American flag argues he’ll lose disability pay if he’s in jail

We are approaching the five-month anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Hundreds of people have been arrested and charged, and the wheels of justice are slowly moving forward. And while the …

Voting Rights Roundup: Mississippi's Supreme Court kills off ballot initiatives for an absurd reason

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● Mississippi: On Friday, Mississippi’s conservative-dominated state Supreme Court obliterated the state’s entire ballot initiative process by striking it down on the most …