The mayor of Springfield, Ohio and two county commissioners — all Republicans upset by the smears on their community — won't commit to voting Trump. "Any political leader that takes the national stage and has the national spotlight needs to understand the gravity of the words

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been taken into federal custody, TMZ and NBC report tmz.com/2024/09/16/did…

Read my essay please

What if indeed

Please read my new Democracy column if you haven’t already: I explain the horrific (“Great”)Replacement Theory that JD Vance has openly embraced.

Loving which neighbors, Skip?

Even growing up amid both overt and in-denial racists, I wouldn’t dare predict how this will break down at the polls. I do believe strongly that young people and the size of their turnout will decide this election one way or their other.

Overturning Roe is killing mothers, full stop.

This is an unAmerican, overt way for gov’t to establish both a religion and censorship. Take it from a state that has made this an ugly art form. Reagan would be proud; he ran with promise to give tax breaks to racist seg academies, but courts stopped him: mississippifreepress.org/white-flight-i…

The fascists are continuing to attack democracy around the world: Democracy declined for 8th straight year around the globe, institute finds apnews.com/article/democr…

Especially when it’s Russia and a dictator that wants to control Europe snd the US, yes.

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Jeff Bloodworth writes on the Democratic Party losing rural voters, primarily in Mississippi and Ty Pinkins‘ hope to strengthen voters. mississippifreepress.org/opinion-democr…

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Much precedent for the hate of the last week in US as I unpack here: