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The Racist Republican Replacement Lie

To be a Republican in 2022 is to be committed to the belief in and propagation of three great lies: (1) The Big Election Lie that holds…

May 29, 2022

The Racist Republican Replacement Lie

May 29, 2022

The Suburbs Will Set Us Free

Rural is red,

May 19, 2022

The Suburbs Will Set Us Free

May 19, 2022

The Center Will Save Us

Imagine a democracy where a wildly narcissistic leader comes to power in a free and fair election, then takes the country sharply to the…

May 1, 2022

The Center Will Save Us

May 1, 2022

Sign Up Today

Like what you’re reading? If you’re a progressive Democrat, particularly but certainly not exclusively in Illinois, you should be reading…

Jan 25, 2022

Jan 25, 2022

Accentuate The Positive

It seems like the sequel to Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day came out last week and it starred President Joe…

Jan 25, 2022

Accentuate The Positive

Jan 25, 2022

Dems solve problems while R’s only obstruct

Conservative columnist and never-Trumper S.E. Culp recently wrote a column in The Daily News where she summed up the Republicans’…

Dec 20, 2021

Dems solve problems while R’s only obstruct

Dec 20, 2021

Democratic Messaging

Democrats -and major news outlets- spend an awful lot of time shining a spotlight on issues where we disagree with each other. Or they say…

Nov 23, 2021

Democratic Messaging

Nov 23, 2021

Reading the tea leaves for 2022

The conventional wisdom is that the incumbent president’s party gets clobbered in the midterm elections in both the House and the Senate…

Jun 7, 2021

Reading the tea leaves for 2022

Jun 7, 2021

I hate to say it, but it’s time to kill the filibuster.

I’m old and I put a very high value on tradition in both my religious life and political life, so when Dems talk about abolishing the…

Mar 7, 2021

I hate to say it, but it’s time to kill the filibuster.

Mar 7, 2021

Rx for success: How to win now and in 2022

The depth and breadth of the damage Donald Trump and his enablers have wrought on the federal government is impossible to convey in a…

Feb 2, 2021

Rx for success: How to win now and in 2022

Feb 2, 2021

The Top 10 Good News Items Buried In The Headlines

My grandfather, William Kopolsky, was brought to America as a small child, fleeing the pogroms in what is now Ukraine. He worked in the…

Feb 2, 2021

Feb 2, 2021

Will He Stay Or Will He Go

This question has been on our minds for over five weeks, and although we know that Trump is going to leave, we’re all so traumatized we…

Dec 22, 2020

Will He Stay Or Will He Go

Dec 22, 2020

Don’t Forget To Breathe

I was tempted to begin this post with the phrase “barring anything unforeseen,” but I understand that in 2020, that’s a fool’s mission…

Oct 15, 2020

Don’t Forget To Breathe

Oct 15, 2020

Waiting For Results

Lest there was any doubt, we now know for sure that Trump fully understood that the coronavirus was deadly and that it was spread by…

Sep 12, 2020

Waiting For Results

Sep 12, 2020

Motivation

A lot can change, but with less than 100 days left before the election, it sure looks like Trump will lose ‘bigly.’ Much of this is driven…

Aug 2, 2020

Motivation

Aug 2, 2020

I Can’t Breathe — Suffocating Justice in America

The brutal murder of George Floyd under the knees of Minneapolis police officers was another sad data point in a long and terrible story…

Jun 6, 2020

I Can’t Breathe — Suffocating Justice in America

Jun 6, 2020

The Coronavirus Has Arrived

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is here, and it is going to spread far and wide. That’s the report from the Centers for Disease Control…

Mar 1, 2020

The Coronavirus Has Arrived

Mar 1, 2020

Letter From Jerusalem 12.14.2019

December 14, 2019

Dec 16, 2019

Letter From Jerusalem 12.14.2019

Dec 16, 2019

20/20 Vision on 2020

There’s a lot we don’t know about how 2020 will shake out, but there are a few things we already know for sure.

Sep 15, 2019

20/20 Vision on 2020

Sep 15, 2019

Dark Days in America

Dark Days In America

Aug 11, 2019

Dark Days in America

Aug 11, 2019

Arthur Friedson

Arthur Friedson

Grandfather of 4, HR guy, Democratic activist, writer for Democrats and not-for-profits, lapsed banjo player, and relatively decent human being on most days.

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