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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

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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

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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