We have no words, save to express outrage that 45 refused to utter the words "white supremacists." So we'll share a statement from Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, on Trump's statement following the egregious white supremacist terrorist "vehicular incident"…
Teen activists Henry Seaton & Jennifer Guenst
The following are links to progressive-issue action alerts that found their way to The Armchair Activist's inbox. We share them with you in the hope that you will get busy: Take action for a better world. And…
Donald Drumpf is crisscrossing the nation in the guise of a new-millennium Mussolini, and the poison he spreads along the way — racism, xenophobia, misogyny, disdain for the poor — is infecting school children, say teachers in a new SPLC report. This likely…
With the April 5 Wisconsin primary looming, there is a lot going on in progressive news. Among the biggest peace-prog stories from the weekend: Bernie Sanders calls attention to another tragic outcome of US income inequality, hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin voters may be…
The Roundup is Progressive Nashville’s periodic aggregation of local, national, and international prog news and opinion worth your attention: in this edition, TN legislature shows its antigay streak, Robert Reich defends Bernie, Drumpf is the revenge of the poorly educated, and Obama proves…
It's not much fun being Blue in a Red State. But that pales against the nightmare that is being a progressive in a United States determined to act like World War II is back, one seemingly willing to forget horrific sins of the…
MoveOn has an urgent alert for activists that brings to mind Martin Niemöller.
Since the US Supreme Court's galling 2013 gutting of the Voting Rights Act, a number of states -- including Tennessee -- immediately leaped to impose Voter ID laws, gerrymandering, and other vile…
Despite marriage equality being the law of the land, right-wing presidential candidate Rand Paul still wants LGBT people to hide in closets.
Members of the inclusive gay community may be able to marry throughout the US, but in 31 states, they still can be fired…
Today's DB is a cartoon by Chan Lowe that kind of says it all.
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