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Advocating for Voter Suppression: When politicians don’t care if their constituents want fair elections

Advocating for Voter Suppression: When politicians don’t care if their constituents want fair elections

Posted by | Jan 30, 2022

Every 10 years, legislators or appointed commissions across the country take the latest U.S. census data and redraw the boundaries of electoral districts to reflect the shifts of population. Too often, those new maps protect incumbents and partisan politics, not the interests of voters. In 2022, however, the redistricting cycle has been marked by a groundswell of citizen engagement to create fair maps that give greater political clout to communities of color. In many states, a history of gerrymandering along political and racial lines has led to a lopsided concentration of power, which activists are looking to correct. Unfair...

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False Certificates: Congressional committee subpoenas two Wisconsin Republicans over fake Trump electors

False Certificates: Congressional committee subpoenas two Wisconsin Republicans over fake Trump electors

Posted by | Jan 29, 2022

A U.S. House committee has subpoenaed two Wisconsin Republicans who cast votes as “alternate electors” for President Donald Trump after the 2020 presidential election. The committee — called the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States — announced the subpoenas of Andrew Hitt and Kelly Ruh on January 28. Hitt is the former chair of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. Ruh is a Republican activist who was listed as the secretary for Wisconsin’s alternate electors. The panel was formed in the summer to investigate the violent insurrection in Washington on January 6, 2021. Committee...

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What Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court means for American democracy

What Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court means for American democracy

Posted by | Jan 28, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced plans to step down from the court at the end of the term. The 83 years old made the announcement during an appearance with President Joe Biden on January 27. Breyer took his seat on the court on August 3, 1994. While the recent extremes to which Senate Republicans have gone to dominate the Supreme Court have made the seats seem simply to reflect political parties, in fact Breyer’s history on the court shows how American democracy and, with it, the Supreme Court, have become partisan since the 1980s. “I am writing to...

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Keeping families healthy: Wisconsin distributes 5.4M of personal protective equipment so far in 2022

Keeping families healthy: Wisconsin distributes 5.4M of personal protective equipment so far in 2022

Posted by | Jan 27, 2022

Governor Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced on January 24 that the state has distributed more than 5.4 million pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) since the beginning of the year. As part of the Evers Administration’s continued response to the coronavirus pandemic, 5.4 million N95/KN95 respirator masks have been distributed to over 130 different locations across Wisconsin since the start of January, including more than 3.35 million masks just last week. As part of these distribution efforts, more than 533,000 masks have been distributed to school districts across the state, including nearly 400,000...

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Flashbacks of the USSR: Understanding the crisis behind Russia’s high-stakes gamble to invade Ukraine

Flashbacks of the USSR: Understanding the crisis behind Russia’s high-stakes gamble to invade Ukraine

Posted by | Jan 26, 2022

The Pentagon ordered up to 8,500 troops to go on standby in case they are needed to defend Ukraine against Russian aggression. The troops have not been activated. If they are, they will deploy to nations allied with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), nations like Poland or Lithuania or Latvia, to provide help with logistics, medical needs, intelligence, and so on. If activated, the troops will not be authorized to enter Ukraine The story of how we got here: The USSR dissolved in 1991 under pressure from a new alliance of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, joined by most...

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Why the Supreme Court’s right-wing political ruling against vaccinations further weaponizes COVID-19

Why the Supreme Court’s right-wing political ruling against vaccinations further weaponizes COVID-19

Posted by | Jan 23, 2022

On January 13, by a vote of 6 to 3, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s requirement that businesses with more than 100 employees address the coronavirus pandemic by making employees either get vaccines or, if they choose not to be vaccinated, to test weekly and wear a mask at work. Employees who work exclusively at home or mostly outside were exempted from the requirement, as were those with a religious exemption. President Joe Biden took office vowing to get the coronavirus pandemic under control. By April 2021, his administration’s efforts to make vaccines available and...

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