I’m very proud to report that our local constitutional lawyer (and ally) John Bonifaz of Amherst helped file the lawsuit in Minnesota to disqualify Donald Trump from running for office under the rules of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Republicans, Steve Bannon, and Koch-backed dark money groups want to use an Article V convention to turn back 115 years of progressivism.
President Biden deserves our recognition and support. His leadership has successfully grown our economy, controlled the pandemic, and addressed many critical issues including the climate crisis. Let’s give him the credit he deserves and re-elect him next year. I think we will all sleep better at night if he is our next president, knowing he will protect the American people and American democracy itself. I certainly will.
The ADL found that Massachusetts was second only to Texas last year in the total number of hate incidents. You read that right: only the Lone Star State experienced more neo-Nazi propaganda than Massachusetts.
The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision loosened campaign finance restrictions and allowed anonymous corporations, non-profits, labor unions, super PACs, anonymous “dark money” sources, and the ultra-rich to donate unlimited sums to politicians and campaigns.
The 28th Amendment will end the disastrous experiment in the theory that money is speech and corporations are people. It will stop the flood of special interest money and give Americans an equal right to participate and be represented as citizens in this republic.
Wareham almost opted out of mail-in voting for the upcoming municipal election. If not for the watchful eye of one resident, we might have lost the option for mail-in voting.
Indivisibles and allied groups showed up this weekend to remember one of the darkest days in our democracy's history, to honor those killed, injured, and traumatized, and to demand accountability.
The midterms loom, and we're all needed to get out the vote. We did it in 2018, 2020 and we CAN and MUST do it again in 2022!
In some ways central Massachusetts seems almost invisible — ignored by the power brokers in our Boston-based government and even by activists within the state’s left-leaning areas. But Grassroots Central Mass is showing that our region is a place where remarkable things can happen, as we raise consciousness about our challenges and work to overcome them. We are energized, enthusiastic, well-informed, pledged to bringing change, and passionate about creating equity, harmony, and opportunity for all.
In some ways central Massachusetts seems almost invisible — ignored by the power brokers in our Boston-based government and even by activists within the state’s left-leaning areas. But Grassroots Central Mass is showing that our region is a place where remarkable things can happen, as we raise consciousness about our challenges and work to overcome them. We are energized, enthusiastic, well-informed, pledged to bringing change, and passionate about creating equity, harmony, and opportunity for all.
We’ve talked for years about the lack of transparency in the MA Statehouse, how it is ranked in the bottom fourth of the nation, how it often takes a decade for laws with popular support to get passed. Our Statehouse suffers from many of the problems that David Pepper outlines, it just has a veneer of blue.
When Bob Dylan penned these words in 1963, they were a warning to accept progressive changes that were coming. Today, the same lyrics hold a warning for everyone who cares about American democracy.
