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Ken Paxton, 2025, courtesy of WikiMedia (DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA, TEXAS) -- Democratic optimism is rising across Texas this spring, and not without reason. The state’s Senate race is increasingly orbiting around Ken Paxton: a figure who, for many voters, has come to represent not just the Republican Party’s rightward shift, but a broader tolerance for scandal, extremism, and constant political conflict. Paxton still commands real loyalty among Republican primary voters. But b

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Hasan Piker in 2021, accessed via WikiMedia (CHESTERTOWN, MD) – Hasan Piker has unquestionably had a hold of the young, progressive, and online left for some time. However, it has only recently became true that Piker has seen some lauding and praise in establishment media, with profiles in the New York Times, GQ, and The Observer. It seems that this praise of a popular figure among progressives who openly calls himself a socialist and has a particular hold amongst the demogr

In the politics of the modern Republican Party, there has been a view that loyalty to Trump has been of utmost importance, especially since 2020. After his loss in the 2020 election The Republican Party, now more than ever, has become a cut of personality, and with his reentry into the White House, there has been the view that you must remain 100% loyal to the President to hold your position, be that in the Cabinet, Congress, or at the state level with the Republican Party Go

Pulitzer prize winner and MacArthur Genius grant recipient Prof. Jericho Brown reading selected works at the 17th Annual Robert E. Price Poetry Festival to an audience in Chestertown, MD (CHESTERTOWN, MD) – Last Saturday night, the MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown inspired tears, laughter, and love at his reading of a collection of his own poetry during the 17th Annual Robert E. Price Poetry Festival. During a Q&A session after he

One of the most pressing issues of the twenties in the United States is the brutality employed by law enforcement. Police brutality manifests in many forms. The exacerbation of racial prejudice in the exertion of unchecked authority by municipal police forces since before many of us were born, resulting in hundreds of unnecessary deaths of innocents (George Floyd, Sonya Massey, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, etc.) is the most

Tufekci’s analysis in Twitter and teargas that the repression of protests is a paradoxical dynamic that can at some points in time allow for the flourishing of the given social movement and can also lead to the government’s assumedly desired result of the social movement

Free Nelson Mandela Protest in West Berlin, Wikimedia CHESTERTOWN, MD -- Among our readings for my class "POL 294: Civic Engagement & Political Advocacy", there has been a great deal of disagreement over the necessity of one to convince other peoples of your political positions, and whether it is your personal responsibility to inform others of political issues. Personally, I am inclined to believe that it is necessary and a moral responsibility of people to discuss their pol

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(CONNECTICUT) – Often in school, at least in the north-east, we ponder the pilgrim. Those who sailed an ocean blue and dark, who landed on Plymouth Rock. Invariably, as we get older, our relationship with the pilgrims changes. We find some of us are not as proud to pledge allegiance everyday, we see some things that only we can see. But more often than not, we forget that e pluribus unum. Or, out of many, one.

CONNECTICUT – There is an attitude, among the wealthy, that more money will fix every problem. I actually grew up in a town of, mostly the wealthy. The greewichTime has said that “To be considered middle class in Greenwich, a family has to bring in between $169,466 and $508,354 a year” which, after my parents got divorced my Mom (who I lived with) made 100,000 dollars less than the lower bound of, she’s also brown and a woman.

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