The time has come for the most important election of our lives. Many of us have been waiting for these Midterms mainly so that we could pick up seats in the House and Senate, but also to send the Republicans a message, that they cannot continue to lie, use racist rhetoric, and be corrupt and
This summer, I interned on a gubernatorial campaign in my home state of Colorado. This campaign marked my first real political activity, my first opportunity to look directly at how people engage with campaigns as canvassers, volunteers, interns, and voters. Colorado has made it relatively easy to participate in primary and general elections–ballots are mailed,
The Midterm Elections are less than a month away, and for Democrats to win control of the Senate, we will need to win some seats in red states. This year’s Senate map is pretty unfriendly, since Democrats are defending a lot of seats that they held onto in the 2012 wave, and though this makes
Disappointingly, yet utterly unsurprisingly, Brett Kavanaugh is now a Supreme Court Justice. Liberals, moderates, and anyone in favor of actually vetting nominees are furious. So, many Liberals are asking, where do we go from here? For some on Twitter or in opinion columns, the solution to this problem is add seats to the Supreme Court
On Friday, September 21st, former President and veritable grassroots Democratic superhero Barack Obama addressed a crowd of misty-eyed supporters, awestruck children, and everyone in between at a rally in support of Democratic Senator Bob Casey and Governor Tom Wolf. President Obama, obviously, talked about the cruciality of exercising our voting rights in an era where
I’m from Phoenix, Arizona and let me be the first to say it is not always sunny in Philadelphia, but it was on September 15 as I boarded a bus with about twenty other Penn Dems members for the first canvass of the year. After casually speaking with Seventh Congressional District candidate Susan Wild and
The death penalty has been a controversial issue for decades, but unlike many other issues it does not have a clear partisan divide one way or the other. Typically, more Democrats than Republicans oppose the death penalty, but 32 percent of Democrats still support the death penalty, and among its supporters are the last two
Going into the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 presidential election, a big conflict for the Democratic Party, one which began to emerge in the 2016 primary and the general election, is how the party is going to address “identity politics,” issues that focus on the rights of specific groups of people. After the 2016
In 2015, Republican appointed Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy made history when he voted with Liberal justices in Obergefell v. Hodges, the case that legalized gay marriage nationwide. This was a landmark case for the gay civil rights and its decision came down to Kennedy’s single vote. Later this year, Kennedy will cast an equally
It should be obvious from the get go that White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly’s services and his sacrifices, those that got him his four stars, are some of the most heroic and honorable things that anyone has done for our country. As such, when people talk of Kelly, those monikers would be
