Welcome To Message Monday! I found an interesting theory about how we should radically rethink how we do political advertising. It comes...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! Taxes can be complicated, but I vow to keep this discussion as simple as possible, and laser-focused on the...

Welcome to Message Monday! West Virginia’s beautiful land, and many of its people, have been sacrificed for coal mining since the...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday!   Today is about how we need to neutralize the threat from our unfair rules of the game for elections. Voting...

Welcome to Team Tuesday! Convergence, “a magazine for radical insights,” is poised to play an important role in furthering the alignment...

Welcome to Message Monday! I just now learned about an extremely important 2023 study from Jacobin, ASU’s Center for Work and Democracy,...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! These dueling visions are polar opposites, not only in terms of what (policy), but in who is putting them...

Welcome to Team Tuesday! Over the weekend, I talked about how a broad coalition made their state, Nebraska, one of the most recent to...

Welcome to Message Monday! I’m a fan of Anand Giridharadas, so much so that his is the only Substack I pay for.  He recently posted a...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! Today we’re going to respond to leading strategist Ilyse Hogue’s recent comment (certainly accurate) that “we are...

Welcome to Team Tuesday! Until President Biden mentioned housing during his State of the Union address recently, I felt sure the subject...

Welcome to Message Monday! I was deep in an article on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website, about USA Today choosing one of our...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! I attended a meeting last week about building the left over the short- and long-term.  I heard a lot of...

Welcome to Message Monday! Progressive State Senator Chris Larson (District 7) is well known and loved here in Milwaukee, WI.  I only...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! Wait, what? you say.  You may be thinking that “populism” is the racist and xenophobic philosophy behind Donald...

Welcome to Winning Wednesday! Ballot initiatives and Constitutional amendments are ways to get good laws on the books, even if...

Welcome to Team Tuesday! I’m always excited when I see progressive groups working together, because that’s one of the most critical...

Welcome to Message Monday! It’s no wonder we have so many corrupt and idiotic people in office, when the media is so deeply committed to...

Welcome to Message Monday! President Biden will give his State of the Union (SOTU) speech on Thursday.  I hope he does well.  The vapid...

Welcome to Take Action Tuesday!   There are some very exciting things happening on the rural America front.  While the challenges remain...