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Free Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention!

Mahmoud El-Yousseph

Leqaa Kordia, 33, has been locked up in ICE detention center in Prairieland, Texas for one year this Friday for exercising her constitutionally protected rights. She spoke out against Israel’s…

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Radical Empathy: A Force Beyond War

Robert C. Koehler

Boys will be boys. Just ask the president.

At a gathering of Republicans a few days ago, Donald Trump talked nonchalantly about the recent sinking of an apparently unarmed Iranian frigate by…

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Protesting in America

Wade Rathke

Protest and protesting is deeply embedded in America history, whether popular or not. Professor Gloria Browne-Marshall, a constitutional law and Africana studies professor at John Jay College,…

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"The Citizens Aren't Finished"

Free Press Staff

In a historic two day escalation, a coalition representing nine local entities from Washington County arrived at the Ohio Statehouse on Thursday, March 5 to hand deliver resolutions…

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Stop the Death Penalty in Ohio - Contact your Rep
Free Press Staff

Last month we heard from Ohio's Speaker of the House, Matt Huffman, that if an overwhelming portion of his caucus wanted to pass legislation ending the death penalty, he was "not going to block that from coming to the floor."

We are grateful that Gov. DeWine has not allowed any executions to take place during his tenure as Ohio's governor. We were expecting him to issue some kind of death penalty announcement in January - here we are in March and we are still waiting... but we know that there are constant chatters about the death penalty around the Statehouse.

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International Law Needs International Enforcement

Lawrence Wittner

Donald Trump’s war of choice in the Middle East is but the latest indication that the system of international law―which provides guidelines for the behavior of nations in world affairs―is crumbling.

In the late nineteenth and twentieth…

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New Report: Tech Giants Using Ohio’s Power Grid Without Paying their Fair Share

Innovation Ohio

A new report from Innovation Ohio finds that major technology companies are dramatically increasing electricity demand in Ohio while taxpayers and ratepayers shoulder the costs.

The report, “Data Centers, Ohio’s Electric Grid,…

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RJD2 + Supastition According To… RJ’s Electrical Connections

Wes Flexner

I wasn’t surprised Columbus, Ohio’s RJD2’s new album is with North Carolina’s SUPASTITION. 

Supastition rapped from RJD2’s 2022 album with Philadelphia’s STS. We know there…

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War, Empire, and the Myth of Liberation in Iran

Nader Rahimi

Following the Twelve-Day War in June 2025, the United States and Israel launched a new war against Iran on February 28, 2026—an illegal war neither authorized by Congress nor supported by the American public. The Trump administration…

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