As the post-Labor Day campaign sprint begins, national media outlets are churning out familiar, top-down narratives about the upcoming midterm elections. From Washington to Wall Street, the national press remains fixated on beltway horse-race dynamics, political war chests, and congressional…

Dear Editor, ​The recent escalation of political violence in Ohio—most notably the alarming incident at the Canfield Fair where an armed individual targeted Dr. Amy Acton and injured volunteers—demands clear and unequivocal condemnation from every corner of our state. ​Violence, threats, and…

People are walking around in an unreal world—clueless. ​In the high-stakes arena of Ohio politics, we often see civil rights treated as a set of isolated, transactional commodities. Single-issue advocacy groups grade candidates based on narrow criteria, mainstream campaigns calibrate their rhetoric…

Heartbeat Movement Inc. stands in absolute solidarity with Black women in leadership who continuously face coordinated, dehumanizing attacks designed to undermine their authority, silence their advocacy, and erase their contributions to systemic reform. ​We strongly condemn both the explicit,…