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Bob Bites Back: Why does Jon Husted hate democracy?

The US Supreme Court (by the usual 5-4 vote) has certified Ohio’s Jim Crow stripping of more than a million mostly black and Hispanic citizens from the 2018 voter registration rolls.


In an age of computerized registration books and…

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Ohioans Resist Fascism: First, they came for the immigrants…

President Donald Trump’s efforts to impose fascism exploded to the surface with the realization that his war on non-white people has escalated with his version of the Nazi SS –  the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – separating…

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COPWATCH: White, Blue and Boom! Does Anybody have any C-4?

What’s a black female police officer to do when her fellow white male police officer talks about blowing up Black Lives Matter protestors? Any words of caution may be interpreted as anti-police rhetoric. This is the case of Police Lieutenant…

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ColumbusMediaInsider “Sore Loser” Melanie Toys With Troy, Smoothes Danny's Way To Congress

Mark McKinnon, a former political consultant and co-host of the Showtime documentary The Circus, famously said that losing an election is a soul-crushing experience. He said he quit because the defeats were damaging his psyche.


The…

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