Well, it’s official: the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority has decided to “return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” It’s now up to each state to decide how much it values women, and how far it will go to protect women’s reproductive — human — rights. This…

It’s easy to fall into the abyss — that would be the dark pit of “the world is bleak, everything is hopeless, and nothing I do matters anyway” — after these few weeks of horror. Here’s a lifeline: updates on some of the candidates and grassroots groups SDP MA-RI has…

There’s a lot bubbling in the cauldron of North Carolina politics right now. For one, last month, the US Supreme Court rejected GOP challenges and allowed court-ordered Congressional NC maps to stand. Given that NC is historically one of the top-ten worst-gerrymandered states in the nation — per the NYT…

“Let us march on ballot boxes until race-baiters disappear from the political arena. Let us march on ballot boxes until the Wallaces of our nation tremble away in silence. Let us march on ballot boxes until all over Alabama, God’s children will be able to walk the earth in decency…

Private Right of Action: the right of an individual to bring suit to remedy or prevent an injury that results from another party’s actual or threatened violation of a legal requirement (Landegger v. Cohen, 5 F. Supp. 3d 1278, 1284 (D. Colo. 2013)). Hostis Humani Generis (Lat.): Literally “enemy of…

By Elisabet Michaelsen, Volunteer, SDP MA-RI A political candidate’s message has to be disseminated in multiple ways to be effective and reach as many voters as possible. The classical ways are mailers and canvassing (i.e. knocking doors and speaking with voters). We have such busy lives and only spend a…

Does the name Elizabeth Guzman sound familiar? Perhaps you remember her delivering the 2018 Spanish language response to Trump’s State of the Union address. If you’re an environmentalist, you might know her as a co-founder of the Virginia Green New Deal. …

Last week, we received a phone call at home from a number identified as “Washington, DC.” Our country calling! Of course we picked up. And, ooh boy, was it a doozy. A voice asked our party affiliation, then asked Question #1: Do we support live-streamed vote-counting (i.e. having a web-cam…

Like many Americans, I’ve been thinking a lot about guns recently. It’s hard not to, right? Collectively, our 331 million citizens own more than 390 million guns, or an average of more than one per person, according to the Small Arms Survey 2018. With this kind of firepower, it’s no…