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JIM FUGLIE: View From The Prairie — What The Hell Do We Do Now?

Relax. Take a deep breath. Things are going to be OK. Not easy but OK. Just imagine what might be going on in our country today if Kamala Harris had been elected president in a very close election, let’s say a handful of electoral votes, with very close races in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada or Georgia. Blood in the streets. And …


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ED MAIXNER: Best Thing For Kamala’s Campaign: A Big Slice Of Joe Biden

Vice President Kamala Harris has continued her sorely conflicted relationship with President Joe Biden since her campaign began. Like an estranged couple, she and Biden hang out in the same house politically but don’t often mention each other and don’t go out together. Harris’ campaign would benefit from an appropriate Joe-Biden-friendly approach, made clear to me with “there is not a thing …


PAULA MEHMEL: Shoot The Rapids — Fascism Matters

If you remain undecided about who you are voting for in this election, please consider that Adolf Hitler became chancellor because of a democratic election.  The Nazi Party used hatred toward the “other” and demonization of those who were “poisoning the blood of our country” to scapegoat the marginalized and convince good people to vote for them because they believed …

JIM FUGLIE: View From The Prairie — ‘Persistence Alone Is Omnipotent’

Sometime in the distant past, when David Strauss and I were managing the campaigns of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, I received a note from David with those words. They struck home. I went looking for their source. I found the actual quote, ironically, from President Calvin Coolidge, who said this: “Nothing in this world can take the place of …

PAULA MEHMEL: Shoot The Rapids — Country Over Party and Policy

There was never a universe in which I thought that Dick Cheney and I would be actively supporting the same person for president, but here we are. As much as I disagree with him about almost every issue, I am extremely impressed with his commitment to our country over party and policy. His sense of patriotism is commendable as he …