On the podcast, Senior Organizing Director Esther Pew interviews Anat Shenker-Osorio, a linguistics and cognition expert, about how movements can more effectively mobilize folks to fight against fascism. Anat explains why simply debunking lies isn’t enough — and why replacing false narratives with truthful, values-driven stories is essential to activating people. She emphasizes the power…
On Tuesday night, Gov. Janet Mills will be giving her final State of the State address. These are usually speeches with hearty pomp and circumstance, lots of boasting about accomplishments, and always includes a laundry list of policies the speaker wants enacted. I personally sat through six of them as a state senator. I even…
End of year columns usually reflect back on the most important moments, biggest regrets, the high and lows, etc. Since this will be mine, I thought I would take a stab. The easy path would be for me to write about Trump’s election in 2024 and our country’s quickening pace toward fascism. How his plans…
This column is about the importance of voting this Tuesday. I was gonna start it with a story about how in my first race for elected office I lost by 24 votes. How, in the weeks after the election, people hadn’t realized Election Day had passed (it was a May election) and I had dozens…