The 2018 U.S. elections not only flipped control of the House of Representatives from the Republicans to the Democrats. They also dramatically changed the composition of the Democratic Party delegation. […]
How Progressive Politics Came Crashing Down in Wisconsin
If you walk into the Wisconsin State Historical Society Museum in Madison, you’ll find a good chunk of the building dedicated to the socialist and progressive politics of the Badger […]
Andrea Jenkins: Election Winner, Transgender Historian, Activist
Up until this year, Andrea Jenkins was best known as a poet, multimedia artist, the University of Minnesota’s Oral Historian for the Transgender Oral History Project and LGBTQ activist. With […]
The Current State of Progressive Politics
A little over a year since his election, and Donald Trump’s approval rating continues to hover between 34% and 38%. The November local and state elections saw a wave of […]
Danica Roem: This is Who I Am
In January of 2017, Virginia’s 13th district delegate, conservative Republican Bob Marshall, authored a bill that would have mandated that people use bathrooms according to the gender shown on their […]
Ravi Bhalla: First Sikh Mayor in New Jersey’s History
With 55,000 people packed into a little over a square mile, Hoboken, New Jersey is the 4th-most densely inhabited city in the United States. Just a short ferry ride from […]