Guest Column – The Brennan Center for Justice – Although we won’t know all of the results for a while, yesterday’s midterms had a resounding takeaway for our democracy: Americans reject election denial. Many election deniers in competitive races were defeated. And these races were happening in states with a diverse array of political leanings.…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of people who waited until Election Day to vote cast their ballots on Tuesday in an American democratic tradition that is historically strained, to say the least, while millions more voted early by mail and in person, hoping to avoid any last minute problems or even violence…
By Bianca Fortis – ProPublica – Leola Scott recently decided to become a more active citizen. The 55-year-old resident of Dyersburg, Tennessee, was driven to action after her son was stabbed to death and nobody was charged. In August, Scott tried to register to vote. That’s when she learned she’s not allowed to cast a…
Guest Column – By George Zadigian – While advocating for America and protesting against candidates in my own Republican Party over the last five years, it’s been interesting to witness how much people have changed. Typically, hundreds of people respond with a big thank you and thumbs-up, while a few dozen hurl demeaning names at…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — This is it folks. Another major turning point in our lives in this crazy 21st century hellscape world. It’s been a strange week since I came down from the mountains and set up camp inside the Beltway again just in time for Halloween and…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Do you ever find yourself asking: Why does this crap (whatever crap you are dealing with) have to be so hard? I know I do, and see it all the time in others. Another way to put the question: Why does life have to…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — While pollsters across the political spectrum are showing a rising problem of predicting the outcome of elections in advance using telephone surveys, Google searches and such, one trend that has been overlooked by many analysts and pundits is the advantage gained by Democrats from…
By Craig Silverman, Ruth Talbot, Jeff Kao and Anna Klühspies – ProPublica – Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found. The company has publicly committed to fighting disinformation around the world, but a ProPublica analysis, the…
Staff Report – A Tennessee Trump supporter was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on Thursday for dragging a police officer protecting the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, into an angry pro-Trump crowd that brutally assaulted the officer. Albuquerque Cosper Head, 43, who pleaded guilty in March to assaulting the D.C. Metro…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – Four new polls all show a clear backlash against Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker not only for the abortion scandal, but also domestic abuse allegations used in political ads against Walker over the past couple of months. New polls from the Trafalgar Group, Quinnipiac University, Emerson College…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The pollsters and pundits are at it again. Regular followers will recall what I wrote back in July, when I chastised the mainstream public opinion media establishment for predicting a Republican sweep of both houses of Congress in November simply based on historical precedent in midterm elections.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – What would you do if you knew you had just one week more to live in a place that feels like home, knowing there are more stories to discover and tell? Maybe vow to come back next year and tackle the other stories?…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — It’s about time to hit the MoJo Road one more time in this amazing life journey chasing bliss and enlightenment in nature near the heart of political power in America. MoJo in this case refers to Mobile Journalism, as well as the Luck and…
The Big Picture - By Glynn Wilson - THURMONT, Md. — If you are reading this today, October 15, 2022, then I’ve defied the odds and outlived the curse of 64. I’m now alive and well and 65-years-old. According to my doctor here, I’ve got the heart rate of a professional tennis player and the…
Increasing the Likelihood that Democrats Will Hold the Senate in November – By Glynn Wilson – Political Analyst – With just over three weeks to go until Election Day 2022, Nov. 8, control of the United States Senate still hangs in the balance. But new developments are giving pollsters more confidence that the Democrats may…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — It’s totally understandable that people get tired of hearing and seeing sensational clickbait threatening another existential crisis emergency. But please don’t allow this one to go unheeded. In my life and times, I’ve reported on all kinds of politicians who warned the public of…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A former leader of the Proud Boys pleaded guilty this week to seditious conspiracy for his actions before and during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 while attempting to stop the peaceful transfer of power by disrupting a joint session of Congress convened to certify…
By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The fate of American democracy could once again rest on the shoulders of the good people of Pennsylvania, where it all began in Philadelphia and may well have been saved on a battlefield in Gettysburg. In some very real ways we are fighting another civil war for the…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — Many years ago in a land far away, I proposed a way to test E.O. Wilson’s Biophilia hypothesis by adding a few questions to annual surveys of visitors in the most visited national park in the United States, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Pennsylvania man nicknamed “JackTheTripper” has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges for assaulting a law enforcement officer and other illegal actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, disrupting a joint session of Congress certifying the Electoral College votes showing Democrat Joe Biden…
