Joe Biden’s Inaugural Address
“This Is America’s Day” January 20, 2021Listen (~22min) Chief Justice Roberts, Vice President Harris, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell, Vice President Pence, my distinguished guests, my fellow Americans: This is America’s day. This is democracy’s …
Amanda Gorman: The Hill We Climb
Amanda Gorman, 22, America’s Poet Laureate, recites her inauguration poem with a poetry of voice and hands as she stood before us in yellow, hair woven and beaded and wrapped with a red silk sweeping …
Sign Our City Council Democratic Candidate Petitions.
January 16, Saturday, Noon-2pm KCDP HQ, 9 E. Vine St., Mount Vernon Sign Our City Council Democratic Candidate Petitions. One of our most important objectives for the coming year is to recruit and elect Democrats …
Sign Our Petition Calling for Representative Bob Gibbs’ Resignation
Sign Our Petition Calling for Representative Bob Gibbs’ Resignation Bob Gibbs has recently proven he is not qualified to represent Ohio’s 7th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. A group of the 7th District’s …
Historic Second Impeachment of President Trump
NYT–BREAKING NEWS President Trump was impeached in a 232-197 vote. Ten Republicans joined Democrats in rebuking the president. He faces a Senate trial next. Wednesday, January 13, 2021 4:39 PM EST The Republicans who supported …
Owning the Educational Failure that January 6 Reflects
Jan 8. 2021 Patricia McGuire, Trinity Washington University Excerpt: Higher education should be the great counterweight to government, the reliable steward of truth and knowledge against the corrupting tendency of politics to manipulate facts and …
Meg Galipault Letter: Losing Democracy
Jan 11, 2021 Meg Galipault, Chair of KCDP “An elected institution that opposes elections is inviting its own overthrow.” These words by Timothy Snyder in the New York Times have stuck with me for several …
Baratunde at US Capitol Building
Hi you. It’s me. Whoever told you 2021 would be more chill than 2020 lied to you. As I write this, a riotous mob of right wing thugs have taken over the U.S. Capitol building …
How Biden Can Rebuild a Divided and Distrustful Nation
Americans Must Get to Know One Another Again By Isabel Sawhill, January 4, 2021 in Foreign Affairs This fall, Americans chose Joe Biden as their new president, and many people breathed a sigh of relief. But …