President Dwight Eisenhower said, “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” Our veterans among us who have lived through wars can alone remind us that until we speak louder and fight harder for peace and life than the profiteers of death and destruction beat thehypnotic drums of war, we will resign ourselves to its extravagant costs in blood and treasure. We must debate and contest those who so easily commence it and watch it from safe rooms on televisions and satellites as their … Continue reading War and Peace

From Heather Cox Richardson “The SAVE America Act Trump wants is pretty openly a voter suppression measure: voting by undocumented immigrants is already virtually nonexistent, and it is already illegal. And the Brookings Institution reported in 2025 that only about four cases of mail fraud occur per 10 million mail-in ballots, or 0.000043% of total mail ballots cast. But Republicans are using the idea of voter fraud to argue for measures that could toss more than 21 million Americans off the voter rolls.There is an especial irony in Trump attacking mail-in voting as fraudulent: Bill Barrow of the Associated Press … Continue reading How to Save the Save Act