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  • SCOTUS Just Gutted Voting Rights Again!

    The Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais is more than a redistricting decision. It is another blow to the Voting Rights Act, another signal that this Court’s conservative majority is willing to weaken protections that generations fought, bled, marched, and died to secure. This post calls out the ruling, the justices who supported it,…

  • Representative Miller-Meeks Is Campaigning on Fiction While Her Constituents Pay the Price

    I supported Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks in the past. That is why this betrayal cuts so deeply. Her campaign ads claim she is helping Iowa, but my lived experience says something very different. I live on $994 a month in SSI, receive $68 in SNAP, and depend on Medicaid. When those programs are weakened, restricted, or…

  • The Ironies of Life: How Loss Teaches Us What Love Was Trying to Say

    Life has a wicked sense of timing. It teaches happiness through sadness, peace through noise, presence through absence, and honesty through loss. The ironies of life are not cute little sayings meant for wall art. They are sharp lessons that expose what we ignore, postpone, or take for granted. This post reflects on how grief,…