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The Progressive Midwesterner

·Dec 22, 2017

Workers at Auxvasse, Missouri Dollar General store vote to unionize

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This will be the final blog post for The Progressive Midwesterner on Medium, as, starting January 1, new blog posts on The Progressive Midwesterner will be at a new website. In the small community of Auxvasse, Missouri (population: 983), located about 35 miles north-northeast of the state capital…

Labor

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Labor

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The Progressive Midwesterner

·Dec 14, 2017

Rumors beginning to swirl that Paul Ryan may step down

Unlikely to actually happen, but some in the political media are reporting that there are rumors that the U.S. House Speaker may step down — HuffPost reported yesterday that there are rumors swirling within the House Republican Conference that U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) may step down from at least the speakership, if not resign from the House altogether: As Republicans finish their long-sought rewrite of the tax code, some lawmakers are beginning to…

Politics

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Politics

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Dec 3, 2017

The Great College Football Playoff Dilemma, 2017–2018 edition

College Football Playoff selection committee could award Alabama a playoff spot despite failing to qualify for their conference’s championship game — For the fourth consecutive year, a four-team College Football Playoff (CFP) will decide which four teams will play for the unofficial national championship in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football. …

Sports

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Sports

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The Progressive Midwesterner

·Nov 30, 2017

Dana Nessel, Democratic candidate for Michigan Attorney General, is running the mother of all anti-sexual harassment ads

Nessel promises Michiganders that she won’t sexually harass anyone and that she won’t tolerate sexual harassers — Ladies and gentlemen, we may have already seen the best campaign ad of the 2018 elections in the United States, and it’s still 2017. …

Politics

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Politics

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Nov 29, 2017

Deputy White House Press Secretary implies Trump travel ban was about discriminating against Muslims

Raj Shah, the White House Deputy Press Secretary, responded to a question about whether or not President Donald Trump views Muslim people as a threat to the United States by saying that “the president has addressed these issues with the travel order”, referring to Trump’s discriminatory travel ban: Earlier…

Donald Trump

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Donald Trump

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Nov 21, 2017

Aung San Suu Kyi is aiding and abetting genocide

While the Rohingya people of Myanmar face an ongoing genocide, Aung San Suu Kyi uses anti-Rohingya dogwhistles in a speech — AUTHOR’S NOTE: The United States federal government recognizes Myanmar as a sovereign country under the name Burma, but the author has chosen to refer to Myanmar as Myanmar, the short form of the country’s full English-language name (Republic of the Union of Myanmar), and the adjective form of Myanmar used…

Myanmar

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Myanmar

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The Progressive Midwesterner

·Nov 17, 2017

Kirsten Gillibrand’s Off the Sidelines organization ENDORSES Marie Newman!

Newman is progressive Democratic primary challenger to anti-abortion U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski — The Marie Newman campaign in the 3rd Congressional District of Illinois just got a huge boost! You read that correctly: U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)’s Off the Sidelines organization is backing Marie Newman in the 3rd Congressional District of Illinois. Marie is a pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ rights Democrat who, if…

Politics

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Politics

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The Progressive Midwesterner

·Nov 16, 2017

Al Franken should resign or be expelled from the U.S. Senate; and Erin Maye Quade should be appointed to Franken’s Senate seat

Disturbing image shows Franken groping woman who was asleep at a USO event in 2006 — I’m not going to post the image in question on here, but there is an image circulating on social media showing Al Franken, who, at the time, was a comedian and is now the junior Democratic-Farmer-Labor U.S. Senator from Minnesota, groping Leeann Tweeden, who, at the time, was a correspondent…

Sexual Assault

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Sexual Assault

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The Progressive Midwesterner

·Nov 12, 2017

Daniel Biss is a fraud

In case you didn’t or weren’t able to watch Biss’s interview on WCIA-TV’s Capitol Connection, the interview was just plain awful — AUTHOR’S NOTE: The author of this blog post is an election judge in Vermilion County, Illinois who may be called to serve as a poll worker in the March 2018 primaries in Illinois. …

Politics

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Politics

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Nov 8, 2017

In Virginia and beyond, Democrats and progressives win big

Last night’s elections in Virginia and other U.S. states featured victories by a diverse group of Democrats and progressives — Last night, Democrats and progressives in the dozens of states that held elections yesterday scored major victories in states like Virginia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, among others. The biggest winner last night was indisputably the Democratic Party of Virginia. Democrats retained all three directly-elected state executive offices in Virginia, with…

Virginia

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Virginia

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