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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…
Aaron Camp
Dec 22, 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
Aaron Camp
Dec 14, 2017
Dana Nessel, Democratic candidate for Michigan Attorney General, is running the mother of all…
Nessel promises Michiganders that she won’t sexually harass anyone and that she won’t tolerate sexual harassers
Aaron Camp
Nov 30, 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
Aaron Camp
Nov 17, 2017
Al Franken should resign or be expelled from the U.S.
Disturbing image shows Franken groping woman who was asleep at a USO event in 2006
Aaron Camp
Nov 16, 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
Aaron Camp
Nov 12, 2017
How I define the regions of Illinois
My long-form response to ProPublica’s attempt to define Downstate Illinois
Aaron Camp
Oct 20, 2017
Scott Walker crony attacks Wisconsin’s identity as a major dairy-producing state
Specifically, the head of a right-wing business lobby group in Wisconsin wants to remove “America’s Dairyland” from the state’s license…
Aaron Camp
Oct 16, 2017
Dick Durbin’s War on Progressives
Durbin thinks that Democrats should abandon progressive ideals and pander to right-wing voters in order to win elections
Aaron Camp
Oct 16, 2017
MO State Senate candidate Hillary Shields is AWESOME!
The Progressive Midwesterner endorses Shields in the 8th State Senate District of Missouri special election
Aaron Camp
Oct 7, 2017
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