Roe v. Wade was America’s compromise on abortion and a large majority of Americans support its protections. When the 45th president appointed three U.S. Supreme Court justices during his term, his intention was clear: overturn Roe v. Wade and create chaos so the country could go through the debate that resulted in Roe once again. Elections matter and so we are.
Christina Bohannan is a law professor who read all 200 Iowa court decisions related to abortion. Below is a recent video in which she discusses them and lays out a common sense approach to the controversial issue the 1973 Supreme Court decision represented. Her opponent, incumbent Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks sponsored the “Life at Conception Act,” which prohibits abortion and included no exceptions for rape, incest, or to save a woman’s life.
This week, on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, President Biden rolled out his agenda to protect women’s rights, including codifying the protection of women’s rights outlined in Roe. To do that, Biden will need more Democratic members of Congress, beginning with replacing Miller-Meeks with Christina Bohannan in Iowa’s First Congressional District.
I hope you will watch the video and help Bohannan win in November. Follow Christina Bohannan on Facebook, and Instagram. Sign up with her campaign at bohannanforcongress.com/
Image from an email from Iowa State Senator Liz Bennett
Let’s just get into this. Conversion therapy is wrong and Iowa Republicans want statewide control in how communities approach it. In case you’ve been sleeping, conversion therapy is at best a pseudoscience intended to change an individual’s sexual orientation. At worst it harms people. It is not even a legitimate form of therapy, wrote Douglas C. Haldeman in The Case Against Conversion “Therapy.” Here are the basics:
Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to align with heterosexual and cisgender norms. Methods that have been used to this end include forms of brain surgery, surgical or hormonal castration, aversive treatments such as electric shocks, nausea-inducing drugs, hypnosis, counseling, spiritual interventions, visualization, psychoanalysis, and arousal reconditioning.
There is a scientific consensus that conversion therapy is ineffective at changing a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity and that it frequently causes significant long-term psychological harm. The position of current evidence-based medicine and clinical guidance is that homosexuality, bisexuality and gender variance are natural and healthy aspects of human sexuality. Historically, conversion therapy was the treatment of choice for individuals who disclosed same-sex attractions or exhibited gender nonconformity, which were formerly assumed to be pathologies by the medical establishment. When performed today, conversion therapy may constitute fraud and when performed on minors, a form of child abuse; it has been described by experts as torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and contrary to human rights.
An increasing number of jurisdictions around the world have passed laws against conversion therapy.
Allow me to repeat, “When performed today, conversion therapy may constitute fraud and when performed on minors, a form of child abuse; it has been described by experts as torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and contrary to human rights.” Why wouldn’t the State of Iowa ban this harmful practice? We should. The scientific consensus is it doesn’t work as intended.
“Iowa Republicans want to ban LGBTQ+ conversion therapy bans,” House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst wrote in an email. “Yes, you read that right. While Iowa is one of the few states without a statewide ban on conversion therapy (not a great start), individual cities and towns have implemented their own bans on conversion therapy. The Iowa GOP would like to take away that local control.”
“Linn County passed its ban on conversion therapy in mid-2022, prohibiting conversion or reparative therapies for people under the age of 18,” wrote Valeree Dunn of Iowa News Now. “The City of Davenport has had its own ban on conversion therapy since 2020.”
“Far-right extremist Sen. Salmon introduced SF 2037 which would prevent cities and counties in Iowa from banning conversion therapy,” Senator Bennett wrote. “As the only out LGBTQ+ senator in Iowa, this feels like not only a personal attack on me, but also an attack on our entire community and state.”
This bill is an assault, not only on one LGBTQ+ individual, it is an assault on everything that should be important to Iowans, including local control of our communities, recognition of the validity of the scientific methods used in research, and plain common sense.
The bill passed subcommittee on Wednesday, Jan. 17, and seems likely to clear the full committee should it meet on the bill.
Contact your state legislature to oppose this ill-advised and regressive legislation. Better than that, work to add Democratic State Senators to their caucus in the November election to regain a majority. If you can spare some dollars, here is the link to support the Iowa Senate Democrats.
This winter I lost the power of imagination when it comes to cooking. I know skills of cooking and the pantry, refrigerator, and freezer are full of food. Yet I give a blank stare when asked what we should have for evening meal.
Last night I made a vegan version of red beans and rice. It was based on the “holy trinity” of bell pepper, onion and celery. I added canned red beans and tomato sauce, garlic and kale from the garden, and seasoned with salt, dried thyme, and parsley. The dish came together with a slurry of white miso, tomato juice and arrowroot. Served on rice with a side of cooked corn, it was a satisfying meal. We discussed and are putting red beans and rice in the rotation.
The Iowa Legislature is in session and OMG! These Republicans are one paternalistic, low-IQ, incompetent group — filthy with unpleasant habits, brutes in human form, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of most Iowans. (h/t Jonathan Swift). Where should I start?
We, as a society, have to elect enough Democrats to stop their madness by regaining the majority in both chambers of the legislature. When we held a majority in the senate, the radical craziness was held at bay. It wouldn’t hurt to retake the governor’s office.
Here’s a short list of legislative issues with Republicans:
Conversion therapy ban ban. Prevent local jurisdictions from banning this discredited pseudoscience as any decent person would.
Restrictions from use of information from the American Library Association in public school libraries.
Reduce services by the Area Education Agencies which serve disabled children.
Continue to do nothing with nursing homes where another patient recently died of neglect.
After the court enjoined their book ban bill for public schools, they doubled down with a book ban in public libraries.
School children would be required to sing the national anthem at the beginning of each day.
Politicization of the investment of public funds like the Iowa Employee Retirement System.
The chair of a subcommittee humiliated speakers addressing a bill concerning loss of local control for guaranteed income programs for the poor.
Good grief! The session is just beginning, so the worst is yet to come.
2024 is the time, now more than ever, to get involved in the political process. Even if it just means letting family members know it is important to vote.
Has the Iowa Democratic Party hit rock bottom? At Monday’s poorly attended precinct caucuses, small groups of long-time Democratic attendees kept political embers glowing. Although we hadn’t reached “rock bottom” one could see it from there in the dim light of a fire that long ago burned through most of its fuel.
For comparison, in 2012 when President Obama was running for reelection, also the year comparable to 2024 when President Biden is running for reelection, we had 12 people at our precinct caucus. This year we had three. Combine low caucus attendance with the fact as of Jan. 12 only 8,000 Democrats had requested a presidential preference card from the state party, and it was enough to make a pail of water turn sour. Erin Jordan of the Cedar Rapids Gazette caught the mood at Iowa City Precinct 17 where Democrats had trouble filling their delegate seats to the county convention. The caucus chair called out individuals by name to recruit volunteers.
It’s not that Republicans had great caucus turnout. They didn’t. Donald J. Trump received 56,206 votes in the Iowa Republican caucus, or 7 percent of registered Republican voters. Hardly a mandate. The state had 752,249 registered Republicans on Jan. 1, 2024, and only 110,298 (15 percent) caucused. Half of Republicans who did vote wanted someone other than a Florida man facing 91 criminal counts as their presidential preference. Even Koch Industries, a powerhouse in Iowa through their shadow presence in Americans for Prosperity, was financially supporting someone else. The Republican performance definitely did not show strength. Unlike the national media we shouldn’t put too much stock in Trump’s win.
What about the vast majority of Iowa’s estimated 3.2 million people? They were not a part of this year’s caucus activity. To climb out of the hole in which we found ourselves, Democrats need a new way of thinking about politics. It must be focused on all Iowans, not just aging party activists.
Boy howdy! That’s not going to fly with the aging cohort of party regulars!
Iowa Democrats have the right idea. The slogan they wrote, “People over Politics” is the right one for this campaign because it hits on the need to address the majority of Iowans’ needs and wants, rather than a small minority. It is not enough to repeat the slogan, check off the box, and return to politics as usual. Something has to change.
Young people have a lot to lose in the 2024 election. When I talk to people in their twenties and thirties, they are angry with how our national politics is going. In particular, the treatment of Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas War has them angry with President Biden and with Republican alternatives. They definitely plan to vote. Their issues make it more complicated than a choice between the Democrat and Republican running for president. As an elder, I caution about the complexity of Middle East politics. They don’t want to hear it. What is lacking is adequate direction from Washington to end the conflict and stop the genocide of Palestinians. Such young people are not motivated to join a political party. They are not motivated to support Biden. They simply want the president and the elected government in Washington to offer viable solutions now.
“The people of Iowa appreciate balance in the federal government and the state government,” said Rita Hart, chair of the Iowa Democratic Party in the Washington Post. “It is out of whack here in Iowa because Republicans have been in power for too long, and they have overreached.” I can say from my experiences with young people this seemingly reasonable statement is what’s out of whack. We need less characterization of the electorate in national media and more action to deliver positive results to more people. The elder in me says stay the course and let Hart lead. The young person in me wants to upset any existing balance and get a new set of scales.
I stay in touch with some in my Iowa high school cohort which entered its eighth decade of living. A common sentiment among them is “Oh Iowa. What are you thinking?” At its core, the concern is one for the future. A reaction to the Trump win like this can only be from consuming conventional news media. Our current national and local media environments have lost interest in the common good and propagate whatever content garners eyeballs. We need a new way of seeing the news and what we are doing now isn’t it. I am devoted to Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American because it injects each day with a dose of the logic, reason, and perspective of a historian. Many in my cohort have not heard of her. Indeed, her one voice is not enough.
Donald Trump Jr. said, “A win is a win” on caucus night. I used to look at elections that way. When a party can’t draw enough people to a meeting to fill convention delegate positions, the system is not working. While I enjoyed conversations with my old friends at the caucus. Iowa politics has to be something more than a social hour. Unless we make it so, the embers will finally be extinguished. I hope to do my part in creating change we need using my platform. What about you readers?
Caucus-goer signing nominating petitions at the 2010 Iowa Democratic caucuses.
I counted 22 people present for the 2024 Democratic caucuses at Lakeview Elementary School on Jan. 15. Our location had five precincts. It was a good gathering of old friends. “Old” is the operative word. Age of participating Democrats is a problem for the Iowa Democratic Party. Well, that and this cohort is dying off, depleting our numbers. A couple of new faces were present, so that was good. We kept the embers of the Iowa Democratic Party going for another election year.
Our age was a constant companion during the caucuses. Doors opened at 5 p.m. for set up. People began arriving shortly after that for the 7 p.m. event. Set up didn’t take long and there was a lot of catching up to do. I talked more about Ohio politics than about Iowa. I noticed the average age of those present and was told to stop complaining and volunteer. We discussed the changes in door knocking over the years. One friend said if they went door knocking they would have to use their mother’s walker to get around. Someone suggested the reception at the doors might be better if they did.
The state party has kept the mail-in presidential preference vote a virtual secret. A few long-time Democrats at the caucus didn’t know what to do to get a ballot. We remedied that right away. According to the Cedar Rapids Gazette last Friday only about 8,000 ballots had been requested statewide. When we consider there were 176,352 initial alignment votes in the 2020 presidential preference vote, the response this year is underwhelming.
There were three of us in the Big Grove caucus. I chaired and made quick work of party business. We elected myself as chair and a friend as secretary. No one wanted to be on the county central committee and we only elected one of three delegates to the county convention. No one volunteered for convention committee work, except I told the organizer for the arrangements committee I would help at the convention. She was in another precinct at our site. I read the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion statement to meet the requirement. We signed, sealed, and delivered the documents to the box destined to go to the county seat that evening.
The weather was cold, yet not that bad. The roads were plowed and although there was some ice on them, an experienced driver could navigate safely. Weather was not what kept Democrats away from the caucuses. The Washington Post released an article about the issues. Here’s a taste of it:
At this time in 2020, Democrats held three of Iowa’s four congressional seats. They had three statewide elected officials, and they were just kicking off the Democratic presidential nominating process.
Four years later, Iowa Democrats have no representatives in Congress, only one statewide elected official — the state auditor — and their prized spot at the head of the nominating calendar has been ripped away from them.
Beyond that, they have seen former president Donald Trump twice carry the state by comfortable margins after victories in 2008 and 2012 by Barack Obama.
“It has been painful for Democrats in Iowa,” said Scott Brennan, a former chair of the state party.
As Iowa Republicans began their party’s presidential nominating process with Monday’s caucuses, many Democrats concede that their party has hit rock bottom. The state, once a presidential battleground, has joined Ohio, also a longtime swing state, in moving to the right. Few expect the Democrats to be competitive in Iowa in the presidential race in November.
Our group of oldsters kept a party on life support going for another little while. I don’t agree we hit “rock bottom,” yet one could see it from the 2024 Democratic precinct caucuses.
Barack Obama at the 2006 Harkin Steak Fry. I met him in this rope line.
A friend and I met for coffee across the lakes to prepare for the Iowa Democratic caucus on Jan. 15. I took along one of my volunteer sheets from the 2008 presidential campaign to discuss who we might get to volunteer this cycle.
We found ourselves asking the question, “Are they still alive?” before discussing most of them. Long story short, so many people have moved out of the precinct or died since 2008 voters have gone fully Republican here during the general elections in 2020 and 2022.
People scratch their head about how Iowa could vote for Obama twice, then for Trump twice afterward, as we did in my precinct. My interpretation is Iowans are on the move, including rural, conservative folks who want to get closer to the major metros where the jobs are, yet don’t want to live with all the liberals there. They seem to concentrate in rural and outlying subdivisions like ours. People are also on the move out of state where better job opportunities can be found. Not every one wants to become part of the industrial agriculture operations that dominate business in the state. The exodus is encouraged by repressive governance by the current crop of Republican state officials.
The caucuses are important to Democratic party officials who hope to launch an organizing miracle to turn the state purple (we’ve given up on blue). The truth staring us in the face is without the presidential preference part of the caucuses, people lose interest.
There has been good coverage of the caucuses in the Cedar Rapids Gazette with a special section with all the locations in the Sunday paper. People have every reason to know about the caucuses. We’ll see if they turn out and at what level. For perspective, we had 12 Democrats show for caucus in 2012, Obama’s re-election year. If we did that number a week from today, I’d be reasonably happy.
Last night I attended my last meeting as a member of the county party’s Democratic central committee. Once I chair my precinct caucus, I’ll be finished with my obligations. Considering it was 2004 when I reactivated in partisan politics, 20 years is enough devotion to this civic duty. It’s time to move forward.
Given my belief in the importance of collective action, what shall I do? I don’t know. Decreased mobility as I age will have me avoiding knocking on voter doors in future cycles. Likewise, the technology that drives human interaction has changed since the days when I could grab a list and make effective telephone calls to voters. Stuff envelopes for mailings? Maybe, yet that has its problems as well. One reason I am leaving active Democratic politics is the old methods don’t work any longer. There are demographic changes at work in my precinct and they have driven the electorate to vote Republican. The local Democratic party hasn’t kept up with the times, God love them.
I may be best at writing about the Iowa political scene. While newspapers are dying (small town Iowa newspaper continue to consolidate or close), when I post something on the Insights page of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, it gets noticed. Same thing with my bloggery here and on Blog for Iowa. I’ve written my share of candidate support/opponent criticism op-eds, yet the times call for something different to dig us out of a hole of ineffectiveness that enables Republicans to thrive.
What seems most important, that few are paying attention to as such, is the further deterioration of the post-World War II consensus that brought unparalleled economic vitality to the United States. Rich folks and libertarians never cared much for the changes wrought by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and have fought those changes vigorously during the Post-World War II prosperity. It looks like they are finally beginning to win this struggle to the detriment of citizens like me, to the detriment of a Democratic form of government.
People say our politics divide us, but what about it does? The Milton Friedman doctrine that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits” is a significant part of why Americans are so divided in our politics. This prevailing culture ran contrary to what skilled workers believe and eroded a key aspect of society for people who sought identity through the workplace. It forced a choice between our values and pragmatism. It has not been good for society. It left a vacuum that remains unfilled. Republicans, including the 45th president stepped in to fill the void with their malfeasance.
We must ask better questions of businesses: What great products do you make? How do your workers buy into the company? Why do corporate CEOs get paid so much? How are you giving back to the community? What percent of revenue is invested in long-term research and development? What do you do to make life better for consumers who use your products? If you outsource parts of your business, what is your moral responsibility to subcontractors? How does your company deal with external costs like its impact on clear air and water? There are other questions inadequately addressed that could occupy a writer’s time in perpetuity.
As I write my autobiography, I’ll dive into my political history, beginning with my favorite story about working for Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 presidential campaign. However, my public presence in politics must change to secure the benefits of living in a democracy. No political party can help much with that. Their role must continue to be to find excellent candidates to run against the Republican machine. I ruled out running for office again. It is time to pass the baton to the next generation of political activists and focus on what I do best.
Newman Abuissa, chair of the Iowa Democratic Party Arab American Caucus, speaking at a peace vigil in Iowa City on Dec. 29, 2023.
I studied the Israeli Six-Day War (June 1967) and the Yom Kippur War (October 1973) while I was in the military. We figured with the Vietnam War over, the next major conflict would be over oil in the Middle East. We lifted Israeli tactics and put them into practice in our Mechanized Infantry Division in preparation for the inevitable conflict. General Norman Schwartzkopf, who led U.S. forces during the First Gulf War, served as Assistant Division Commander in the same unit I was in, although after I left Germany.
Besides that, I haven’t studied the Middle East to any extent. It has been a blind spot in my knowledge of history. A friend from high school was serving in the Peace Corps in Israel during 1973. By chance, I ran into him while leaving a youth hostel in Florence, Italy. We walked to Piazza San Marco and chatted about life since I had last seen him stateside. I don’t recall what he said about the war, but it was one contributing factor to his return to the states. When I boarded a bus to Fiesole was the last time I saw him.
A group of local peace activists held their regular Friday afternoon vigil at the University of Iowa Pentacrest on Dec. 29. KCRG-TV was there and wrote this story.
Iowa City, Iowa (KCRG) – The Iowa City chapter of Veterans For Peace held a peace vigil in front of the Pentacrest in downtown Iowa City on December 29th.
They were joined by people from the following groups: Iowa City Action for Palestine, Iowans for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility, Mennonite Peace Group, Johnson County United Nations Association, and the Johnson County Interfaith Coalition who all spoke at the event.
The chapter’s co-founder Paul Deaton called for a ceasefire as well as allowing unrestricted humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
“There is a need for peace in this world and if we don’t work for peace we won’t have peace,” said Deaton.
‘Veterans For Peace’ handed out leaflets outlining their positions, saying being critical of Israel’s actions is not the same as being anti-Semitic.
The leaflets also stated “Support for Palestinian justice and a cease-fire does NOT equate to endorsement of Hamas.”
The group holds peace vigils every Friday.
Groups come together in Iowa City at vigil for peace in Israel-Hamas War KCRG-TV, Dec. 29, 2023.
I don’t understand the Middle East any better than I did in 1974 when I ran into my friend in Florence. What I do understand is what I told KCRG-TV, “There is a need for peace in the world and if we don’t work for peace we won’t have peace.” Working for peace are words to live by.
The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway is a keeper. It was written in the context of a number of contemporary books that outline the role of market fundamentalism in our society. The authors present a convincing case that U.S. Government is smaller than many other industrialized nations and could be better used than it is. The reason our government is not better used is that on the spectrum of free markets to government control, a small group of people have perpetuated the myth that the free market can solve all of our ills and government is too intrusive. They intentionally retard social progress. The book is not a quick read, yet it is vitally engaging throughout.
If you are familiar with the work of Jane Mayer, Nancy MacLean, Anne Nelson, Anne Case, Angus Deaton, Matthew Josephson, and Dahlia Lithwick I recommend reading The Big Myth.
Having married just after Ronald Reagan was sworn into office, I lived through much of the second half of the book. The history Oreskes and Conway wrote is illuminating. What I suspected, and the authors confirmed, was that market fundamentalists found a way to use popular culture to indoctrinate the population in basic tenants of their beliefs. Whether it was the collaboration between Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane in the Little House books, Ayn Rand’s work in Hollywood censorship, Ronald Reagan’s work for General Electric, or Milton Friedman’s numerous and widely read opinions, op-eds and columns, there was an intentional effort to add a layer of conservative ideology to mass culture. Call it what it is: propaganda.
The book made me reflect on how my basic views toward life in society were influenced without me knowing it.
My self-view is one of self-reliance. I stand on my own two feet and endure whatever challenges come my way, hopefully successfully navigating them. I wrote something similar to this many times over 50 years of writing. After reading The Big Myth, I realize this mental attitude may have been a form of indoctrination by active, libertarian agency that found its way into literature, movies, and television programs to which I was exposed from an early age. While self reliance is not bad, that it became part of my mental outlook through indoctrination is not good.
I am not freaking out! The disturbing part of libertarian propaganda about market fundamentalism is the absence of any alternative response. In fact, conservatives constantly accuse liberals of brainwashing children in public schools, to the extent the Iowa Legislature passed a significant private school voucher law to address their fears. Why aren’t liberals in the game? They, like me, likely didn’t understand how deep the propaganda went. There have been few comprehensive stories written about what libertarian radicals have been doing for a hundred years. Oreskes and Conway remedied that.
Pick up a copy at your independent bookstore or, if they have it, from your public library. The Big Myth is essential reading as Republican extremists work to undo American democracy with the backing of large-sized business interests. We can do better than that.
Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations is a book seldom read in its entirety. Libertarians went through multiple iterations of winnowing the more than five hundred fifty pages into something more readable, something more closely matching their ideological viewpoint. One time, they serialized a right wing version in Reader’s Digest. I will never read it. I don’t know anyone who has read it, certainly not Iowa’s current crop of right-wing politicians. They may know the phrase “invisible hand” even if they don’t use it when enacting policies that make life worse for many Iowans.
The invisible hand is a metaphor for the unseen forces that move the free market economy. Ronald Reagan referred to it as the “magic of the marketplace.” With economic freedom comes prosperity they say. Only it doesn’t. This is truly magical thinking.
This week it was announced Koch Industries is buying the Iowa Fertilizer Company in Wever. This facility has been a story of money changing hands among large, wealthy entities from the gitgo. The $110 million in financial incentives from the state finally comes home to roost with a company that is so deeply embedded in Iowa Republican politics we forget to notice their presence. Is this Adam Smith’s invisible hand of the market, or just the greedy hands of industrial capitalists?
Right wingers believe in the efficacy of the people as individuals with each making their own decisions in a free market economy. This holiday season they emphasized their belief that people, as a group or social class, don’t mean much of anything to them as they work to please corporate sponsors.
Last night, Governor Kim Reynolds released her Christmas message to Iowans, which I quote in full:
“From a humble stable in Bethlehem more than 2000 years ago, the world was given the greatest gift of all time, a newborn King sent to bring light to the world.
“This Christmas season, the part of the world where Jesus was born is impacted by war. And yet, his promise of peace is everlasting.
“As we gather to celebrate this joyous holiday with family and friends, let us be reminded of the many blessings that we enjoy as a free people and the responsibility we have to each other as children of God.
“On Christmas and always, may we be the light in the darkness.
“Kevin and I, and our family, wish you and yours a Christmas filled with joy and light.
“God bless you and Merry Christmas.”
Office of the Governor Press Release, Dec. 22, 2023.
Let this sink in: “Let us be reminded of … the responsibility we have to each other as children of God.”
That is, unless one is poor and can’t afford health insurance. By privatizing Medicaid, the state created an expensive, inefficient process that denies care to some who need it. In that case forget about our shared responsibility to provide needed health care.
That is, unless one is a child who qualifies for the free lunch program where Governor Reynolds on Friday rejected available federal funds to pay for a summertime EBT card for hungry children. In that case, you can go hungry, and by the way, she said, you need to go on a diet because you kids are obese.
That is, unless one lives in our substandard nursing homes where the state is as much as 41 months behind in conducting annual inspections in violation of federal regulations. In that case you can just drop dead.
Where is the idea of Christian charity to bind us together in meeting common needs? Where is the invisible hand to lift up the poor and provide adequate opportunity to achieve minimum financial needs? I submit it is busy in the pockets of the wealthy, delivering government benefits that frame their success, of a kind the poor will never see.
This Christmas season we must vow to change how we treat the poor with our votes… in 2024 and beyond. Republican politicians are not listening. Voting them out of office is the only thing they might understand.
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