Texas Destroys Roe v Wade! Backlash is Coming!
What Texas Law S.B. 8 Does to a Woman's Right to Make Decisions About Her Body This spring, the Texas legislature dropped the charade that its years-long campaign to shutter abortion clinics...
How to Fix the Supreme Court
A Way to Make Supreme Court More Aligned with American Culture Republicans have been on a mission. Their mission has been to pack the federal courts with young, far right...
Will Gen Z Activism Beat Trump + GOP?
When I get down about what is happening in America with Trump, the worst president we have ever had to endure in the history of this country, I cheer myself...
Too Bad Men Don’t Get Pregnant Too
If Men Got Pregnant, Abortion Would be Legal. Pretend for a minute. What if men got pregnant too? Imagine that. If men got pregnant, Roe v Wade would not...
Why Republicans Are Leaving Trump and the GOP: What I Learned From a Former Republican
The other day I went to a dinner party at a country club and sat next to a lifelong Republican businessman who left the GOP to become an Independent because...
Illinois is Now One of the Leaders in Reproductive Rights for Women
On Wednesday, June 12, 2019, J.B. Pritzker, the newly elected Democratic governor of Illinois, signed the Reproductive Health Act into law. This was after a hard fought battle in the...
GOP Lies Won All Gov’t Branches: How Do We Fight Back?
With Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, right wing political ideologues have completed their take over of all three branches of government. They cared only about winning at any cost,...
It’s High Noon in the Judiciary Committee – Why Does This Showdown Matter?
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s willingness to testify before Congress creates an exceptionally high threat level for the GOP and for Trump personally. Why? Because this is going to be the...
Trump and the GOP Are Doing to Our Country What Bin Laden Failed to Do
Sheila Markin is a former Assistant US Attorney. She helps people to understand in plain English what is going on in US politics today. Subscribe to the blog so you...