Because outside Lansing and Detroit and a few other select spots, Michigan is a grand expanse of redneck militia good ole’ boys as far as the eye can see. 

Havent had a lede warm my heart like this in a while. Kudos Michigan!

As a resident of West Michigan (not in Glanville’s district but very close) I and my coworkers were thrilled to wake up to this news today. Whitmer has been promising to get our state’s abortion trigger law off the books for (I think) at least a year now, and she reiterated that point on Tuesday, but I’m still waiting…

Politico sent an email to staffers this week to encourage them to take their accounts private this week to prevent harassment related to the SCOTUS leak story. Elon’s fanboys harassed an Associated Press journalist to the point where he took his account private. This happened 2-3 months ago after an entirely…

Georgia was definitely a pretty red state when I moved there in 2008. Like many young professionals, I was seeking work in the blue dot known as Atlanta. Even some of the metro Atlanta suburbs have changed from red to purple to now blue, since I’ve been here. I don’t see myself moving anytime soon, although I do have…

Let’s start by assuming most people who can afford to travel to obtain a legal abortion in the nearest state will continue to do so. (Including the daughters and wives of “conservative” politicians who will make sure they pay cash.)

No one should have to travel, let alone pack up and move, to access basic health care like abortion or gender-affirming health services.

He’s a dumbass like Trump, that’s used to running his own company and having his own way, and just like that dumbass did, he’s also going to get a lot of people killed.

The first is not backing up the Reconstruction Amendments with fire and brimstone.

It can also be ableist. I’ve lived in Florida since my late teens and hate the direction things have gone here over the last 12 or so years (I was obviously younger and more naïve when I moved here originally, but at the time I remember things seeming like they were headed in a positive direction for the state) and…

That would only be true in the “purple” states that have a strong Republican showing in the offices that draw the maps. Actually, it would be best if people from the strong blue states migrated to those battleground places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

It’s even simpler than that: If you run from a bully, THEY FOLLOW YOU. 

Look, I got nothing. What else do you want people to say to you? “Stick it out” is brutal. “Change things” is impossible under minority rule, not to mention the most vulnerable don’t have the brain cycles for all this politicking and activism.

I live in Texas and it’s unfortunate that I cannot star this comment more than once. When I could have moved I was younger and idealistic and had hope that things could change because Obama had been elected! And now that we cannot afford to move, and this state has been further entrenched in Republican terrorism, and…

states right has been political bullshit since Dredd Scott. Conservatives only believe in one thing, that they are the rightful rulers. If they win nationally they rule. if they don’t win nationally then everyone else has to defer to states where they do win.

Finally someone gets it.

Gerrymandering is trivial to defeat. Gerrymandering creates a small number of ultra safe opposing seats, and a large number of actually very marginal friendly seats as they spread out just enough people to cover the very divided seats while herding the opposition into a few seats that are now ultra safe, but small in…

The problem with this take is the insane states have become so good at gerrymandering that all increases in their population do is help ensure the House of Reps will never have a progressive majority. 

Stop telling people in red states to move, start telling people in blue states to move to red states. Remember the lessons of Bleeding Kansas, where whole families picked up and moved into an actual warzone to ensure the state flipped the way they wanted.

I grew up in a very red state (which I did eventually move out of as an adult), and I always hated that logic. People just boil huge geographic areas down to “blue” or “red” and forget that even in my deep red home state, like 40% of the votes were against Republicans.