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What have Democrats accomplished during lame-duck session? 

By Colby Etherton On January 3, 2023, the 118th Congress was sworn in. While Democrats maintained and even improved upon their lead in the Senate, they did narrowly lose the House to Republicans — something that was expected, but by a smaller margin than most were anticipating. The House currently stands at 222 seats for

  • January 4, 2023
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A Midterms Recap | So much for the red… droplet 

By Colby Etherton For months, the narrative on the midterms was that Democrats were facing an inevitable shellacking. Not just because of historical precedent (which points to how rare it is for Presidents to gain seats in Congress during their first midterm cycle, with few exceptions — such as Republicans expanding on their majority in

  • December 6, 2022
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Midterm season is here

By Colby Etherton After a slow march toward midterm season, the midterm elections have finally arrived. In mere days, the nation will turn out and vote on hundreds of races that will dictate the makeup of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. It’s been a strange midterm season, where the narrative hasn’t followed

  • November 7, 2022
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STATE OF THE SENATE | Will Democrats retain a majority?

By Colby Etherton  With midterm elections just over a month away, the campaign trail is heating up and the plethora of political ads are about to come crashing in. Conventional wisdom is that in a midterm cycle, the party that is not in the White House tends to gain seats in both the House and

  • October 4, 2022
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Inflation Reduction Act and Student Loans: Biden scores win on agenda, campaign promise 

By Colby Etherton  Much has happened in Washington the past several weeks, from the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act to President Biden announcing that $10,000 to $20,000 in student loan debt will be forgiven. The Inflation Reduction Act, for its part, is a much smaller version of Build Back Better, a massive piece of

  • September 7, 2022
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Same-sex marriage has potential to be codified into law 

By Colby Etherton  In light of Roe v. Wade being overturned in June and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ opinion he wrote for the case insinuating that previously settled cases like same-sex marriage and contraception should be revisited, Democrats are attempting to codify same-sex marriage into law to protect the rights of same-sex couples

  • August 3, 2022
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Supreme Court Overturns ‘Roe v Wade’ 

By Colby Etherton  On June 24, the Supreme Court undid fifty years of precedent and ruled that women do not have a constitutional right to an abortion. Immediately, bans went into effect in multiple states. Some states had trigger laws on the books that would immediately go into effect upon Roe v Wade being struck

  • July 5, 2022
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‘Roe v. Wade’ expected to be overturned 

By Colby Etherton  A leaked Politico report recently revealed that five of the nine sitting Supreme Court justices (Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Cavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch) privately voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that deemed abortion a federally protected constitutional right. While initial votes on cases sometimes change before

  • June 1, 2022
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How are the 2022 midterms looking? 

By Colby Etherton  With less than six months to go until the 2022 midterms, there is anxiety in the Democratic Party as to whether they will be able to hold on to either chamber of Congress. There is historical precedence for the party that wins the White House losing seats in the midterm election that

  • May 5, 2022
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‘RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 14’: The Never-Ending Season 

By Colby Etherton  This month, I’ve taken a departure from writing about current affairs to writing about a show I love but, boy, has been quite the snail race this season.  RuPaul’s Drag Race continues to expand its popularity into the mainstream, becoming a multi-Emmy winning staple of reality television. There is typically some iteration

  • April 6, 2022
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