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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Colby Etherton  For nearly a year, rank and file Democrats in Congress had been negotiating on what would’ve been the largest reimagining of the government’s role in public life since the New Deal. President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda encompassed initiatives to address climate change, universal pre-K, expansion of the child tax credit, free