When the right to vote is aggressively suppressed in many states, our democracy is threatened.
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China & Russia: Yes, we should be concerned about China and Russia being major threats to America. However, at this moment in time (August 2022) some American citizens are actively attempting to destroy America. No other issue this country currently has is of greater importance than protecting democracy.
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Gun Control: Seventy percent of Americans think enacting new gun control laws should take precedence over protecting gun ownership rights, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll. |
Supreme Court Term Limits: More than two-thirds of Americans believe Supreme Court justices should be subject to term limits or a set retirement age, according to a new AP-NORC poll that highlights the growing disapproval among Americans of the conservative-majority top court that recently handed down key rulings to overturn the right to abortion and block gun control measures, implemented by states.
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Puerto Rico Statehood: After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in late 2017, more than a third of U.S. adults agreed that the response to the disaster would have been quicker if Puerto Rico had been a state. In a 2019 Gallup Poll, two-thirds of the public favored admitting Puerto Rico as a state.
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Washington D.C. Statehood: About one in four Americans (27 percent) currently say they are not sure what to think about giving statehood to Washington, D.C. Currently it is estimated that three in five Democrats favor making Washington, D.C. a state, compared to 14 percent of Republicans.
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Schools: Public schools are not supposed to be religion based, certainly not a solitary religion whose goal is to teach conservative Christianity. Religious freedom in America should not be narrowed to the Christian religion and no religion should be taught in public schools. |
Trump's Mental Health: Nearly 60,000 mental health professionals have diagnosed Donald Trump's mental health, a narcissistic symbiosis and shared psychosis with many of his followers. Here is an excellent article published in Scientific American that should alarm voters. Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications. Scientific American maintains a strict policy of editorial independence in reporting developments in science to their readers. |
The Harvard Political Review is a quarterly, nonpartisan American magazine and website on politics and public policy founded in 1969 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It covers domestic and international affairs and political events, as well as political discourse at Harvard. It also conducts interviews with political figures and experts. The magazine was founded by a group of Harvard undergraduates, including Al Gore, as a publication that allowed students to research, write, and edit political commentary in a thoughtful, non-partisan forum. To this day, the HPR does not take magazine-wide editorial positions. While individual articles have distinct viewpoints, the magazine as a whole does not represent any ideology or party. |
Since 2004: A Starry Night Productions has worked with creative artists who are affiliated with various political parties including traditional Republicans. The majority of our traditional Republican friends say the "Trump MAGA Republican Party" does not represent them. They say they no longer have a party.
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Gerrymandering: In representative democracies, gerrymandering is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent of creating undue advantage for a party, group, or socio-economic class within the constituency.
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