New Poll: More Than Half Of Michiganders Disagree With The War In Iran

By Progress Michigan | April 30, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENews from Progress Michigan April 30, 2026 Contact: Levi Teitel, [email protected] New Poll: More Than Half Of Michiganders Disagree With The War In Iran Michiganders are also cutting back due to gasoline prices MICHIGAN – Recent polling conducted by Progress Michigan, in partnership with Public Policy Polling, shows that 57 percent of Michiganders disagree with the Trump administration’s…Read More

One Word of Objection or Werewolves of Washington

By [email protected] | April 30, 2026
By David Glenn Cox The bigger they are, the harder they fall. The higher you fly, the greater the crash. Everything in style today goes out of style and is eventually laughed at. There are four states of matter: liquid, solid, gas, and American public. The public says they are so through with Donald Trump. His polling in the low…Read More

SCOTUS Guts the Voting Rights Act. This is a Crisis.

By Joe Voeller | April 29, 2026
April 29,2026 The Democracy Alliance today issued the following statement: “Today’s Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais effectively dismantles Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, one the most hard-won achievements of the civil rights movement. It is a body-blow to our democracy and a direct attack on Black political power.  Yet, we are not surprised. The right has…Read More

‘Tragic day for the freedom to vote’: Supreme Court guts remnants of Voting Rights Act

By Brett Wilkins | April 29, 2026
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on April 29, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Louisiana must redraw its 2024 congressional map—which created a second majority-Black district to mitigate persistent barriers to equal representation—in a decision that further guts the already tattered Voting Rights Act. The justices ruled 6-3 along ideological…Read More

“Friends, Romans, Republicans, Lend Me Your Ears;

By [email protected] | April 29, 2026
By David Glenn Cox I’m not a big fan of Jimmy Kimmel. I don’t watch his program. I don’t dislike him; he could drink at the bar with us. I didn’t really think his joke about Malaria Trump was particularly funny. Death is rarely ever funny, but I don’t blame Kimmel. I’m not incensed or outraged; we live in extreme…Read More

Emergency Planning: The President Is Preparing to Challenge 2026 Midterms. The Country Can Still Act to Protect Them.

By Jonathan Winer | April 29, 2026
National polling currently places President Trump’s approval rating at 40 percent or lower. Most models and prediction markets expect the 2026 congressional elections to shift control of the House, and more narrowly, the Senate, to the Democrats. That outcome would trigger investigations, subpoenas, and likely impeachment proceedings directed at members of the administration. This would not be a happy outcome…Read More

Sheri Berman Says the Democratic Recession Was Not a Surprise

By democracyparadoxblog | April 29, 2026
Sheri Berman is a Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, the author of Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe, and “Democracy’s Troubles Should Be No Surprise” in the most recent issue of the Journal of Democracy. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. If democracy…Read More

It’s Gettin’ Late Early Out There

By John S. Walters | April 29, 2026
While I was preparing (an overly grandiose term for my process, TBH) for the latest edition of the “Montpelier Happy Hour” podcast with Your Host Olga Peters*, something struck me that shouldn’t have been a surprise at all. Well, two things: *Audio version available here. In a normal year, the Legislature would be steaming full-speed toward adjournment or would have…Read More