The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – In the Trump era, catching election night results on television became a dreaded task, watching democracy go up in red flames. Not so at the end of the Trump era, when America voters showed up in huge droves to repudiate the damage he’s done to our country…
Staff Report – With Election Day approaching on Nov. 3, Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville commands a huge lead over former Senator and Democrat Doug Jones in the Alabama governor’s race with only two weeks to go, according to the latest poll. A new Alabama poll, commissioned by Alabama Daily News and Gray Television, shows Tuberville…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – As I sit here in the coolness and fog while the rest of the world burns, looking out at what’s happening “out there” through a big computer screen, I see that my old friend Doug Jones is working hard to make inroads with…
ON THE RADIO – APR, NPR – “Bloody Sunday” through the lens of Spider Martin By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As people get ready to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts just…
“Tuberville lives in Auburn, Alabama, with his wife Suzanne.” — website of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — We’ve often reported that former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville is not a resident of Alabama. Republican voters elected him as a U.S. Senator anyway. Now the Washington Post Fact Checker has proved…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Most people around the country have now found out about Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville’s one-man filibuster of military promotions. It’s been covered all over cable TV and shared all over social media. He’s made it clear — by not being clear — that he’s against women in the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some people say you shouldn’t talk about politics at family gatherings on holidays like Thanksgiving, as incendiary as that can be these days. But as power is shifting in the nation’s capital city and the Capitol building, and with juicy political plums to be plucked after Christmas, you…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The news is not as huge as an indictment and show trial of former President Donald Trump would be. But the announcement by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that he will retire at the end of this court term and give President Joe Biden a chance to nominate…
Sierra Club’s Michael Brune Resigns Amid Accusations of Racism by John Muir – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Buried under the avalanche of disaster news of late — hurricanes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Covid surge — there are a few important developments in the headlines that most news…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the risk of giving Georgia’s nut job Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene more of the kind of press and attention she craves, and her followers more reason to double down and give her money like they do former White House con man Donald Trump, let’s just say Green…
By Glynn Wilson – Senator Doug Jones of Alabama is still in the running to be picked for President-Elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet, in the Department of Justice perhaps as U.S. Attorney General, according to knowledgable sources in Washington. Jones’ three main advantages are his well established record on civil rights, his long standing personal relationship…
Click the map to create your own here – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — It’s the day after Election Day 2020 and there’s still no declared winner in the presidential race, although as the absentee and mail-in votes are counted today and this week in key battleground states, experts are still giving the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — From the beaches of Gulf Shores to Lookout Mountain, Alabama has one more chance to be something and matter in the United States of America in something other than football. But first the people must reject electing a former football coach with no experience in politics, government and…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama and other Senators returned to Washington this week to face a power play by President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the Supreme Court seat left open by last week’s death of popular liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at 87. “I’m saddened…
Biden Leads in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Colorado – By Glynn Wilson – Democrats should be able to issue a collective sigh of relief at least for a few minutes in the first week of September as the Democratic Party’s ticket for president, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, still holds an eight point lead nationally…
“The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.” – Theodore H. White By Glynn Wilson – “Politics and money go together like whiskey and cocaine,” a Republican friend of mine used to say. “You can do one without the other, but it’s not quite the same.” I could get…
By Glynn Wilson – In a world upended by the coronavirus and resulting economic recession, Democrats are taking to the internet this week and scrambling to reach out to all Americans willing to listen to offer a sane alternative to Donald Trump in the White House and Republicans in the United States Senate with a…
By Glynn Wilson – A group of United States Senators, including Doug Jones of Alabama, is urging President Donald Trump’s recently appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to provide answers regarding reports of recent changes to long-standing practices at the U.S. Postal Service, changes that would result in increased delivery times and costs for election mail,…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama blasted President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a statement Saturday night in the wake of the president’s signing of executive orders claiming to extend unemployment benefits, in the absence of action in the Senate to provide a second round of stimulus…
By Glynn Wilson – The deadly, novel coronavirus is still spreading across the land. The number of reported deaths from COVID-19 are still going up. The economy is stalling again, and millions of Americans just exhausted their federally subsidized unemployment benefits. The House is still in session in Washington, D.C. working on a new economic…
