The Progressive Midwesterner

Ladies and gentlemen, this will be the final blog post in the nearly three-year history of The Progressive Midwesterner on this website, but The Progressive Midwesterner isn’t fully going away....

https://progressivemidwesterner.wordpress.com/2017/06/24/starting-july-1-the-progressive-midwesterner-will-move-to-medium/

I proudly endorse ironworker, U.S. Army veteran, and cancer survivor Randy Bryce for the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congressional District of Wisconsin, which is currently held by U.S. Hous...

https://progressivemidwesterner.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/endorsement-randy-bryce-for-the-1st-congressional-district-of-wisconsin/

Yesterday, Democrats lost the 6th Congressional District of Georgia special election runoff, with far-right Republican candidate Karen Handel defeating Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff by slightly...

https://progressivemidwesterner.wordpress.com/2017/06/21/why-nancy-pelosi-wont-step-down-at-least-for-now/

Today, Virginians will go to the polls to vote on major-party nominees for Governor of Virginia and other state offices. The most intriguing race on the Virginia ballot today is the Democratic pr...

https://progressivemidwesterner.wordpress.com/2017/06/13/tom-perriello-is-a-fighter-for-virginia-period/

Tomorrow, Puerto Ricans will go to the polls to vote on whether Puerto Rico should continue with an undemocratic status quo regarding Puerto Rico’s political status, become a sovereign country ...

https://progressivemidwesterner.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/puerto-rico-statehood-could-give-the-u-s-more-trouble-than-anything-else/

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This blog post was originally published at DailyKos, and this blog post has been republished to The Progressive Midwestern by its original author. Given the fact that I am a stau...

https://progressivemidwesterner.wordpress.com/2017/06/01/thoughts-on-trumps-paris-accord-exit-from-an-isolationist-redneck-in-a-coal-town-in-illinois/

It’s another odd-numbered year, so there’s another state budget debate in Wisconsin. However, this time, the Republicans aren’t just pulling out the “Madison liberal!!!” card to attack ...

https://progressivemidwesterner.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/wisconsin-gop-state-legislator-isthmuswashes-democratic-state-legislator/

We are just a couple of days short of being five months into what is supposed to be a four-year term of Donald Trump being President of the United States, but developments in the last few days or...

https://progressivemidwesterner.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-trump-administration/

I don’t think that this is the most ethical thing to do for me, since I’m currently serving a two-year term as an election judge in Vermilion County, but I proudly endorse the candidacy of Bo...

https://progressivemidwesterner.wordpress.com/2017/05/14/endorsement-bob-daiber-for-governor-of-illinois/

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This blog post contains a description of sexual assault. Reader discretion is advised. I fully understand that this story isn’t going to get a ton of attention anywhere because...

https://progressivemidwesterner.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/trigger-warning-stealthing-is-rape/