Why Such a Fuss over Transgenders?

  This essay was submitted by Arthur C. Donart, Ph. D. For reasons of insanity, many Republican politicians have made a great issue of which restroom a transgendered person should be allowed to use–as if this was an issue of National survival.  I cannot...

House Democrats Take Action to Protect the Right to Vote

  Ahead of the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” and the historic Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, AL, Congressman Eric Sorensen joined his House Democratic colleagues, to reintroduce H.R. 14, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement...

Representative Spain Shares Fight for Fair Maps

  Editor’s note:  Left-to-right are IL House of Representatives Tony McCombie, Ryan Spain, and Dan Ugaste. At the request of the Illinois Supreme Court, Illinois House Republicans filed a brief with the Illinois Supreme Court last week, to further argue the...

Sorensen is Fierce Advocate Against Reckless Cuts

  Congressman Eric Sorensen has fought back against efforts to dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service (NWS.)  He recently raised alarms about the impact cuts would have on Americans’ ability to...