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A San Diego Force for Good Passes On

Headshot of Kelly Davis via the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists, where she was Journalist of the Year in 2023. Background photos of those who died in custody in San Diego jails via Saving Lives in Custody California.

It’s go...

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Progressive Primary Wins, a Cowardly Congress, and Corruption Like You’ve Never Seen Before

It’s the middle of 2026, and there is big news from all over the national political landscape.

Big Money has become an issue in primary contests as voters see PAC and SuperPAC support as symbols of the economic inequalities and frustration...

6 days ago

Commies Are Not Coming to Burn Down Your Church

When you don’t have anything positive to promise or say when running for office, fear is the only tool at your disposal. We’re seeing a lot of fear words and anecdotes these days, and it’s a (sort of) bipartisan thing.

There’s a pile-on in...

7 days ago
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America at 250: “My Mind is My Own Church”

“Our minds are our own churches, and we need to recognize that it is as American as apple pie to reject all “human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”

It was a stunning summer evening on the...

8 days ago
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Trump's Giving a 250th Party and Nobody Cares

A highlight of summers in Washington, DC since 1967, the Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival was pushed out of the nation’s capitol the year by the Trump-branded Great American State Fair.

The plug got pulled for the Folklife Festival back in...

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    Writer, Progressive Political Activist. San Diego elections are a thing for me, but I cover a lot of things. I lost my vocal chords to cancer, keyboard is my voice. #BLM

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