No Primary Colors

This isn’t about registering to vote. If you have to be convinced of that, this note won’t do it. This is for the millions of registered voters who only vote when there’s a big presidential election, or possibly a highly publicized even-year midterm (I’m looking at you, unaffiliated voters). Why? Even year November elections are easy. There’s a lot of …

These Boots Are Made for (a Legislative) Walkout

Watching the news last night, the anchor explained Texas Democrats left the state to avoid a quorum. The “Translating Politics Into English” bells started ringing in my head: No one knows what a quorum is, except the small percentage working in this world, and high schoolers currently enrolled in a government class. There’s really no reason anyone else should retain …