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Month: November 2025

Creative States Attempt and End Run Around Citizens United

Published on November 27, 2025November 27, 2025 by Brynne VanHettinga

Campaign finance reform is an issue that has supporters on both the left and the right. We the People are waking up and connecting the stranglehold of big money on our electoral process with the fact that we have been working harder for decades with stagnating wages and skyrocketing costs of necessities. According to Public […]

The Perils and Promise of an Article V Convention

Published on November 27, 2025November 27, 2025 by Brynne VanHettinga

Today—when our Constitution, the rule of law, the common welfare, and even truth itself is under constant attack—our instinct is to protect and preserve this nearly 250-year experiment in democracy, particularly our Constitution. Our Constitution was the first of its kind—a blueprint for rule by the “people” and not a king. The founders also anticipated […]

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The Great Jobs Deception is based on a doctoral dissertation study of underemployment among professionals in STEM, health care, legal and academic occupations.  Underemployment of highly educated and skilled individuals represents a waste of human capital both for the individual and for society as a whole.  Yet, our unemployment statistics are not capturing what is happening in the job market–and the threat it presents for economic progress and civil society.

Learn the lost history and real meaning of Labor Day.  Why do Americans celebrate Labor Day in September instead of May, as nearly every other nation does?  While Memorial Day and Fourth of July celebrate military service and victories of war, we tend to associate Labor Day with back-to-school shopping and backyard barbeques.  Yet the war against workers continues today, although it has taken more seemingly innocuous form.

 

 

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