By Butch Freedman Kakistocracy: A system where leaders lack the skill, ethics, or knowledge to govern well, leading to widespread failure and corruption. It’s been nothing but ugly since trump and…
Category: Politics
SENATOR JEFF MERKLEY HOSTS “America in Jeopardy” to Spotlight Trump’s Corruption, Chaos, and Costs to American Families (VIDEO)
(Washington, D.C.) – In a new video, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley hosts his colleagues Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Tina Smith (D-MN) in presenting the ‘America…
Trump’s Ranking of U.S. Presidents?
By Vic Affolter Trump’s August 27th ranking of U.S. presidents provides a revealing contrast with the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey of 154 presidential historians and political science scholars. Trump’s…
Let’s Talk Tillamook: Voting Rights and the SAVE Act – Interview with Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read
A conversation with Oregon Secretary of State, Tobias Read on Voting Rights & the SAVE Act This Q&A is based on an interview by Shaena Peterson with Oregon Secretary of…
MANY THINGS CONSIDERED: America at the Reckoning Point
“No death is so sad and final as the death of an illusion.” – Arthur Koestler By Marc C. Johnson Labor Day, the unofficial start of the political campaign season,…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: Things That Matter
Doorsteps, democracy, and the things politics tends to forget. EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege” Oregon legislator and…
MANY THINGS CONSIDERED: A Story That Cannot Be Ignored
“[Trump] should divest. Divest from nuclear fusion, social media and cryptocurrency,” Richard Painter, Bush Administration ethics official. By Marc C. Johnson Friends: I’ve been writing a lot about the new Trump…
BUTCH’S BLOG: Don’t Look Away
By Butch Freedman With the mid-term elections only two months away, I’m feeling both hopeful and increasingly nervous. If we were still dealing with a functioning democracy, I would not be…
AMERICA 250: UNAFFILIATED
What we inherit and what we choose By Michelle Jenck, M Ed I have a general theory that Republicans want people to change, and Democrats want Republicans to change. It’s tempting…
Indivisible Tillamook Coast Action Dogs for Democracy Parade and Picnic Aug. 29th
A Family-Friendly Event – ITCA Dogs for Democracy Parade & Picnic Saturday, August 29, 2026 Noon-2 pm Hoquarton Park –11 Main Ave – East of Veterans Memorial on Front St., Tillamook,…
