👉 Check out our new blog featuring our fair courts friend Billy Corriher on what it takes to have a fair and just court system. Read here: ohiofaircourts.org/post/what…

NEW 📽️! Former Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor said it's “informative, engaging, and effective in conveying its message.” Find out what it means to truly have fair courts that work for everybody! youtube.com/watch?v=CeOnnlo2…

Check out our new video about what a strong judicial system SHOULD look like! youtube.com/watch?v=CeOnnlo2…

Opinion by Ray Marciano Stench from Trump's Cleveland raid turning stomachs miles away. The DOJ and its Trumpian puppets don’t do themselves any favors when they essentially tell people the justification for the raid is no one’s business, at least not yet. dispatch.com/story/opinion/c…

JFK gave best speech of his life, this week 1963, at American University: “If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. . . .We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

A tidbit from some records I got last month: When DHS requested voter info from the Franklin County BOE earlier this year, an agent asked about OOC and other third-party groups that register voters.

JFK to nation on civil rights, tonight 1963: "We are confronted primarily with a moral issue": Brief video link: youtube.com/shorts/jyBRegwmy…

RT @KatyAShanahan: ire due (always tbh) at Kasich, but worth a reminder that the bipartisan tax breaks in place *right now* cost our commun…

ICYMI: @Russo4Ohio, the Ohio Dems' SOS nominee, said some of the GOP's absentee voter ID bill was "actually workable." But she said the bill was rushed, noting typos & unanswered ?s, like who determines if a voter qualifies for the bill's many exemptions cleveland.com/news/2026/06/o…

NEW: Ohio lawmakers worked for two days to pass as many bills as they could before going on summer recess. Here are some of the bigger items that passed — and failed — overnight. @WEWS @WCPO @OhioCapJournal news5cleveland.com/news/poli…

With industry groups saying the bill goes too far and residents saying it doesn’t go far enough, the question hanging over Wednesday’s vote is whether this is real reform, a heavy-handed mistake, or Ohio closing the barn door after the horses escaped. cleveland.com/news/2026/06/n…

“When we listen, talk and connect, we replace confrontation with cooperation, and tension with trust.” – On Wednesday’s International Day for Dialogue Among Civilizations, @antonioguterres reflects on the power of dialogue to address global challenges. un.org/en/observances/intern…

Latest on data centers in Ohio: "Amazon, Meta and Google are benefitting from the 100% sales tax break for any facility they build statewide through at least 2055, 2056 and 2058, according to contract documents obtained by the Statehouse News Bureau." statenews.org/government-pol…

Ohio inked a secret 40 year agreement that gives AT LEAST $2.3 billion in tax giveaways to out-of-state tech giants and nobody knew about it? signalohio.org/ohio-committe…

The fight in Tennessee is bigger than one map. Across the country, we're seeing a coordinated push to weaken Black voting power and redraw the lines of our democracy. We just joined the NAACP Tennessee State Conference, impacted voters, and co-counsels the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and LDF to file a motion to block Tennessee's newly enacted congressional map, which dismantles the state's only majority-Black district. We're asking the court to act now, before the 2026 elections, because the harm here cannot be undone. Once ballots are cast under an unfair map, Black voters can lose representation that no ruling can give back. "Make no mistake, what we are seeing in Tennessee and across the South is an undeniable effort to strip Black voters of their power and their voice." —@KristenClarkeJD, NAACP General Counsel naacp.org/articles/naacp-fil…

Among other things, HB 251, a drone regulation bill, 1) Gives the GOVT a blank check to surveil all of us, all the time, without a warrant, if we are outside/in car, 2) Makes it a crime for YOU (incl. news media) to view someone else - even whole crowds - w/o their permission.

Redistricting efforts across the South could mean about a third fewer Black members of Congress, the Congressional Black Caucus has warned, and a correspondingly large drop in Black power in Washington. usatoday.com/story/news/nati…

Ohio Supreme Court to weigh cities’ flavored tobacco bans, which has big implications for home rule dispatch.com/story/news/poli… via @DispatchAlerts

“Maine adopted legislation three years ago imposing a sweeping ban on charging utility customers for the costs of partisan activity, lobbying, charitable contributions, and trade associations generally. New Hampshire’s counterpart law… is much narrower. theloosefish.substack.com/p/…

For the last 1.5 years, the Ohio House Medicaid Committee has been working to protect the taxpayer while serving our most vulnerable citizens. As a member of this committee, I can attest that especially over the past few weeks, both sides of the aisle have been working together to honestly find policies to eliminate fraud, waste, & abuse. Last week, Speaker Huffman added three members of leadership to the Medicaid Committee. These three have taken over the process from the chair, and yesterday they presented a 177-page substitute bill that had been released just a few hours before committee began. This was an ambush! Turns out, the details of this sub bill has provisions in it that totally blow up Medicaid in Ohio and will have the exact opposite effect of what we have been working towards. Last General Assembly we had a rule that required all amendments and sub bills to be available by midnight the day before adopted (The Cinderella Rule). This rule gave some time for amendments to be read; however, this rule was eliminated in this GA. The result has been that time and time again, members have been forced to take votes before seeing the bill, and then only later getting the details. Yesterday, leadership hid the ball again, and in doing so, left the original members of the committee who weren’t part of crafting the sub bill holding the bag. This is the latest example of the style of leadership the Ohio House is under.—do what we say or else. Believe me, I know firsthand! And most unfortunately, this trick yesterday probably wasted an opportunity to truly protect the taxpayer. We were on a path to make major and positive reforms to Medicaid in Ohio to weed out Fraud, Waste, and Abuse; however, now with this sub bill and the way it was handled, how can we trust what we are being told by leadership? Simply put, we cannot. Oh, and to be clear, I’m a “No” on this SubBill.