The Motley Moose
  • Home
  • Featured Posts
  • Editors’ Choice
  • News & Opinion
    • Biden-Harris White House
    • Motley Megaphone
    • It Takes a Village
    • Obama White House
  • Just Grazin’
    • Fiction
    • Our World in Images
  • Community
  • The Moose
    • Recent Post Feed
    • Comment Feed
    • Moose Admin Posts
    • FAQ – Getting Started
    • FAQ – How to Log In
    • FAQ – How to Compose a Post
    • About
  • My Moose
HomeVoting Rights

Voting Rights

Democratic Party Values

President Biden: “What the states are doing is the most dangerous threat to the integrity of free and fair elections in our history.”

July 14, 2021 JanF 6

From the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia – President Biden: In 2020, election officials, the entire electoral system, withstood unrelenting political attacks, physical threats, intimidation, and pressure. They did so with unyielding courage and faith […]

Editors' Choice

Fighting Back: “Our health care is still under attack by the Republican Party”

July 6, 2019 JanF 1

    The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Senator Doug Jones of Alabama, decrying the Republican Party’s assault on our health care. “Every time the Administration launches a new assault on our health […]

Editors' Choice

Fighting Back: “The question we’ll be asked – what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact?”

March 2, 2019 JanF 2

    This past week, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, made a strong closing statement following a hearing into the blatant criminality of Donald J. Trump – as a businessman, […]

Editors' Choice

Fighting Back: “Democrats believe that access to affordable health care is a basic human right”

June 16, 2018 JanF 3

    The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Congressman Frank Pallone of New Jersey. (Congressman Frank Pallone of New Jersey, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, delivered the Weekly […]

Blackness

VNV Tuesday: “What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have.” 1/9/18

January 9, 2018 DoReMI 12

I didn’t watch the Golden Globes on Sunday, but I have watched Oprah’s speech. For me, the line that resonated the most is the sentence used as the title of this post: “What I know […]

Editors' Choice

A team who will take on gerrymandering – Obama and Holder

October 19, 2016 Denise Velez 3

As the time draws near, when we will no longer have Barack Obama as our beloved POTUS, there has also been quite a bit of speculation about what he will do as a private citizen. […]

Election 2016

President Obama: “Democracy requires compromise”

May 9, 2016 JanF 1

President Obama spoke to the 2016 graduating class at Howard University on Saturday in what will likely be considered one of his most significant speeches. It was a call to not only the Howard graduates […]

No Picture
Editors' Choice

Fifty-One Years Ago Today: “Bloody Sunday”

March 7, 2016 JanF 2

Republishing a Post from March 7, 2015: Fifty Years Ago Today: “Bloody Sunday” ~ Rep. Terri Sewell at 1:59:20 Rep. John Lewis at 2:04:00 President Obama at 2:12:00 Transcript: Remarks by the President at the […]

Motley Megaphone

Evenwel v Voting Rights at SCOTUS

December 8, 2015 JanF 3

Today the Supreme Court hears the Evenwel v Abbott, the so-called “One Person, One Vote” case. This is the case ginned up by white rights activist Edward Blum. A Blum Bag filled with bullpucky briefs […]

Editors' Choice

Democratic Party Principles: “Civil Rights is not a political issue, it is a moral issue to be resolved through political means.”

September 28, 2015 JanF 10

On Sunday evening, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat from Massachusetts, spoke at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. She reminded us of the words of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, whose seat in […]

Posts pagination

1 2 »

Featured Posts

“Give Thanks for the Blessings”

Featured Posts
August 1, 2025 3
Happy Lammas!! Hey, wait just a minute! Those are happy llamas … which is not the same thing at all! Today is August 1st, the pagan holiday of Lammas or First Harvest. It is the [...]

Summer Sunning!

Featured Posts
June 20, 2025 3
Later today, we mark the Summer Solstice. Astronomically, it looks like this: The Summer Solstice occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is most inclined towards the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. The [...]
Featured Posts

April Showers are Bringing May Flowers!

May 1, 2025 3
At Winter Solstice, the light begins to return – gradually, the memory of the long nights fades until the light and dark are equal on Spring Equinox. From that point on,  the light returns more [...]
Featured Posts

Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

March 19, 2025 5
Tomorrow, March 20th, at 2:01am Mountain Standard Time (my time!), the Spring Equinox will occur. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is [...]
Featured Posts

Spring is in the air!

February 1, 2025 3
At the beginning of February, when much of the north appears frozen and lifeless, there are stirrings below the surface and in the sky. The light is returning; today there is nearly an hour more [...]

Recent Posts

  • Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: August 3rd August 2, 2025
  • “Give Thanks for the Blessings” August 1, 2025
  • Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: July 27th July 26, 2025
  • Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: July 20th July 19, 2025
  • Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: July 13th July 12, 2025

Legacy Motley Moose

Motley Moose – July 2008 to May 2015

Motley Moose Archives by Month

Recent Comments

  • Diana in NoVa on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: August 3rd
  • bfitzinAR on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: August 3rd
  • anotherdemocrat on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: August 3rd
  • Denise Velez on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: August 3rd
  • Denise Velez on Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: August 3rd

Blog Roll

Legacy Motley Moose – Archive

Balloon Juice
Black Kos
Booman Tribune
Charlie Pierce
Ed Kilgore – NY Mag
Horizons (Smartypants)
Norbrook’s Blog
Peter Jukes
P.M. Carpenter
Stonekettle Station
Talking Points Memo (TPM)
Washington Monthly
Wonkette

Search the Moose

Moose Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • Home
  • Editors’ Choice
  • Featured Posts
  • News and Opinion
  • Biden-Harris White House
  • The Obama White House
  • Motley Megaphone
  • It Takes a Village
  • Just Grazin’
  • Fiction
  • Our World in Images
  • Community
  • About the Motley Moose
  • FAQ – Getting Started at the Moose
  • My Moose

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
RSS NPR
  • Canada wildfires cause poor air quality in the midwest and northeast U.S. August 3, 2025
  • Pope Leo tells 1 million Catholic youths they are sign 'different world is possible' August 3, 2025
  • Senate confirms ex-Fox News host Pirro as top federal prosecutor for nation's capital August 3, 2025
  • Morning cup of coffee getting too expensive? Try Yaupon August 3, 2025
  • Who's the top dog? Wave-riding canines compete in the World Dog Surfing Championships August 3, 2025
  • Chile's plunging birth rate may foreshadow future in U.S. August 3, 2025
  • Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to 'go to hell' August 3, 2025
  • Lebanon mourns beloved artist Ziad Rahbani August 2, 2025
RSS Guardian – US News
  • Montana shooting victims named as manhunt for suspect continues August 3, 2025
  • Trump administration denies daily quota for immigration arrests August 3, 2025
  • Trinity Rodman bursts into tears after stoppage time winner in injury return August 3, 2025
  • US Boeing defense workers slated to strike after rejecting latest offer August 3, 2025
  • Pauline Ferrand-Prévot storms to stage success on way to Tour de France Femmes title August 3, 2025
  • Parenthood review – one of the crabs in David Attenborough’s new naturefest is like a 1940s movie villain August 3, 2025
  • Gunmen kidnap more than 50 people in north-west Nigeria August 3, 2025
  • Alan Davies: Think Ahead review – comedian addresses his childhood abuse in return to stage August 3, 2025
RSS Lawyers, Guns and Money Blog
  • An upgrade you can use August 3, 2025
  • Opposition to gerrymandering requires retaliatory Democratic gerrymanders August 3, 2025
  • Toward a heremeneutics of breakfast August 3, 2025
  • Taking the Temperature of the Bluegrass August 3, 2025
  • This Day in Labor History: August 3, 1931 August 3, 2025
RSS ProPublica
  • Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China August 1, 2025
  • Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools. August 1, 2025
  • “We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” July 31, 2025
  • Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People July 31, 2025
  • Now That They’re Free July 30, 2025
RSS BBC – World News
  • Chile rescuers seek final missing miner after five confirmed dead August 3, 2025
  • New Zealand woman arrested after two-year-old found in luggage August 3, 2025
  • Aid group says worker killed by Israeli military in attack on Gaza HQ August 3, 2025
  • Ukraine drone attack causes fire at Sochi oil depot, Russia says August 3, 2025
  • Israeli minister sparks anger by praying at sensitive Jerusalem holy site August 3, 2025
RSS BBC – Latin America
  • Chile rescuers seek final missing miner after five confirmed dead August 3, 2025
  • Their children can't eat, speak or walk - so forgotten Zika mothers raise them together August 3, 2025
  • Twelve years house arrest for Colombian ex-leader Álvaro Uribe August 1, 2025
  • Trump hits Brazil with 50% tariffs and sanctions judge in Bolsonaro case July 31, 2025
  • Why Trump's tariffs on Brazil are more about political retaliation than trade July 31, 2025
  • Home
  • Editors’ Choice
  • Featured Posts
  • News and Opinion
  • Biden-Harris White House
  • The Obama White House
  • Motley Megaphone
  • It Takes a Village
  • Just Grazin’
  • Fiction
  • Our World in Images
  • Community
  • About the Motley Moose
  • FAQ – Getting Started at the Moose
  • My Moose

Copyright © 2025 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes