Voting Rights – The Motley Moose

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Holding Vigil for One of Our Founding “Meeses” – Denise Velez (Updated)

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July 13, 2026 8

Back in September 2008, a group of like minded people gathered at the Motley Moose to talk about politics and how they could promote politicians and political causes that would change people’s lives for the [...]