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New Spartanburg County, South Carolina courthouse opens to public

After years of planning, saving, and building, Spartanburg County opened its brand-new courthouse to the public Monday.

Voters say Price is right for County Clerk; Strunk stays as Coroner

Tim Price ran under the slogan, “This is Tim. Vote for him.”

Advocates demand Texas businesses speak out against restrictive voting bills

Share this - copied Voting rights advocates are ramping up pressure on Texas businesses to speak out against Republican efforts to restrict voting. Charlie Bonner, Communications Director of MOVE Texas and Chris Hollins, Former County Clerk in Harris County joined American Voices with Alicia Menendez to discuss efforts on the ground to fight back in the attack on democracy.  April 4, 2021 ReadMore

Texas GOP ramps up attacks against voting access

A Warning From a Democrat in a Red State

The Atlantic A Warning From a Democrat in a Red State Democrats need to see beyond an electoral map to acknowledge that people are pushing for liberal ideas even in the reddest of areas. January 3, 2021 A demonstration in Berea, Kentucky (Meg Wilson) As a novelist, I often travel the country to talk about my books. During those events, almost invariably someone will ask me why my home state of Kentucky is so conservative. Many of these people ask why we’ve kept Mitch McConnell in office for almost 36 years. They take their anger at him out on me. Once, a fellow writer told me I shouldn’t have been invited to a literary conference because of my state’s complicity in McConnell’s obstructionism during Barack Obama’s presidency. “Aren’t you ashamed to be a Kentuckian?” he asked, spittle flying from his lips. Recently, during a virtual event while I was discussing the theme of forgiveness in my novels, a woman typed into the comments: “I guess we’ll just have to