Author: Erin Dobson

Testimonies during Tuesday’s House Select Committee’s investigation of the January 6th insurrection were gut-wrenching, and at times difficult to watch.

Exercise your duty as a citizen to show up, stand up, and get involved with issues in your state and country.

Look around the country and you’ll see a nation under siege. Authoritarianism is threatening the very fabric of our society.

According to the latest PBS News Hour poll, 2 out of 3 of Americans believe democracy in the United States is under threat.

There has never been a more fragile time for our democracy. If we don’t stand together, and stand up to protect the values of our system, we risk losing the freedoms our founders created.

What better time than during the celebration of our independence to talk about how to keep our democracy strong.

This week, we took a poll and found that most of you read local news only sometimes, to an average of 1-3 times a week.

Democracy is a fragile thing; it needs the ongoing work of everyone to keep it alive or we will lose it altogether.