Category: The Farrell Report

Male Democratic bosses getting past their arrogance and chauvinism will determine whether Democrats or Republicans will prevail in the 2018 midterms. In the meantime, Trump and his Republican posse are sticking to their venomous and diabolical guns - anti women, anti-immigrant, anti-minority, anti-LGBT, anti-public education and teachers, and anti-children - that has served them well so far.

Democrats need to develop a unified message that will resonate in the public square.

There is no coherent, attractive message among rank-and-file Democrats who are vying for the 2018 presidential nomination or the brain trust of Democratic National Committee (DNC). Thus the outcomes, as of now, are likely to be, as noted by the late Yogi Berra, “… d�j� vu all over again.”

Without the decades-long advocacy and organizing of Paul Hubbert and Joe Reed, it is unlikely that Doug Jones would have been elected to the United States Senate. They have provided a template for how to engage voters of color and all voters for the Democratic cause.

Janus v. AFSCME (American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees) will be argued before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in 2018. Mark Janus, an AFSCME union member, is suing to eliminate the requirement that nonmembers help pay for the union's collective bargaining efforts via mandatory check-off dues.

A woman’s right to choose, LGBT rights, full funding of public education, support of voting rights and diversity, and several other social justice issues were the key factors in enabling unions to spearhead a Democratic sweep of all statewide offices by double digits in a conservative southern state, the former capital of the Confederacy, and to elect the first transgender state legislator.

the Cartel’s most recent success has derived from its funding of state legislators to create a feeder system for corporate charter schools. Laws have been passed that establish so-called Achievement, Innovation, Renaissance, etc. districts in several states.

The Cartel and the Koch Bros. have spent more than a billion dollars pushing Voter ID, charter and voucher schools, anti-collective bargaining, anti-union, anti-minimum wage, pro-gun National Rifle Association (NRA) efforts, and repeal Obama Care policies that will have a disproportionately negative impact on African Americans. They have also employed the same strategy in the white community where they have used George Mason University as a base camp to launch many of their libertarian plans.

Former President Obama and his Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whom he appointed at the Cartel’s direction, essentially set up the school privatization infrastructure that President Trump and his Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos are taking to the next level.