Category: The Farrell Report

Teacher unions must aggressively recruit more allies, as their adversaries are doing to their free market ideology, based on the strength of their message of equity and commitment to our democracy. That was the basis of the Democrats’ midterm victories. That approach needs to be upgraded and expanded among unions, their members, and their staffs.

Teachers held the advance of public school privatization at bay in the 2018 midterms, but the battle will become fiercer as we approach 2020 when everything will be on the ballot - public schools, democracy, and our way of life.

America’s Republican Party is concerned about the rising numbers of ethnic minorities - Hispanics, African Americans, Asian and Pacific Islanders, and American Indians and Alaskan Natives - who are projected, collectively, to become the nation’s majority population by 2040 or earlier.

Since Trump has come out swinging after the midterms, firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and installing a flunky replacement who will fire or restrict the duties of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Democrats must be strategic in their responses. They need to be patient and not fall into Trump’s trap of creating a scenario where he pits himself as the victim against the radical, left-wing Democrats.

He has become a drag on Republican candidates, even in deep red states, with the obvious untruths that he utters with abandon. Trump’s handling of the package bombs and the Tree of Life genocide has reduced his approval rating from 45% to 40%.

Trump is serving as a one man get-out-the-vote (GOTV) machine that is unrivaled by any Democratic leader. He is traveling the country with a vicious and succinct message that demeans immigrants and minorities, emboldens white nationalists, taunts women, promotes white male privilege, and claims that fraudulent voting is rampant among minorities.

public school educators need to organize their votes to ensure that they tip the scales in the Democrats favor, and make it a priority to hold them accountable as they represent the best choices for their future.

the Democrats seem to be once again relying on their standing in the polls and the enthusiasm of their voters as they have begun their victory laps for the November 6th election rather than organizing on the ground.

He would deal a death blow to women’s reproductive rights (which are already under siege) by being the kingpin in overturning Roe v. Wade. BK could retard the voting rights of minorities at the same time they are rapidly becoming the collective U.S. demographic majority. That is one of the reasons the Republicans are pushing for BK to be confirmed for the court term that began this week.