Southern Progressives

Today, the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, was arraigned on criminal charges. Again. This time, it was on charges that should shake even the former president’s strongest supporters to the core, although it's highly unlikely that they will. That is not to say that the charges Trump faces in New York or the federal charges of gross mishandling of classified documents and obstruction Mar-a-Lago are not important, because they are. But it is the charges related Trump’s efforts to circumvent the results of the 2020 presidential election that speak most directly to who the man is and the accountability that the Constitution demands of him. We demand that accountability too. We are entitled to it—not the lock him up chants that Trump himself would use against perceived enemies, but the people’s justice, in an American courtroom, with all the due process a defendant should receive.

The bottom line here is that Trump and his co-conspirators were not only willing but planning to recreate Reagan’s and Nixon’s Kent State slaughter on a nationwide basis...

In Nashville, progressive Democrat Aftyn Behn will heat to the Tennessee General Assembly, pledging to back the "Tennessee Three."

The mayor and vice mayor of Athens, Tennessee, didn't violate city ethics policies when they called on the McMinn County Library board to remove an LGBTQ+ Pride display in a public library in June, the city's attorney found.