The Tuesday Elections Featured Important Wins for Reproductive Healthcare Rights, Abortion Access, and Constitutional Rights in General

 1). “Abortion Had a *Great* Night”, Aug 5, 2026, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-kansas-missouri >

2). “Kansas voters reject another attempt to reshape the state’s abortion landscape: Reproductive rights supporters framed the ballot measure to elect state justices as an attempt to weaken abortion rights.”, Aug 4, 2026, Shefali Luthra, (Reproductive Health Reporter), The 19^th, at < https://19thnews.org/2026/08/kansas-amendment-no-abortion-supreme-court-justices/ >

3). “Kansas judge says decision to strike abortion restrictions not ‘even a close call’: The controversial case was made even more so by the timing of the judge’s decision”, Aug 4, 2026, Anna Kaminski, Kansas Reflector, at < https://kansasreflector.com/2026/08/04/kansas-judge-says-decision-to-strike-abortion-restrictions-not-even-a-close-call/ >.

4). “Missouri voters reject income tax phaseout, initiative petition changes”, Aug 4, 2026, Rudi Keller, Missouri Independent, at < https://missouriindependent.com/2026/08/04/missouri-voters-reject-income-tax-phaseout-initiative-petition-changes/ >.

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Heritage Foundation Renews Attacks on Women, on Their Reproductive Healthcare, and on Secular Life in General

1). “They're Coming for Our Daughters: The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures”, Feb 09, 2026, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-coming-for-our-daughters >.

2). “Power and Control”, n.d., Power and Control Wheel graphic, National Domestic Violence Hotline, at < https://www.thehotline.org/identify-abuse/power-and-control/ >.

3). Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years, Jan 8, 2026, Roger Severino, Jay Richards, PhD, Emma Waters, Delano Squires, Rachel Sheffield & Robert Rector, The Heritage Foundation, at < https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/saving-america-saving-the-family-foundation-the-next-250-years >.

4). America the Beautiful, Jan 20, 2026, anon, The Heritage Foundation, an ad from The Heritage Foundation about 1 minute long, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XQuVlYxRxg >.

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Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

 https://www.juancole.com/2026/01/protests-economics-ideological.html

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this also explains from whence the Rump's MAGA nonsense stems  and why it will flicker out.

the South will not rise again 

nor will strident assertions of white supremacy and horseshit about Great Replacement

serve to snuff out the truth of the necessity and desirability of equal opportunity for all