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Phil Young
- Nov 10
- 1 min
Volunteer
Here’s a list of 25 ideas of things you can do to help get a Democrat elected. Door knocking - Work at the...
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Phil Young
- Nov 10
- 1 min
Donate
Probably none of us are the Koch brothers or a Super Pac. Both are groups that pour out millions of dollars to influence elections....
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Phil Young
- Nov 10
- 1 min
VOTE
One-third of all registered voters in Blount County are Democrats! Let me repeat that. ⅓ of all registered voters in Blount County are...
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Phil Young
- Nov 10
- 1 min
Run for Office
Without Democrats on the ballot your vote, money, efforts and hopes don’t really matter. We must have a candidate for every position in...
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Tom Heck
- Jul 4
- 1 min
Raising Money in Politics
In 2010 the Supreme Court changed money in the political world with the Citizen United Decision. The Court decided in that decision that...
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Tom Heck
- Jun 22
- 1 min
Petition our State Government
In March we had a post on this blog describing how our elections came to exist on a Tuesday in November. We have all experienced the...
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Tom Heck
- Jun 8
- 1 min
A Woke History Lesson
When I taught History and the class discussed the Declaration of Independence I always emphasized Thomas Jefferson’s words “all men are...
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Tom Heck
- May 31
- 1 min
Compromise 2023
President Biden and Speaker McCarthy have managed to hammer out a compromise on the debt ceiling. In the time we live in that is a major...
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Tom Heck
- May 2
- 1 min
Gloria and Gun Legislation
On August 8, 2008 a student of Central High School in Knoxville walked into the cafeteria before school had started and fatally shot a...
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Tom Heck
- Apr 30
- 1 min
Gun Fight at the OK Corral
We have all grown up victims of book publishers, Hollywood and TV producers who created the myth of the Wild West. That myth is the...
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Tom Heck
- Apr 27
- 1 min
Social Security
President Franklin Roosevelt in his first term faced the one of the greatest economic challenges in our history, the Great Depression. ...
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Tom Heck
- Apr 25
- 1 min
You Go Gloria!
Gloria Johnson and I taught together in Knox County for several years. In those years we sat in many meetings, Gloria as a special...
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Tom Heck
- Apr 18
- 3 min
Congress in My Lifetime
Tennessee former governors Phil Bredesen and Jim Haslam started a podcast in 2022 titled You May Be Right. These two men from opposing...
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Tom Heck
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Why is Tuesday Election Day?
This is the 21st Century, can we make voting easier? Could we declare Election Day a National Holiday? Could we move voting to the first...
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Tom Heck
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Deficit vs Debt
There's a lot of discussion about raising the debt limit. Here's a presentation to help explain the difference between the deficit and debt.
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Sue DuBois
- Mar 14
- 1 min
Reorganized and Ready for 2023-2024
We had a very successful biennial Reorganization Convention last Sunday. Congratulations to all our new District Representatives who...
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Sue DuBois
- Mar 7
- 1 min
Get Involved - BCDP Reorganization
Put your words into action! Democracy doesn't stand on its own. Everyone has something to contribute to stop the attacks on individual...
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Sue DuBois
- Nov 18, 2022
- 1 min
Thank you voters
Thank you to all the Democrats who showed up and voted in 2022! We may not have had the outcome we wanted but we have moved the needle...
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