by allison | Apr 22, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
“Tennessee is just so red. It feels hopeless.” I’ve been canvassing for several weeks now and hearing that a lot, just as I did when I was running for State House in 2022. Then as now, I’d reply that Tennessee isn’t a red state—it’s a nonvoting state. As if to prove...
by allison | Apr 16, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
Where things seem dark, look for the light. I spent much of Friday in the back seat of a car en route to Clarksdale, Mississippi, writing the weekly email I planned to send out once I got there. It had been a dishearteningly familiar week on Capitol Hill. Once again,...
by allison | Apr 5, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
Workers are David against the Goliath that’s Tennessee. Last Monday, a few of us pro-worker folks gathered near Chattanooga’s Volkswagen factory to counter some Tennessee-style union busting. Which is to say, we held up signs while Republican elected officials held a...
by allison | Mar 31, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
I miss the childhood we willingly gave away Flowers are popping up everywhere, and so are those viral Facebook posts about how great it was to be a kid in the good old days. Remember how we’d hop on our bikes and stay gone until the streetlights came on? Forget video...
by allison | Mar 25, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
In early 2021, as Covid deaths in the United States were nearing half a million and the first vaccines were being rolled out, a divided America once again sorted itself into opposite camps. Those who were jumping at the chance to avoid suffocating sickness and death...
by allison | Mar 17, 2024 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail
The day I moved to Chattanooga 27 years ago, I gazed out my car windows and thought, I can’t believe I get to live here. I wasn’t driving past the aquarium or the revitalized downtown or anything new or manmade. I was on I-24 East, gaping at the stunning...
