Jun 29, 2022
We knew you’d want to hear some good news, and we’re glad to share it. tldr; On Friday (which was a busy day for a whole host of reasons) the Ohio Supreme Court ruled in favor of four Democratic candidates for state legislature, who Secretary of State...
Jun 23, 2022
On June 24, David joined Nancy Larson, who is running for Ohio statehouse in District 41, to talk about Blue Ohio. In the past six months alone, Ohio Republicans have passed a bill calling for genital inspections of student athletes, insisted that rape provides an...
Mar 28, 2022
The Hill, March 27, 2022, ALBERT HUNT, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR Washington obsesses over how many Republicans will vote for the eminently qualified Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, or Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) latest attention-getting move, or the forever...
Mar 16, 2022
Former Ohio Democratic Party Chair David Pepper launches Blue Ohio, spearheading effort to boost Democrats’ state legislative campaigns April 21, 2022 David Pepper and It Starts Today are excited to announce a joint project, Blue Ohio, that will crowdsource support...
Mar 15, 2022
By Paul Rosenberg, January 15, 2022 There’s a booming literature on the erosion of democracy in America, as well as around the world, but David Pepper’s book “Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call From Behind the Lines” stands out as...
Feb 22, 2022
A Fix to Anti-democratic Laws That Republicans Won’t Like David Pepper, February 16, 2022 Guest Post by David Pepper Almost a century ago, Justice Louis Brandeis extolled states as “Laboratories of Democracy.” His theory, echoed by others over the years, was that...
