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12 hours ago | 
thepreamble.com | Gabe Fleisher
It’s May 2025, six months since the 2024 election came to an end. Did you think you’d have some downtime before you’d start hearing about new elections? Think again!The 2026 midterms are already underway, and with control of both chambers of Congress up for grabs, the two parties are busily preparing to put their best candidates forward. In the House, results are likely to follow a long-running historical pattern.
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4 days ago | 
thepreamble.com | Rebecca Gibian
See you soon (I hope)! On May 20, I will be speaking at Eastern Kentucky University Center for the Arts. The event is open to the public, and you can buy tickets here. It’s one of my favorite things to see you all in person. Now on to what you might have missed…These are the words that stopped my scroll – and here’s what they say about us: “This is white people finally being fed up with this s**t,” she said. Her eyes are an arresting blue, and her hair cascades around her face in effortless waves.
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6 days ago | 
thepreamble.com | Sharon McMahon
The United States recently deported three young children, all three of them citizens of the United States. One has metastatic cancer and was sent away without their treatment medications. Their mothers — citizens of Honduras — were in the US without authorization, and the children’s removal raises profound legal questions about the rights of minor citizens and who is subject to deportation.
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1 week ago | 
thepreamble.com | Gabe Fleisher
The No. 1 rule of Senate confirmation battles: it usually doesn’t help to be associated with a neo-Nazi. Apparently, Ed Martin didn’t get the memo. Martin is President Trump’s nominee to be the US Attorney in the District of Columbia. It’s an important job — the top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital — but one that’s typically somewhat apolitical. The Senate usually confirms them by a voice vote, without even counting the yeas and nays.
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1 week ago | 
thepreamble.com | Sharon McMahon
“This is white people finally being fed up with this s**t,” she said. Her eyes are an arresting blue, and her hair cascades around her face in effortless waves.
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1 week ago | 
thepreamble.com | Sharon McMahon |Judd Legum
This isn’t the first time Oklahoma state school superintendent Ryan Walters has been in the news. Not long ago he had to revise his plan to spend taxpayer money on 55,000 Bibles for public school classrooms, because the Bibles Walters requested had to meet certain requirements, including having the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence enclosed inside the book. The Bible, as everyone knows, is not an American document.
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1 week ago | 
thepreamble.com | Sharon McMahon
Save the date! On May 20, I will be speaking at Eastern Kentucky University Center for the Arts. The event is open to the public, and you can buy tickets here. I hope to see you there! This story is personal. And it’s one in which I want to tread lightly, because I know some people will read it and their innate inclination will be to get their hackles up, to feel as though they are personally under attack.
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1 week ago | 
thepreamble.com | Sharon McMahon
This story is personal. And it’s one in which I want to tread lightly, because I know some people will read it and their innate inclination will be to get their hackles up, to feel as though they are personally under attack. They will want to hit back, to refute my claims, to lean into a posture of whataboutism that mollifies their own feelings. That’s easier. I get it. Let me ask, respectfully, that you try to read this with an open mind.
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2 weeks ago | 
thepreamble.com | Gabe Fleisher
For decades, in Republican circles, it was known simply as The Pledge. It made and broke candidacies. It was signed and cited and used as a cudgel. It shaped conservative policy for a generation. It was also just a single (run-on) sentence:That oath — known formally as the Taxpayer Protection Pledge — is circulated annually by the conservative group Americans for Tax Reform.
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2 weeks ago | 
thepreamble.com | Sharon McMahon
Today, the Supreme Court will hear one of the biggest cases about education since Brown v. Board. It’s one that could impact the nearly four million students who currently attend charter schools and tens of millions more who don’t. Let me get you up to speed before today’s oral arguments:At issue are two cases that have been consolidated into one. Both deal with a charter school in Oklahoma, called St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School.