Sarah Sanders is using our state to test her propaganda playbook. Her distraction method is a strategy to keep Arkansans outraged, avoid meaningful dialogue, and ultimately exhaust her opposition. Distraction…
The bad optics around Helena-West Helena’s water crisis and our state’s $1.16 billion surplus has Arkansans talking about just what our government is supposed to be doing. The state may…
Lawmakers must do three things to stop the bleeding and pave the way for a healthier Arkansas. Last month, we talked about Arkansas’s disheartening healthcare crisis and the disproportionate impact…
Propaganda is a powerful communications technique meant to mislead and/or promote a particular cause or ideology. We’ll explore propaganda more in-depth in a separate post, but let’s break down a…
AR is in a rural healthcare crisis. In a two part series, we’ll break down what’s happening with rural healthcare and how it impacts you. The Natural State is one…
Proposed legislation would have worsened the rural healthcare crisis on a technicality Alongside the General Assembly’s raging dumpster fires of LEARNS, culture war bills, prison expansion, and more, it’s important…
The ‘why’ behind our supermajority’s obsession with hurting Arkansans You may have noticed an uptick this session in bills targeting LGBTQ+ folks. It’s worth talking about why this is…
Looking out for kids? Nah. The Youth Hiring Act of 2023 is now the law of the land in Arkansas. Let’s decode the Sanders camp’s spin-work and look at what…
The governor’s unprecedented abuse of power — and the legislature’s deference to it — threatens Arkansas’s system of checks and balances Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve noticed the…
Arizona has spent over a decade chipping away at public education, and now ranks dead last in the US. Is this the future we want for Arkansas? Arkansas is about…