The Koch brothers have announced that their fundraising network will raise close to $1 billion to elect the next president of the United States — who could easily appoint four Justices to the Supreme Court. Ted Cruz’s presidential Super PACs say the junior Senator has commitments of $31 million for his run at being America’s Next Top Rick Santorum. Jeb […]

Here in Michigan, we have a quirky bunch of messed up gun laws that allow people with concealed pistol licenses carry guns in schools. Because of the loophole, they can only do so if they open carry where everyone can see it. For me, it’s tantamount to having “I’m stoopid” tattooed across your forehead and anyone who open carries in […]

When the owner of Memories Pizza in Indiana recently told reporters that she would refuse to bake pies for wedding receptions if the couple were gay or lesbian, the story went viral. Lawrence Billy Jones III set up a GoFundMe page to “relieve the financial loss endured by the proprietors’ stand for faith” and he encouraged supporters of the homophobic […]

Besides your contributions, we make some money with ads. The plain Jane ads you see that are the same on other sites you go to don’t pay much (it’s pretty ridiculous, actually.) However, the ads that groups take out directly with me instead of through a third-party ad network are much more helpful. In election years, that can really help […]

Now that Indiana legislators have made it clear that they are not welcoming to the LGBTQ community, businesses and organizations across the country are choosing to boycott the Hoosier state and are relocating their conventions, meetings, and other events to places that are more welcoming. Although Michigan legislators seem hellbent on proving they are just as homophobic as Indiana, they […]

Today is the first day of our second quarter fundraiser. One week per quarter we come to you and ask you for your financial support for the work we do here at Eclectablog. It’s your support that is the main funding source that allows all of our regular contributors – LOLGOP, Amy Lynn Smith, Tony Trupiano, and Emma White – […]

Big business and GOP have a mutually beneficial relationship — but why do the party’s favorite victims keep voting Republican? Something amazing happened when conservatives deciding that the biggest problem in America today is that gay people can buy things with money: Big business rose up and helped quash conservative overreach. Apple’s Tim Cook help lead a backlash that soon […]

As I went to compose this post, I didn’t have to create a new “Clean Water Action” tag because I have written about Clean Water Action and their incredible work many times in the past and have quoted their state Director Nic Clark on numerous occasions. That’s because I have a special place in my activist’s heart for CWA. Immediately […]

Indiana Republicans, facing derision nationally and an economic boycott with wide-ranging impacts are now backpedalling like crazy. They claim they never intended for their new Religious Freedom Restoration Act to allow discrimination against the LGBT community and are now moving swiftly to “fix” their atrocious new law. You can read the text of their “fix”, which prohibits discrimination based on […]

This isn’t about religion. It’s about faith in humankind. I’m not a religious person. I’m spiritual — Buddhist-inspired — but not religious. But I have faith. I have faith that people are better than what we are seeing in those who would use religion as a license to discriminate. Laws like the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) passed in Indiana […]

The Republican Party is now engaged in a great battle of the spirit, according to The Daily Beast‘s Matt Lewis. Lewis channels The Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent to ask: Will the Republican Party run for the White House in 2016 with a genuine effort to expand the party’s appeal beyond its core constituencies and make inroads with the voter groups that have […]