Kristina Nohe
Kristina Nohe is a political activist, adoption advocate, and homeschooling mom who is proud to be from Prince William County but does not suffer fools lightly or quietly. She was involved in Republican politics for over twenty years, was a member of RPV State Central Committee, and is a graduate of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership Program. She currently is a PhD student in American history at George Mason University.
Well Behaved Women
If there is a unifying theme in American Women’s History, it is the constant, never-ending insistence that women exceed expectations to be heard. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s quotation, “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” is often misinterpreted as a call to action. In reality, it was the lament of a historian observing that the archive often silences women unless men deemed their behavior problematic because women had no voice in government, no property, no power, and, therefore, left no records.
The Atwater Way
The rule of law is that voter rolls can not be changed 90 days before the election, yet the Supreme Court just ruled that Youngkin can purge the voter roles just 6 days before the election. The claim is that this is to keep suspected illegal immigrants from voting. The key word there is suspected because they don’t have time to check, and those disenfranchised by this ruling don’t have time to appeal their removal from the voting rolls.
26 Years Ago My Friend Matt Shepard Died
This issue is not political but personal. It changes from one to the other the moment someone you love says two simple words, ‘I’m gay.’
‘Remember the Ladies’
Just when I thought that, after 244 years, the guys would have finally gotten it, they proved to be just as obtuse as good ole John Adams when he laughed at his wife’s letter saying, ‘I cannot but laugh… We know better than to repeal our Masculine systems.’
Rules for Black History Month
In 1976, President Gerald Ford declared the first Black History Month saying that he hoped the country would “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”
A Vote Against Truth
We were once a shining city on a hill, but men and women with spades of deceit and shovels of lies have dug out the foundation of our republic while they point the finger at others for sending us careening into the bottom of a ravine.
A Republican Woman Spoke Up … Again
“To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.” Ronald Reagan’s warning should ring like a siren in the ears of every Republican capitulating to the delusional conspiracies of a certain septuagenarian from Florida.
Closed Primaries, or the Republican Bachelor
If Republicans continue to treat our nominating contests like a reality show, we should not be surprised if voters aren’t interested in making a long term commitment to us
Richmond: Founded on Rocks and Fire
When flaming liberals and hard-headed conservatives can’t seem to get anything accomplished, it’s not gridlock and hot tempers; it’s tradition.
This Campaign Goes To …
It feels like we are living in the scene from ‘This is Spinal Tap,’ in which Nigel Tufnel explains that his amp goes to eleven instead of the standardized ten. To which Marty DiBergi asks, ‘Why don’t you just make ten louder?’ Because, our politics now go to eleven.
