Stories by Rose Aguilar
Rose Aguilar is a San Francisco-based journalist who is writing a book about her road trip through the "red states."
The former lead singer of System of a Down shares his feelings of hope, inspiration and utter dejection about our current state of affairs.
Posted on Mar 11, 2008
Military families are determined to bring their troops back home -- even if they have to talk to every politician in Washington.
Posted on Jul 28, 2006
The case of Suzanne Swift reveals that women deployed in the Middle East are facing rape, abuse and sexual harassment -- from their own comrades-in-arms.
Posted on Jul 14, 2006
Cecelia Fire Thunder, president of the South Dakota Ogala Sioux, takes on the state's repressive new abortion ban.
Posted on Apr 4, 2006
What will it take for pro-choice Republicans to leave the Republican Party?
Posted on Mar 28, 2006
The 2006 budget clipped the wings of many organizations that provide basic services to the poor. Bush's 2007 budget could ground them permanently.
Posted on Mar 22, 2006
South Dakota's extreme abortion ban is in perfect accord with what the United States has been doing internationally all along.
Posted on Mar 8, 2006
New rules on how much time veterans groups have to present budget testimony to Congress seem designed to limit vets' influence on funding decisions.
Posted on Feb 1, 2006
Democratic administrations have been kindest to Native Americans -- and come election time, Indians remember.
Posted on Oct 24, 2005
Missoula's Take Back Our Country march was a vibrant example of 'red state' Montana's progressive side.
Posted on Sep 26, 2005
In Utah, as in other states, thousands of survivors of Hurricane Katrina are attempting to start their lives over as strangers in a strange land.
Posted on Sep 14, 2005
Iraq War veterans return home with excruciating mental and physical ailments -- and the treatment they are able to receive is shoddy at best.
Posted on Aug 29, 2005
Mississippi Democrats are showing the potential power of Howard Dean's '50-state strategy' to take back national politics.
Posted on Aug 23, 2005
Clara Luper was an integral part of the 1950s' civil rights movement. Here, she discusses her sit-in days, going to jail 26 times, and what the Democrats are doing wrong.
Posted on Aug 2, 2005
Why did civil rights activist Charles Evers join the Republican Party? Because, 'I can do more destructive things inside than I can out there throwing rocks.'
Posted on Jul 22, 2005
As liberal and conservative groups and pundits debate the future of the Supreme Court, a large but often overlooked group is being left out of the conversation: moderate Republicans.
Posted on Jul 19, 2005
Progressive activists in Texas face strong and often hostile opposition. But they say they're going to fight to turn Texas blue again.
Posted on Jun 20, 2005
A group of Texans say Governor Rick Perry's recent signing of anti-abortion and anti-gay legislation on the grounds of a church school is decidedly un-Christian.
Posted on Jun 7, 2005
A San Francisco progressive begins her four-month journey through the so-called Red States. Her first stop: the bluest town in Texas.
Posted on May 23, 2005
Some Iraq veterans are returning home, only to face homelessness and mental problems. Meanwhile, the VA is MIA.
Posted on Feb 8, 2005
To the swing states, apparently. Yes, 25,000 lawyers have been dispatched to the swing states for election day. And that may not be a bad thing.
Posted on Nov 2, 2004
In the adult entertainment industry, discretion has always trumped politics – until the Bush administration gave them a reason to get organized.
Posted on Oct 18, 2004
An activist learns the value of stepping outside the progressive bubble when she reaches out to women voters leaning toward the GOP.
Posted on Oct 14, 2004
Contrary to the media babble about "security moms," the issues most important to women voters are also John Kerry's greatest strengths.
Posted on Sep 30, 2004
