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The Columbus Free Press ("Now more than Ever!") is Central Ohio's independent progressive voice. Born in the aftermath of Kent State the Free Press has been speaking Truth to Power for over half a century.
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What made it all the more sinister was how your gerrymandered City Council voted: 5-4. They want your reaction to be, “Wow! That was a close decision! It could have gone either way!”
The 5-4 decision was an example of “political theater.”
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Political Theater
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November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Historic Rise of Zohran Mamdani: Democracy Now! Coverage from 2021 Hunger Strike to Election Night
www.democracynow.org/shows/2025/1...
Daily Show for November 28, 2025
A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. The Historic Rise of Zohran Mamdani: Democracy Now! Coverage from 2021 Hunger Strike to Election Night
www.democracynow.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Trump Has Gone Too Far With Threats Against Our Former Military Personnel by Eric Margolis. The president just crossed the Rubicon. freepress.org/article/trum...
Trump Has Gone Too Far With Threats Against Our Former Military Personnel
Image from original post on FB, reprint permission of author
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November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
UNSC 2803: The US-Israeli Scheme to Partition Gaza and Break Palestinian Will by Ramzy Baroud United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. freepress.org/article/unsc...
UNSC 2803: The US-Israeli Scheme to Partition Gaza and Break Palestinian Will
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. That failure will come at a price: more Palestinian deaths, extensive destruction, and the expansion of Israeli violence to the West Bank and elsewhere in the Middle East.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
We need your support to ensure we can continue and build upon this work.
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5 ways to support the Central Ohio Worker Center
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November 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you support rooftop solar, clean energy, fairness, and a strong, decentralized grid, please take two minutes and submit a comment to PUCO:
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Protect Solar Credits — PUCO Needs to Hear From Us!
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November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“It is a false premise that religion—and Christianity, specifically—were influential in the drafting of the U.S. Constitution and the development of American law. Rather, the U.S. Constitution broke ground as a secular prescription for federal governance."
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Center For Inquiry Urges Public to Reject Ohio’s Theocratic HB 486
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November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
On the Eve of Thanksgiving, A Prayer for the Farmer and a Call to Action by Elizabeth Kucinich On this Eve of Thanksgiving... freepress.org/article/eve-...
On the Eve of Thanksgiving, A Prayer for the Farmer and a Call to Action
Image via original article, substack, reprint by permission of author
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November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home

My Father Is a Warrior & My Hero: An Interview with Leonard Peltier’s Daughter Marquetta

www.democracynow.org/shows/2025/1...
Daily Show for November 27, 2025
A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. “I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home; My Father Is a Warrio...
www.democracynow.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Trump-Mamdani Show Was Amazing. But Downsides for Progressives Could Turn Out to Be Steep by Norman Soloman ... And when a rattlesnake purrs, it’s still a rattlesnake. freepress.org/article/trum...
The Trump-Mamdani Show Was Amazing. But Downsides for Progressives Could Turn Out to Be Steep
Trump and Mandami:  photo credit Al Jazeera
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November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
With that being said we have to ask the question: who paid the $84,700 to the staff member that he verbally abused?
You did.
What could the city have done with the money instead?
Provided 2,566 free turkeys for Thanksgiving (at $33/15 lb. turkey) columbusfreepress.com/article/apol...
Apology Accepted. Invoice Due.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“Epstein is Terminal Cancer to Trumps Presidency” by Pete Johnson freepress.org/article/%E2%...
“Epstein is Terminal Cancer to Trumps Presidency”
Conspiracy Realist: someone who fails to cower in fear when described as a conspiracy “theorist”.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Rasul’s victory was decisive and historic, but according to her, the reason she won was simple: “People want to feel heard.”
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Nadia Rasul Tops Hilliard City Council Race, Powered by Deep Community Roots
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November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
AMERICAN NUREMBERG: YOU WILL NOT BE IN POWER FOREVER! YOU WILL STAND TRIAL!!! freepress.org/article/amer...
AMERICAN NUREMBERG
From Staff family antifa photo collection Hotel Deutscher Kaiser in Nürnberg
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November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reposted by Columbus Free Press
A video surfaced showing the brutalization of community members by ICE and the St. Paul, Minnesota PD after ICE abducted two of their neighbors. As a result of the chemical munitions and police beatings, eight people, including a journalist, were hospitalized. 11/25/25
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
American Nuremberg
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November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
More About The Piketon Nuclear Accident: Dozens of properties in southern Ohio are reportedly contaminated with an elevated cancer risk. So why isn't more being done to protect families?

STORY: bit.ly/47XqrQ9
New report reveals families in southern Ohio living on land at risk of causing cancer
Dozens of properties in Ohio are reportedly contaminated with an elevated cancer risk. So why isn't more being done to protect families?
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November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Using tax dollars to pay the retirement contribution for administrators in the Central Office. And, adding hundreds of unnecessary administrators to the Central Office. This is how CCS is working to promote the Columbus private schools.
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Free Advertising for Private Schools
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November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Headlines Nov 25, 2025

GOP Lawmaker Presses U.S. to Invade Venezuela, Promising “Field Day” for U.S. Oil Companies

Sudan’s RSF Announces Unilateral Ceasefire as Military Rulers Reject U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Plan

Israel Continues to Violate Gaza Ceasefire...

www.democracynow.org/shows/2025/1...
Daily Show for November 25, 2025
A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. “The Epstein Class”: Anand Giridharadas on the Elite Network Around the Sexual Predator; Will the U.S. Attack Venezuela? Trump’s ...
www.democracynow.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Separation of Children During Trump’s Two Presidential Terms by Bob Sheak freepress.org/article/sepa...
The Separation of Children During Trump’s Two Presidential Terms
Image credit:  tcareob72
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November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Larry Summers, Epstein and the “End Game” Memo The latest cache of the predator’s memos have finally brought down Lawrence Summers.... freepress.org/article/larr...
Larry Summers, Epstein and the “End Game” Memo
Larry Summers, Jeffrey Epstein from original article on Substack
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM