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Exclusive Interview with Scott Janney: Pennsylvania State Senate Candidate

Chloe Wellington-Hunt February 13, 2026 No Comments

In an exclusive interview with Informed.org, candidate for Pennsylvania State Senate Scott Janney goes into his background–detailing faith, family, and purpose. hloe: Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me. Scott: Hi, I’m Scott Janney. I’m running for Pennsylvania State Senate in District PA-18, which includes much of Northampton County and the city of Bethlehem, in both Northampton and Lehigh counties. Chloe: Great. Thanks so much, Scott. I want to start with your background. You grew up in Pennsylvania and worked in a factory before finishing college. How did that shape the way you see work and opportunity? Scott: It’s kind of a core belief of mine that life isn’t always beautiful and it isn’t always easy. Where I grew up wasn’t always beautiful or easy. My dad was born at the beginning of the Depression. He lived in the Shenandoah Valley, and when there was a strike, his dad moved the family up to Pittsburgh. My dad’s aunts used to tell his mother, Annie, “Pennsylvania is a beautiful state—you just didn’t pick a very nice part of it,” because they lived in a factory town. The biggest factory in our town was 40 feet from our back door. It

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Resilient flood survivor smiling outdoors in Texas.

Kylie Nidever: Flood Survivor on Texas’ Political Failure

Chloe Wellington-Hunt September 8, 2025 No Comments

When the waters rose in Hunt, Texas this July, life-long resident Kylie Nidever stood at her window and stared at the neighborhood, only to see a landscape she didn’t recognize. “I couldn’t entirely understand what I was looking at,” she said. “It was a pool. A flat surface, a mirror of water. I couldn’t see the grass.” The morning after the bulk of rainfall, the flood had retreated, leaving behind its strange markers—dead fish scattered, mud lines painted high on walls, cars sitting sideways. Homes received anywhere from a few inches to eight-feet of water. Out of 33 houses in her middle-class neighborhood of Bumble Bee Hills, 28 homes took on water. Hers was one of the spared.  At that point, Nidever didn’t know the full extent of the flooding. However, as the morning progressed, news started to come in.  “In the immediate aftermath, there was guilt,” she said. “Survivor’s guilt, because our house didn’t flood.” What replaced guilt was a desire to help. The Sound of Absence Help arrived almost immediately—but not from the government, the people paid to provide it. Strangers pulled into her street with pickup trucks, handing out gift cards for H-E-B. Neighbors helped neighbors. Volunteers

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Texas’ Redistricting Plan: A Showcase of Republican Stupidity and Democratic Cowardice

Chloe Wellington-Hunt August 6, 2025 No Comments

The current state of affairs: the Trump-Led Republican Party Continues to Reject Latinos, But Expects Them to Vote Red. Makes sense, right? Within the last week, Republican Texas legislators released designs for new congressional maps in the Lone Star State. This move followed Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Special Session Agenda announcement. Sandwiched neatly between actually pressing items such as flood warning systems and natural disaster preparation, Governor Abbott sneakily hid the biggest agenda item: “REDISTRICTING: Legislation that provides a revised congressional redistricting plan in light of constitutional concerns raised by the U.S. Department of Justice.” (Quick digression: this special session is supposed to help Texas grieve and rebuild following such tragic flooding. But Abbott and Texas’ Republicans have another goal in mind: building back red.) The new redistricting plans couldn’t be more clear: change the map and make GOP gains. After all, Texas Republicans hope to gain five U.S. House seats with the new map. So how does this affect Latinos? Well, Latinos appear to be the target, as four of the five drawn up districts are majority Hispanic. The new map–focused on Austin, Dallas, and Houston–brings “more white, Hispanic and Black majority districts,” according to The Texas Tribune’s analysis. 

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One Big Beautiful Bill: Separating Facts from Democrats’ Fiction

Justine Anifowose July 24, 2025 No Comments

In June 2024, President Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters at a Las Vegas rally that he was going to eliminate taxes on tips. The idea was so good that former Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s opponent at the time, made it part of her campaign promises. However, Nevada’s leftist Culinary Union predictably dismissed it as ‘wild campaign promises.” And as with everything Trump, he kept his word and delivered on that promise with the recently passed “One Big Beautiful Bill.” As you probably know, the bill did not pass without the usual lies from Democrats and their media allies… as with everything Trump. What is the One Big Beautiful Bill? The One Big Beautiful Bill was born out of Trump’s determination to deliver on his America First promises and “Make America Great Again.” Aside from the tax cuts, the bill essentially secures the border by providing adequate funding for the CBP. It also unleashes American energy and provides billions of dollars for the U.S.’s decaying airport infrastructure. Simply put, the bill embodies everything Trump promised during his 2024 campaign. The Democrats came at the bill with everything they’ve got. They tried hard to tank the bill, so much

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Conservative Politicians, Charlie Kirk, and Donald Trump Cower on Epstein

Chloe Wellington-Hunt July 17, 2025 No Comments

Once demanding truth about Jeffrey Epstein, Charlie Kirk now says he’s “done” talking. Republicans who once called for justice have gone quiet. As Epstein’s files gather dust, questions remain—and accountability vanishes. If Trump is implicated, don’t Americans deserve answers? Silence, now, speaks louder than any campaign slogan ever could.

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What Do Obama and Trump Have In Common?

Chloe Wellington-Hunt June 25, 2025 No Comments

Hint: It’s Not Just the 5 Letters Obama’s Iran Doctrine “I will stand with Israel if they are attacked. And this is the reason why, working with Israel, we have created the strongest military and intelligence cooperation between our two countries in history… But to the issue of Iran, as long as I’m president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.” Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. Barack ObamaJuly 2015 Those are the words of former President Barack Obama on the debate stage in October 2012. Sparring over foreign policy with Republican nominee Mitt Romney, President Obama underscored the importance of dissolving the Iran threat as to maintain peace within the global order. During this debate, President Obama spoke largely in favor of brutal sanctions against Iran, targeting their oil industry and crippling their economy. “And the reason we did this is because a nuclear Iran is a threat to our national security, and it is a threat to Israel’s national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world,” Obama said. “Iran is a state sponsor

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Infanticide? We’re Not Talking Abortion.

Tara Dodrill December 3, 2024 No Comments

When the ethicist Peter Singer proposed in 1993 that a newborn cannot be a “person” until 30 days old, it did so only as a rule. This unseemly plan involved granting doctors the power to euthanize disabled infants at the moment – a declaration that horrified people and shocked moral circles. Five years later, Singer had been made the Decamp Professor of Bio-Ethics at Princeton University, which made him credible in the eyes of the academy.

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