by Terri Pickens | Oct 31, 2022 | 2022 Election News, Extremism
Want a big scare this Halloween? I can take you to a marbled mansion where whispers of injustice waft through great halls. Drafty air crackles with burning books. Cries issue from dim back rooms where bad deals come to life and good ideas are tortured and...
by Terri Pickens | Oct 22, 2022 | Civil & Human Rights, Extremism, Health Care, Idaho Families
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises.” –Abraham...
by Terri Pickens | Aug 29, 2022 | Extremism
Boise, Idaho–Lt. Governor candidate Terri Pickens Manweiler called on her opponent to stop the cruelty and to stop fighting a lifesaving injunction that delays enforcement of parts of Idaho’s inhumane anti-abortion law. “As I campaign across Idaho, so many men and...
by Terri Pickens | Aug 24, 2022 | Extremism
This is not a drill: freedom and democracy are under siege and we all need to be in the fight. The forces for white nationalist extremism are targeting libraries. Bonners Ferry’s library director resigned last week. She wrote: Photo by KHQ The good news is that we can...
by Terri Pickens | Aug 13, 2022 | Civil & Human Rights, Extremism
People who attack librarians, who fear books, who fear ideas, who fear other people and other ways—these are the arsonists of democracy. These people have a friend in my opponent Speaker Scott Bedke. This is no hypothetical anecdote. It’s real. The library in Bonners...
by Terri Pickens | Jul 13, 2022 | 2022 Election News, Extremism, Idaho Legislature
I have had enough of this one-party system of government that breeds corruption. The latest affront comes with news that lame-duck Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin is openly gifting the vice chair of the Idaho Republican Party with tens of thousands of dollars in wages. Yes,...
