Your weekly wrap-up

Notes from Bruce

• With KYGA out of the way, we now run headlong into election season. The primary is one month from today! Have you chosen your candidates yet?
• Watch for a number of election-related stories in the next two days. I’ll be digging into the campaign money reports, and letting you know not just who has the most, but where they got it and what they’ve been spending it on.
• The ForwardKY Forum is just about ready for all of you who want to share your thoughts or just discuss politics (and other stuff) with other ForwardKY readers. The doors will open this week.
• All four of the articles from our own contributors are worth your while, so I won’t add a 🔷 to any of them. I have highlighted some from elsewhere, and I encourage you to give them a look in addition to the ones from our folks.

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Bruce

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This Week’s Content

Most-Read Article

Choose you this day whom you will serve

Kentucky Christians, which will it be: your faith, or Trump?

Forward KentuckyKevin Maples

The Rest of the Content

By our contributors

The history of Tulip Mania and financial bubbles – And how history may be rhyming again with AI
Analysis & Policy • By Ivonne Rovira • (Link)

The degeneration of the party of Lincoln – The MAGA GOP is the party of Trump and hate. The party of racism. Sexism. Misogyny. Nativism. Xenophobia. Anti-LGBTQ bigotry. Christian Nationalism. Militarism. Elitism. Greed.
Commentary, Republicans • By Berry Craig • (Link)

We commission statues of Men Like You – Like you: elder white men at the peak of your power – no matter how you use it
Commentary,KYGA • By Teri Carter • (Link)

Big Bob’s Beshear Bashing – A little bit of hubris there, Mr. Stivers?
Commentary,KYGA26 • By Berry Craig • (Link) 

From other sources

🔷 ‘Why? Just…why?’ – answering your #KYGA26 questions!
Analysis & Policy, KYGA26 • By Olivia Krauth • (Link)

Senate signals pause in judge’s impeachment while commission reviews allegations – Will wait to see what the Judicial Conduct Committee does
News, KYGA26 • By McKenna Horsley • (Link)

God Is Not Happy – And some of his followers (not all) are not happy either.
Commentary, Cartoon • By Nick Anderson • (Link)

War is over!!! – No, not Iran; the General Assembly 😉
Analysis & Policy, KYGA26 • By Olivia Krauth • (Link)

Lege censures SCOKY justice for opinion in judge’s impeachment appeal – Says their impeachment powers are “inviolate”
News, KYGA26 • By McKenna Horsley • (Link)

Housing, data center legislation dies on final day of 2026 session – Air-BnB provision halts priority housing bill SB 9.
News, KYGA26 • By Liam Niemeyer • (Link)

🔷 How the GOP motivated these women faith leaders to run for Congress as Democrats – More Democratic clergy members are running for office as the GOP embraces Christian nationalist talking points — and Trump posts a Jesus-like image of himself.
Analysis & Policy, Election2026 • By Guest Author • (Link)

Ever the wild card, Rand Paul stands firm as he proves willing to rattle the cage – His stands on Constitutional issues sometimes puts him at odds with his Repub colleagues
Commentary • By Bill Straub • (Link)

🔷 He Did It Again: Trump announces seemingly imaginary Iran breakthrough, taking Wall Street for another ride – In a manic series of posts, Trump lays out a vision of victory that looks like a humiliating loss.
Commentary, Analysis & Policy • By Hunter Lazarro • (Link)

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