Indivisible Sumner

Photo by Daniel Whitaker Today, January 7th 2026, a Minneapolis woman was shot multiple times in the head by an ICE officer at point blank range. She was killed. This is a tragic day for us as citizens, and unfortunately, one many of us anticipated. We knew that ICE's actions would continuously become more erratic and violent. We shouted it from the rooftops together, in every way we knew how. I feel, in my bones, the turning point that this is and must be. Over the last few months, Sumner...

Community organizers and activists have long faced the problem of burnout. It's what I was warned about when I got into this work. In this 2025 era of constant assaults on humanity and democracy, that burnout is in crisis level. Unfortunately, it's not just that the onslaught of damaging actions at the hands of the Trump administration is constant; it's also that too many people are not engaging in meaningful ways that meet the moment. ( IF YOU ARE READY TO TAKE ACTION NOW, YOU CAN SKIP THIS...

A shady back-door deal to seat Riley Gaines as chair of our Sumner County Library Board has exposed county commissioner Jeremy Mansfield as a charlatan and State Representative Johnny Garrett as a liar. Another day goes by where Sumner County residents are forced to wonder, "Do our local representatives not care about the rules or not understand them?". Since news broke on Tuesday morning that Riley Gaines was appointed to our library board at midnight on a Monday, more details have come to...