Posts by kevinnicholson

For years after September 11, 2001, it was common to see “Never Forget 9/11” bumper stickers stuck to cars across the United States. Americans banded together and shared a strong sense of common humanity, driven in part by a shared sense of vulnerability and anguish. By October of 2001, our nation had struck back against…

One of the most frustrating aspects of politics, as a candidate, is that you often feel like you are fighting ghosts – or more accurately, cockroaches and rats. The cockroaches and rats of politics swarm about your feet in the dark, biting and nipping at your ankles, doing their best to pass their diseases onto…

Long before the onset of COVID-19, the luminaries of Silicon Valley began advocating for the implementation of universal basic income (UBI). This is the idea that governments should issue checks to all citizens regardless of work, regardless of need, just for being alive — in other words, true and direct socialistic redistribution of wealth, completely…

After a year in which we’ve witnessed far too many politicians and activists work overtime to undermine the reputations and capabilities of law enforcement in America, our nation stands divided and decimated by violence. My hometown of Milwaukee is a good case study in this tragedy. From 2019 to 2020, the number of homicides in…

Two thousand, three hundred American lives lost, 20,589 Americans injured, and nearly $1 trillion spent since 2001. That’s the tale of the tape in Afghanistan. To those who fought and served on the ground in Afghanistan, neither the numbers nor the futility revealed by the Washington Post’s exposé on the “Afghanistan Papers” is a surprise. …

Kevin Nicholson spent part of the Clinton era as president of the national College Democrats. Now he is seeking the Republican nomination for Senate in Wisconsin. If you ask his opponents, Nicholson’s left-to-right journey discredits him. If you ask Nicholson, though, he’ll tell you it’s a virtue. That dynamic has been especially evident over the…

My decision to be a Democrat was never a decision. It was just expected of me. It was understood. Born into a family of Democrats, my grandfather would often spend weekends talking to me about his respect for Franklin Roosevelt and his annoyance with President Reagan. I listened and absorbed, but was not yet ready…

Kevin Nicholson has a confession to make, if only someone would listen. Standing on a makeshift stage inside a burgundy-colored barn rented by the Republican Party of Outagamie County—two hours north of Milwaukee, just west of Green Bay—the U.S. Senate candidate and unlikely new object of conservative fascination has broken into a biographical speech. But…

The upcoming 2018 U.S. Senate races will be a daunting challenge for Democrats, over a dozen of whom are up for reelection in swing states. One of them is Tammy Baldwin, a one-term senator from Wisconsin, a state that narrowly voted for Donald Trump last November. The Badger State was also the site of one…

The events of the last few weeks have been gut wrenching for many active duty members of the military and veterans. We have watched the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care scandal unfold, the absurdly lopsided trade of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five top-level Taliban commanders, and now the loss of hard-won Iraqi cities…