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What’s Up Ohio – Ohio Capital Journal

Catching Our Eye News Roundup, March 13, 2026 March 13, 2026
Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know […]
Ohio Democratic U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman explains his vote against Iran war-powers resolution March 13, 2026
Ohio Democratic U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman of Cincinnati was one of just a handful of Democrats to vote against a war-powers resolution on Iran. On Tuesday explained his vote by saying he supported limited objectives in the attack on Iran and that he plans to introduce a resolution of his own later this month. As […]
Ohio unclaimed funds for sports stadiums law blocked by state court but not federal March 13, 2026
Ohioans challenging the state’s plan to use unclaimed funds for a new Cleveland Browns stadium got mixed messages this week. Rulings in state and federal courts offered dramatically different readings of the same set of circumstances. In the state courts, a Franklin County Court of Common Pleas magistrate issued a preliminary injunction barring state officials […]
Two bad bills would speed up fracking of Ohio parks, squash renewable energy March 13, 2026
The Ohio legislature has a long history of kowtowing to oil and gas interests — and no pair of bills demonstrates this more thoroughly than the proposed Ohio Senate Bill 219 and Ohio Senate Bill 294. Originating in the Senate Energy Committee, whose chair has a past career in the fracking industry, S.B. 219 would […]
Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted distanced himself from executives in FirstEnergy testimony March 12, 2026
Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted testified in the trial related to the largest public corruption scheme in Ohio history on Wednesday morning, maintaining his distance from the FirstEnergy executives. However, there were some discrepancies between his testimony and public documents. After he was unable to testify last week due to the Iran war, Husted appeared […]
Catching Our Eye News Roundup, March 12, 2026 March 12, 2026
Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know […]

What’s Up In American Politics? – DemocracyNow

Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S.-Israeli "War of Choice," Assault on U.N. Charter Could Lead to WWIII March 13, 2026
The global economy has been rocked by the war in the Middle East, with Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatening energy flows and sending the price of oil soaring to its highest level in years. The United Nations Security Council responded to the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli war by passing a resolution this week condemning […]
Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Will Not Stop Wars & Occupation Until U.S. Pulls Support March 13, 2026
Inside Israel, “there is no room for any question marks or doubts about this war,” says journalist Gideon Levy, a columnist for Haaretz and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board. He says war fever has taken over the country, with polls showing 93% support for the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, Lebanon and beyond — […]
Report from Beirut: Israel Expands Bombing Campaign & Mass Displacement in Lebanon March 13, 2026
We speak with journalist Lylla Younes in Lebanon, where she says Israel’s “massacres are multiplying” amid the broader U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Israeli strikes have killed nearly 700 people in Lebanon over the past two weeks, while attacks have expanded to include areas of central Beirut, which Israel claims are aimed at the powerful Hezbollah […]
Headlines for March 13, 2026 March 13, 2026
U.S.-Israeli Attacks Have Forced 3.2 Million Iranians to Flee Their Homes, In First Public Statement, Iran’s New Supreme Leader Vows to Keep Blocking Strait of Hormuz, 250+ Groups Call on Congress to Reject Request for $50 Billion in Funding for Iran War, Iranian Strike on Oman Kills Immigrant Workers as NATO Shoots Down Missile Fired […]
Amnesty Head Agnès Callamard on Iran War, Global Fight for Gender Justice & Killing of Yanar Mohammed March 12, 2026
Democracy Now! recently sat down with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International and a former United Nations special rapporteur, while she was in New York City to mark International Women’s Day and attend the U.N.'s annual conference on women's rights. Callamard responded to the assassination of Iraqi feminist Yanar Mohammed, U.S. sanctions against […]
"War on the Iranian People": Nationalism Grows in Iran in Defiance of Deadly U.S. and Israeli Strikes March 12, 2026
“This is all being read inside of Iran as a war on the Iranian people.” As oil prices threaten to spike to $200 a barrel amid Iran’s pressure campaign against the U.S. and its allies, professor Narges Bajoghli returns to Democracy Now! with an update on the war on Iran and its place in the […]

Call your representatives today to voice your concerns.

US House of Representatives: Jim Jordan

202-225-2676

US Senator: Bernie Moreno

202-224-2315

US Senator: Jon Husted

202-224-3353

Governor Mike DeWine

614-644-4357