From the Campaign Trail
Listening to Mom
Illuminating words for challenging times I spent Mother’s Day thinking about my mom. In that...
Hixson Homecoming
The Tennessee I miss, in fifty-two doors At this early stage of the campaign, I’m still canvassing...
The Bucket List
Mercifully, the regular session of the 2024 Tennessee General Assembly came to an end last week. ...
News on the Ground
“Tennessee is just so red. It feels hopeless.” I’ve been canvassing for several weeks now and...
Hope Grows Like Weeds
Where things seem dark, look for the light. I spent much of Friday in the back seat of a car en...
State of the Union
Workers are David against the Goliath that’s Tennessee. Last Monday, a few of us pro-worker folks...
The Good Old Days
I miss the childhood we willingly gave away Flowers are popping up everywhere, and so are those...
Save Us from the GOP
In early 2021, as Covid deaths in the United States were nearing half a million and the first...
💔 Heartbreakingly Beautiful
The day I moved to Chattanooga 27 years ago, I gazed out my car windows and thought, I can’t...
Marching on Capitol Hill
In journalism school I was taught never to write about a future event as if it’s already happened....
A Walk in the Weeds
Even if you don’t have school-age kids, please read this nerdier-than-usual story about Gov. Bill...
What’s in a name?
Soddy-Daisy speaker packs a lot into a party label Refuge Assembly Church, in Soddy-Daisy, sits...
How It’s Going. How It Started.
Yesterday I voted for myself. What a strange feeling! Maybe some first-time candidates dream of...
The Outlier
When my kids were little, the unspoken rule was you didn’t trick-or-treat until dark. Well,...
No Words
Last Sunday I knocked on a door and the person who answered was not the older woman my canvassing...
Marching Through the Ugly
One of the most pleasant days I’ve spent in a while was at the Chattanooga Pride Parade earlier...
Being There
Now that we’re on the home stretch of the campaign, most of my free time is taken up with...
Why I Shouldn’t Run for Public Office. Or Why You Should.
Here are some of the things that I, Allison Gorman, candidate for TN State House District 26, did...
Go Vote. No Sweat.
I spent part of this week canvassing in North Chattanooga, which is just one small slice of State...
The Cowardly Liar
I spent yesterday knocking doors in Hixson with my daughter Meg, who’s running for Congress. Hoo...