July 10, 2025

Autocrat Alert

Ari reports Trump has worst record for power grab orders of any POTUS

trumpcare

trumpty Just Broke the Healthcare System

One Million Rising

Join our next series -- One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism -- to learn how we’ll train one million people to fight back.

Trump's birthright citizenship order BLOCKED by judge

And the People Stand Up


Impact on Oregon of Big, Bad, Ugly Betrayal

 

Darker Blue Show Deeper Medicaid Cuts

In Rural, Republican Areas

70% of Children in Rural Oregon Depend on Medicaid

People Who Lose, Will Lose Completely

Speak the Truth

It's Our Job to Make Sure People Know the Truth

What is the World You Want?

What is Your Vision of the Possible?

Communicate it!

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90 Days, NO Deals

 


This is trumpty's Economy

Raising Costs for Families

Chaos from Tariffs

Big Ugly Skyrockets Healthcare Costs

Private Insurance Skyrockets

Pence hits Trump with a tariff reality check as trade war escalates yet again

on the American People

The American Gestapo

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) annual budget balloons to $37.5 billion.

This makes ICE the largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the republic. To put this in perspective, here are the sizes of other federal law enforcement agencies, many of which have entire TV dramas devoted to them:

This means a hiring spree of 10,000 goons for Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, 100,000 new detention beds, and mega- detention camps around the country.

We CAN STOP THIS INSANITY!

Stand Up, Speak Out: Nationwide

July 17 - Join Us for Good Trouble Lives On

It may seem like months ago, but on June 14, some 6 million of us protested against him — the largest civil demonstration in American history. It showed the power of the people. It gave many of us hope.

We must follow that extraordinary event by an even larger nationwide demonstration on July 17, Good Trouble Lives On Day.

On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will take to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, voting rights, and dignity for all.

On July 17, we must DOUBLE the number of us who turned out June 14. Because it’s our country.

And we must also appear in town halls that any Republican senators and representatives are holding, to tell them we refuse to live in a dictatorship. And tell them that we’re going to make sure they aren’t reelected.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Let's Talk Oligarchy

And the Big Ugly

Just 100 extremely wealthy families invested $2.6 billion in the 2024 election that put Trump back in the White House and Republican majorities in both the House and Senate.

Soon, the billionaires who invested in Trump will get a giant return on their investment, courtesy of Trump’s Big Ugly budget bill.

The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that by 2027, the richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers (of which the country’s estimated roughly 900 billionaires are a subset) will collectively save $60 billion in federal taxes, due to the Big Ugly.

Near-record levels of income and wealth are now concentrated at the very top, yet the rich don’t pay nearly their fair share in taxes.

Consider this: Musk’s 2024 campaign contributions were four times more than what he paid in annual federal income taxes between 2013 and 2018.

In fact, Musk — the richest person in the world — pays a lower tax rate than average Americans.

July 09, 2025

Melania May Need to be Deported

Melania Trump Could Be DEPORTED Under Potential New ‘Naturalization’ Rules

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Jasmine Crockett to Melania: “How Did You Get an Einstein Visa?

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US immigration crackdown | Melania’s visa under fire; Petition calls to deport First Lady & Barron

Never Forget

 The REAL Insurrection



Carnival of Obfuscation

I wrote this in November of 2025.  It is published in 'One Moment, One Chance, Always: Finding Hop in Despair', Ingram-Spark.  It is no longer a vision.  It is REAL.

The Crucible

So, what does it mean to stay centered?

It seems an imperative contemplation.

Its teachings offer answers to nihilism.

Our hope, our promise, all of our answers,

dwell at the center of us all, in our souls!

They await our recognition, confidence.

In a battle for our country, we are being

enveloped in a Carnival of Obfuscation,

its singular intent, to unhinge our minds.

This carnival now boils in rage as a battle

for the soul of our nation and crucially

for the minds and souls of our people.

The Carnival of Obfuscation is proficient.

And when combined with intimidation,

it yields a people devoid of discernment.

The winds of obfuscation will be whipped

into tempests that wreak brutal mayhem.

Their intention is to annihilate our truth.

Thus, the urgent entreaty to stay centered.

Remember, they can confuse us, but never

demolish the truths we carry in our souls.

Find your truth in your soul; embrace it.

Center on your truth; the crucible is now.

trumpty Weaponizes Disaster Response

trumpty Sends Relief to Texas, While Ignoring California

July 08, 2025

Find Your Voice

If we don't use our voice,
they will use our silence.

Let's Call a Spade a Spade...he is a Murderer

Trump’s response to flooding in Texas reflects glaring inequality

The Trump administration’s politicization of federal disaster aid was on display over the weekend.

President Donald Trump’s provision of disaster aid to help Texas respond to deadly flooding in Kerr County — the conservative-leaning region that helped elect GOP Rep. Chip Roy — was appropriately urgent. 

His approach to recent catastrophes in states led by Democrats? Not so much.

Chaos of the Day

90 Days, NO Deals

 

Wasting Tax Payer Dollars on Reality TV in MacArthur Park

And, he's Just Getting Started...

Floods - trumpty Responsible...Must Be Held Accountable

 





July 07, 2025

Rural Americans Sacrificed by trumpty

Rural Oklahoma doctor says 80% of his patients are on SoonerCare

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How new Medicaid work requirements could affect families with disabled children


Good Trouble

 Our Silence Now Makes Us Complicit


Speak Up, Speak Out, Get in the Way.

Get in Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble.

Help Redeem the Soul of America.

John Lewis, 2020

Unity

Our choice now is NOT Democrat vs. Republican

It is NOT progressive vs. conservative


It IS right vs. wrong

It IS humane vs. cruel

Police State & Gestapo...Supercharged

As of now, 71.7 percent of ICE detainees have no criminal record. 

Some have been hardworking members of their communities for decades.

How will ICE agents know whom to round up and detain? The crude reality is that they’ll focus on anyone looking Latino or with surnames ending in “z.”

There are 65.2 million Latinos in the United States, the vast majority of whom are citizens. Inevitably, some American citizens will be swept up, arrested, and detained.

This giant federal police effort will be supported by a supercharged surveillance system, also financed by Trump’s Big Ugly Bill. 

The Department of Homeland Security is joining with the Department of Government Efficiency to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank.
The regime will not limit the purpose of its growing internal police apparatus to deporting undocumented people.

The coming expansion of Trump’s police state under the Big Ugly Bill — featuring total surveillance, 10,000 ICE agents, and a network of detention facilities — will mark an escalation of Trump’s authoritarianismusing the pretext of an immigrant crime wave that does not exist.

What You Can Do

What You Can Do

1. Protect the vulnerable. If anyone in your community is confronted by ICE agents demanding proof of citizenship, make sure they know they have a right to remain silent and to refuse consent to searches of their cars, homes, or persons.

Red cards with this and other pertinent information are available in various languages. You can download and print them for free here.

2. Make sure you know your own rights. If stopped, you are not required to answer questions. You can refuse a search of your person, car, or belongings. If the agents proceed with a search despite your refusal, make it clear you do not consent. If you’re not under arrest, you can ask if you are free to go. If the answer is yes, leave.

If you or someone in your community believes rights have been violated, document everything you can of the encounter with ICE agents.

3. Finally, know that the purpose of Trump’s police state is to silence not just immigrants but the rest of us. Do not be intimidated or discouraged from speaking out, writing, demonstrating, boycotting, or undertaking any other nonviolent action in opposition to what the regime is doing.

To the contrary, become even more active

Share any abuses you witness (and, ideally, have recorded on your phone) as widely as possible, so that more people are apprised of what’s happening and are ready to join the resistance.

Tariff Policy Failing

Canada Exports UP - USA Exports DOWN - Canada Has Friends - USA Does Not




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July 06, 2025

On Remembering a Positive Vision of the United States of America

Join Us in Building a Better Future

These reforms aim to promote a stronger democracy, reduce the influence of wealthy special interests, and ensure that the government works for everyone, not just the privileged few.

Freedom and Renewal: A Vision for America is a call to action for all Americans who believe in a better future for our country. We invite you to join us in this effort to create a more equitable society where every individual has access to opportunities and resources to thrive. Together, we can build a brighter future for ourselves, our children, and generations to come.

Economic Empowerment
Protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
Fixing America’s Broken Health Care System
Addressing the Maternal Mortality Crisis
Reproductive Freedom
Day Care Solutions
Public Education
Making Higher Education More Affordable
Paid Family Leave
Affordable Housing
Stop the Corporate Takeover of Our Neighborhoods
Addressing Homelessness
Combating Food Insecurity
Environmental Protection
Voting Rights
Passing Comprehensive Voting Rights Legislation
Reforms for a Stronger Democracy
Restoring Respect for the Constitution in the Executive Branch: A New Era of Accountability
Immigration Reform
Civil Rights
Police Reform and Accountability
Gun Reform: A Call to Action
Foreign Policy: A New Era of Global Cooperation and Leadership