August 31, 2025

Voters heckle House Republicans at town halls

‘Answer the question, you coward!’: Voters heckle House Republicans at town halls

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‘Stay within your lanes’: Oregon AG sends warning to Trump on tariffs and national guard threat

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‘We don’t do this in America’: Analyst slams Trump’s threat to militarize U.S. cities

Firefighters NOT HAPPY After ICE Agents Arrest Two Crew Members as They Battle Bear Gulch Fire

Trump SUFFERS MASSIVE LOSS as TOTAL HELL ERUPTS

August 30, 2025

Trump Supporters LOSE BIG As Melania Investment Nosedives In Stunning Scam

'Extorter-in-chief': Trump busted for ‘shakedowns’ as MAGA socialism sparks buyer’s remorse

'Extorter-in-chief': Trump

busted for ‘shakedowns’ as MAGA socialism sparks buyer’s remorse

Trump on defense over 'fake firings' as two top officials keep working anyway

Workers Over Billionaires Protest

Workers Over Billionaires Protest Weekend

The ultra-wealthy and corporate interests continue to wage a war on working people – and their allies in the administration are backing up their attacks. But this Labor Day, we’re standing together to fight back against the billionaire, authoritarian agenda.

This September 1st, join us for Workers Over Billionaires, a national Labor Day mobilization.

Across the country, we’ll be in the streets, at congressional offices, and outside the corporate criminals who profit from our pain – demanding a world that works for all of us.

Find an event near you!

Watch Labor Day Live!!!

Labor Day Live!

Join us Monday, Sept. 1 @ 8pm ET

How to watch

Once you return home from a day of picnics and/or protests, settle in and enjoy our streaming special on the Contrarian Substack & YouTube!

Fight for – & Celebrate! – Unions

Contrarians Fight for & Celebrate! Unions

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on why Labor Day is more important than ever

As we approach Labor Day on Monday, Jen was joined by Liz Shuler to discuss how the working class feels abandoned in Trump’s America, how the labor movement is holding strong despite constant attacks, and how we can build an aspirational economic future. "This has been the most hostile administration to workers in our lifetimes."

Trump is not the labor president he claims to be

Dan Koh dispelled Trump’s self-mythologizing as a champion of workers: "Trump’s words pick up cheers; his policies dismantle protections. Praise for unions paired with union-crushing ultimatums. Job-creation rhetoric married to deep cuts in job training. Miner flattery coupled with health program decimation."

The One Single, Proven Constraint on Oligarchy and Autocracy

From Poland to South Africa to the United States, Michael Podhorzer explained, unions have been the most effective check on oligarchs and autocrats. And if we want to save democracy, we start by rebuilding them. “There are no shortcuts or workarounds.”

Most of Trump’s tariffs are ILLEGAL, federal court rules

Most of Trump’s tariffs are illegal, federal court rules

Trump found to have overstepped authority

with tariff policies as president accuses court of political bias

US law “bestows significant authority on the president to undertake a number of actions in response to a declared national emergency, but none of these actions explicitly include the power to impose tariffs, duties, or the like, or the power to tax”, the court said in the 7-4 ruling.

Many of Trump’s steep tariffs are “are unbounded in scope, amount and duration”, the ruling added, and “assert an expansive authority that is beyond the express limitations” of the law his administration has leant on.

The ruling voided Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs that set a 10% baseline on virtually all of the US’s trading partners and his so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on countries he has argued have unfairly treated the US.

'Taxation without representation': Prof. Tribe breaks down Trump's loss on tariffs in appeals court

August 29, 2025

Trump DISHONORS All Military Members!

Gov Newsom Courageous Enough To Call a Dictator a Dictator

Trump FREEZES UP as Newsom SHREDS HIM IN PUBLIC

Trump GETS BOOED BADLY in DEEP RED DISTRICTS

Labor Unions Stand Strong!!!

Three Undaunted Labor Figures

Unions remain critical
in the fight for democracy and social justice

Judge blocks White House from defunding 34 municipalities over ‘sanctuary’ policies

Cities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities had sued Trump administration over funding freeze

Weekend Protest Across ALL 50 States!!!!

Nearly 1,000 ‘worker over billionaire’ actions planned for Labor Day in US

Rallies from Alaska to Hawaii will highlight cuts to wages, unions and social safety nets under Trump policies

Find a Protest Near You!!!!
Stand With America's Workers!!!

Among the policies being protested are the:

Trump administration’s attempts to rescind collective bargaining rights from 1 million federal workers, the largest single act of union busting in US history,

a cut to minimum wage requirements for federal contractors from $17.75 an hour to $13.30 an hour,

a proposed rule to eliminate federal minimum wage and overtime protections for 3.7 million childcare and home care workers, and

the rescission of a minimum wage requirement for disabled workers.

August 28, 2025

PROTEST!!! WE SHALL OVERCOME!!!

Massive Anti-Trump March Led by Sharpton, Zohran Mamdani Rocks NYC and Wall Street

Al Sharpton at NYC Wall Street March Against Trump DEI Cuts

Martin Luther King III Challenges Trump at Massive NYC March

Zohran Mamdani Rips Trump in Fiery Speech at Wall Street Protest

JOIN US IN PROTEST THIS WEEKEND!!!

FIND ONE NEAR YOU!!!

DENVER

He's Scared? All The Ways Trump Is Trying to Hide His Corruption

trumpty's Bad Day Gets Worse

Trump FIRING Immediately BACKFIRES with DISASTER Judge for Trump

How to Resist Authoritarianism

Ruth Ben-Ghiat on How to Resist Authoritarianism

trumpty Trying to Kill US?

Is the Trump Regime Trying to Kill Us?

The biggest threat to our health and safety is in the Oval Office

FEMA

The destruction of one of the most basic federal functions, emergency response, should worry all Americans. “Current and former FEMA officials are warning Congress that the Trump administration’s policies have undermined the nation’s ability to respond to natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina,” Politico reports.

Rural Hospitals

Politico reported that a rural Tennessee hospital nearly wiped out by Hurricane Helene may never be restored due to Trump’s big, disastrous bill. Unicoi County Hospital is one of hundreds of hospitals that may go under due to the massive Medicaid cuts. In addition to outright closures, “service line reductions and staff reductions, resulting in longer waiting times in emergency departments and for other essential services” will devastate the rural healthcare delivery service system (not to mention the economies of rural communities).

COVID

RFK, the anti-vaxxer secretary of Health and Human Services, now plans to eliminate COVID vaccines altogether. “The prediction of a drastic move against the COVID vaccine comes after Kennedy canceled $500 million in funding for the development of mRNA vaccines,” the Daily Beast reports.

Measles Outbreak

In Texas alone, the malicious anti-vax movement contributed to over 700 measles infections and two deaths.

Trump and his ilk pose a bigger threat to Americans’ health, safety, and lives than any foreign foe or domestic disaster.

Voters in 2026 must disable the MAGA threat before more Americans—and our democracy—perish.