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Focusing On What Really Matters.

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Since the return of the Felon-in-Chief to the Oval Office, it seems that Democrats have spent most of their time focused on the Felon’s failing physical and cognitive health, as well as his despicable behavior and outrageous statements.

Every day, we see and hear their reactions to his repeated lies about the 2020 election. His daily lies about the economy. His attacks on the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center. His destruction of the East Wing. His plans for a Kremlin-style ballroom, as well as his Arc d’ Trump and the Washington golf course.

Certainly, these things are alarming. But they are mostly distractions – mere symptoms of the many excesses of the Trump regime.

There are far more important concerns, such as the ill-considered war with Iran, the growing oil crisis, the mass deportations of people of color, the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, Russia’s war on Ukraine, the weakening of our military and our international standing, our relationships with allies and our trading partners, the numerous violations of our Constitution, the massive corruption of the Trump crime family and its billionaire friends, our exploding national debt and, most important, the upcoming midterm elections.

For far too long, Democratic leaders have been relatively silent about the things that truly matter. And now it seems that they are just biding their time until the new Congress is sworn in on January 3, 2027.

But there’s an old truth about not counting your chickens until they’re hatched. In fair and free elections, Democrats will almost certainly enjoy a large blue wave. But there are no guarantees that the elections will be fair and free. Indeed, they may never even happen.

For months, Trump and his fascist friends have been preparing to steal the elections. In Republican-controlled states, they have used extreme gerrymandering in an attempt to dilute Democratic votes. They have closed polling places in Democrat-leaning districts. They have tried to disrupt mail-in voting. They have tried to override state control of elections. They have tried to gain access to every state’s voting records. They have threatened to deploy ICE thugs to polling places in an effort to intimidate black and brown voters. They have threatened to prosecute poll workers. They have threatened to declare a national emergency to delay or deny the elections. There’s talk of an apparent plan for Speaker Johnson to refuse to seat newly elected Democrats. And Trump has rehired Elon Musk despite claims by Musk’s ex that he bragged about using his Starlink technology to rig the 2024 election on Trump’s behalf.

Think all of this is a Democrat-inspired fantasy? Think again.

If the Felon and his MAGAts were willing to attack the nation’s capital on January 6, 2020, with the intent of overturning the election results and hanging Mike Pence along with Democratic representatives, what’s to stop them from doing it again? Or from doing something worse? After all, those MAGA criminals have been pardoned and are undoubtedly on standby to do the Felon’s bidding again.

So, instead of focusing on the daily chaos, the hateful messages, the latest faux pas, and the latest vanity project, Democrats need to be laser-focused on protecting the midterm elections and countering every possible MAGA attack. They can’t take for granted that the midterms will see a new Congress willing to rein in this fascist regime. Democrats and independents need to vote in overwhelming numbers and be prepared to fight as if the future of our democracy depends on them.

Because it does.

Home Of The Brave?

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This year, the MAGA-controlled Congress is expected to pass a Pentagon budget of $1.15 trillion, an increase of roughly $250 billion from this year’s already bloated budget. To put that in perspective, a trillion is a million millions!!! Or, to look at it another way, it’s the equivalent of the next eight nations’ military budgets combined, of which six are allies.

That doesn’t look like bravery to me. It looks like a whole lot of fear – $1.15 trillion worth.

And that’s not all. Adding to the total is the $190.6 billion budget for the Department of Homeland Security (in other words, defense), a department that didn’t even exist before 9/11. Removing the $26.2 billion of the DHS budget intended for disaster relief, that means taxpayers are paying a grand total of approximately $1,314,400,000,000 for defense.

Why?

I submit it’s less about defending our citizens than it is about defending our global corporate empire. In the 1980s, I asked the Central American bureau chief of a large news organization to explain the fighting in El Salvador and Nicaraugua. “Who are the good guys?” I asked. “There are none,” he replied. He told me that the U.S. doesn’t really care about international justice and human rights. That we simply support those who will support our corporate interests.

Nothing I have seen since then has contradicted that argument.

We didn’t intervene in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians perhaps because we have economic and military ties to Israel. Our intrusion in Venezuela wasn’t about human rights or communism. It was about that nation’s large oil reserves. Likewise, our attacks on Iran are all about oil. Indeed, our history of conflicts with Iran began in 1953 after the democratically elected government of Iran nationalized its oil resources.

Truth is, American taxpayers pay to defend U.S. corporate interests with our treasure and our lives. And how do our multinational corporations repay us? They pay to elect the government they want and demand ever greater tax cuts. Based on the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s April 2026 analysis, at least 88 of the largest U.S. corporations paid no federal income tax in 2025, despite earning over $105 billion in U.S. pretax income.

Home of the brave? More like home of the suckers.

The World’s Most Powerful Crime Network.

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Who could have imagined the FBI and DOJ becoming part of a crime syndicate in support of a narcissistic crime boss? But that’s exactly what has happened. Even the MAGA-dominated Supreme Court has participated in the ongoing crime spree by granting the Felon immunity while sitting in the Oval Office, and by gutting the Voting Rights Act allowing MAGA to gerrymander districts in his favor.

And, of course, all of the MAGA Republicans in Congress should be considered co-conspirators and accessories after the fact.

The Felon-in-Chief once bragged that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and people would still vote for him. Turns out he has done far worse. The first weeks in his 2nd term he froze spending for USAID. That single action is estimated to have led to the deaths of millions. Since then, he has engineered budget cuts making healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans. He and his ICEstapo have incarcerated thousands of immigrants, most of whom were here legally. He has overseen the executions of dozens of men operating boats in international waters. He has sent billions to Israel to help them continue their genocide in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. He allowed Israel to drag us into a war against Iran resulting in the deaths of 13 American service members and hundreds Iranian civilians, including 120 school children and their teachers. And he cut funding for the institutions responsible for preventing the next pandemic which could again lead to the deaths of millions.

It’s clear that his actions have killed many times the number of people as all the rest of the world’s organized crime families combined. And, with the power of the U.S. military and its stockpile of nuclear weapons, there is literally no limit to the harm the Teflon Don can inflict.

Moreover, there seems to be no limit to the amount of taxpayer funds the Felon and his charlatan family and friends plan to steal. It began with his $3.4 million weekend golf trips. Then there’s his family’s crypto schemes, his billion-dollar ballroom and other vanity projects, his $1.776 billion slush fund intended to pay off his criminal supporters, the blatant insider trading of he and his gang, Kristi Noem’s $250 million vanity ad campaign, Sean Duffy’s year-long all-expenses paid family vacation…the full extent of the corruption is much too long to cover here. (For a comprehensive list, I recommend checking the linked website: Tracking the Trump Administration’s Most Corrupt Transactions | Campaign Legal Center.) On top of all that, if the DOJ “settlement” of the Felon’s lawsuit is allowed to stand, he and his family will be able to defraud the government out of many more billions in taxes for the rest of their lives.

It’s enough to make Mafia families, Mexican drug cartels, and all the rest of the world’s organized crime families green with envy.