3 January 2024

Which Way America? It Is Up To Us!

Trump Big Brother

[Photo: Trump Stop the Steal Jan 6, 2021 by WSWS]

By Rowan Wolf

Welcome to 2024 and the beginning of the next stage of the struggle for the future of our nation and the world. The U.S. is rapidly sliding down the slope into fascism. Trump, and the coordinators of his next presidency, are not being shy about their plans. Trump makes it clear with his rants at rallies, and his accomplices are quite open about what America will look like with another Trump presidency – a dictatorship with a crony government, the DoJ restructured to rout out anyone Trump deems threatening, the construction of concentration camps for those deemed anti-American / anti-Trump (Democrats, people of color, LGBTQ, etc) and the expulsion or execution of non-white immigrants. The Constitution will be thrown out, massive bans on books and rewriting of curriculum, a total ban on abortion, and the removal of licenses for any media that does not support Trump and the MAGA agenda. The Republican party has already given their power to Trump and most refuse to speak against him or this plan at recrafting the government.

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31 October 2022

You, Poor Voter, Must Stand Back and Watch as Billionaire Plutocrats Purchase Democracy

[Photo: From the Facebook page of Arteide – International Catalogue of Contemporary Art. ]

By Sam Pizzigatia
Source:  Inequality.Org

Editor's Note
Both Democrats and Republicans believe that democracy is in the balance in this election. When I heard this, I went “Huh?!”. A beat after that I heard the chants about  Democrats from various Trump camp meetings. This brought me (as an aside) to the continuously renewed awareness that Trump’s lies are often truth – at least as at least half of what he is saying is true about him. The ‘Big Lie’ is one example of this. Yes, there is a massive fraud going on about the 2020 vote – by Trump and the GOP. So people of both parties are concerned about democracy, but only one party is fighting to overthrow democracy (and the rule of law) and that should give the acolytes of Trump pause because the Republican people may wake up at some point and realize that it is NOT democracy they are working so hard to install.

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23 October 2022

Capturing the Courts – Sheldon Whitehouse

[Photo:  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Jennifer Mueller]

By Rowan Wolf

Audio Editor's Note

I am bringing the work of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Jennifer Mueller to your attention. They have a recently published book –  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court – that details a number of actions taken by the far right to capture the courts and other governmental bodies. They start with the 1971 “Powell Memo” written by Lewis F. Powell, associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1972-1987. Yes, his grand scheme was written before he took his place on the court. Another conservative luminary, Leonardo Leo, has helped funnel over $1B in dark money donations through the backroom laundry of the Federalist Society.

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25 September 2017

No Church PACs!

no right turn

[Photo: No Right Turn (Ministry Best Practices).]

By Public Citizen


Editor's Note
The message and request below came to me in an email from Public Citizen. Right wing legislators in Washington are attempting to repeal the Johnson Amendment that blocks the extremely wealthy from funneling money through churches (and other charitable organizations) into political campaigns and causes. From Trump’s actions thus far, it is virtually certain he would sign such a revocation. Please take a few moments to read the information and add your voice.

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