Month: July 2026
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Trump Election Takeover
Elections run by the ruler are elections in name only. This week the Trump administration continued its work to take over elections. On Tuesday, the Justice Department sent letters to election officials in all 50 states and DC, threatening criminal prosecution over noncitizen voting and giving states five days to respond with a plan. Noncitizen…
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Warning Notice
In an autocracy, people measure their words. Americans now must begin to measure theirs. On Monday, U.S. citizen David Streever sued the Department of Homeland Security. He says its agents violated his First Amendment rights by punishing him for criticizing ICE. Streever’s offense was a three-paragraph email sent in January in response to the killings…
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Celebrate What?
I am celebrating with hope that they still exist. Today America is 250 years old. Many of us are despondent or enraged over the loss of American democracy. I am here at Antietam, site of the bloodiest single day in American history. Why am I here? What is there to celebrate? On September 17, 1862,…
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Trump Plane
Our nation celebrates its birthday this week while the president flies in a gift from a royal court. Yesterday on July 1, Donald Trump took the first flight on his brand new Air Force One, a $400 million Boeing 747 given to the United States by the royal family of Qatar. The Air Force has…
Notes To My Future Self 