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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…
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Fire at Will
They had fought a king to escape that power, but today the Court handed it back. Today the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter in a 6-3 decision that Donald Trump can fire the leaders of independent federal agencies at will, erasing a precedent that had stood for 91 years. In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt…
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Bible Required in Texas Schools
State-required Bible reading in public schools. It seems state-sponsored religion is already here. On Friday, the Texas State Board of Education approved a required reading list of Bible stories and Bible verses for every public school student in the state. If implemented, more than 5 million Texas children will read it, roughly one in ten…
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Vote By Mail Attack
The federal government is trying to control who gets a ballot. Yesterday Postmaster General David Steiner told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the Postal Service will not deliver ballots to voters in states that refuse to turn over their voter lists to the federal government ahead of time. Michigan Senator Gary…
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Reflecting Pool Criminals
One wonders how much state power is now being exerted simply to keep one man from ever having to admit that he was wrong. On Saturday, Donald Trump announced that the United States Park Police had arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He called it a serious crime against a national…
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Votes for Women
Old, terrible arguments, it seems, never die; they simply wait for new keynote speakers. In early June, Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio gave a keynote platform to tradwife influencer Savanna Stone, who called for an end to women’s right to vote. She is proposing a one household, one ballot system in…
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FBI Raids
These are the things we will look back on when we wonder where the groups who help people register to vote have all gone. On Thursday, June 11, FBI agents searched the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a group that has been helping people register to vote since 2007. They say more than…
Notes To My Future Self 