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You can feel it. You can almost smell it when you wake up every morning. The fear of what he will do next. He has taken another step closer to being the dictator he always wanted to be. We all know about the 238 alleged Venezuelan gang members who were shipped off to a house

Did anyone think it would be this bad? The first couple of months of the crazed Trump take over of America has been stunning and terrifying. His twisted fascination and misunderstanding of tariffs has crashed the stock markets costing people trillions of dollars. For the Baby Boomer generation, they see years of investment savings evaporate

It’s clear that Donald Trump thinks he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. There are currently fifteen appeals pending in courts around the country challenging how he wants to bend the government, and therefore, all of us to his will. Trump has made clear he craves power and revenge. He has surrounded himself

The hateful and discriminatory language and conduct encouraged by our president has been so pervasive it’s difficult to grasp the effect it is having on society. It was never been clearer than Trump’s address to congress this past week. In his attack on transgender individuals, he said the government would recognize only males and females.

We need to wake up. There is a threat to our freedom of the press. It is unrelenting and getting more dangerous every day. The news media is under attack by the current president as never before in modern history. Some editors and media owners are rolling over out of fear. Once respected organizations like

In September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from the Munich Conference with Adolf Hitler after agreeing to what is called a policy of appeasement which means you give your opponent what they want so you don’t have to fight them. Chamberlain gave his reasoning in a radio address. “How horrible, fantastic, incredible it

For the past three weeks, Donald Trump and Elon Musk have blitzed through the federal government. Firing thousands of workers, closing down federal agencies, allowing Musk’s minions to have access to Americans’ personal data through the invasion of the Treasury Department, and on and on. Judges around the country have been called on to stop

If anyone else did what Trump has allowed Elon Musk to do, they’d be in federal prison on a variety of charges. Musk sent a gang of tech head twenty somethings into the Treasury Department to demand access to the private information of millions of people. They went into US Aid for International Development shut

The contrast and symbolism was stunning. It was just over four years ago that a mob of insurrectionists stormed through that scared place under the Capitol dome prompted by Donald Trump. He sat by for hours watching the mob desecrate the heart of the American government that called for the death of his own vice