Jim Haptonstahl

C'mon Peoria and Central Illinois! Let's make some noise for democracy!

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls. He has demanded ICE turn over the names of all federal officers involved in each incident, and said he is ready to take ICE to court.

The Cruelty Virus Mind is an epidemic in this regime. Criminy...

Big Brother is already watching...but his surveillance capabilities are about to go on steroids. JFC...Q

Al Franken's book from days of yore aptly described this GOP phenomenon: "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them"

KZ Community Beat - Peoria 50501 - The Power of The People - KZ Community Beat In this episode, we sit down with Melissa and Jim, co leader's of Peoria's 50501, and organizers of The No King's Protest happening here in Peoria on October 18th! We touch topics regarding the curren...

Melissa Millinger and I were honored to represent Peoria 50501 on KZ 102.3 FM, in a great dialog with welcoming and informed host Ross Martinez on his Community Beat podcast. omny.fm/shows/kz-com...

The gulf between good or at least not-evil (most of us) and evil (this fucking regime & those who relish their brutality) is a bottomless abyss. Seems we need to outnumber these mfers 10 to 1 or more to rid our country of their violent fascist control.

Goons. Fucking goons.

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup.

It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

These goddamn goons are out of control. And the lies they use to justify their indiscriminate brutality are just as criminal... "war crimes" committed under orders of the demented sociopath in chief and his Christofascist syndicate.

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

For all the fascist shit going down in Chicago, this image has given me some hope...and bolstered my commitment to RESIST!

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

Brown Shirts patrolling downtown Chicago...sickening display of blatant racism, arrogant lawlessness, and fascist intimidation.

They're as cold as ice, willing to sacrifice their humanity. Depraved Nazis.

‘Good trouble’ makers - The Community Word Groups like Peoria 50501, Democracy 309, Fired Up, Indivisible are organizing organizers to stand up to government overreach and the Trump administration Read more →

Here's a readable online version of the outstanding story in Community Word featuring Peoria 50501 and our allies in the Resistance: thecommunityword.com/online/blog/...

As ugly as this authoritarian regime has been, this is going to get uglier...

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Independent newspaper Community Word is a treasure trove of truth in Central Illinois. Peoria 50501 is proud to be in front-page story in its October edition, featured with allies
Democracy 309 & Fired Up for Democracy. Also got prime placement of No Kings 2.0 Protest & Rally ad on the back page.

The WHITE HOUSE These movements portray foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control) as "fascist" to justify and encourage acts of violent revolution. This "anti-fascist" lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties. Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality. As described in the Order of September 22, 2025 (Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization), the groups and entities that perpetuate this extremism have created a movement that embraces and elevates violence to achieve policy outcomes, including justifying additional assassinations. For example, Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin engraved the bullets used in the murder with so-called "anti-fascist" rhetoric.

What counts as “anti-fascist” is incredibly broad: basically opposition to much of the MAGA worldview - “anti-capitalism and anti-Christianity”
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Shitheads and thugs. Government-led right-wing domestic terrorism in the Heartland.

NO KINGS 2.0 in Peoria on 10/18! Be there, and share, recruiting others into our powerful resistance movement! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

America’s accelerating exit from itself After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease

"Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next fourteen?" My column. www.ft.com/content/a284...

Be Loud — For America By Governor JB Pritzker

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Analysis | Charlie Kirk's funeral was an uneasy blend of mourning and fascism.

The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list