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"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. …

"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."

What the DOJ Is Doing Behind the Scenes Read more here.

Under the spectacle of the Epstein Files and the horror of migrants being disappeared to foreign gulags, the bureaucratic assault on democracy is all too easy to miss. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

🧟‍♂️ If You Want to Kill the Monster, Don’t Spare Its Creators You Know the Beast. Now Meet the Cowards, Sadists, and Traitors Who Are Keeping Him Alive and Engineering the American Nightmare.

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July 30, 2025 On July 2, 2024, just about a year ago, president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts told the listeners of Steve Bannon’s War Room webcast: “[W]e are going to win.

The American people have been betrayed.
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LegaliTea (@jayjaylegal) ICYMI: A secret audio recording from August 2024 reveals Russell Vought outlining the extreme agenda we are now experiencing under Trump's second term. He describes plans for the largest mass depor...

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A bar graph. On the left side is a bar showing that Republicans are cutting $930 billion from Medicaid. On the right side is a bar showing that Republicans are giving $910 billion in tax breaks to corporations under their budget bill, paid for by gutting Medicaid.

Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.

Three Things in Trump’s Budget That Aren’t Getting Enough Attention They might affect the bill’s fate… if more people learn about them and speak up.

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Jess Craven on Substack Senate Republicans are getting ready to vote on their Big BS bill, which is so awful they want to get it passed before Americans know what’s in it. Here’s a summary so you can share it with friends ...

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You are not going to like what the Senate will vote on next week.

Truth Matters on Substack This is such an important part of the conversation. It was what I was trying to say yesterday when MAGA cult members jumped all over my post to try and bury it with the LA riot or insurrection narrati...

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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, Katie Couric and Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett Jim and Katie discuss what's happening in media and Crockett reveals she wants top Dem post on powerful committee. Tickets to Jim's upcoming live town hall in DC: https://www.thelincolndc.com

Worth the watch. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

Women Forward on Substack Republicans have included $300 MILLION in the budget for......Trump's golf trips. You heard that right. But there is no money to feed hungry kids school lunch.

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May 27, 2025 Political scientist Adam Bonica noted last Friday that Trump and the administration suffered a 96% loss rate in federal courts in the month of May.

“Every authoritarian who successfully destroyed judicial independence did so because civil society failed to unite in time,” Bonica writes. “The key difference? Whether people mobilized.”

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SugarRhi~ on Substack ALL EYES ON MEMPHIS TN ‼️

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Truth Matters on Substack Leaders just rise to the top. Democrats are shackled by the Democratic establishment, not by the talent within its ranks. It’s decision time. Tick Tock, Tick Tock 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNdhaFseQ/

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My talk about Medicaid cuts with Andrea Ducas from CAP Thanks everybody for tuning in!

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Five Questions with (my law school classmate), Civil Rights Lawyer Michael Allen In March, I wrote to you about Zoe Ann Olson, the director of the Intermountain Fair Housing Council in Idaho.

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As we sadly ignored on a national and local basis ignored Fair Housing Month, this demands its attention. It matters!

Resistance is not futile Harvard is demonstrating that bullies don't like to get hit back.

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250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION NO KINGS NATIONAL PROTEST APRIL 19TH INDIVISIBLE MOBILE Saturday, April 19th, 2025 @ noon Fiftyfifty.one mobilize.us linktr.ee/indivisiblemobile

Nationwide protests TODAY for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution!

Let’s do this! NO KINGS!

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1/2: We have reason to believe that events on 4/19 and/or the 50501 Movement may be misrepresented by the Trump admin in an attempt to justify the use of military force.

Let us be clear: our movement is pro-democracy and firmly grounded in non-violence.

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article) An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

Ooops! Ooopsie! Did we do that? We didn't mean to do that. Definitely don't blame us for doing that.

Oops! Day one funding freeze
Oops! Ebola
Oops! Nuclear security workers
Oops! Bird flu
Oops! PEPFAR
Oops! HHS firings

And on and on and on...

Now this.

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Participate somewhere if you can!!! And take a friend or two or five with you! It's a way to show Trump that it's THE PEOPLE, the masses, who hold all the power...NOT him!

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

Tallahassee Doing Tallahassee Things 🚨Urgent Alert for Rural Lands and Impact Fees

Make your calls!!
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Baz on Substack 🚨 BREAKING: A Louisiana immigration judge has refused to grant bond to Rumeysa Ozturk—a Turkish PhD student at Tufts—describing her as both a flight risk and a threat to public safety. In a separate ...

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BREAKING: Venezuelan Nationals Facing Secretive Mass Deportations Within Hours Under Alien Enemies Act We are witnessing a dangerous and deliberate acceleration of mass deportations under the Alien Enemies Act—happening right now with barely 24 hours’ notice.

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LIVE NOW: Jim Acosta on Substack SUBSTACK TOWN HALL WITH JIM ACOSTA AND MICHAEL COHEN AND GUESTS

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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Make sure you understand the SAVE Act, which will seriously suppress voting rights, not prevent fraud as its sponsors claim.

The Reality of Project 2025 - Red Wine and Blue With many of its authors in top level positions, Project 2025 is being implemented. Keep track and find recommended actions to fight back!

Tracking the Implementation of Project 2025 and How to Fight Back. When we first started talking about it, most Americans hadn’t even heard of it. As more Americans learned about Project 2025, the overwhelming majority rejected it.

It's being implemented.

Fight Back!
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A Case to Watch Programming Note: Wednesday evening at 8:30 ET/7:30 Central, Marc Elias will be joining me for a Substack Live to discuss the North Carolina Supreme Court case and the other critical legal issues of t...

The issue of traveling to another state to participate in an activity that is illegal in your State is on trial. Pay attention to the potential of a double standard if you are a woman.
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