John Ray Clemmons

While health care and other costs are skyrocketing, Republicans are DOUBLING insurance premiums on working families.

p.s. Regarding GOP’s new lies, “illegal” immigrants CANNOT buy insurance via the ACA. ACA eligibility is limited to U.S. citizens, nationals, and lawfully present immigrants.

Shana Tova. On this erev Rosh Hashanah, let us all be moved to greater kindness and stronger unity. Wishing all blessings and a sweet and good new year.

The president doesn’t get to silence speech with threats of administrative penalties just because he doesn’t like it. That’s not how our system is supposed to work. Corporate America needs to grow a spine and stop bending the knee.

First, they spread vaccine conspiracies to eliminate vital access. Now they want to end mental health screening for children!? These tinfoil hatters are playing political checkers in a world of chess and the endgame will have devastating impacts on public health and families.

TN deserves a governor who’ll fight a president who federalizes Guard personnel and sends them to march in our streets. Bootlicking @GovBillLee & Republicans have doubled our state budget yet failed to fund community policing progs & a TBI lab while withholding safety funding.

🚨🚨ATTENTION🚨🚨:
80,170 Nashville voters were purged from voting rolls earlier this year from 12/1/24-6/1/25.
In advance of upcoming elections, please visit tnmap.tn.gov/voterlookup/ to make sure you're still registered.
If you were purged, please re-register so you can make your voice heard!

Hi folks. We've seen this before during the Cold War.

Check out Ch. 5 in "Threat of Dissent" to learn more. 🗃️

And, remember, in Kent v. Dulles (1958), the U.S. Supreme Court held that American citizens have a fundamental right to travel.

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Tariffs = Taxes

Fact: our costs of living are rising because of failed economic policies enacted by the White House.

This president promised to lower prices. Not only has he broken his promise, he has caused prices to increase substantially.

#TeamJRC #tn55 #affordability

It’s no coincidence that the same people who take our republic for granted and fail to appreciate its inherent fragility are the same people who also take the generational public health benefits of pasteurization, vaccinations, antibiotics, and safe reproductive healthcare for granted.

Blue states hold on to public health dollars while red states lose out • Tennessee Lookout After the Trump administration slashed billions in state and local public health funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this year, the eventual impact on states split sharply along political lines.

While TN's AG files frivolous lawsuits challenging lawful elections, depriving people of rights, etc, he can't be bothered to fight for public health funding for the benefit of TN families. Nashville had to file its own suit with other cities in red states. tennesseelookout.com/2025/09/05/r...

Adidas, Walmart, Home Depot, and other major brands that say Trump's tariffs are pushing them to raise prices Trump's tariffs have companies scrambling as they navigate cost increases. Here are the companies that have talked about hiking prices.

“Walmart, Home Depot, and other major brands that say Trump's tariffs are pushing them to raise prices.”

Trump is raising prices on TN families. Marsha Blackburn, John Rose, Andy Ogles, Bill Hagerty are all helping Trump make your life more expensive.
www.businessinsider.com/companies-ra...

The same guy who promised major cuts to wasteful spending by the federal govt (actually spent $200B more in first 100 days than during same period last yr) is now spending 100s of millions (billion+?) to relocate U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama … just because. 💸💸💸

Our nation’s public health system is now run by anti-science tinfoil hatters. Because Bill Lee and TN Republicans have driven our state to the edge of a fiscal cliff, state resources are insufficient to pick up the slack for current public health needs and when next public health threat surfaces.

Happy Labor Day, Tennessee!

24 hours of ⚽️🏈⚾️🏎️ bliss:
▪️9am Spurs v Bournemouth
▪️11am Vols v Syracuse
▪️3:30pm MEM v UTChatt
▪️7:10pm CHC v COL
▪️7:30pm NashvilleSC v ATL Utd
▪️8am Dutch GP
▪️10:30am Dortmund v FC UB
IT’S ALL HAPPENING!! 😃🥳🤗

Our hearts go out to the families in Minn who are experiencing what no family should ever have to experience.
Also in our thoughts are the many victims of gun violence who are reliving their own trauma upon hearing this news.
At what point do our children become more important than all the BS!?

Tennessee National Guard to join D.C. police order • Tennessee Lookout Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is dispatching National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., this week to join the president’s law enforcement takeover.

Lee is uprooting Guard personnel from their families and jobs to help distract from Trump’s Epstein sitch.
Tennessee taxpayers should not have to pay for Bill Lee’s bootlicking.
Btw, violent crime in DC decreased 26% this year while overall crime is down 7%.
tennesseelookout.com/2025/08/19/t...

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YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid

Epic independent review of the Vegas Loop - a must watch. Gov. Bill Lee & Co. consider this “innovative.” 🤣
The Boring Co overpromised and underperformed and did nothing to reduce traffic, yet these GOP dolts in TN are still all in - no questions asked. 💸 youtu.be/VPjODKUxV5g

Nashville food banks plan for fallout from SNAP reductions: The line is getting longer With benefits slashed, food banks gutted and families pushed out of the system, programs like The Store warn: 'It’s unconscionable.'

“New federal cuts to SNAP food assistance — including those in President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act — are triggering a domino effect poised to disrupt families, farmers, grocers and classrooms across Tennessee.”
Thanks, Marsha, Rose, Ogles, Hagerty…
www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to close its doors after loss of funding • Tennessee Lookout The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said Friday that it will be shutting down after a enate appropriations bill omitted funding for it.

Eliminating reliable news sources & locally owned dailies threatens our families. There is little to no accountability for actions/votes taken by officials that directly, negatively impact their constituents, bc folks generally have no idea who did what. tennesseelookout.com/2025/08/03/r...

Bad news. Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics isn’t going to make the employment numbers any better. Bush League reactionism and blaming others for your failed policies wreaks of an insecure executive who has no temperament for governing or leading people.

Thanks to the organizers of today’s Rural Voices Town Hall in Lebanon at Cumberland University. We covered a lot of issues of importance to Tennessee families. Public conversations matter.
#education #agriculture #infrastructure #transportation #TeamJRC #TN55

Tennessee lawmakers want state to release money for probation program amid funding cut • Tennessee Lookout Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada is refusing to release funds to support an intensive probation program.

Props to Sens. Briggs and Jackson for trying to get TN Dept of Correction to restore funding to Community Corrections. It’s a shame @GovBillLee and TDOC Comm’r Strada care more about CoreCivic profits than trying to positively impact people’s lives. tennesseelookout.com/2025/07/31/t...

Hearing updates about West Tennessee Megasite from panelists Clay Bright, Comm’r Stuart McWhorter and Rep. Kustoff at Tennessee Business Forum. #Memphis #WestTN #TeamJRC

Gov. Bill Lee’s toll lanes vs tunnel:
Similarities:
▪️Gift public property to handpicked company for 50 yrs/forever;
▪️Company builds roadway on property;
▪️Company charges drivers/passengers any amount it wants;
▪️Company gets rich;
▪️Zero reduction in Nashville area traffic.

I’m more concerned about Robert’s but point taken. 😉

Gov. Bill Lee’s idea of “innovation” is a billionaire tech bro using century-old technology to dig a tunnel for an underground taxi service.

Seriously.🤦🏻‍♂️

‘Fiscally irresponsible and legally suspect.’ TN democrats oppose newly announced Music City Loop project “While we all want a modernized transportation system and a more efficient way to move throughout our city and region, it is worth remembering that there are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

“While we all want a modernized transportation system and a more efficient way to move throughout our city and region, it is worth remembering that there are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” #TeamJRC #TN55
www.wsmv.com/2025/07/28/f...

Just a reminder: Higher tariffs on imported goods are effectively a tax increase on American families.
Also, given the size and scope of all the new tariffs, they’ll also likely result in higher inflation. #TrumpInflation