Right you are Terry. Thank you for putting your razor sharp mind and keyboard to work on this. There will be more to report on this as this is the ballgame.
I believe trump is about to cancel our elections. When he made that comment about "the last election you will have" my stomach heaved. That prediction grows more likely with each passing day. And many people share my fears.
Terry, thank you for keeping up the drumbeat. The darkest tendencies of the American character—racism, misogyny, greed—are aggregated in the figure Donald Trump and have coalesced in his followers. You are providing a vital service to our democracy by continually calling out Trump’s tactics and motives, as you do in this post.
Let's create a Blue wave so big it washes away every Republican billionaires tax free ride and surf in on that wave of free healthcare and education for everyone.
Well well well - just read the project 2025 created by Heritage Foundation especially Russell Viught. And the Supreme Court Justice has opposed voting rights for many since back around the time of Gore.
So get ready now in each state and get ready to wage war with all executive branches because this ills the play out of Oroject 2025- see specifics below. The Dem party surely didn’t do its research at all in prep for the 2024 POTUS election. Yes it is likely a civil war:
Key elements of Project 2025 regarding voting rights include:
Federalized Oversight and Purges:The plan proposes allowing the federal government, specifically the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to gain access to state voter rolls to facilitate aggressive, nationwide voter purges.
Restructuring the DOJ: Project 2025 proposes moving responsibility for election-related offenses from the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division to the Criminal Division, which critics say would change the focus from protecting the right to vote to prosecuting election officials and voters.
Weakening Voting Protections: The plan recommends weakening the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which are designed to prevent voter suppression.
Eliminating Independent Oversight:The proposal calls for removing the Federal Election Commission's (FEC) independent litigating authority, further limiting oversight of federal elections.
Criminalizing Voting Mistakes:Project 2025 would make minor errors in the voting process or voter registration criminal offenses, which could lead to aggressive prosecutions.
Executive Branch Monitoring and Control Project 2025 is based on the "unitary executive theory," which posits that the president should have complete control over the entire federal government, including independent agencies. The plan explicitly calls for:
Transforming the Department of Justice to act under direct presidential control, allowing it to be "weaponized" for election-related issues.
Ending independent, non-partisan efforts to combat election disinformation.
By consolidating power in the executive branch and weakening traditional voting protections, the proposals in Project 2025 aim to shift control over election administration to the federal government rather than state-level authorities.
Please pass this info regarding Project 2025 plan on to others not familiar with Project 2025 voting changes. They are planning do exactly what it says. Unless our leaders problem solve the cheating sought by the executive branch the states could lose control over voting in respective states. The DOJ would love to undertake voter cheating by changing voter tallies, and/or manipulate programs within voting machines, and/or create counterfeit ballots to switch with balllots of Dem voters, the Dem honest ballots will be switched With counterfeit water marked ballots in which Dem votes will be switched to Republican votes. Actually, many believe Musk changed voter tallies in the 2024 election that was suggested to have occurred per the concern of an independent organization committed to honest elections.
Please pass it on every week. The Heritage Foundation and one of the main authors Vought implementing exclusive zealous MAGA non democratic beliefs- it seeks to destroy the Constitution and Rule of Law. That is Tyranny from my perspective and dismantling of our gov structure to be overtaken by Trump cronies and tech billionaires who only care about lining their pockets and want a cessation of democracy. Some argue we already have lost democracy and we see establishment of oligarchs that will charge us for every service we receive, have to pay for that ito oligarchs. We should begin a plan for organizing.revolution
First step doomers can do is to resist and unsubscribe- sop all your computer apps
Stop amazon
Stop buying so many apple products bec the nite of Alex Pretti’s death Apple CEO was at Trump’s having drinks before Melania movie that Bezos paid for
So unsubscribe from Apple TV- do not buy a new Apple iPhone or iPad or IPod or the other myriad of Apple products
Stop Amazon and join Costco instead that is goid to human workers whereas Bezos lawing off 1/3 of best newspaper Wash post to please Trump; he also let go lots of workers in December: he has forgotten who helped him develop his business- not Trump but rather regular people- like Henry Ford said: the best way for my company Ford to do well is to pay my workers adequately so that they can have a wage for a decent living-
Tech AI bad - will destroy human jobs- bad
Seems that all doors are closed to Americans who need to make a lobbing for themselves and their families if they use tech AI to do most jobs- shame on Tech billionaires
You can smell the desperation on Trump, it's that thick. Trump is scared out of his mind that he's going to lose the midterms, and he will lose the midterms. He will lose them big, possibly the House and the Senate both, whereupon he will be disempowered to degree he cannot tolerate. Big surprise, he wants to short-circuit the midterms so they do not or cannot happen.
What's the solution? Nationalize the elections, of course! We won't mention that that's unconstitutional as all hell, but he wants to do it anyway.
It should go without saying that we can't let him do it, that we can't let Republicans in Congress let him do it. This is a bridge too far, as though there haven't been bridges too far before now. This is where it has to stop.
The states—not the federal government—are authorized by the Constitution to conduct elections. Trump wants to violate the Constitution and control every precinct in every state in the 2026 midterm elections. He knows if the people vote in a free and fair election, Republicans will lose the House and the Senate. And, he knows his treasonous regime will then be vigorously prosecuted and permanently dismantled.
As a lifelong racist, Trump assumed his plan to deport millions of People of Color would be widely popular. He badly misjudged the American people. Trump was shocked to learn that less than a third of Americans approve of his virulently racist intentions to Make America White by deportations, incarcerations, and annihilations.
Because more than two-thirds of Americans oppose Trump’s racist goals, he has developed ICE into a weapon of violence deployed to batter Blue State Americans until they agree to let him dismantle our Constitutional Republic and replace it with a Fascist, White-Supremacist, Christian-Nationalist Kleptocracy ruled by the Trump Family Crime Syndicate.
No amount of propaganda spewed by Trump and his enablers can coverup the fact that Republicans are using physical violence in a desperate attempt to stay in power. ICE Bounty Hunters—encouraged by their treasonous supervisors—routinely employ violence to fill their racist quota of brown-skin-prey. And sometimes, because they know Trump has their backs, they murder—reminding Americans that in a Trump-Kleptocracy, Republican Fascists are above the law.
These are terrifying times! We must win the midterms. A winning issue for Democrats is AI's threat to job security. Protecting workers is one of the basic tenets of the Democratic Party. AI (including AI robotics) threatens workers at all levels and party affiliations. It does not discriminate between red and blue states. Workers are increasingly seeing the threat AI poses. (Just days ago, Amazon said it was laying off 16,000 workers because of AI). Why haven't Democrats in Congress risen to the occasion on this issue? I suspect for many the reason is they have vested interests in the technology - investments in and donations from tech companies. Disgusting. Nonetheless, fresh new Democratic candidates can use the issue effectively against Republican incumbents.
Thank you for continuing to call out what is ACTUALLY happening. People need to believe what Trump says, none of this “oh that’s just Trump being Trump” Yes it is Trump being Trump and he has proven over and over who he is. He’s a narcissistic criminal who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. When someone shows you who they are BELIEVE THEM.
My spouse and I have for over 20 years. We worked in a field that had unpredictable hours. Now as retired people we find it much easier to do research and become informed as we vote.
My Husband and I started mail in ballots when it was available during Covid. We both found that being able to do the research on the candidates and the issues at hand in our districts was a much better way to vote. We have continued this option so that we can be informed voters every time. If they take away paper ballots, we'll still vote regardless.
Right you are Terry. Thank you for putting your razor sharp mind and keyboard to work on this. There will be more to report on this as this is the ballgame.
How Soon Everyone Of You Forgot What TRUMP Voiced Before The Last Election 🗳️.
This Will Be The Last Election That You Will Have To Vote 🗳️ In!
I remember those chilling words!
He was dead serious!
I believe trump is about to cancel our elections. When he made that comment about "the last election you will have" my stomach heaved. That prediction grows more likely with each passing day. And many people share my fears.
Terry, thank you for keeping up the drumbeat. The darkest tendencies of the American character—racism, misogyny, greed—are aggregated in the figure Donald Trump and have coalesced in his followers. You are providing a vital service to our democracy by continually calling out Trump’s tactics and motives, as you do in this post.
Great work in exposing all this. Very well done. You're doing your country a great service.
Let's create a Blue wave so big it washes away every Republican billionaires tax free ride and surf in on that wave of free healthcare and education for everyone.
Well well well - just read the project 2025 created by Heritage Foundation especially Russell Viught. And the Supreme Court Justice has opposed voting rights for many since back around the time of Gore.
So get ready now in each state and get ready to wage war with all executive branches because this ills the play out of Oroject 2025- see specifics below. The Dem party surely didn’t do its research at all in prep for the 2024 POTUS election. Yes it is likely a civil war:
Key elements of Project 2025 regarding voting rights include:
Federalized Oversight and Purges:The plan proposes allowing the federal government, specifically the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to gain access to state voter rolls to facilitate aggressive, nationwide voter purges.
Restructuring the DOJ: Project 2025 proposes moving responsibility for election-related offenses from the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division to the Criminal Division, which critics say would change the focus from protecting the right to vote to prosecuting election officials and voters.
Weakening Voting Protections: The plan recommends weakening the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which are designed to prevent voter suppression.
Eliminating Independent Oversight:The proposal calls for removing the Federal Election Commission's (FEC) independent litigating authority, further limiting oversight of federal elections.
Criminalizing Voting Mistakes:Project 2025 would make minor errors in the voting process or voter registration criminal offenses, which could lead to aggressive prosecutions.
Executive Branch Monitoring and Control Project 2025 is based on the "unitary executive theory," which posits that the president should have complete control over the entire federal government, including independent agencies. The plan explicitly calls for:
Transforming the Department of Justice to act under direct presidential control, allowing it to be "weaponized" for election-related issues.
Ending independent, non-partisan efforts to combat election disinformation.
By consolidating power in the executive branch and weakening traditional voting protections, the proposals in Project 2025 aim to shift control over election administration to the federal government rather than state-level authorities.
Thank you for sharing the specific points from Project 2025. This is deplorable.
Please pass this info regarding Project 2025 plan on to others not familiar with Project 2025 voting changes. They are planning do exactly what it says. Unless our leaders problem solve the cheating sought by the executive branch the states could lose control over voting in respective states. The DOJ would love to undertake voter cheating by changing voter tallies, and/or manipulate programs within voting machines, and/or create counterfeit ballots to switch with balllots of Dem voters, the Dem honest ballots will be switched With counterfeit water marked ballots in which Dem votes will be switched to Republican votes. Actually, many believe Musk changed voter tallies in the 2024 election that was suggested to have occurred per the concern of an independent organization committed to honest elections.
I may be one of the few who actually read large portions of Project 25 and its heinous outcome is getting closer daily.
Please pass it on every week. The Heritage Foundation and one of the main authors Vought implementing exclusive zealous MAGA non democratic beliefs- it seeks to destroy the Constitution and Rule of Law. That is Tyranny from my perspective and dismantling of our gov structure to be overtaken by Trump cronies and tech billionaires who only care about lining their pockets and want a cessation of democracy. Some argue we already have lost democracy and we see establishment of oligarchs that will charge us for every service we receive, have to pay for that ito oligarchs. We should begin a plan for organizing.revolution
First step doomers can do is to resist and unsubscribe- sop all your computer apps
Stop amazon
Stop buying so many apple products bec the nite of Alex Pretti’s death Apple CEO was at Trump’s having drinks before Melania movie that Bezos paid for
So unsubscribe from Apple TV- do not buy a new Apple iPhone or iPad or IPod or the other myriad of Apple products
Stop Amazon and join Costco instead that is goid to human workers whereas Bezos lawing off 1/3 of best newspaper Wash post to please Trump; he also let go lots of workers in December: he has forgotten who helped him develop his business- not Trump but rather regular people- like Henry Ford said: the best way for my company Ford to do well is to pay my workers adequately so that they can have a wage for a decent living-
Tech AI bad - will destroy human jobs- bad
Seems that all doors are closed to Americans who need to make a lobbing for themselves and their families if they use tech AI to do most jobs- shame on Tech billionaires
This better not happen or all fucking hell will break lose!
But there will be deaths amid fighting back and too many "sheep" don't have the fortitude to carry it through to completion.
You can smell the desperation on Trump, it's that thick. Trump is scared out of his mind that he's going to lose the midterms, and he will lose the midterms. He will lose them big, possibly the House and the Senate both, whereupon he will be disempowered to degree he cannot tolerate. Big surprise, he wants to short-circuit the midterms so they do not or cannot happen.
What's the solution? Nationalize the elections, of course! We won't mention that that's unconstitutional as all hell, but he wants to do it anyway.
It should go without saying that we can't let him do it, that we can't let Republicans in Congress let him do it. This is a bridge too far, as though there haven't been bridges too far before now. This is where it has to stop.
Who is doing all of this thinking for him because we know he is NOT INTELLIGENT enough for this thought plan
Stephen Miller to start with is doing the "thinking" for trump
I knew this was coming from the minute he was elected again. Will we just sit and let it happen? My fear is that we won't fight hard enough for this.
The states—not the federal government—are authorized by the Constitution to conduct elections. Trump wants to violate the Constitution and control every precinct in every state in the 2026 midterm elections. He knows if the people vote in a free and fair election, Republicans will lose the House and the Senate. And, he knows his treasonous regime will then be vigorously prosecuted and permanently dismantled.
As a lifelong racist, Trump assumed his plan to deport millions of People of Color would be widely popular. He badly misjudged the American people. Trump was shocked to learn that less than a third of Americans approve of his virulently racist intentions to Make America White by deportations, incarcerations, and annihilations.
Because more than two-thirds of Americans oppose Trump’s racist goals, he has developed ICE into a weapon of violence deployed to batter Blue State Americans until they agree to let him dismantle our Constitutional Republic and replace it with a Fascist, White-Supremacist, Christian-Nationalist Kleptocracy ruled by the Trump Family Crime Syndicate.
No amount of propaganda spewed by Trump and his enablers can coverup the fact that Republicans are using physical violence in a desperate attempt to stay in power. ICE Bounty Hunters—encouraged by their treasonous supervisors—routinely employ violence to fill their racist quota of brown-skin-prey. And sometimes, because they know Trump has their backs, they murder—reminding Americans that in a Trump-Kleptocracy, Republican Fascists are above the law.
Well done Donovan. Spoken like Thomas Paine. You’re following in his footsteps
These are terrifying times! We must win the midterms. A winning issue for Democrats is AI's threat to job security. Protecting workers is one of the basic tenets of the Democratic Party. AI (including AI robotics) threatens workers at all levels and party affiliations. It does not discriminate between red and blue states. Workers are increasingly seeing the threat AI poses. (Just days ago, Amazon said it was laying off 16,000 workers because of AI). Why haven't Democrats in Congress risen to the occasion on this issue? I suspect for many the reason is they have vested interests in the technology - investments in and donations from tech companies. Disgusting. Nonetheless, fresh new Democratic candidates can use the issue effectively against Republican incumbents.
"Here is where 2026 looks different from 2020: Trump now commands the executive branch."
Um...
My hope is that if he blows hard enough, the orange blob will convince his supporters there's no point in voting so they all stay home.
Thank you for continuing to call out what is ACTUALLY happening. People need to believe what Trump says, none of this “oh that’s just Trump being Trump” Yes it is Trump being Trump and he has proven over and over who he is. He’s a narcissistic criminal who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. When someone shows you who they are BELIEVE THEM.
Always great advice.
Well done Ellen! A realist’s real view of what’s really happening. We need more people like you!
We should all mail in ballots
My spouse and I have for over 20 years. We worked in a field that had unpredictable hours. Now as retired people we find it much easier to do research and become informed as we vote.
My Husband and I started mail in ballots when it was available during Covid. We both found that being able to do the research on the candidates and the issues at hand in our districts was a much better way to vote. We have continued this option so that we can be informed voters every time. If they take away paper ballots, we'll still vote regardless.