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Divided and Conquered
A divided Democratic coalition has formed a circular firing squad to deflect blame for another devastating election loss.
The 2024 election was decades in the making. When Ronald Regan won a landslide reelection in 1984, the Democratic leadership abandoned FDR's progressive economic policies that won 50 years of Democratic Congressional majorities. Now, after a second devastating loss to Trump's politics of division, Democrats must unite around a bold economic agenda that can change lives and inspire a new generation.
The American People are Angry
Despite Trump's hateful bigotry and White Christian nationalism, Americans voted for Trump's anti-establishment message over a Democratic Party that has embraced the status quo over the needs of working people.
Senator Bernie Sanders has been warning for years that the "the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party" have failed to "understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing." Sanders blamed Democratic leaders for "defending the status quo" and failing to recognize that "the American people are angry and want change."
Elect America's First Female President
Donald Trump is a disgusting Male Chauvinist Pig and women are not going to take it anymore.
Women across America are fed up with Donald Trump and his hateful, anti-woman MAGA movement. He brags about groping women and then attacks his victims with lies, insults, and threats of violence. He already overturned Roe, and if elected to a second term will pass a national abortion ban. The Time is NOW! Women are organizing online, person-to-person, and even in bathroom stalls, to elect America's first female president.
The Definition of Fascist
As President, Trump frequently expressed his admiration for dictators including saying that he needed "the kind of generals that Hitler had" and praising Hitler for doing "some good things."
Trump's former chief of staff and retired 4-star general John Kelly is warning that Trump wants to rule America as a fascist dictator who publicly suggested the “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” to overturn the 2020 election. In a recorded interview, Kelly defined fascism as "a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy" and said that Trump fits the "definition of fascist."
Trump's Day of Love
Trump is trying to rewrite the history of his violent January 6 Insurrection as he fights in court to keep the evidence from voters.
We all saw it live. Trump told his supporters to march on the Capitol telling them to, "fight like hell" or "you're not going to have a country anymore." And then for hours Trump did nothing as his MAGA mob violently assaulted capitol police, resulting in the death of 5 officers. Now Trump is fighting in court to suppress the evidence of his crimes, while continuing to lie to American voters about January 6 saying "nobody was killed" and that it was "a day of love."
The Father of Lies (John 8:44)
Hurricanes Helene and Milton have created a biblical disaster, so Trump and MAGA are spreading lies.
Without regard for the millions whose lives have been upended by two biblically destructive hurricanes, Trump and his MAGA allies are spreading dangerous lies about FEMA disaster funds and crazy conspiracy theories about Democrats controlling the weather to steal votes. In the Bible, Jesus exposes liars as the children "of your father the devil" who has "no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies." (John 8:44)
A Private Criminal Effort
The Special Prosecutor details how "candidate" Trump was not acting in his official capacity when he "used deceit to target every stage of the electoral process."
A federal judge unsealed a redacted 165-page legal brief establishing the criminal case against Donald Trump. "Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted — a function in which the defendant, as President, had no official role.” The report establishes step-by-step that Trump's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election "was a private criminal effort."
A Damning Non-Answer
Trump's MAGA movement and Project 2025 attacks on personal liberty and American democracy are unpopular with most voters—so they just lie.
During the VP Presidential Debate, J.D. Vance attempted to whitewash Trump's failed record and unpopular policies by lying about everything from abortion, healthcare, and immigration to climate change and tax cuts for billionaires. Vance's most outrageous lie was claiming that Trump saved Obamacare after repeatedly trying to overturn it. But the one thing Vance could not run from was Trump's Big Lie. After repeatedly refusing to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election, Tim Walz exposed Vance as an anti-democratic extremist by pointing out, "That is a damning non-answer."
Frauds in the Family
The entire Trump family is selling overpriced merchandise, risky get-rich-quick pyramid schemes, and a private equity investment company funded by foreign governments.
Trump is always looking for the next grift, including hawking Trump coins, watches, sneakers, digital trading cards, assassination cologne, bibles, and even stocks in his fake social media company. Trump's relatives are also cashing in on the family name. Don Jr. and Eric announced a Trump endorsed cryptocurrency, Melania is hawking jewelry and Christmas ornaments, and Jared Kushner has raised billions from foreign governments to fund his private equity firm that paid Trump's son in-law $157 million without returning a profit for investors. Apparently the family that frauds together stays together.
They Went Crazy
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have built a campaign based on racist lies, conspiracy theories and dangerous accusations that are completely detached from reality.
For years GOP leadership has empowered Trump to lie about everything. Now the Trump-Vance campaign has resorted to making up crazy stories to distract from their falling poll numbers and unpopular policies. In recent interviews, Vance said, "I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention," and Trump strangely claimed the support of a non-existing debate audience who didn't like him being fact-checked by moderators, saying "And the audience was absolutely – they went crazy.”
Revenge of the Childless Cat Lady
Taylor Swift's quick endorsement of Kamala Harris minutes after the Presidential debate further exposed Trump's lies "and the dangers of spreading misinformation."
During the presidential debate, a visibly unhinged Donald Trump became even more agitated as debate moderators corrected his most outrageous lies about infanticide, the 2020 election, and migrants eating pets. The final coup d'état was delivered after the debate by Taylor Swift who called out Trump's lies with an Instagram endorsement of Kamala Harris signed "With love and hope, Childless Cat Lady."
The Good Old USA Project
Two US State Department indictments outline ongoing Russian plans to illegally fund rightwing social media influencers and subverting US elections to elect Republicans.
The DOJ unsealed two federal indictments accusing Russian state media employees of illegally funding right-wing social media personalities and launching a state controlled operation called "Doppelganger" to undermine US support for Ukraine and elect Republicans. Although partially redacted by the DOJ, a Russian political strategy document's stated goal "to secure victory" for a Republican Presidential candidate in 2024 is by targeting voters in swing states. It was mockingly titled "The Good Old USA Project."
"Candidate" Trump Indicted, Again
A new federal grand jury has indicted Trump with 4 criminal charges that supersede the original conspiracy and obstruction charges filed 13 months previously.
Less than two months ago, the Supreme Court shocked the legal community and ruled that Presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for their "official acts." In response, Special Prosecutor Jack Smith reworked the original 4 count election interference indictments to exclude Trump's abuse of presidential powers to pressure the Justice Department and narrow the focus on the crimes of conspiracy and obstruction committed by "Candidate" Trump.
Trump's 920 Page Playbook
Democrats slam Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 Insurrection and the MAGA effort to remake America as a White Christian Theocracy.
Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation's 920 page dystopian blueprint for a second Trump term to ban abortion, deport millions of immigrants, and install loyalists at every level of government. At the DNC convention, speakers repeatedly trolled Trump for trying to hide his deep connections to Project 2025 with Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz telling the audience that, "when somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”
Deja Vu All Over Again
Trump is doubling down on election conspiracy theories and the Big Lie because Kamala Harris is now leading in the polls.
Donald Trump is scared of losing—again. Since Biden dropped out last month, the presidential election has flipped. Democrats have united behind Vice President Kamala Harris who is surging online and in the polls. In what feels like Deja Vu All Over Again, Trump is spreading the same disinformation and election conspiracy theories as a setup to challenge the 2024 elections results.
Trump's Coalition of the Weird
The Republican party is now dominated by strange bedfellows who have declared a Holy War on the administrative state and American multicultural democracy.
Like the parable of the boiling frog, Trump kept turning up the heat until he killed the old Republican Party. The Trump-Vance campaign is a strange coalition of white Christian Nationalists, QAnon deep state conspiracy theorists, and ultra right-wing paramilitary bigots backed by the financial support of Tech Bro billionaires and anti-government Crypto Kings willing to spend millions to elect Trump's Coalition of the Weird.
The Hillbilly Misogynist
Trump's pick for Vice President is an MAGA extremist who believes women should be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.
J.D. Vance is making all the wrong headlines for his unabashed sexist beliefs. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Vance called Kamala Harris and other Democratic leaders, "childless cat ladies" who "want to make the rest of the country miserable." His dystopian vision for America is The Handmaid's Tale, where women only exist to make babies and serve the vanity of men.
The Prosecutor and The Convict
Democrats joyfully unite around Vice President Kamala Harris, the former prosecutor, while Trump world predictably panics by spouting out racist, sexist slurs.
The 2024 election has been turned upside down. Within the first 24 hours of Biden halting his re-election campaign, Democrats quickly embraced Vice President Harris who raised a record $81 million and has already secured enough delegates to be the presumptive Democratic nominee. Trump and his allies are clearly shaken as the internet explodes with #KamalaISbrat and pro Kamala memes supporting the much younger Harris who can prosecute the case against the convicted felon.
The Idiocracy of Trumpamania
Hulk Hogan, Dana White and Kid Rock were the perfect intellectual warm-up acts for the toxic masculinity of Trump's dark, dystopian vision to end American democracy.
It is pointless to fact-check Trump's rambling, 90 minute acceptance speech. Key features were the expected regurgitation of MAGA's bigotry and resentments, Trump's self-aggrandizing lies and praise of authoritarian strong-men, and tirades completely devoid of any clear policy objective other than the mass deportation of millions of American workers. Everything you need to know about Trump's Republican Party is the convention highlight of pro-wrestler Hulk Hogan ripping off his shirt to reveal a Trump-Vance tank top to a cheering GOP crowd.
The Perfect Frankenstein's Monster
Trump's pick for VP, J.D. Vance, has deep connections to the ultra conservative Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 and rightwing tech billionaires.
J.D. Vance was the self-described "never Trump guy," who once called the former president "America's Hitler." Now he is Trump's running mate, a MAGA culture warrior, and now has the strong backing of anti-government tech bros and crypto billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. Governor Tim Walz accurately described J.D. Vance as “the perfect Frankenstein monster created by the Heritage Foundation.”