In 2008, and now, I lived/live in two different states, in areas each about 70% Republican. What I noticed in 2008 in the prior state was the sudden disappearance of R bumper stickers from doctors' cars at the hospital where I worked. In this new area, what I noticed July 4 was about 1/4 of the US flags flying on homes than in years previous. Sometimes it's what you _don't_ see or hear that's the big clue.
Please realize how important it is to
VOTE
Let's get out in record numbers & STOP the steal
Fight Fight Fight
I will never be silenced!!!!!!
I know that the immediate challenge is to get elected, but beyond that, what will Democrats do if they get the kind of election results talked about here? Do they, can they play the long game?
What is always curious about the comments posted here is the lack of personal action.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
There are groups who are registering VOTERS.
There are groups KNOCKING ON DOORS.
There are people making phone calls and sending letters and sending post cards.
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS have circulated opportunities to add comments to public policy initiative changes that effect the environment, banning cyanide bombs,
One of the activist substacks is SCOTT DWORKIN that allows you to speak out and send letters, but there are many others that provide YOU with the ability to speak out.
What I see in the comments are ARM CHAIR PATRIOTS pretending to be informed and mandating what other should do instead of accepting personal responsibility and actually DOING SOMETHING!
There are always lots of WHINERS on MTN, but no CONSTRUCTIVE ACTION.
There are several posters who have their own substack pages that could be effective tools to mobilize others. That's not what I'm seeing.
Omitted from my comments was DAILY DOSE OF DEMOCRACY, as well as OPEN SECRETS.
OPEN SECRETS:
https://www.opensecrets.org/search?q=2026+CAMPAIGN+CONTRIBUTIONS&type=news
STEVE SCHMIDT posts SAVE AMERICA MOVEMENT, promoted Operation: Vote Safe.
ProPublica Daily Digest began a recent lead with:
Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment
Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-abortion-gender-transition-minors-amendment-3?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter&utm_content=feature&utm_term=691e1d051d98a4328409e411
THE INTERCEPT began a MAY post with:
How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk
How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk
Nick Turse, Jessica Washington, Noah Hurowitz
The Intercept annotated the White House document to show how the U.S. government is bringing its war on terror home.
excerpt:
the Trump administration last week unveiled its “2026 Counterterrorism Strategy,” a 16-page collection of threats, grievances, hyperbole, and lies. The memo is a truly foundational document and a striking distillation of Trumpism as an ideology, movement, and system of governance. It also serves as a new declaration of war on the Trump administration’s enemies — foreign and domestic, real and imagined.
The brainchild of National Security Council official Sebastian Gorka, the “Counterterrorism Strategy” weaves together Trump’s war on the wider world — which stretches from interventions and wars in Yemen and Iran to Nigeria and Somalia to Venezuela and the Caribbean Sea — with the administration’s war on dissent at home, which has targeted immigrants, legal observers, activists, protesters, and the press.
Under the guise of protecting America, it takes aim at wide swaths of Americans, putting targets on the backs of the most vulnerable.
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/15/trump-terrorism-left-groups-antifa-christian-gorka/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
OHIO FIRST RESPONDERS WERE SENT IN TO EXTINGUISH THE TOXIC FIRE WITHOUT PROTECTIVE GEAR - NEVER BELIEVE OHIO REPUBLICANS DO ANYTHING TO PROTECT
THEIR LIFE SAVERS:
EAST PALESTINE OHIO LEFT TO DIE:
FROM STATUS COUP: Biden & Trump Covered Up CHEMICAL NUKING of U.S. Town
Aug 22, 2026 #news #uspoliticsnews #eastpalestine
Status Coup reporter Jordan Chariton brings back to the forefront the U.S. town that both Biden and Trump left to die after a chemical nuking so that a private company could save money. Jordan explains what you need to know about East Palestine Ohio, and the Norfolk Southern train derailment that destroyed the lives of thousands.
Status Coup is the leading INDEPENDENT ON-THE-GROUND reporting outlet in America that covers what the corporate media COVERS UP. We are FUNDED BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE—and need your support to help us stay ON-THE-GROUND. Join us as a paying member for as low as $5 bucks a month: https://www.statuscoup.com/join
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THIS IS FROM DAILY DOSE OF DEMOCRACY describing the ISRAELI GENOCIDE:
What American doctors saw in Gaza
Jonah Valdez, The Intercept: "It’s been nearly three years into Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians, and still no step closer to its end. Since the latest 'ceasefire' began in October 2025, Israel has continued to bombard Gaza and has killed more than 1,200 people, United Nations experts reported earlier this month. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more recently rejected President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace agreement with Hamas for Israeli troops to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. 'The burden has really continued to devastate the healthcare system in general. So you’re hearing from colleagues every day. They don’t have the materials that they need to serve their patients,' Dr. Thaer Ahmad tells The Intercept Briefing. 'They don’t have even the basic sort of guarantee that there is a cloak of security allowing them to operate in the traditional ways that they would like to.'
Jonah Valdez speaks to Ahmad, an emergency medicine physician and humanitarian who has provided medical relief in conflict zones including Gaza, and director Poh Si Teng about their new documentary 'American Doctor.' It follows three U.S. physicians from three different states who volunteer to enter Gaza to provide emergency medical care as best they can, with the insufficient supplies they have, to save lives — under the threat, as healthcare workers and hospitals have repeatedly been the target of strikes, of losing theirs.
The American doctors were not just targeted by the Israeli military, however. Upon returning home and trying to share the atrocities they had witnessed in Gaza, they were 'pummeled,' says Teng, in interviews with mainstream media outlets and ignored by lawmakers in Congress.
'There’s this refusal to acknowledge what most American people are interested in — and that is money out of the Middle East in terms of military and wars, and into our communities here, into healthcare, and into some of the services that we are deprived of, that, for example, Israeli society is able to provide for their citizens: free education, free healthcare,' says Ahmad. 'We don’t even have that here, and yet we’re still providing a significant amount of aid.' Teng says, 'For everybody who’s trying to do something in this moment, it’s not like as individuals we have no agency. We do. But it’s also important to remind people of the systems in place that make it very hard for us to do the right thing. If there was any path forward or a glimmer of inspiration, I felt, follow these doctors.'"
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Reporter/CEO Jordan Chariton: 
I was so hopeful the day before the last election. Somehow on election day, I had a bad feeling that was justified.
I don’t want to hear about how we are going to have a blue wave and be disappointed again
If the Dems do take the house and senate, they’d better show they’re willing to do something with it. They can’t sit back and do nothing. They’re saying they can do better, so they’d better prove it. And they need to make efforts to build bi-partisanship over issues they care about. We have to end the us vs. them and unite the country again. Otherwise, Dems will lose the majority in 2028. That’s what usually happens. The country wants change, Dems get elected, we get more of the-same-as-before, and Dems get voted out. Dems don’t want to shake the tree and upset their big-money donors, but they can’t do that this time. They must lead the charge for big reforms starting with getting dark money out of politics and outlawing super-pacs.
They need to protect the American people from another d j fn t! Every single thing he is needs to be disqualifying! No PDFs, no felons, no rapists, no convictions what so ever!! Well maybe a traffic violation?? I mean, at this point a realtor has more fiduciary responsibility than the president! Sorry not sorry, we are taking the trash out for good! That means no more trash going in! Oh and don’t forget to codify ROE for women’s healthcare! If we are worried about the birth rate make sure parents can afford to procreate! Make sure families can bond properly after birth for mental health of the children! Come on DEMOCRATS we got this! 🔵
PASS the ERA. It is the route to fundamentally choosing equality for all!!
Oligarchs and AIPAC own so many of the “Democrat Establishment “ that even with a few new faces, nothing will happen. They will not shake the tree!
Patricia, we have fundamental value differences in the electorate. People who fracked their land and neighbors lost their water. Oklahoma has been so drained of oil, clean water turned to poison water, that clean drinking water is at risk and small earthquakes are common. For 250 years, women are chattel, black and brown folk are 'to be used for cheap labor, black men imprisoned for decades due to white human fear of the retribution we whites actually deserve!' And, how many poor European whites sailed to the US, to halt their own slave, vassal-serf relations? Then, killed Native Americans to just shy of genocide, and joined the black African slave trade, which besides natural resource exploitation is the foundation of US ' get on your knees, there goes a dollar bill!' Castine Maine historical society just publicized their research that in fact SLAVING was the big money maker here in 1700s. We must regionalize the US, allowing consequences, then seek accountability for the death making decisions of a Richy Rich and the Corporations. Red states have destroyed their landscapes, especially near minorities and now want to destroy all public lands and educated, Blue states, which have also succumbed to Corporate myths of personhood, since the late 1800s lie of a court decision enabling the fundamental shift from life being a central value to death by GREED and the mental illnesses of addiction to money and OCD to gold.
rump will need a state of emergency
but not for the reasons he thinks
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
In 2008, and now, I lived/live in two different states, in areas each about 70% Republican. What I noticed in 2008 in the prior state was the sudden disappearance of R bumper stickers from doctors' cars at the hospital where I worked. In this new area, what I noticed July 4 was about 1/4 of the US flags flying on homes than in years previous. Sometimes it's what you _don't_ see or hear that's the big clue.
Please realize how important it is to
VOTE
Let's get out in record numbers & STOP the steal
Fight Fight Fight
I will never be silenced!!!!!!
I know that the immediate challenge is to get elected, but beyond that, what will Democrats do if they get the kind of election results talked about here? Do they, can they play the long game?
What is always curious about the comments posted here is the lack of personal action.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
There are groups who are registering VOTERS.
There are groups KNOCKING ON DOORS.
There are people making phone calls and sending letters and sending post cards.
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS have circulated opportunities to add comments to public policy initiative changes that effect the environment, banning cyanide bombs,
One of the activist substacks is SCOTT DWORKIN that allows you to speak out and send letters, but there are many others that provide YOU with the ability to speak out.
What I see in the comments are ARM CHAIR PATRIOTS pretending to be informed and mandating what other should do instead of accepting personal responsibility and actually DOING SOMETHING!
There are always lots of WHINERS on MTN, but no CONSTRUCTIVE ACTION.
There are several posters who have their own substack pages that could be effective tools to mobilize others. That's not what I'm seeing.
Omitted from my comments was DAILY DOSE OF DEMOCRACY, as well as OPEN SECRETS.
OPEN SECRETS:
https://www.opensecrets.org/search?q=2026+CAMPAIGN+CONTRIBUTIONS&type=news
STEVE SCHMIDT posts SAVE AMERICA MOVEMENT, promoted Operation: Vote Safe.
ProPublica Daily Digest began a recent lead with:
Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment
Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-abortion-gender-transition-minors-amendment-3?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter&utm_content=feature&utm_term=691e1d051d98a4328409e411
THE INTERCEPT began a MAY post with:
How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk
How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk
Nick Turse, Jessica Washington, Noah Hurowitz
The Intercept annotated the White House document to show how the U.S. government is bringing its war on terror home.
excerpt:
the Trump administration last week unveiled its “2026 Counterterrorism Strategy,” a 16-page collection of threats, grievances, hyperbole, and lies. The memo is a truly foundational document and a striking distillation of Trumpism as an ideology, movement, and system of governance. It also serves as a new declaration of war on the Trump administration’s enemies — foreign and domestic, real and imagined.
The brainchild of National Security Council official Sebastian Gorka, the “Counterterrorism Strategy” weaves together Trump’s war on the wider world — which stretches from interventions and wars in Yemen and Iran to Nigeria and Somalia to Venezuela and the Caribbean Sea — with the administration’s war on dissent at home, which has targeted immigrants, legal observers, activists, protesters, and the press.
Under the guise of protecting America, it takes aim at wide swaths of Americans, putting targets on the backs of the most vulnerable.
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/15/trump-terrorism-left-groups-antifa-christian-gorka/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
OHIO FIRST RESPONDERS WERE SENT IN TO EXTINGUISH THE TOXIC FIRE WITHOUT PROTECTIVE GEAR - NEVER BELIEVE OHIO REPUBLICANS DO ANYTHING TO PROTECT
THEIR LIFE SAVERS:
EAST PALESTINE OHIO LEFT TO DIE:
FROM STATUS COUP: Biden & Trump Covered Up CHEMICAL NUKING of U.S. Town
Aug 22, 2026 #news #uspoliticsnews #eastpalestine
Status Coup reporter Jordan Chariton brings back to the forefront the U.S. town that both Biden and Trump left to die after a chemical nuking so that a private company could save money. Jordan explains what you need to know about East Palestine Ohio, and the Norfolk Southern train derailment that destroyed the lives of thousands.
Status Coup is the leading INDEPENDENT ON-THE-GROUND reporting outlet in America that covers what the corporate media COVERS UP. We are FUNDED BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE—and need your support to help us stay ON-THE-GROUND. Join us as a paying member for as low as $5 bucks a month: https://www.statuscoup.com/join
DONATE: https://statuscoup.com/donate/
SUBSTACK: https://statuscoup.substack.com
https://youtu.be/eqen2ko4AcI?si=sQmlSbVVBws2ujRb
THIS IS FROM DAILY DOSE OF DEMOCRACY describing the ISRAELI GENOCIDE:
What American doctors saw in Gaza
Jonah Valdez, The Intercept: "It’s been nearly three years into Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians, and still no step closer to its end. Since the latest 'ceasefire' began in October 2025, Israel has continued to bombard Gaza and has killed more than 1,200 people, United Nations experts reported earlier this month. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more recently rejected President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace agreement with Hamas for Israeli troops to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. 'The burden has really continued to devastate the healthcare system in general. So you’re hearing from colleagues every day. They don’t have the materials that they need to serve their patients,' Dr. Thaer Ahmad tells The Intercept Briefing. 'They don’t have even the basic sort of guarantee that there is a cloak of security allowing them to operate in the traditional ways that they would like to.'
Jonah Valdez speaks to Ahmad, an emergency medicine physician and humanitarian who has provided medical relief in conflict zones including Gaza, and director Poh Si Teng about their new documentary 'American Doctor.' It follows three U.S. physicians from three different states who volunteer to enter Gaza to provide emergency medical care as best they can, with the insufficient supplies they have, to save lives — under the threat, as healthcare workers and hospitals have repeatedly been the target of strikes, of losing theirs.
The American doctors were not just targeted by the Israeli military, however. Upon returning home and trying to share the atrocities they had witnessed in Gaza, they were 'pummeled,' says Teng, in interviews with mainstream media outlets and ignored by lawmakers in Congress.
'There’s this refusal to acknowledge what most American people are interested in — and that is money out of the Middle East in terms of military and wars, and into our communities here, into healthcare, and into some of the services that we are deprived of, that, for example, Israeli society is able to provide for their citizens: free education, free healthcare,' says Ahmad. 'We don’t even have that here, and yet we’re still providing a significant amount of aid.' Teng says, 'For everybody who’s trying to do something in this moment, it’s not like as individuals we have no agency. We do. But it’s also important to remind people of the systems in place that make it very hard for us to do the right thing. If there was any path forward or a glimmer of inspiration, I felt, follow these doctors.'"