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Overwhelmed? Paralyzed? I got you.

Days Till Anti-Trump Congress {day} Winter of Trump Hey, Friends, Have you felt paralyzed, overwhelmed, even anxious because of the firehose of Trump actions these past weeks?  Me too.  But that’s their intent—overwhelm us so we don’t know where to turn our attention; it’s Authoritarianism 101. So, I have developed an Opposition Checklist out of necessity.  I first started a version of this weeks ago to organize my written comments to legislators on their government websites.  But  I found myself paralyzed when I tried to make a call;  my time was limited, and there was just SO MUCH, that I …

Dear DNC, Stop asking us for more money. Part 2.

Days Till Anti-Trump Congress {day} There is a working solution to the Fox-Faux-News Propaganda Machine.   Part 1, updated and revised, is available here. Dear DNC, Everyday citizens are hungry for a solution. They say to each other across dinner tables, Why can’t we bring back the Fairness Doctrine?  (Honestly, it happened to me again recently.)  For you youngins, the Fairness Doctrine, dismantled under Reagan in 1987, required broadcast news outlets to represent differing viewpoints of controversial issues with fair and balanced coverage; it’s demise lead to the rise of the Fox “News” cable station in 1996. Legal experts believe …

Dear DNC, Stop asking us for more money. Part 1.

Days Till Anti-Trump Congress {day} We’re not giving it—until we hear your plan to address the main reason we lost the 2024 election. Winter of Trump   A version of this article appeared at Forward Kentucky. Dear Democratic National Committee, As the analyses of the election have come in, you can see that: ŸWe The People were the boots on the ground, knocking on doors, phone banking, registering and assisting voters. ŸDemocrats and never-Trump Republicans learned and shared what we knew. ŸHundreds of experts, journalists, college professors, and ordinary citizens did the research and broadcasted podcasts and videos and wrote …