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Beginnings

Last night something amazing happened. Thousands of Americans flooded into streets to publicly proclaim they want the Mueller investigation protected, and that is to say, they want corruption rooted out of federal government. This happened on the heels of the midterm election in which people voted in record numbers. I wouldn’t exactly call Democrats taking back the House of Representatives a reversal of fortune, since the Trump party controls the Senate, but Democrats now have opportunities to do damage control. People whose rights have been trampled on by the Trump party perhaps feel somewhat safer and empowered. I do. I no longer see us as a country on the same precipice as when our democratic checks and balances were not working at all. We have been living in a country at risk and it has been very frightening to a lot of people. Money is power in this country and the financial inequities are devastating in many ways. The Trump party has had and still has a lot of power; because ...
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Coup d'Etat

Today the Trump party, formerly known as the GOP, scored a big one. They violated the democratic process, flagrantly, and it was a brutal takeover, but they scored one. I can only hope there still will be justice and that justice rights wrong. No sooner was the fix in, they secreted their confirmed Supreme Court judge nominee Brett the Bart Kavanaugh into court and administered the oath. The rush to oath followed the rush to confirm. It all had an air of desperation and stealth like the Trump party was running from a crime scene, making a mad dash with hundreds of American Bar Association lawyers and leaders; hundreds of thousands of church leaders and parishioners; and millions of Americans at their heels, not to speak of journalists at major newspapers and media outlets, arguing that Brett the Bart Kavanaugh did not qualify to be seated on the Supreme Court.  Trump party members like McConnell, Grassley, Graham, Hatch, and a woman, Collins, and all the rest ran away with...
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And Yet, They Come.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration began as soon as Trump took office. It clearly has not worked. Instead it has caused misery and strife.  Trumpeting across the Americas that you are not welcome here, and if you cross our border illegally we will separate your families, lock up your children, deport you without them has produced no gains except in the accounts of private contractors and corporations operating detention centers.  Trump's  vitriolic threats have not stopped refugees and asylum seekers fleeing violence and poverty en masse . The caravans of thousands currently walking through Guatemala and Mexico are fleeing combinations of poverty, extortion, and life-threatening gang, cartel, and militia violence.   What began as one group of 160 people leaving  the city of San Pedro Sula on the northeastern coast of Honduras, grew rapidly within a few weeks, into multiple caravans of thousands from the  Northern Triangle of Cent...
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