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Monday, January 19, 2026
Editorial
War Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered murder on the high seas as part of his effort to implement Donald Trump’s ambition to invade Venezuela, and only Congress can stop them. Not that …
After the shellacking voters gave Republicans in the Nov. 4 general election, it was a surprise when Senate Democrats on Nov. 9 offered to join the GOP in opening up the federal government before …
Donald Trump at his core is a real estate developer with a mixed record in business deals, who went through four business bankruptcies while he became famous portraying a master of business as TV …
Donald Trump is in a race with his circulatory system to realize his ambition of becoming a dictator at the level of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. He has brought Republicans to heel, so they …
Republicans in Congress have been unwilling or unable to control Donald Trump as he has pushed the use of executive orders and a pliable Supreme Court that lets him assume dictatorial power.
Out …
What Minnesota Assassinations Reveal About the Right
In mid-June, it didn’t take long for many Republicans to blame Democrats for the assassinations of Minnesota political couple Mark and Melissa Hortman.
Several Republican politicians, …
The Bloated Billionaire Bill is Class Warfare
What’s most important to remember about the monstrous “big beautiful” bill ginned up by Donald Trump’s Reichstag is that Republicans are just being themselves. They’ve …
Medicaid’s work rules
What Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Tells Us About the Costs of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset …
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Dispatches
MIKE JOHNSON TOUTS $901 BILLION MILITARY BUDGET PLAN AFTER GUTTING MEDICAID, SNAP.
Republican congressional leaders unveiled a sprawling military policy bill Dec. 7 that would authorize $901 billion in US military spending for the coming fiscal year, just months after GOP lawmakers …
DEMOCRATIC GOVS 2026 MESSAGE HITS TRUMP’S SORE SPOT
Meeting in Arizona Dec. 6-7, Democratic governors said they would continue to push policies meant to address the issue of affordability. The Democrats renewed focus on the key issue comes while …
REPORT TRACKS TRUMP ‘WAR ON FREE SPEECH,’ URGES SYSTEMIC RESISTANCE.
The US advocacy group Free Press on Dec. 8 released a report examining how President Trump and “his political enablers have worked to undermine and chill the most basic freedoms protected under …
LEAKED MEMO SHOWS PAM BONDI WANTS LIST OF ‘DOMESTIC TERRORISM’ GROUPS WHO EXPRESS ‘ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENT.’
A leaked memo written by US Attorney General Pam Bondi directs the Department of Justice to compile a list of potential “domestic terrorism” organizations that espouse “extreme …
GROUPS URGE CONGRESS TO IMPOSE MORATORIUM ON NEW AI DATA CENTERS.
Environmental and economic justice advocates alike have been sounding the alarm for months regarding the Trump administration’s push to built massive data centers to support artificial …
Manifest Destiny Revisited: Greenlanders Should Scream ‘No’
In his zeal to wrest Greenland from Denmark, President Trump has resurrected Manifest Destiny. Ages ago we grew our footprint, seizing Texas from Texas, much of the Southwest from Mexico, as well as …
Rural Routes
Happy New Year, one and all, and, hooray! we’ll soon mark off the first of four interminable years. Let’s begin by thinking about Artificial Intelligence, which is the companion of …
Grassroots
War Games
The “fog of war.” That is how Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary, describes his Sept. 2 war crime in the Caribbean. It was just the “fog of war.” As reported by …
Health Care
Plunging down Alice’s Hole to Misery
Mephistopheles, the White Rabbit, Circe, the snake of Genesis — sorcerers all. Mephistopheles promised Faust knowledge, in return for his soul. The White Rabbit piqued Alice’s curiosity …
Satire
The Ghost of Epstein Past
Midnight, December 15, 2025. Chilly, dreary Washington, D.C. nnThe 47th President, Donald J. Trump, dozes at the Resolute Desk, then wakes up and stumbles over to one of his golden sofas and promptly …
In The Public Interest
Will Trump Seize His Hour and Push for Universal Health Insurance?
When asked what they like most about Trump, fervent supporters often say, “He says what he thinks.” Well, not always. Donald Trump has long supported government-run universal healthcare …
Columnists
We were waiting on Snowmageddon to dump on Storm Lake, Iowa, the morning after Thanksgiving. Forecasters hyperventilated. Plans were cancelled to gather with the extended family for supper in the …
How about some good news for a change? News that has nothing to do with Donald Whatzizname. News you might even use.
It’s about “The Library of Things,” a real library, but …
As the holidays descend, it’s a good time to think about our goals for 2025 and how we’ve managed to (choose one) (a) achieve them, (b) fail miserably, (c) forget or evade them. As …
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Sarah Beckstrom Died for Trump’s Optics, a Casualty of His Vainglorious Foolery
When Donald Trump launched his first regime in 2017, I warned - cinch prediction - that he will “get a lot of people killed.” Since nobody seems to be keeping track, I’ll cite The …
The Grove That Shows Why Holly Trees Still Captivate Us
Like the song says, it’s time for mistletoe and holly. The holly tree has been a winter favorite throughout human history, but the genus, which includes hundreds of species, goes back much …
Secretary-on-the-Defensive Pete Hegseth’s Dept. of War (Crimes)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims he had nothing to do with killing two survivors clinging to the wreckage of their boat following U.S. missile strikes on Sept.2. The first strike killed most of …
After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie
Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in Washington, D.C., two members of the West Virginia National Guard, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, were shot at a short metro ride …
Manson and Trump Cults
As I watched the 2019 documentary “Manson: The Women” on Apple TV, I couldn’t help but sense some parallels between then and now. Reexamining the horrific Tate/LaBianca murderers in …
Trump Nominee Wants to Liquidate Public Lands
Do Western senators really care about keeping public lands in public hands? Steve Pearce, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Bureau of Land Management, is a litmus test of their …
Affordability: We Need Higher Incomes, Not Lower Prices
Everyone’s talking about affordability or, more precisely, unaffordability—and the issue is likely to drive U.S. politics for the foreseeable future.
Affordability is subtraction. If …
Less for Health Care, More for the Pentagon
The government shutdown ended with a failure to solve the problem of steeply rising health insurance premiums.
The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which slashed programs like …
Greene With Envy
The editor here at The Progressive Populist tells me this is my 99th column, which means if you bet the UNDER (+/-100) on the first time I would use one of them to say something nice about retiring …
Women: The People Who Stand Up to Trump
Reader, who are the people who have stood up to President Donald Trump and confronted him, face to his furious face?
Answer: Women, and only women, have done so publicly.
Running for …
Get Back to START
The political movement President Donald Trump leads, called Make America Great Again, broke with traditional Republican foreign policy as the public has known it for some time.
Unlike the Reagan …
Pope Leo XIV: “We Know Israel Doesn’t Accept” Palestinian State, But “We See It As the Only Solution”
Ann Arbor – Pope Leo XIV flew from Turkiye to Lebanon on Nov. 30, and surprised the press corps flying with him by making some comments to them. His predecessor, Pope Francis, had been …
AI Investments Are Not a Bubble
Forbes magazine recently warned, “An AI boom is catapulting markets and raising fears a bubble is near. Gary Smith, an economics professor at Pomona College and author, has warned about an …
Cordell Hull and Liberalized Trade
On June 13, 1930, nearly a year into the Great Depression, Republican President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law, capping the most protectionist era in American commercial …
New Face of GOP Healthcare Fix Is Senator Linked to Largest Medicare Fraud Scheme in US History
US Sen. Rick Scott, former CEO of the company that was at the center of the biggest Medicare fraud scheme in American history, has emerged as the most vocal Republican proponent of healthcare reform, …
The Speech
Oct. 21, 2025, will be lodged as a defining day in North Carolina history. On that fated Tuesday, Sen. Michael Garrett, a four-term Democrat representing Guilford County, gave what, in my view, was …
Border Patrol Decamps from Chicago to Create Disorder Elsewhere
They’re gone? Really gone?
With the abrupt end of President Donald Trump’s invasion of Chicago with U.S. Border Patrol agents, can this be the end of the crime crisis that President …
Like Dictators Before Him, Trump’s Road to Tyranny is Paved With Hate
The shooting of two National Guard members by a gunman identified by the authorities as an Afghan national was horrific.
But Donald Trump’s response has been disproportionate and bigoted. …
Starbucks Ignores Worker Demands at Its Peril
Thousands of baristas at nearly 100 Starbucks locations were on strike during the holiday season, picketing outside the iconic cafes for a contract. While the corporate coffee chain has claimed …
Hegseth’s Second Strike Didn’t Renderthe First One Less Murderous
The Nov. 26 South Park episode nailed it: When “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth gets wind of a small Colorado town’s annual holiday race, he declares it an “Antifa …
Letters to the Editor
International Law Or Invasion — Again
It would be beneficial if all disputes would look to the rule of law for solutions to problems. The situation with Venezuelan alleged drug boats is a prime example.
What does international law …
What is Trump Doing in the Caribbean?
Why has Secretary of Defense Hegseth ordered our largest, most lethal aircraft carrier with supporting destroyers and guided missile ships to sail near Venezuela? Trump says it’s to stop drug …
Know Trump Through His 3,500 Lawsuits
When Trump lost the 2020 election anyone who knew Trump personally or read about him should not have been surprised but expected him to insist he won the election. In a book published in 2019 one …
Revolutionary ‘War’ Was Over Stolen Land
A recent editorial by syndicated columnist George Will has him expressing his love for the Revolutionary “War,” and what an important historical event it was.
But if Native Americans …
The Fiction of a Ceasefire
On Nov. 22, 2025, Israel carried out another airstrike on Gaza, killing more than 20 people and injuring dozens.
Tell me … what kind of “ceasefire” conducts extrajudicial …
Non-Functioning Government
Why can’t Congressional leaders of both parties finally admit that the main reason the government can’t function and has no prospects of working in the near future is Donald Trump – …
Common Ground on a Snow Day
Today is a snow day. I haven’t been following politics. Except for the day I saw the New York mayor elect with the president, I’ve been laying low. I must have been somewhere with …
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