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The Republican Budget Bill Will Hurt Rural America

May 21, 2025 Michael Chameides, Barn Raiser. Resist! Health Care, Medicaid, Republicans, rural communities

On Friday, five Republicans in the House Budget Committee—including four members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus—joined all Democrats on the committee in blocking the bill from reaching the House floor. But some of the opposition want even deeper cuts to programs like Medicaid to offset exorbitant tax cuts for the rich. Now is the time to make sure every member of the House of Representatives knows how we feel. Here is the current expected timeline for activity on the legislation. Sunday, May 18 – Monday, May 19: The House Budget Committee reconvenes at 10 p.m. Sunday to markup and package the legislation into one bill.

Rare Right-Wing Revolt Sinks Bill Punishing Boycotts Of Israel

May 6, 2025 Robert Inlakesh, MintPress News. Educate! Anti-BDS Law, BDS Movement, First Amendment, Israel, Republicans, Right-Wing, Zionism

A sweeping pro-Israel bill backed by Republican leadership and AIPAC collapsed this week after a rare revolt by right-wing lawmakers who argued it posed a direct threat to Americans’ First Amendment rights. The bill, H.R. 867 — known as the IGO Anti-Boycott Act — would have imposed up to $1 million in fines and prison terms of up to 20 years on Americans who support international boycotts of Israel, even those led by the United Nations. The bill had been scheduled for a vote Monday but was abruptly pulled from the House calendar following backlash from a broad coalition of critics, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and conservative firebrands like Rep. Thomas Massie, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Rep. Matt Gaetz.

Republican Agenda’s ‘Triple Threat’ To Low- And Moderate-Income Families

April 7, 2025 Brendan Duke and Gbenga Ajilore, Portside. Educate! Finance and the Economy, Republicans, Tariffs, Tax Cuts, Trump Administration

The Trump Administration and Republican majorities in both houses of Congress are advancing a policy agenda that deeply threatens millions of families’ ability to afford the basics by making it harder for them to secure health coverage, buy groceries, or afford everyday goods — all while pursuing expensive tax cuts that are skewed toward the wealthy. The centerpiece of that agenda is far-reaching tax and budget legislation intended to be passed through the fast-track budget “reconciliation” process. But that legislation works hand-in-hand with other Administration policies, both accelerating and deepening the damage to families with modest incomes.

When They Tell You About Their Own, Believe Them

February 12, 2025 Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III, Popular Resistance. Strategize! Congress, Donald Trump, Executive Order, Republicans

There are periods in history… epochs, distinctive periods in time marked by notable events, that in many instances signal change. Columbus stumbling upon the Americas where Indigenous peoples had been living for thousands of years. The French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the invention of the semiconductor, WWII, the Civil Rights era, etc. In many instances, one may not realize that they’re living in the historic moment. It’s only upon reflection that you realize the significance of the time. There are other periods, I call them Oppenheimer moments, where you know that you are in the moment.

Democratic Party Collusion, Race Baiting, And Death By Austerity

February 8, 2025 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Austerity, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Republicans

“You’re watching the Super Bowl next week. Wait till Trump’s tariffs raise your pizza prices.” - Senator Chuck Schumer , leader of the Democratic Party opposition President Donald Trump is certainly a man of his authoritarian word. As he promised on the campaign trail he is very serious about changing the nature of the U.S. government, the U.S. role in the world, and promoting white nationalist sentiment. While he carries out unconstitutional and possibly illegal acts, Democratic Party leaders have been AWOL, stunned into silence as Trump has thus far chosen not to utilize the back room deal making they are accustomed to and moves ahead unilaterally with budget cuts, personnel cuts, and the elimination of entire agencies, circumventing congressional prerogatives as he goes.

A Third Party Perspective On The Rightward Lurch Of The US Body Politic

November 7, 2024 Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! Democrats, Elections, Genocide, Republicans, third parties

The chickens that the Democrats hatched in 2016 came home to roost in 2024. Back then, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), representing the party’s establishment, promoted Donald Trump as the Republican nominee. They thought him to be an easy mark who would be opposed by both the Republican Party establishment and most US voters. That stratagem turned out to be correct about the Republican establishment but wrong about the electorate. In any case, Trump went on to not only capture the GOP but the archaic Electoral College as well.

Leftists Say ‘Vote For Democrats Because They’re Easier To Protest’

November 5, 2024 Arun Gupta. Strategize! 2024 US Presidential elections, Democrats, Elections, History, Liberals, Republicans, United States, Voting

Ever since the 2004 election, which pit Bush and Cheney, the butchers of Iraq, against then Sen. John John F. Kerry, who wanted to escalate the Iraq War, it’s been an article of faith on the left that you should “vote for the candidate you want to protest.” This means voting for the Democrat. The idea is activists have an easier time pushing a Democratic president to the left than a Republican one. There is also less political repression under Democrats, and people are more open to organizing in periods of hope than in moments of when they are being attacked by right-wing forces.

The Case For Abandoning The Burning House

November 4, 2024 Joshua Briond, Mondoweiss. Educate! Democrats, Elections, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Republicans

Currently, the staunchest of Black liberals are demanding their community and its allies disregard the interests of Palestinians by way of voting for their butchers under the guise of sparing Black and other marginalized people from their domestic antagonist, Donald Trump. In doing so they are ignoring the many crises already plaguing these communities, under Democratic leadership on both the state and federal level. 2023 was one of the deadliest years for police violence, homelessness continues to skyrocket, and the Biden administration continued the American presidential legacy of ruthlessly starving, bombing, and destabilizing multiple countries—including Cuba, Palestine, Libya, Somalia, and Lebanon.

Who Should Be The Next Emperor Of The Violent Global Imperium?

November 4, 2024 K. J. Noh, Popular Resistance. Educate! climate crisis, Democrats, Elections, Republicans, Wars and Militarism

As US voters go to the polls on November 5th, they need to remind themselves that when the US elects its next domestic president, it is also selecting the emperor of a violent, global imperium. Choices made over sundry domestic issues have far reaching effects, far beyond local pocketbook or civil rights issues. They determine who lives and dies across the planet, and how much pain, harm and suffering the rest of the world will have to bear. In this context, it's fair to ask, who is the lesser evil? Trump or Harris? The answer, of course, is "neither". Like infinity, when it comes to evil, there's not much use in finger-counting which is greater or lesser.

Portents Of Chaos

November 1, 2024 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. Educate! 2024 US Presidential elections, Democracy, Democrats, Elections, Republicans

Uh-oh. The New York Times is picking up its familiar theme now that the Nov. 5 elections are but a few days out front: Those mal-intended foreigners are again “sowing discord and chaos in hopes of discrediting American democracy,” it reported in a piece published Tuesday. The Beelzebubs haunting this political season, when everything would otherwise be orderly and altogether copacetic among Americans, are Russia, China and Iran. Why can’t this year’s version of the old, reliable “Axis of Evil” leave us alone with our “democratic process,” the one the rest of the world envies and resents?

The Crisis Of The Neoliberal University

October 30, 2024 Maryam Alaniz and Tatiana Cozzarelli, Left Voice. Strategize! Capitalism, Democrats, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Republicans, Student Activism, Working Class

This past year in the U.S., a new chapter in class struggle has been written. Students, many from the Palestinian diaspora, anti-Zionist Jewish people, leftists, and people of conscience of all stripes have stood up against the genocide in Gaza. They have built encampments and questioned universities that run like businesses with investments in Israel. They have faced off the repression of university administrators while unmasking the imperialist character of both the Democrats and Republicans in office who help to send the police to beat up students and workers.

Cuba Under Intensified US Sanctions Confronts Its Greatest Challenge

October 17, 2024 Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! BRICS, Cuba, Democrats, Republicans, US Sanctions

Despite draconian coercive measures by the US – overwhelmingly condemned every year by the UN General Assembly, with the next vote slated for October 29-30 – the Cuban Revolution has had extraordinary successes. This small, impoverished, formerly colonized island nation has achieved levels of education, medical services, and performance in many other fields, including sports, that rival the first world, through the application of socialist principles. Cuba has rightly become a model of internationalism and an exemplar of socialism. As a consequence, every US administration for over six decades has targeted this “threat of a good example.”

The Most Important US Presidential Election Of Our Lifetime

October 1, 2024 Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! Democrats, Elections, Republicans, Wars and Militarism

Left-liberals plea every four years that this really is the most important election ever and time to hold our noses and send a Democrat to the White House. The manifest destiny of US world leadership, we are told, is at stake, as is our precious democracy which we have so generously been exporting abroad. Let’s leave aside the existential threats of climate change or nuclear war. However important, these issues are not on the November 5 ballot. Nor are they addressed in even minimally meaningful ways by the platforms of either of the major parties.

Eating Pets Or Devouring Sovereignty? Notes On Anti-Haitian Racism

September 21, 2024 Jemima Pierre, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Elections, Haiti, Occupation, Ohio, Racism, Republicans, US Intervention

The anti-Haitian utterances by the Republican presidential ticket unleashed an avalanche of racist memes and jokes about Haitians, Haitian migrants, and US citizens of Haitian descent. It began with Ohio senator and Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance’s tweet claiming – falsely – that “Haitian illegal immigrants” were “draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio.” Vance continued the lie by asserting, “Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country.” Donald Trump was quick to follow up and double down on Vance’s slanderous comments.

The ‘War Party’ Makes Its Plans

September 21, 2024 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. Educate! Democrats, Republicans, Russia, Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wars and Militarism

The Biden White House and the Democratic Party machine trying to advance Kamala Harris from No. 2 in the regime to No. 1 gets more interesting by the week, I have to say. The Harris campaign has at last, two months after the party’s elites and financiers railroaded her candidacy past any semblance of a democratic process, published a platform it calls A New Way Forward, and I will get to this in due course. I am less interested now in words posted on a website than in two recent developments we ought to consider together even if no one has yet thought to do so. Slowly and very surely, it becomes clear by way of these weekly turns how a new Democratic regime, should Harris win on Nov. 5, proposes to manage the imperium’s business.

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