Every day he attacks democrats and disregards the law and promotes anti American values like impeding the right to vote and harasding citizens, he is violating his oath. Like swearing to tell the truth and then committing perjury. Apart from democracy being disregarded he his intentionally violating his oath of office. How can there be no repercussions. Like a bank president stealing from his bank. The problem is not autocracy. Its lying stealing cheating and causing death destruction and financial harm.
Saturday was a wonderful day here in my town…full of hope and determination. I realized something, too…that the collection of folks from all age groups and walks of life who stood shoulder to shoulder with each other were, well…ordinary folks. I realized, too, that because I live in a ‘red’ state, that if I had seen any number of them at a grocery store, that I would have assumed they were Trump supporters by the way they ‘look’. Silly. Absurd. But when you live in a state that is top-heavy with Republicans you develop a sort of protective attitude. You don’t want to speak out. You whisper your opposition when you are sitting at a cafe or restaurant for fear of being overheard. I heard another woman say just that.
The bustling, crowded, ebullient protest on Saturday made me realize that you cannot identify pro-democracy folks by the way they wear their hair, or clothes, or whether they are old or young. So…I realized that I should speak up and out from now on because there are lots of us who need to know that we are not alone. We are not living in a MAGA universe. Such thinking is the language of fear.
Wear the t-shirt…and SMILE…at EVERYONE. You never know who is waiting to be reassured that they, too, are not alone.
Well said! I do realize the dangers of speaking up but I think it looms larger than reality. Most Trump supporters are not going to hurt you. In fact, I can see a worried look in their faces that maybe, just maybe they need to reconsider.
I live in a red area. I recently bought and have started wearing a white hoodie that I bought from Democracy Forward that says, "I Love Democracy." ("Love" is actually a heart). I wanted to convey a thought that might help people to think about our country and what we could lose. I also have a pin with the same statement. A farmers market vendor saw my hoodie and said, "I love democracy, too. Not many people around here do." It is easy to feel isolated, as his words show, but as we become visible to each other, we become stronger.
A great suggestion. There is a lot of voter regrets & none of them will engage if we are hostile and insulting - as they expect. I’m heartened to learn 40% of the new protest locations were in suburban & rural areas. Each time there is a rally here (suburban small city) where GOP voters outnumber us, we see fewer haters. The pride in displaying maga signs & stickers is almost nonexistent. Trump got 65% of KY’s vote. The veto-proof legislature is on a rightwing tear. So it is interesting that the DNC will start the rolling out a new voter registration program here in KY. https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/03/30/national-party-looks-to-kentucky-to-register-new-democrats-and-launch-campaign-playbook/
I’m seeing a few clips of trump voters who attended No Kings rallies. They said on camera they were lied to & betrayed. Young voters were carried by Harris by 4%. Now voters’ disapproval under age 50 of DJT is over 60%.
There is a never ending parade of blasting the idea of going into Iran. Their podcasters & even some guy on Fox say the same thing. Military analysts, retired generals, joined by Erik Prince, brother to Betsy DeVo$ and former military contractor (who lobbied this WH with a plan for a “private citizen army” re: massive immigration deportations). Prince says going into Iran would be a calamity & Americans aren’t prepared to see burning US military ships.
Thank you, Mr. Beschloss. We are truly blessed as a country that a sociopathic criminal took this long to emerge as president. We have to have hope that the devil incarnate can be defeated if we all hang together and push back.
I’m getting notices that this is on the agenda for May Day. (Item 2)
Item 1 — Nationwide organizing meetings to welcome protesters into ongoing political organizing. We’ll be launching nationwide community meetings -- hosted by protest organizers and attendees -- to help people politically awakened by No Kings get involved with sustained local actions around ICE monitoring, election protection, and noncooperation. They’ll be a great way to connect folks with Indivisible groups and existing networks and foster new groups and leadership building.
Item 2 — Gearing up for a national day of economic disruption on May Day. We always say mass mobilizations are just one tactic. Economic disruption is another tactic. And it’s most successful when you’ve done the work to build a large, broad-based coalition of folks ready for higher-level actions. So now, the ground is laid for May Day Strong’s national day of “No school, no work, no shopping” to put the oligarchs enabling Trump’s power grabs on notice
Mr. Di Niro’s words must be heeded: We must win the midterms. And when this regime meets its ultimate end, we must not let our next Democrat president pick a wimp for Attorney General, because all of these miscreants must be held accountable and spend time behind bars for their disgusting assault on our democracy — starting with the Despotic Simpleton.
Imho, we need an organization of lawyers who believe in democracy to hold everyone from this regime accountable. Glenn Kirschner called for the “American Accountability Project”. I agree with him. He and Jack Smith would make excellent leaders for such a project.
Can we please acknowledge that Trump I and Trump II didn't come out of nowhere? It's not hard to trace Trump, and "Trumpism" or MAGA or whatever you want to call it, back to the Reagan administration and what Dana Milbank calls "the 25-year crack-up of the Republican Party," and back further to Nixon's "Southern Strategy," when white Southern Democrats became Republicans and amplified all the flaws of what was once the "Grand Old Party."
Now go back even further, to big business's virulent opposition to the New Deal, to the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the worldwide depression that followed, and from there back to the "robber barons" of the late 19th century. Economic power has been trying to dominate, co-opt, and/or undermine the three constitutional branches of government since the founding. It's what the Civil War was about, after all: the "Slave Power" vs. the U.S. Constitution.
In contrast, U.S. democracy flourished when economic power was kept in check by the New Deal and the decades that followed; it even expanded with the civil rights and women's rights advances of the 1960s and '70s. But then came the backlash: the "Southern Strategy" and eventually the Reagan administration. Under Bush II, economic power crashed the worldwide economy *again* in the mid/late 2000s, but did "we the people" learn our lesson? We did not.
The advent of Trump II shocked me. I knew things were bad. I recognized that Project 2025 was essentially an attempt to dismantle the New Deal and everything that followed. But I never guessed that things would get this bad this fast. Will "we the people" learn our lesson this time? Here's hoping!
Yes, they do, but it's not just our systems. After the fall of Hitler and the end of World War 2, Germany -- well, OK, *West* Germany -- went through an internal soul-searching. And the Nuremberg trials helped bring to light what had happened under the Nazi regime, and how "good Germans" had supported it by non-seeing it even if they didn't actively participate. South Africa had its "Truth and Reconciliation" commission after the end of apartheid. These weren't perfect by any means, but they were honest attempts to grapple with the past.
The U.S. has attempted no such thing, and it shows. A little more than a decade after Appomattox, the white South, the neo-Confederacy, was rising again. It remained in charge for almost a century, and (as January 6, 2021, demonstrated) it's never gone away. But most of my lifetime, we've been more obsessed with "communists" than with racists. Why the hell is that? I've got some ideas. <g>
he's absolutely terrified... between epstein and getting exposed selling/trading closely held government documents brings into focus that he is an reprehensible traitor and a vile and violent pedophile.....prison in alligator alley is too good for him
He’s back to dozing while on camera. Seems like Hegseth ranting like a madman puts him to sleep. But seriously, he is lashing out as his poll numbers continue to go down, there are few friendly questions from reporters & more opposition from those who were amplifying his messages. (Podcasters, even some on Fox, MGT) There is the constant drumbeat of former military including retired generals saying it would be a disaster to go into Iran. One pointed out all the weaponry that has not been destroyed including 70% of their missiles & the amount of time they’ve had to harden targets. Then there is the criticism for not having a plan & the House and Senate GOP fighting among themselves.
Iran destroyed a $300M AWACS on a Saudi base in the attack that killed US service members. (US only has about 15 of them.) Zelenskyy says Russians took satellite images of the base 3 before the strike. So we know where Iran got their info.
Mocking of his ballroom mockups - for the grand staircase that leads to nowhere among other issues. The IG is looking into reports that DHS had a problem with kickbacks re: warehouse contracts for immigration detention. Lewandowsky is in the spotlight and Noem also.
Let’s be careful not tell one another what we can and cannot say.
These are people with large followings who as I said, trump has relied upon to amplify his messages. They are now hotly contesting what he is doing. It’s a sign of the fracturing of his base. Furthermore, any actual “praise” in this forum wouldn’t do her an obsolete penny’s worth of good.
Again, thank you for finding hope in Robert De Nero's answer to you and sharing it with us. Here is my limited ability old-lady protest story: My experience today: No King's Day – March 28th, 2026
This morning I headed out to go to the No Kings Protest in Roseville. Along the way, I passed a smaller protest near my home. I’ll bet there were easily 200 at the intersection of Greenback and Hazel.
As I was driving, the Metropolitan Opera was beginning its broadcast of La Traviata, one of my all time favorite operas. The story was being narrated as I drove, including the fact that the famous drinking scene is at the beginning. Just as I arrived at the Galleria intersection, the party was playing on the radio. There were probably thousands standing with signs and the traffic light was mercifully long so I got to read a lot of the signs as I listened. I honked and waved and smiled at what I was being privileged to witness; and I burst into tears because it was so beautiful to me. So many people. So many horns being tooted. Such a beautiful day. I turned around and drove back through It again.
As I turned around in the parking lot, some folks got out of their car to join the gathering. I thanked them, and one of them asked me if I was coming. I said I couldn’t walk, so I was driving. I was delighted at being so surprised at the gathering.
I then went to Red Lobster to have a protest luncheon in solidarity with how dangerously corporate greed had decimated that company. My server, a young woman named Savannah shared a bit of her story with me. She is thinking of going to Europe and obtaining citizenship for which she qualifies because her grandmother is from there. She explained that, with citizenship in any EU country she could live anywhere. Wise thoughts for one so young. She spoke of her career goals – forensic psychology, and listened to some of my stories. She said she felt she had met her future self. What a nice complement.
After lunch I drove home, and as I neared my house, Violetta of La Traviata was in her death throes. I prayed that the typical operatic death of the heroine was not a portent of the Democracy I hold so dear. I got home just before she died, and was able to appreciate the magic of applause.
Well done, Americans! Today was an amazing experience. I am looking forward to learning the estimate of how many people were at the Roseville protest. I’ll bet it was in the thousands.
Thanks Steven, Yes the mid-terms are so very important. Make sure your friends and neighbors are armed with ID and don't let up. Make sure you bring three folks to the polling stations and don't let the ICE gestapo hamper your vote. Make sure you know where you are voting, Drive folks to the poles. Flood the ballots with blue. Don't just hope to win the mid-terms. Turn your hope into a reality. Lets shoot for a 90% turn out. Don't lay around and be thinking whats the use. The only voice the average American citizen has got is that ballot. Use it God Speed
Steven, without hope, we would be a lost society. The NO KINGS III march was absolutely stupendous. So much so, that legacy media couldn’t ignore it. People came together in solidarity, arm-in-arm, to fight peacefully but effectively. I embrace our warmth and caring for one another and I think that was on full display by people showing up, writing letters/postcards, making phone calls, holding Congress members feet to the fire. They got a big message that they work for us!!
I am thinking of the coming 250th anniversary of our country in July…we must stand up again loud and clear that this is our country, and We the People will not give up on democracy!
Every day he attacks democrats and disregards the law and promotes anti American values like impeding the right to vote and harasding citizens, he is violating his oath. Like swearing to tell the truth and then committing perjury. Apart from democracy being disregarded he his intentionally violating his oath of office. How can there be no repercussions. Like a bank president stealing from his bank. The problem is not autocracy. Its lying stealing cheating and causing death destruction and financial harm.
That’s what autocrats do.
Is attack on supreme court and 'corrupt judges' likely?
Saturday was a wonderful day here in my town…full of hope and determination. I realized something, too…that the collection of folks from all age groups and walks of life who stood shoulder to shoulder with each other were, well…ordinary folks. I realized, too, that because I live in a ‘red’ state, that if I had seen any number of them at a grocery store, that I would have assumed they were Trump supporters by the way they ‘look’. Silly. Absurd. But when you live in a state that is top-heavy with Republicans you develop a sort of protective attitude. You don’t want to speak out. You whisper your opposition when you are sitting at a cafe or restaurant for fear of being overheard. I heard another woman say just that.
The bustling, crowded, ebullient protest on Saturday made me realize that you cannot identify pro-democracy folks by the way they wear their hair, or clothes, or whether they are old or young. So…I realized that I should speak up and out from now on because there are lots of us who need to know that we are not alone. We are not living in a MAGA universe. Such thinking is the language of fear.
Wear the t-shirt…and SMILE…at EVERYONE. You never know who is waiting to be reassured that they, too, are not alone.
Well said! I do realize the dangers of speaking up but I think it looms larger than reality. Most Trump supporters are not going to hurt you. In fact, I can see a worried look in their faces that maybe, just maybe they need to reconsider.
I think it’s just a learned fear, Gail. Thanks for your comment!
I live in a red area. I recently bought and have started wearing a white hoodie that I bought from Democracy Forward that says, "I Love Democracy." ("Love" is actually a heart). I wanted to convey a thought that might help people to think about our country and what we could lose. I also have a pin with the same statement. A farmers market vendor saw my hoodie and said, "I love democracy, too. Not many people around here do." It is easy to feel isolated, as his words show, but as we become visible to each other, we become stronger.
Love that idea!
A great suggestion. There is a lot of voter regrets & none of them will engage if we are hostile and insulting - as they expect. I’m heartened to learn 40% of the new protest locations were in suburban & rural areas. Each time there is a rally here (suburban small city) where GOP voters outnumber us, we see fewer haters. The pride in displaying maga signs & stickers is almost nonexistent. Trump got 65% of KY’s vote. The veto-proof legislature is on a rightwing tear. So it is interesting that the DNC will start the rolling out a new voter registration program here in KY. https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/03/30/national-party-looks-to-kentucky-to-register-new-democrats-and-launch-campaign-playbook/
I’m seeing a few clips of trump voters who attended No Kings rallies. They said on camera they were lied to & betrayed. Young voters were carried by Harris by 4%. Now voters’ disapproval under age 50 of DJT is over 60%.
There is a never ending parade of blasting the idea of going into Iran. Their podcasters & even some guy on Fox say the same thing. Military analysts, retired generals, joined by Erik Prince, brother to Betsy DeVo$ and former military contractor (who lobbied this WH with a plan for a “private citizen army” re: massive immigration deportations). Prince says going into Iran would be a calamity & Americans aren’t prepared to see burning US military ships.
Thank you, Mr. Beschloss. We are truly blessed as a country that a sociopathic criminal took this long to emerge as president. We have to have hope that the devil incarnate can be defeated if we all hang together and push back.
“Rebellion is born when rulers forget they are meant to serve.” - Confucius
Well done peeps. Now let’s back that up with economic boycotts and strikes.
I’m getting notices that this is on the agenda for May Day. (Item 2)
Item 1 — Nationwide organizing meetings to welcome protesters into ongoing political organizing. We’ll be launching nationwide community meetings -- hosted by protest organizers and attendees -- to help people politically awakened by No Kings get involved with sustained local actions around ICE monitoring, election protection, and noncooperation. They’ll be a great way to connect folks with Indivisible groups and existing networks and foster new groups and leadership building.
Item 2 — Gearing up for a national day of economic disruption on May Day. We always say mass mobilizations are just one tactic. Economic disruption is another tactic. And it’s most successful when you’ve done the work to build a large, broad-based coalition of folks ready for higher-level actions. So now, the ground is laid for May Day Strong’s national day of “No school, no work, no shopping” to put the oligarchs enabling Trump’s power grabs on notice
Yes. May Day!
Mr. Di Niro’s words must be heeded: We must win the midterms. And when this regime meets its ultimate end, we must not let our next Democrat president pick a wimp for Attorney General, because all of these miscreants must be held accountable and spend time behind bars for their disgusting assault on our democracy — starting with the Despotic Simpleton.
Exactly.
Jack Smith would be an excellent Attorney General.
Imho, we need an organization of lawyers who believe in democracy to hold everyone from this regime accountable. Glenn Kirschner called for the “American Accountability Project”. I agree with him. He and Jack Smith would make excellent leaders for such a project.
Can we please acknowledge that Trump I and Trump II didn't come out of nowhere? It's not hard to trace Trump, and "Trumpism" or MAGA or whatever you want to call it, back to the Reagan administration and what Dana Milbank calls "the 25-year crack-up of the Republican Party," and back further to Nixon's "Southern Strategy," when white Southern Democrats became Republicans and amplified all the flaws of what was once the "Grand Old Party."
Now go back even further, to big business's virulent opposition to the New Deal, to the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the worldwide depression that followed, and from there back to the "robber barons" of the late 19th century. Economic power has been trying to dominate, co-opt, and/or undermine the three constitutional branches of government since the founding. It's what the Civil War was about, after all: the "Slave Power" vs. the U.S. Constitution.
In contrast, U.S. democracy flourished when economic power was kept in check by the New Deal and the decades that followed; it even expanded with the civil rights and women's rights advances of the 1960s and '70s. But then came the backlash: the "Southern Strategy" and eventually the Reagan administration. Under Bush II, economic power crashed the worldwide economy *again* in the mid/late 2000s, but did "we the people" learn our lesson? We did not.
The advent of Trump II shocked me. I knew things were bad. I recognized that Project 2025 was essentially an attempt to dismantle the New Deal and everything that followed. But I never guessed that things would get this bad this fast. Will "we the people" learn our lesson this time? Here's hoping!
Hi Susanna
Excellent Comment:
The failures of various of our systems to seriously hold Trump and others accountable have in part paved the way to our current situation.
He has paid countless fines that really meant nothing, manipulated our judicial system and used mob tactics to threaten.
Our systems need a massive overhaul.
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Yes, they do, but it's not just our systems. After the fall of Hitler and the end of World War 2, Germany -- well, OK, *West* Germany -- went through an internal soul-searching. And the Nuremberg trials helped bring to light what had happened under the Nazi regime, and how "good Germans" had supported it by non-seeing it even if they didn't actively participate. South Africa had its "Truth and Reconciliation" commission after the end of apartheid. These weren't perfect by any means, but they were honest attempts to grapple with the past.
The U.S. has attempted no such thing, and it shows. A little more than a decade after Appomattox, the white South, the neo-Confederacy, was rising again. It remained in charge for almost a century, and (as January 6, 2021, demonstrated) it's never gone away. But most of my lifetime, we've been more obsessed with "communists" than with racists. Why the hell is that? I've got some ideas. <g>
I understand what you say and feel. I often ask “Why” as well?
Agreed...for more reasons than 1. This has been in the works for over 40 years because orange has been working for pooty that long.
New mantra (and e-mail signature bar): Justice, Equality, Decency, Kindness.
he's absolutely terrified... between epstein and getting exposed selling/trading closely held government documents brings into focus that he is an reprehensible traitor and a vile and violent pedophile.....prison in alligator alley is too good for him
Orange is also terrified because he's losing control due to dementia. Notice how he lashes out more each day as the Dementia gets worse.
He’s back to dozing while on camera. Seems like Hegseth ranting like a madman puts him to sleep. But seriously, he is lashing out as his poll numbers continue to go down, there are few friendly questions from reporters & more opposition from those who were amplifying his messages. (Podcasters, even some on Fox, MGT) There is the constant drumbeat of former military including retired generals saying it would be a disaster to go into Iran. One pointed out all the weaponry that has not been destroyed including 70% of their missiles & the amount of time they’ve had to harden targets. Then there is the criticism for not having a plan & the House and Senate GOP fighting among themselves.
Iran destroyed a $300M AWACS on a Saudi base in the attack that killed US service members. (US only has about 15 of them.) Zelenskyy says Russians took satellite images of the base 3 before the strike. So we know where Iran got their info.
Mocking of his ballroom mockups - for the grand staircase that leads to nowhere among other issues. The IG is looking into reports that DHS had a problem with kickbacks re: warehouse contracts for immigration detention. Lewandowsky is in the spotlight and Noem also.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/inspector-general-looking-kristi-noem-202356869.html
He has a lot of things to be grumpy about. 😎
Be careful not to praise mtg who is obviously going to run for a higher office.
Let’s be careful not tell one another what we can and cannot say.
These are people with large followings who as I said, trump has relied upon to amplify his messages. They are now hotly contesting what he is doing. It’s a sign of the fracturing of his base. Furthermore, any actual “praise” in this forum wouldn’t do her an obsolete penny’s worth of good.
Again, thank you for finding hope in Robert De Nero's answer to you and sharing it with us. Here is my limited ability old-lady protest story: My experience today: No King's Day – March 28th, 2026
This morning I headed out to go to the No Kings Protest in Roseville. Along the way, I passed a smaller protest near my home. I’ll bet there were easily 200 at the intersection of Greenback and Hazel.
As I was driving, the Metropolitan Opera was beginning its broadcast of La Traviata, one of my all time favorite operas. The story was being narrated as I drove, including the fact that the famous drinking scene is at the beginning. Just as I arrived at the Galleria intersection, the party was playing on the radio. There were probably thousands standing with signs and the traffic light was mercifully long so I got to read a lot of the signs as I listened. I honked and waved and smiled at what I was being privileged to witness; and I burst into tears because it was so beautiful to me. So many people. So many horns being tooted. Such a beautiful day. I turned around and drove back through It again.
As I turned around in the parking lot, some folks got out of their car to join the gathering. I thanked them, and one of them asked me if I was coming. I said I couldn’t walk, so I was driving. I was delighted at being so surprised at the gathering.
I then went to Red Lobster to have a protest luncheon in solidarity with how dangerously corporate greed had decimated that company. My server, a young woman named Savannah shared a bit of her story with me. She is thinking of going to Europe and obtaining citizenship for which she qualifies because her grandmother is from there. She explained that, with citizenship in any EU country she could live anywhere. Wise thoughts for one so young. She spoke of her career goals – forensic psychology, and listened to some of my stories. She said she felt she had met her future self. What a nice complement.
After lunch I drove home, and as I neared my house, Violetta of La Traviata was in her death throes. I prayed that the typical operatic death of the heroine was not a portent of the Democracy I hold so dear. I got home just before she died, and was able to appreciate the magic of applause.
Well done, Americans! Today was an amazing experience. I am looking forward to learning the estimate of how many people were at the Roseville protest. I’ll bet it was in the thousands.
Thanks Steven, Yes the mid-terms are so very important. Make sure your friends and neighbors are armed with ID and don't let up. Make sure you bring three folks to the polling stations and don't let the ICE gestapo hamper your vote. Make sure you know where you are voting, Drive folks to the poles. Flood the ballots with blue. Don't just hope to win the mid-terms. Turn your hope into a reality. Lets shoot for a 90% turn out. Don't lay around and be thinking whats the use. The only voice the average American citizen has got is that ballot. Use it God Speed
Steven, without hope, we would be a lost society. The NO KINGS III march was absolutely stupendous. So much so, that legacy media couldn’t ignore it. People came together in solidarity, arm-in-arm, to fight peacefully but effectively. I embrace our warmth and caring for one another and I think that was on full display by people showing up, writing letters/postcards, making phone calls, holding Congress members feet to the fire. They got a big message that they work for us!!
I am thinking of the coming 250th anniversary of our country in July…we must stand up again loud and clear that this is our country, and We the People will not give up on democracy!
Excellent
Great article!
Nice variety of coverage.
Nice photo!☺️
Love, the “Hope is a Discipline” reminder.
Hope requires strength of Will. We have it.
Onward!
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Thank you for this message of hope.
The first photo showing the young boy taking it all in really says a lot.
Thank you as always Steven. We must keep up our hope, like you said with actions, big and small. And lots of prayers!