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Ralph Nader is an American lawyer and political activist involved in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes. He is a perennial presidential candidate. His 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed, which criticized the automotive industry for its safety record, helped lead to the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966. .. more

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 18h

New column:

Palestinians’ Fate: Victims of Genocide While Alive, Vastly Uncounted By the Media When They Are Killed - Ralph Nader

By Ralph Nader October 10, 2025 Ben Hubbard, the long-time Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, is known for his high standards. So too is Karen DeYoung, the long-time reporter and foreig...

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 19h

He is the all-time presidential divider and conflict producer.
Too bad there isn’t a domestic Nobel Prize that this egomaniacal serial law violator would strive to obtain. -R

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 19h

Invading cities with federal troops and federalized National Guards, hateful defamation of immigrants, imprisonment without due process of recent arrivals seeking asylum, and favoring red states with federal grants and contracts and pulling back on those same federal supports in blue states.

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 19h

Trump—who brags about wanting to resolve conflicts among countries abroad to get, by his own admission, the Nobel Peace prize—is sowing all kinds of conflicts inside the USA.

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 5d

Then we are joined by @martinomalley.bsky.social
—former governor of Maryland and one time Commissioner of the Social Security Administration—to refute all the lies being told about the state of Social Security.

The Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World

Ralph welcomes Michael Mann, Professor in the “Department of Earth and Environmental Science” at the University of Pennsylvania and author along with Dr.

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 5d

On the latest Ralph Nader Radio Hour— Ralph welcomes Michael E. Mann, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of “Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World.”

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 7d

New column: A Hypothetical Letter from Two Children in Gaza to the Children of America

A Hypothetical Letter from Two Children in Gaza to the Children of America - Ralph Nader

By Ralph Nader October 3, 2025 In Gaza, 200,000 Palestinian children have already been murdered by the Netanyahu regime, with American weapons. A survey last year by a British civic group found that 4...

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 7d

Still the Democrats on Capitol Hill have made impeachment a taboo, reaching new depths of cowardliness and rejection of our founding fathers prescience giving Congress the exclusive authority to fire a culpable president. -R

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 7d

So this elected dictator is now engaging in a coup d'état, as noted weeks ago by Harvard Law professor and former federal judge Nancy Gertner and an invasion of an increasing number of America’s large cities.

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 7d

By large margins the American people don’t like what Trump is doing. They also don’t like him overthrowing the federal government by shutting down critical major programs, slashing funding for other starved agencies, and expanding mass firings of innocent dedicated federal civil servants.

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 7d

Trump is invading America. Focusing mostly on cities run by Democrats, he is federalizing state and national guards amplified by masked federal agents on the flimsiest of pretext. (He told the generals that he wanted to use cities as "training grounds for our military" in violation of federal law.)

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 7d

The GOP have opposed this election year favor and are ready for tens of millions of Americans to become priced out or excluded from their health insurance in a few months. Such are the twists and turns of Congressional politics! -R

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 7d

Now, however, Democrats are demanding that the GOP majority reinstate the subsidies and Medicare affordability as a condition for further funding the government.

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 7d

1. The Republicans have cut the subsidies for Obamacare patients.
2. They have drained Medicaid for some 15 million people to pay for further tax cuts for the undertaxed super-rich, like Trump and his family and giant corporations.
These huge price hikes and cuts will start in a few weeks.

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 7d

Check this unusual situation. Two of the most powerful arguments Democrats are readying to defeat the Republicans in the 2026 Congressional Elections are:

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 8d

New Substack on whether Robert's Court will save or sink us.

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SCOTUS SCORECARD: Will the Roberts Six Embrace Trump’s Tyranny?

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 8d

Call the White House switchboard (202-456-1414) and inform Lawless Trump about his latest violations. He’s already started to cut down trees and bushes on the White House grounds to prepare the site. -R

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 8d

Strange isn’t it that reports for the New York Times, Washington Post and others covering the ballroom extravaganza cannot tell you, the readers, that Trump’s declaration of private funding is illegal and unconstitutional?

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 8d

It is unconstitutional and illegal for any privately donated money to pay for such federal construction projects. Why? Because it undermines or nullifies the exclusive appropriations authority of Congress under the Constitution.

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 8d

Trump extorted Youtube with a frivolous lawsuit for a $24.5 million settlement and had most of it directed toward building his ballroom at the White House—which satirists have called “Mar-a-Lago North.” Youtube lawyers should know better.

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 10d

It's Time to Fight Back Against Trump's Fascist Regime (w/ Ralph Nader)

It's Time to Fight Back Against Trump's Fascist Regime (w/ Ralph Nader) | The Chris Hedges Report

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 12d

Ralph answers some of your recent questions about the genocide in Gaza, how to jumpstart civic engagement, and more!

Listener Questions & Feedback

Ralph answers some of your recent questions about the genocide in Gaza, how to jumpstart civic engagement, and more!

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 15d

Progressive Senators Tell Rubio to Demand Israel Not Attack Sumud Flotilla, Which is Carrying Americans

Progressive Senators Tell Rubio to Demand Israel Not Attack Sumud Flotilla, Which is Carrying Americans | Common Dreams

Four Democratic senators called on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to demand Israel not attack the Global Sumud Flotilla bringing aid to Gaza, which includes many American citizens.

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 15d

500 organizations condemn political violence and stand together against Trump’s threats to non-profit organizations

We the undersigned unequivocally condemn the murder of Charlie Kirk and all forms of political violence. There is simply no place

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 16d

Urgent Message to President Trump: Protect the Flotilla

Urgent Message to President Trump: Protect the Flotilla - Ralph Nader

September 24, 2025 To President Donald Trump: Members of Congress and people all around the country are demanding that you tell Netanyahu not to harm the very peaceful humanitarian flotilla of about 4...

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 17d

Only the citizenry aroused can change this emerging police state repression and the destruction of the social safety net covering the vast majority of the American people. -R

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 17d

...But the word dictatorship, the word fascist (which Trump meets the clinical definition of) and the entrenchment further of the corporate state—the merger of Big Business and Big Government which FDR alluded to in 1938 in a message to Congress as “fascism”—continues to worsen everyday.

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 17d

...most basic separation of powers in our Constitution. True Colbert said ABC’s action was “blatant censorship,” Jon Stewart opened with an announcement “the all new government-approved Daily Show” and David Letterman at the Atlantic Festival referred to a criminal administration in the oval office.

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 17d

When is the media going to use the right words? The U.S. is now under an illegal, unconstitutional dictatorship with a Supreme Court giving Trump all he wants to exercise and a supine GOP Congress violating its oath of office and allowing Trump to be a de facto legislature in violation of the...

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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 17d

Trump has established, with dozens of blatantly illegal executive orders and other dictatorial actions, a fascist dictatorship that is putting out very harmful poison roots all over the country deeper and deeper every day.

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