D. Earl Stephens
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Make no mistake about it, fascism has arrived in America. Are we ready to deal with it?
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📌If we can agree fascism is here, there is only one question worth asking: Just what in the hell do we intend to do about it?
A chilling look at where we are, and what we and our so-called leaders MUST do next …
A chilling look at where we are, and what we and our so-called leaders MUST do next …
📌The thing about Jack Smith's testimony today is that it is easily corroborated because we all watched the attack on TV, including the guy behind it, who did nothing about it for three hours.
January 23, 2026 at 1:25 AM
📌The thing about Jack Smith's testimony today is that it is easily corroborated because we all watched the attack on TV, including the guy behind it, who did nothing about it for three hours.
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ICE is a taxpayer funded agency built on family separation, racial profiling, abuse, and lies. Cruelty is carried out in our name.
Democrats who still voted to fund it:
•Davis (NC-01)
•Cuellar (TX-28)
•Gillen (NY-04)
•Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
•Gonzalez (TX-34)
•Golden (ME-02)
•Suozzi (NY-03)
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Democrats who still voted to fund it:
•Davis (NC-01)
•Cuellar (TX-28)
•Gillen (NY-04)
•Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
•Gonzalez (TX-34)
•Golden (ME-02)
•Suozzi (NY-03)
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January 23, 2026 at 12:40 AM
ICE is a taxpayer funded agency built on family separation, racial profiling, abuse, and lies. Cruelty is carried out in our name.
Democrats who still voted to fund it:
•Davis (NC-01)
•Cuellar (TX-28)
•Gillen (NY-04)
•Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
•Gonzalez (TX-34)
•Golden (ME-02)
•Suozzi (NY-03)
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Democrats who still voted to fund it:
•Davis (NC-01)
•Cuellar (TX-28)
•Gillen (NY-04)
•Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
•Gonzalez (TX-34)
•Golden (ME-02)
•Suozzi (NY-03)
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Republicans stripped healthcare from millions of us so they could hand billionaires tax cuts and shovel obscene amounts of money into the ICE budget.
I’m outraged over this. Aren’t you? NOT ONE MORE DIME‼️
#FundHealthcareNotICE
I’m outraged over this. Aren’t you? NOT ONE MORE DIME‼️
#FundHealthcareNotICE
January 22, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Republicans stripped healthcare from millions of us so they could hand billionaires tax cuts and shovel obscene amounts of money into the ICE budget.
I’m outraged over this. Aren’t you? NOT ONE MORE DIME‼️
#FundHealthcareNotICE
I’m outraged over this. Aren’t you? NOT ONE MORE DIME‼️
#FundHealthcareNotICE
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Dear Mr. Smith,
I’m going to ask you a bunch of nonsensical questions, but you are not allowed to answer any of them because I’m going to keep answering them myself with lies.
Not so sincerely,
Crazy lady Representative
I’m going to ask you a bunch of nonsensical questions, but you are not allowed to answer any of them because I’m going to keep answering them myself with lies.
Not so sincerely,
Crazy lady Representative
January 22, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Dear Mr. Smith,
I’m going to ask you a bunch of nonsensical questions, but you are not allowed to answer any of them because I’m going to keep answering them myself with lies.
Not so sincerely,
Crazy lady Representative
I’m going to ask you a bunch of nonsensical questions, but you are not allowed to answer any of them because I’m going to keep answering them myself with lies.
Not so sincerely,
Crazy lady Representative
📌"Murdering a mother in cold blood in the middle of the street, and watching millions of our fellow citizens celebrate it isn’t something decent people can properly process.
Lynchings like these were supposed to be a thing of the past in America. Now the GOP holds them up as a return to “greatness.”
Lynchings like these were supposed to be a thing of the past in America. Now the GOP holds them up as a return to “greatness.”
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January 22, 2026 at 6:58 PM
📌"Murdering a mother in cold blood in the middle of the street, and watching millions of our fellow citizens celebrate it isn’t something decent people can properly process.
Lynchings like these were supposed to be a thing of the past in America. Now the GOP holds them up as a return to “greatness.”
Lynchings like these were supposed to be a thing of the past in America. Now the GOP holds them up as a return to “greatness.”
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Blue states are donor states.
If they want to review our funding, start by cutting us a refund check!
If they want to review our funding, start by cutting us a refund check!
January 22, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Blue states are donor states.
If they want to review our funding, start by cutting us a refund check!
If they want to review our funding, start by cutting us a refund check!
📌If Jack Smith isn't our Attorney General after the 2028 election, the hell with it all ...
January 22, 2026 at 5:45 PM
📌If Jack Smith isn't our Attorney General after the 2028 election, the hell with it all ...
📌It just seems like a prosecutor testifying publicly he had an abundance of evidence that could have jailed our sitting president for life, should get wall-to-wall coverage.
Is our legacy media really that bought-off and/or incompetent that an historic occasion like this is treated so casually?
Is our legacy media really that bought-off and/or incompetent that an historic occasion like this is treated so casually?
January 22, 2026 at 3:51 PM
📌It just seems like a prosecutor testifying publicly he had an abundance of evidence that could have jailed our sitting president for life, should get wall-to-wall coverage.
Is our legacy media really that bought-off and/or incompetent that an historic occasion like this is treated so casually?
Is our legacy media really that bought-off and/or incompetent that an historic occasion like this is treated so casually?
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The truth has been sworn in to testify —-
January 22, 2026 at 3:25 PM
The truth has been sworn in to testify —-
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Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
January 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
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Sure, there may be fractures, but not enough to turn Iowa blue.
This is why it never made sense to start the presidential contest in Iowa and knock out a potentially strong Dem candidate based on primary votes in a deeply red, non-diverse state before they even get started.
Listen to these folks.
This is why it never made sense to start the presidential contest in Iowa and knock out a potentially strong Dem candidate based on primary votes in a deeply red, non-diverse state before they even get started.
Listen to these folks.
January 21, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Sure, there may be fractures, but not enough to turn Iowa blue.
This is why it never made sense to start the presidential contest in Iowa and knock out a potentially strong Dem candidate based on primary votes in a deeply red, non-diverse state before they even get started.
Listen to these folks.
This is why it never made sense to start the presidential contest in Iowa and knock out a potentially strong Dem candidate based on primary votes in a deeply red, non-diverse state before they even get started.
Listen to these folks.
1) Trump to billionaires: "I'm announcing we're going into Greenland."
2) Billionaires dump stocks.
3) Stock market tanks.
4) Trump to billionaires: "I'm announcing we're not going into Greenland."
5) Billionaires buy cheap stocks.
6) Stock market rallies.
7) The 99.9% get screwed.
Had enough yet?
2) Billionaires dump stocks.
3) Stock market tanks.
4) Trump to billionaires: "I'm announcing we're not going into Greenland."
5) Billionaires buy cheap stocks.
6) Stock market rallies.
7) The 99.9% get screwed.
Had enough yet?
January 21, 2026 at 10:48 PM
1) Trump to billionaires: "I'm announcing we're going into Greenland."
2) Billionaires dump stocks.
3) Stock market tanks.
4) Trump to billionaires: "I'm announcing we're not going into Greenland."
5) Billionaires buy cheap stocks.
6) Stock market rallies.
7) The 99.9% get screwed.
Had enough yet?
2) Billionaires dump stocks.
3) Stock market tanks.
4) Trump to billionaires: "I'm announcing we're not going into Greenland."
5) Billionaires buy cheap stocks.
6) Stock market rallies.
7) The 99.9% get screwed.
Had enough yet?
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This is rejection. And you can’t spin numbers this bad.
But Trump isn’t on the ballot in 2026, so Dems need to hang his policies around every Republican’s neck and make them own every single one.
But Trump isn’t on the ballot in 2026, so Dems need to hang his policies around every Republican’s neck and make them own every single one.
January 21, 2026 at 5:31 PM
This is rejection. And you can’t spin numbers this bad.
But Trump isn’t on the ballot in 2026, so Dems need to hang his policies around every Republican’s neck and make them own every single one.
But Trump isn’t on the ballot in 2026, so Dems need to hang his policies around every Republican’s neck and make them own every single one.
📌Donald Trump traveled 4,000 miles to insult our allies and show off for Putin.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
📌Donald Trump traveled 4,000 miles to insult our allies and show off for Putin.
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🗞️The NYT:
"Donald Trump's speech at the Davos Event, contained many falsehoods, inaccurate claims and overstated boasts. At times, he misrepresented facts, and fabricated the truth. Overall, Mr. Trump misstated others' intentions, by tactfully distorting reality."
So he lied?
"My goodness no!!"
"Donald Trump's speech at the Davos Event, contained many falsehoods, inaccurate claims and overstated boasts. At times, he misrepresented facts, and fabricated the truth. Overall, Mr. Trump misstated others' intentions, by tactfully distorting reality."
So he lied?
"My goodness no!!"
January 21, 2026 at 3:17 PM
🗞️The NYT:
"Donald Trump's speech at the Davos Event, contained many falsehoods, inaccurate claims and overstated boasts. At times, he misrepresented facts, and fabricated the truth. Overall, Mr. Trump misstated others' intentions, by tactfully distorting reality."
So he lied?
"My goodness no!!"
"Donald Trump's speech at the Davos Event, contained many falsehoods, inaccurate claims and overstated boasts. At times, he misrepresented facts, and fabricated the truth. Overall, Mr. Trump misstated others' intentions, by tactfully distorting reality."
So he lied?
"My goodness no!!"
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Trump has no decency.
He’s worried about Renée Good’s father still being a “tremendous Trump fan.” No kind words about her life.
To each his own. But if I were her father, I’d place the blame squarely at Trump’s feet. He could call off ICE’s cruelty and abuse with a single Truth Social post.
He’s worried about Renée Good’s father still being a “tremendous Trump fan.” No kind words about her life.
To each his own. But if I were her father, I’d place the blame squarely at Trump’s feet. He could call off ICE’s cruelty and abuse with a single Truth Social post.
January 21, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Trump has no decency.
He’s worried about Renée Good’s father still being a “tremendous Trump fan.” No kind words about her life.
To each his own. But if I were her father, I’d place the blame squarely at Trump’s feet. He could call off ICE’s cruelty and abuse with a single Truth Social post.
He’s worried about Renée Good’s father still being a “tremendous Trump fan.” No kind words about her life.
To each his own. But if I were her father, I’d place the blame squarely at Trump’s feet. He could call off ICE’s cruelty and abuse with a single Truth Social post.
📌I'm glad Mark Carney and Canada have had enough of our fascist shit.
I sure have.
I sure have.
January 21, 2026 at 3:12 AM
📌I'm glad Mark Carney and Canada have had enough of our fascist shit.
I sure have.
I sure have.
ANSWER: NO.
QUESTION: Does Donald Trump EVER shut up?
QUESTION: Does Donald Trump EVER shut up?
January 20, 2026 at 11:17 PM
ANSWER: NO.
QUESTION: Does Donald Trump EVER shut up?
QUESTION: Does Donald Trump EVER shut up?
🗞️ Let it be noted we are now into Year 10 of Trump, and the NYT STILL won't use the word 'LIE' to describe the most notorious LIAR in history.
Instead, we get 'falsehoods' 'inaccurate claims' & 'overstated boasts' in one headline.
It's almost as if they are going out of their way to gaslight us.
Instead, we get 'falsehoods' 'inaccurate claims' & 'overstated boasts' in one headline.
It's almost as if they are going out of their way to gaslight us.
January 20, 2026 at 11:02 PM
🗞️ Let it be noted we are now into Year 10 of Trump, and the NYT STILL won't use the word 'LIE' to describe the most notorious LIAR in history.
Instead, we get 'falsehoods' 'inaccurate claims' & 'overstated boasts' in one headline.
It's almost as if they are going out of their way to gaslight us.
Instead, we get 'falsehoods' 'inaccurate claims' & 'overstated boasts' in one headline.
It's almost as if they are going out of their way to gaslight us.
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ICE has gone so far that even the bro-casters are saying out loud what’s happening in Minneapolis is brutal and wrong. Too many in Congress need to catch up to where we are.
There is no both sides on state violence.
There is no both sides on state violence.
January 20, 2026 at 10:31 PM
ICE has gone so far that even the bro-casters are saying out loud what’s happening in Minneapolis is brutal and wrong. Too many in Congress need to catch up to where we are.
There is no both sides on state violence.
There is no both sides on state violence.
📌Mamdani is a generational political talent, because he has vision, and is not afraid to speak truth to power, and stand up for what is most certainly good and right.
You can do that when you don't come off as scripted, boring phonies, who are worried about offending donors, Hakeem and Chuck.
You can do that when you don't come off as scripted, boring phonies, who are worried about offending donors, Hakeem and Chuck.
January 20, 2026 at 7:31 PM
📌Mamdani is a generational political talent, because he has vision, and is not afraid to speak truth to power, and stand up for what is most certainly good and right.
You can do that when you don't come off as scripted, boring phonies, who are worried about offending donors, Hakeem and Chuck.
You can do that when you don't come off as scripted, boring phonies, who are worried about offending donors, Hakeem and Chuck.
🇺🇸 New Jersey Democrat Mikie Sherrill was just inaugurated to be the state's 57th governor.
Sherrill absolutely battered the Trump-endorsed candidate last November.
Like Governor Abigail Spanberger's victory in Virginia, it signals the Blue Tsunami that is coming the Republicans' way this November.
Sherrill absolutely battered the Trump-endorsed candidate last November.
Like Governor Abigail Spanberger's victory in Virginia, it signals the Blue Tsunami that is coming the Republicans' way this November.
January 20, 2026 at 4:57 PM
🇺🇸 New Jersey Democrat Mikie Sherrill was just inaugurated to be the state's 57th governor.
Sherrill absolutely battered the Trump-endorsed candidate last November.
Like Governor Abigail Spanberger's victory in Virginia, it signals the Blue Tsunami that is coming the Republicans' way this November.
Sherrill absolutely battered the Trump-endorsed candidate last November.
Like Governor Abigail Spanberger's victory in Virginia, it signals the Blue Tsunami that is coming the Republicans' way this November.
🇺🇸 On this date 65 years ago, President John F. Kennedy said:
"Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."
Those words still echo and have never been more resonate. Our country is under assault from a batterer. We must do everything we can to stand up for her.
"Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."
Those words still echo and have never been more resonate. Our country is under assault from a batterer. We must do everything we can to stand up for her.
January 20, 2026 at 3:24 PM
🇺🇸 On this date 65 years ago, President John F. Kennedy said:
"Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."
Those words still echo and have never been more resonate. Our country is under assault from a batterer. We must do everything we can to stand up for her.
"Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."
Those words still echo and have never been more resonate. Our country is under assault from a batterer. We must do everything we can to stand up for her.
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This is nuts.
World leaders are trying to do diplomacy. Trump is screenshotting and posting private messages from heads of state like it’s a gossip session.
World leaders are trying to do diplomacy. Trump is screenshotting and posting private messages from heads of state like it’s a gossip session.
January 20, 2026 at 1:32 PM
This is nuts.
World leaders are trying to do diplomacy. Trump is screenshotting and posting private messages from heads of state like it’s a gossip session.
World leaders are trying to do diplomacy. Trump is screenshotting and posting private messages from heads of state like it’s a gossip session.
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The irony of ICE detaining and disappearing the original Americans should stop everyone cold.
As a Lakota proverb says, when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. This system isn’t broken. It’s dead.
As a Lakota proverb says, when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. This system isn’t broken. It’s dead.
January 20, 2026 at 1:40 AM
The irony of ICE detaining and disappearing the original Americans should stop everyone cold.
As a Lakota proverb says, when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. This system isn’t broken. It’s dead.
As a Lakota proverb says, when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. This system isn’t broken. It’s dead.