Thank you, as always, for coming this morning. My remarks are short and sweet today. Here’s the thing. As Mary Geddry writes, the White House is aiming what she calls a firehose at us: “ The firehose of racism, raids, intimidation, & spectacle.” What they’re spewing out of that firehose is threats, dehumanizing comments, scandals. To outrage us and to distract us. But rather than get more and more outraged and feel more and more hopeless, WE’VE GOT TO KEEP OUR EYES ON THE PRI

February 1, 2026 This week the Trump Administration is reaching peak overload of horrors—from ominous signs of preparing for war with Iran, to the announcement that the 250 th  anniversary of our nation will be celebrated with car racing in the streets of Washington DC. But let’s focus here on two most alarming threats to democracy: because if the people, the courts, and the Congress don’t do anything about them, our nation will be lost. First, Trump’s government is trying to

January 25, 2026 Do you remember how you felt on the morning of 9/11/2001, when an airplane crashed into the World Trade Center? There was profound shock  at this surreal image of a normal passenger plane full of normal people blown to smithereens as it flew directly into a tower of capitalism.   Then, do you recall the changed, sick feeling you experienced when the second plane crashed into the WTC? Then, we all understood unequivocally that the horrific events had been inte

Since last January 20, the United States under Trump has issued a procession of decrees and actions that have been anything but normal. Every week, every day, Trump & his gang assaults Americans with violations to rules – to the rule of law, and to rules of decency. All this crystallized on Wednesday with the murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis. Her tragic killing was unnecessary and unjustified.  There was no conceivable reason for immigration officials to be attacking a ci

Jan 4, 2026 ​ Today we commemorate January 6, 2021, when the outgoing president incited a crowd to storm the US Capitol to violently prevent the peaceful transfer of power. We gather today to remember this assault on democracy, and to pledge not to let it happen again. ​ But is that what we’ve been doing? When you think about it, our enduring shock at January 6 is rather quaint. How about memorializing the third week in October 2025, when Trump took a wrecking ball to another

Dec. 14, 2025                                           It’s easy to be lulled into thinking that the end of our national nightmare is in sight: court decisions are curbing some of the administration’s excesses, the Republican-dominated Indiana legislature grew a spine and refused to gerrymander, and even Congressional Republicans appear to want to abandon ship on some issues. The recent November election indicated America’s swing toward democracy and Democrats. The National