Articles, Important Reads, & Good Information

Rally remarks 11-23-25 Thank you for coming out this Sunday before Thanksgiving—which, as many of us learned in elementary school, was when the Indians and the Pilgrims in the early days shared a feast in peace and friendship, right? Now we know it was much more complicated than that, a mutually tense diplomatic meeting to which the Wampanoag delegation warily brought their own food to the dinner--five deer--because they didn’t trust what the colonists were eating. If you’ve

Rally remarks for Sunday November 2, 2025 We’re going to curtail the litany of bad news today, although there’s plenty of it, in order to speak about concrete ways we can resist the king and his court and defend democracy right here in Poulsbo as we go into the winter months. Quick summary: 42 million of our country’s most vulnerable people will not be regularly receiving the nutrition assistance that Congress appropriated. There are funds for it, but Trump and his lapdog Con

United we stand, even in the rain.

Rally Sept. 28_2025 You’ve probably heard that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is calling hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals to...

Democrats need to decide on their vision for America. Soon.

Poulsbo, Sept. 21, 2025 Timothy Snyder says the essential reason we have freedom of speech is to speak truth to power . This is why...

Rally remarks Sept. 7, 2025 Welcome, everyone! Thanks so much for coming on this early-fall day, to show Poulsbo that we’re here, we’ll...

From Rachel Hurley’s Facebook page, Sept. 5, 2025: You probably remember Marjorie Taylor Greene ranting about a “national divorce” between red and blue states. What you might not realize is that the divorce is already happening - blue states just aren’t bothering to send the papers. While political pundits debate whether America is headed for another civil war, something much quieter is unfolding. It’s called so secession, and it’s not about drama c declarations or turning st

Who’s next for mass arrests? LGBTQ people? Jews? Journalists? You?

Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access. This is a...

We were prepared to read Jeffrey Epstein’s client list to you, but I left it on my desk.

Welcome, everyone! Thank you for coming. Whatever we can do to resist--to disrupt, to gum up the works, to have joy and determination, to...

ICE is here, not just on the national news on your TV.

(Rally remarks June 22 2025) Thank you for coming on this dark day after an unprecedented and wholly unconstitutional aggressive act of...

Dictatorships are fragile and can be toppled by a strong, determined counter movement Daniel Pinchbeck Jun 15, 2025 Yesterday, I read...

“I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades. . .

What’s happening in this country isn’t just cruel—it’s methodical, strategic, and deeply familiar to anyone who’s studied or survived under regimes built on repression and rot.

LOCAL ISSUES AND GOVERNMENT ACTIONS, MEETINGS YOU MAY ATTEND TO ADVOCATE for EQUITY and the ENVIRONMENT   Poulsbo : The proposed...

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May 25, 2025 Less than three weeks ago, a 41-year-old man named Justin Moegling was shot and killed by Poulsbo police. According to his...