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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

December 7, 2025 As the year 2025 begins to wane, it’s a good time to start reflecting on where we are. For perspective, let’s briefly go back to a day in fall 2021, when Attorney General Merrick Garland and other Justice Department officials had an emergency conference call to decide how to deal with what they considered a dangerously inappropriate remark from President Joe Biden. Steve Bannon had defied an order to appear before the House select committee investigating Janu

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...

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...

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...

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

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