Bernie - "scrap the cap"!
At today's Fighting Oligarchy stop in Viroqua, WI, Bernie said "scrap the cap". Every Democrat should run on this.
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Caitlin Drey won a state house seat in Iowa. Now the bad news.
Today social media is cheering that Caitlin Drey, an Iowa Democrat, won a state house seat that previously went Trump +11. Elect Catelin Drey for Iowa Senate District 1Working mom & advocate Catelin Drey is running to flip Iowa SD1 on Aug 26 & break the GOP supermajority. Learn more
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa - "we need to create a country where we are actually in control of our own government"
"No rational human being would ever be in favor of what's being done to Gaza"
Majority Report - "organize around some narrow principles"
The August 13, 2025 Majority Report (full disclosure - I'm a paid subscriber) gets to what Town Hall Citizen is about and why I started it. On the show Sam interviews Harvey J. Kaye, Historian and Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green
Ro Khanna in Greenville, SC - Medicare for All, people have the power
From today's Benefits Over Billionaires rally in Greenvilles, South Carolina
Jon Ossoff - the system is rigged
Watch this 2 minute clip. Every Democrat should run on this message.
Establishment Dems are the past, not the future
If Democrats are so great why do they keep losing elections? Why couldn't they beat the worst Presidential candidate in history?
Ralph Nader: Stop Repeating the Vast Undercount of Gazan Deaths. It Is Far Greater.
"Enough already of the media’s lazy indifference to the vast undercount of the Palestinian death toll from Netanyahu’s genocidal daily bombing and shelling of Gaza’s defenseless civilian population."
Veterans for Peace condemns Iran attack, calls for nationwide protest
June 21, 2025 will be remembered as the day the U.S. once again chose war over diplomacy, unleashing consequences we may come to regret.
Veterans for Peace condemns Israel's U.S. backed attack on Iran
Veterans For Peace condemns Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran and its targeted assassinations of Iranian leaders. This could not have happened without the agreement and support of the U.S. government.
Town Hall Citizen is up against the machine
If Democrats' message is so good, why couldn't they beat Trump?
Kamala Harris the War Hawk
We're kidding ourselves if we think things would be different had Harris won
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Norman Solomon: "The only change is going to come from the bottom up"
Left to their own devices, the Democrats won't change
People Have the Power
Freedom Park No Kings protest today in Edwards, CO
Hundreds turnout to protest Trump in Eagle County, Colorado
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Town Hall Citizen platform #9 - Department of Peace
Why Department of Peace is part of our platform
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The Trump protests will fail - unless people organize
I've been to a lot of protests. People’s Climate Movement MarchpauliePeople’s Climate MarchpaulieMarching in Lincoln, NE, to give Keystone the bootpaulieBreak Free Colorado ActionpaulieJames Lawrence got phat, the kids got fatterpaulie Each one of them failed to move the needle. Why? Because there wasn't
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Organized citizens hold the key
Waking up to the news of Trump deploying 2,000 National Guard members to Los Angeles is chilling. David Frum's piece in The Atlantic is equally as chilling. You can use RemovePaywall.com to read it. For Trump, This Is a Dress RehearsalOrdering the National Guard to deploy
Hunter S. Thompson
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The past few days I've been down the rabbit hole of Hunter S. Thompson's 1970 campaign for Pitkin County Sheriff. Still taking in how important this was and how relevant it is today. Daniel Joseph Watkins has done a wonderful job of archiving the campaign and
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The Majority Report gives thumbs up to the Tea Party
I'm a fan and paying subscriber to The Majority Report. Here's a clip from the 4-28-25 show handing a tacit endorsement to the Tea Party as the plan for the people to turn this country around. Fellow Coloradan David Sirota wrote as much in his piece
Ro Khanna
Rep. Ro Khanna D-CA 17 announces support for Medicare for All Act
Howdy, Great to see Congressman Khanna being vocal about his support for Bernie Sanders's Medicare for All Act introduced April 29, 2025. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1506 Medicare for All is part of the Town Hall Citizen platform, here: FAQSo you’re forming a new
Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein - why “antisemitism” stifles speech
Howdy, I regard Norman Finkelstein as one of our great thinkers. A self-described "radical" and part of the “radical left”, he opens my mind to new thoughts each time I read or listen to him. In this Robinson Erhardt podcast Norman discuss Trump, the current state of Gaza,
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader gives thumbs up to Town Hall Citizen platform
A big inspiration for this work I'm doing is Ralph Nader. I've listened to his show for years. My Mother and Father praised Ralph. A couple weeks ago Ralph announced he was dedicating an entire show to listener questions. So I decided to write in, ask
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David Brooks - it's time for a civic uprising
Finally, the mainstream is coming around
Bernie Sanders
Bernie channels Frederick Douglass in Montana - "Power concedes nothing without a demand"
Bernie's closing argument in Montana today was powerful