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Donald Trump’s Interference With Elections A Major Crisis!

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President Donald Trump has promoted interference with elections, creating a major crisis for American democracy.

If this interference is not stopped, the nation is moving toward autocracy and dictatorship.

Already, Trump provoked the US Capitol Insurrection on January 6, 2021, trying to prevent the House and Senate from confirming Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the Presidential Election Of 2020.

This has led to many Republicans refusing to accept that Biden legitimately won the Presidency, and “Election Deniers” abound in Congress and in state elections ever since, undermining the concept of peaceful transfer of government.

Therefore, Trump has promoted gerrymandering of Congressional seats in an attempt to keep the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, and has claimed massive voter fraud. He has also attempted, so far unsuccessfully, to promote legislation that would prevent many eligible voters from their right to vote in elections.

The NY Times has published 12 factors that are alarm bells, including:

Manipulating the Law to Stay in Power
Stifling Speech and Dissent
Persecuting Political Opponents
Bypassing the Legislature
Using the Military At Home
Defying the Courts
Declaring False Emergencies
Vilifying Marginalized Groups
Controlling Information
Trying to Take Over Universities
Creating a Cult Of Personality
Using Power For Personal Profit

On a scale of 1-10, the most advanced threats are:

Using Power For Personal Profit
Vilifying Marginalized Groups
Creating A Cult of Personality
Persecuting Political Opponents
Bypassing the Legislature
Declaring False Emergencies
Stifling Speech And Dissent

These seven categories are 5-7 on the scale of 10.

The other five categories range from 2-4 on the scale of 10, and are rapidly being escalated.

It is urgent and essential that all actions be pursued to stop the threat to American Democracy that is rapidly escalating.

Surprising Result In Florida Democratic Senate Primary

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The state of Florida has set up an interesting race to fill the Senate seat vacated by Marco Rubio, when he became Secretary of State.

Former Attorney General Ashley Moody has replaced Rubio, but without any major impact or influence, so there is a possibility that the surprise Democratic nominee, state Representative Angie Nixon, could win the seat for the two remaining years of the term, until the next Senate election in 2028.

Angie Nixon, who is African American, and allies with the “Democratic Socialists”, surprisingly easily overcame her opponent, former National Security aide Alex Vindman, who had sixteen times the amount of funding, but simply did not inspire or attract voters, and lost by 150,000 votes and a 12 percentage margin.

The concern is whether a candidate who links with the “Socialist” label, and in a heavily Republican state in the past 15 years, can possibly overcome Ashley Moody. In either case, Florida will have a woman Senator, with Moody already the second woman to be a Florida Senator, after one term Senator Paula Hawkins, like Moody a Republican, who served from 1981-1987.

AI Data Centers, And Alabama Gubernatorial Race Between Doug Jones And Tommy Tuberville

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The state of Alabama will have a Gubernatorial race in November between Senator Tommy Tuberville and former Senator Doug Jones.

Tuberville was a nationally renowned football coach at four universities before running for the Senate in 2020, and defeating Doug Jones.

Jones was a Senator from 2018-2021, after winning a special election after Jeff Sessions became Attorney General for Donald Trump in his first term in 2017. Earlier, he served as US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama under President Bill Clinton, and gained wide notice for the successful prosecution of two Ku Klux Klan members for the 1963 Birmingham Church bombing that killed four African American girls, as well as the indictment of the Olympic Park Bomber, Eric Rudolph, who conducted his terrorist attack in Atlanta in 1996 during that year’s Summer Olympics.

Jones lost his Senate seat in a massive defeat to Tuberville, in a state heavily Republican for decades. But he is back again, trying to win the Governorship, as Tuberville gave up the chance to run for reelection to the Senate, and instead work to become the state’s governor.

Tuberville has gained an horrendous reputation for outrageous statements and actions in his one term in the Senate, and displays the worst elements imaginable in any Senator, making him close to the worst member of the Republican Party in the upper chamber, but he has the full support of Donald Trump.

Jones, who came across as quite decent in his three years in the Senate, and with his impressive earlier public career, is making the attempt to help the Democratic Party to regain the executive branch in Alabama.

He is making a key issue of the growing AI Data Centers, wanting a moratorium on their development as research is being conducted on the problems and dangers of AI Data Centers, which are mostly ending up in rural areas nationally, and affecting the power, water, and air of the areas around them.

Meanwhile, Tuberville has demonstrated no desire to promote regulation or controls of AI Data Centers, so this is becoming a major difference in the race, with the hope that Jones can exploit the issue and win the Governorship.

It would be a step forward if Doug Jones, a decent and principled man, were able to defeat the reckless Tommy Tuberville, and retire him from public life.

Congress Is On Way To Most Turnover In Any Cycle In American History, For The Upcoming 120th Congress (2027-2029)

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The 119th Congress (2025-2027) is setting a record for turnover, leading to the most massive number of members who will no longer be members in the 120th Congress (2027-2029).

Based on the latest information, but certain to be added to over the next few months, the statistics as of now show the following:

At least, 83 Incumbents will NOT be returning:

70 members of the House of Representatives, including 30 Democrats and 40 Republicans

13 US Senators, including 9 Republicans and 4 Democrats

Retirements, Resignations, Deaths, Seeking Other Offices, and Reelection Primary Losses are the factors that are causing massive turnover, and with more to come after more primaries and Election Day results.

Seven sitting Democrats and three Republicans in the House have lost primaries, and two Republican Senators also lost their primaries, John Cornyn and Bill Cassidy.

Also, 27 House members have given up their seats to run for another office, with 13 losing their bids for another office. Additionally, Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is not running for reelection, but is the Republican nominee for Governor.

Five House members have died during this Congress, as well as Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

Additionally, there have been seven resignations, mostly due to ethics related charges, but also appointment or election to other offices, as well as the resignation of Marjorie Taylor Greene in opposition to Donald Trump on the Epstein Scandals matter and other breaks with Trump.

It is good that the next Congress will be, assuredly, much younger, with the move against endless service of long term members being a positive development.

One more major moment of challenge of age against youth will be the September 1 Massachusetts primary for the Senate, where Senator Ed Markey, age 80, with 37 years in the House of Representatives and 13 plus years in the US Senate, faces the challenge of Congressman Seth Moulton, who is 47 years old and has served 12 years in the lower chamber.

Markey is a strong progressive with an outstanding record, but it seems to most observers that it is time for a younger generation to take over.

Amazingly, Markey held off former Congressman Joseph Kennedy III six years ago, despite the Kennedy name, and it will be a close watched primary coming up two weeks from now.

Long Shot Senate Democratic Candidates In Midterm Elections Of 2026!

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Several states have Democratic candidates for the US Senate, which seem unlikely to have success, but some possibility of surprises.

These include the states of Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi.

Florida has Alex Vindman; Kansas has Adam Hamilton; Kentucky has Charles Booker; and Mississippi has Scott Colom.

These are all strongly Republican states, but there are possibilities that one or more of these four states could spring a surprise victory for the Democrats.

In Florida, Alex Vindman, a retired US Army Lieutentant Colonel, who served as the Director of European Affairs for the National Security Council until 2020, and became part of the first Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump over the Trump-Ukraine Scandal, is the likely nominee after Florida has its primary elections this coming Tuesday.

His Republican opponent will be Senator Ashley Moody, appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to fill the vacancy in 2025 caused by the appointment of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Polls indicate a tight race, with the possibility that Vindman might win the seat.

In Kansas, Adam Hamilton, a minister and pastor of the United Methodist Church, a mainline Protestant Church in the Greater Kansas City area, is running against Republican Senator Roger Marshall. Polls indicate that Hamilton has a possibility of winning the seat, although Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the US Senate in nearly a century.

In Kentucky, Charles Booker, who lost an earlier race for the US Senate to Rand Paul, and has served in state government under Democratic Governor Andy Beshear, is running for an open seat caused by the soon retiring Mitch McConnell, with his opponent being Republican Congressman Andy Barr. The fact that Beshear has been able to hold the Governorship as a Democrat, despite the strong Republican leanings of the state, creates the possibility of an upset in this race.

In Mississippi, Scott Colom, who is District Attorney for the 16th Judicial District of Mississippi, is challenging Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who has served eight years in the US Senate. This would likely be the most difficult state for a Democrat to win, but in the mood of the nation regarding the problems in the economy, there is a slight chance of an upset that elects Colom.

Two Medical Doctors, Democrats, Running For Governor In Ohio, And Senator In South Carolina

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The Democratic Party in two states, Ohio and South Carolina, are running women doctors for the Governorship and US Senate respectively.

Dr. Amy Acton is running in Ohio against the highly controversial, extremely wealthy entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who had the arrogance to be a Presidential candidate in the early rounds of 2024, displaying how dangerous and confrontational an individual he is.

Dr. Amy Acton was the equivalent of Dr. Anthony Fauci in Ohio during the early stages of the COVID 19 Pandemic in 2020-2021, advising Republican Governor Mike DeWine on the essential use of masks and promoting vaccinations, and DeWine showed leadership in this crisis.

Only true scientific ignoramuses were arguing against these strategies, and states that abandoned those ideas saw greater loss of life from the pandemic.

Having a medical doctor as Governor would be a big step forward for Ohio and the nation at large, as the fight for science, medicine and public health against the ignorance and ill informed views of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and President Trump, is desperately needed, to keep Americans healthy and safe.

Meanwhile, Pediatrician Dr. Annie Andrews, is running for the Senate in South Carolina against whichever Republican, Darline Graham or Ralph Norman, ends up as the Republican nominee after a runoff election in two weeks, neither who believes in science and public health. So it would be a major step forward if Andrews could win the Senate seat, although it will be a difficult race to win in a state so heavily Repoublican in orientation.

Donald Trump’s Massive Destruction Of LBJ’s “Great Society”!

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America is witnessing under Donald Trump in his second term Presidency a goal that the extreme right wing MAGA Movement and “Project 2025” has been working toward for decades—the massive destruction of all of the good work of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his “Great Society” in the mid 1960s.

All of the major actions of the Johnson Presidency in domestic affairs, and also of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, is being reversed in a heartless, callous, cruel manner by both Donald Trump and the extreme right wing majority of the John Roberts Supreme Court.

Among these actions of massive destruction have been the following:

Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Medicare and Medicaid
Federal Aid to Education
Immigration and Nationality Act 1965
Environmental and Consumer Legislation
Housing and Labor Reforms
Eliminating Government Funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS
War On Poverty Programs, including Job Corps, Project Head Start, and Food Stamps (SNAP)
National Endowment For The Arts and National Endowment For The Humanities

Trump has attacked educational programs and cultural institutions, including the Kennedy Center, the National Museum of American History, all other museums connected with the Smithsonian Institution, and News Media.

Trump has also worked to destroy domestic initiatives of presidents after LBJ, including in particular:

Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Joe Biden

Once Donald Trump is out of office, and assuming that Democrats can retake the White House and Capitol Hill, it will take a massive effort to reverse the horrendous damage, and it will be more than a one or two year effort to bring back progress domestically.

Tucker Carlson Move Toward Third Party Movement: Splintering Of Republican Party After Trump!

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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is making moves toward a third party movement, disillusioned with Donald Trump, and making for a massive split in the MAGA movement, as planning for the Presidential Election of 2028 moves forward, even before the likely disastrous Republican Party Midterm Elections in November 2026.

Joined by former Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and outgoing Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie at his Maine compound, Carlson announced a ten point program of opposition to Donald Trump and his policies and programs.

Particular emphasis was given to the fury over the Iran War; US support of Israel in its war in Gaza; and the controversy of release of the Epstein files.

If this splinter movement of discontented MAGA Republicans gets off the ground, it could spell massive trouble for the Republican Party in the battle over the Presidency in 2028.

While Carlson denies he would announce as a Presidential candidate, there is the potential for others disillusioned with Donald Trump on the extreme Right to complicate the potential for Vice President JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Ron DeSantis, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton, or other potential contenders.

Democrats In Michigan Reject Party Establishment, Nominate Abdul El-Sayed For Senate Race!

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Democratic Party voters, by a narrow margin of about 15,000 votes, have rejected the “Party Establishment” which backed Congresswoman Haley Stevens, and have nominated progressive leftist Abdul El-Sayed for the Senate nomination, against Republican nominee, former Congressman Mike Rogers, for the election in November, which will decide who will replace retiring Senator Gary Peters.

On first thought, it might be believed that the result is disturbing, but when one goes beyond the political propaganda, it is clear that while El-Sayed is critical of Israel’s war in Gaza against the Palestinians, he is NOT antisemitic OR anti the right of Israel to exist, but believes that the Palestinians also have the right to exist, and that the war in Gaza and the West Bank, which has led to 75,000 deaths, mostly women and children, needs to end.

One can be pro Israel, but not pro anything that nation and its leadership does, just as is the same with the United States and its leadership.

The battle to retain the Michigan Senate seat for the Democrats, and for them to gain the four seats from Republicans that are needed to gain control of the US Senate, is an urgent one.

Already, Donald Trump is calling El-Sayed a “Communist”, utilizing the old idea of the Red Scare promoted by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin in the 1950s, and this despicable tactic must be vigorously opposed by every decent person in Michigan, and nationally.

Ironically, Trump consorts all the time with “Communists”, such as Vladimir Putin of Russia, Xi Jinping of China, and Kim Jong Un of North Korea, wishing to be a tyrant and dictator as they are for sure.

El-Sayed is a very impressive and acomplished person, attending and graduating with high honors from the University of Michigan, and giving the commencement address. He had two years of medical school at the University of Michigan, followed by a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in England, and then an MD degree from Columbia University, and went into public health epidemiology work, rather than pursue a medical license. He became a public health professor at Columbia University, and then, Health Director of Detroit, and then, of Wayne County, Michigan.

El-Sayed was endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Chris Van Hollen, and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, outgoing Senator Gary Peters, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and other establishment Democrats backed Haley Stevens in a losing, although, close margin campaign.

El-Sayed is an accomplished dynamic speaker and podcaster, and would be the first Muslim US Senator, although there are and have been a few Muslim members of the House of Representatives. To date, there have been five Muslim members of the lower house, with one, Keith Ellison from 2007-2019, who has been Attorney General of Minnesota since 2019.

Ohio Republicans A Disaster, Have Besmirched Ohio Historical Reputation!

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The state of Ohio has a great history in many ways, including 8 Ohio Born Presidents, all Republicans, except for WH Harrison, who was a Whig.

William Henry Harrison
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
William Howard Taft
Warren G. Harding

It must be said that none of these 8 Ohio Presidents have ranked high in history, and with Grant and Harding sadly presiding over massive corruption in their eras 50 years apart.

William McKinley is usually considered the highest ranking of these 8 Presidents, with William Howard Taft close behind, and with James A. Garfield, considered a tragic figure, as a potentially gifted President, assassinated after only six months in office in 1881.

Now, we have Vice President JD Vance, who was born in Ohio, and just celebrated his 42nd birthday two days ago, on August 2.

Considered likely to become President during this term, due to Donald Trump’s rapid mental decline and other age related issues, his reputation is not impressive, and if he is still Vice President by the time of the Presidential primaries, he might face strong challenges from other Republicans, most notably Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

But beyond this situation, we also have the scandalous situation involving Cleveland area Congressman Max Miller, involved in a divorce from the daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno, with all kinds of horrendous accusations of abuse and threats to his former wife and their 2 year old daughter.

Moreno is calling for Miller to resign from Congress, and get mental help for his horrendous behavior, which has included other accusations with other women and with law enforcement in the past, and the reaction has been fierce by both sides.

But also, Moreno himself showed lack of dignity by using foul language in the committee hearing that attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci for his handling of the COVID 19 Pandemic response, when Fauci was heroic in his actions and advice, having to navigate the lunacy and craziness of Donald Trump regarding that epidemic in 2020.

This, along with the candidacy of Tech Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy as the Republican nominee for Governor, despite his controversial outspokenness and extremist views, puts the state of Ohio in the forefront of controversy that undermines the state’s reputation.

It is hoped that Democrat Amy Acton, a physician, public health leader, and nominee for Governor, can succeed in turning Ohio in a different direction, but Ohio has become very “RED”, after years of being a “swing state” historically.

Acton was seen as a “hero”, much like Dr. Anthony Fauci, in the early period of the COVID 19 Pandemic, but later faced vilification, much like the renowned Fauci, with both being totally correct in their reactions to the epidemic, but suffering from scientific ignorance by their critics.