One of the reasons Hitler's Generals were initially successful in launching Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, was Joseph Stalin's purging of the Soviet military ranks to get rid of any rivals for power and minds that disagreed with his military policies during his wars against Finland, the reoccupation of the Baltic and Eastern Poland, and the Far East.
These purges led to a leadership vacuum where experienced officers were either dead or too afraid to counsel against Stalin's reluctance to heed intelligence reports that the Germans were preparing to invade the Soviet Union.
Fast forward to 2026, and is history repeating itself with American Duce Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in their drive to make the United States military leadership more white male with its purging of black and female leadership and officers who do not agree with them, along with ill-advised military ventures in Iran, opening the doors for America's enemies to take action, like China going into Taiwan, for example.
This weekend, it has been revealed that military leadership has warned the Defense Secretary that the continued attacks on Iran "are not sustainable" with the firings, weapons shortfalls, and damage to United States bases in the region.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgMYubP8ZFk
Trump and his Executive Branch team, salivating for a return to a more isolationist/American muscular regional hegemonic age, seem obsessed with tearing apart the post-World War Two international order that has prevented World War Three.
These ill-advised actions with Hegseth's purges and poorly conducted war against Iran are accomplishing that.
That is dangerous for the American People and the nation.
Commenting on social media on Trump's ineptitude, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly posted:
"Starting a war against Iran without a plan. Threatening to bomb Oman. Sailors suffering aboard the USS Lincoln. Reducing joint military exercises with South Korea. None of these things have made our country stronger or safer. Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing."
In an interview with Scott McFarlane, Kelly pointed out Hegseth's stupidity, saying:
"We are the most lethal, capable fighting force this planet has ever seen. Our problem isn't lethality, you know. Our problem is, sometimes we put idiots in charge of things, and they make big mistakes and will take this country to war for no good reason. And it's always guys like, you know, certainly Donald Trump who avoided military service. You know, Pete Hegseth, he's, I think, he's a little bit harder to explain. I think the reason is, he should know better. I think he missed something when he served on active duty and didn't really understand the fundamental nature of the U.S. military.
"We are capable, we're lethal — That's not the problem. We don't need more testosterone in the U.S. military right now. What we need is better leadership."
Kelly is right.
Better leadership is needed in the White House and the Defense Department.
Leaders who will not repeat history by imitating the loser policies of totalitarian dictators from the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's.
Well, there was one line of truth in all the lies Donald Trump has said since he went down that escalator to announce his candidacy for the Presidency.
The man who bankrupted a casino is "The King of Debt."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWl6g7q2k4
Under the leadership of tax cut, increasing defense spending, poorly administered military ventures, pandemic mismanagement, tariff refunds, and a screw the poor and middle class agenda, Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan, both Bushes, and now Donald Trump, the United States has gone from roughly a trillion-dollar national debt following the Carter/Mondale Administration to now $40 trillion.
The only Administration in this time period to actually balance the budget and achieve a surplus. The Democratic Clinton/Gore Administration.
Sorry. Not in this reality, and Democrats should do a better job at defending the Biden/Harris Administrations record instead of allowing Trump and his loyalists to just say this latest big lie with no response.
While the national debt did increase under the Biden/Harris Administration, much of that was due to cleaning up the pandemic mismanagement mess left by Trump.
A similar case can be made for President Obama, who had to launch economic stimulus measures to counter the Great Recession, which was caused in part by conservative and, yes, Clintonian deregulation of the economy, housing, and banking sectors by repealing Glass-Steagall.
With regard to Trump and his allies having a plan to solve the fiscal crisis after he said in 2016 that the debt would be gone by now.
Remember these are the same people who said they would bring prices down, make government more efficient, and end the war in Ukraine on day one of their return to power.
Look how well that turned out!
Reacting to the United States hitting the $40 trillion mark, Matters of State Strategies Vice President Matt Grodsky commented to Blog for Arizona:
"40 trillion reasons why 47 (Trump) needs to go. Democrats need to remind voters and especially moderate Republicans about the debt under his watch."
Zach Moller, Director of Third Way’s Economic Program commented:
“$40 trillion is a staggering milestone, but it didn’t happen by accident: Republican presidents have repeatedly chosen to borrow for large tax cuts and major military commitments rather than pay for them. More alarming than this big round number, however, is the direction we’re headed. President Trump has doubled down with trillions of dollars in additional deficit-financed tax cuts, while tariffs and conflict in the Middle East are putting new pressure on inflation and interest rates. We cannot afford for President Trump to keep taking a bad fiscal situation and making it worse."
The growing national debt is a ticking fiscal time bomb that has to be addressed.
Political leaders who do not treat it as important or pay lip service to it to get votes (Reagan, Bush II, and Trump) should be ignored.
Furthermore, when Democrats do regain power in Congress and the Oval Office, they had better have a ready-made agenda and public relations campaign to reduce the debt while also providing for needed and overdue investments in lifting the American People up, like paid leave, universal pre-k and full-day kindergarten, free school meals, Medicare and Medicaid expansion, apprenticeships, Pell Grants increases, and restoring food assistance programs.
Do not repeat the mistake of 1993 when Bill Clinton and Al Gore allowed hypocrite Republicans and Ross Perot to frame the political discussion around reducing the deficit and putting out Harry and Louise commercials attacking Hillary Clinton's health care plan.
This is after Reagan and Bush increased the national debt from one to about six trillion dollars during their 12 years in office.
Democrats need to frame the argument of combining deficit reduction, reducing the national debt, and investing in the American People now and again and again before hypocritical Republicans pull out their fiscal conservative tighten-the-belts religion argument just when Democrats are in charge and convince the gullible that, despite their record of economic. mismanagement and incompetence, they are right on the economy.
The below scenes in 1970's adapation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar show how important it is for Democrats to speak first and last to the people in making the argument for their economic agenda and with the right speaker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou7fK_kWg-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bi1PvXCbr8&t=87s
The Bard knew about the human condition as well as anyone and the value of choosing the right messenger to deliver the message.
In one of their latest moves to undo the Progressive Era of New Deal and Great Society/War on Poverty legislation, the Trump Back to the Gilded Age Regime is, with the aid of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Health and Human Services Department, launching a deregulation push of the Lyndon Johnson era-created Head Start, an early education program that serves about 700,000 poor children around the nation.
In reporting by the New York Times, this move to essentially gut the popular federal pre-school institution:
"...Would remove most of Head Start’s 133 pages of federal requirements for math and literacy curricula, class sizes, medical screenings, and home visits. Even a requirement that children brush their teeth after meals would end.
Administration officials say the changes, apparently recommendations from the fringe Heritage Foundation, to Head Start's performance standards will save money by lifting onerous requirements, serve more children by increasing class sizes, and give states and municipalities more control in how the program is run. Critics say the changes will gut the core components of a singular institution that has served 30 million young children with high classroom standards and more health and antipoverty services than most states provide."
Another regulation being cut is the one that requires children to get dental exams.
It does, however, provide, according to Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA vision, new guidelines for nutrition and physical activity.
Increasing class sizes in preschools.
No dental exams.
Not exactly a winning strategy for early education and children's health.
It should be noted that Mr. Kennedy was in the Oval Office yesterday championing Mr. Trump's Executive Order yesterday that embraced Junior's anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and called for the curtailing of children receiving them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qvs6If00Lw
Not sure his guidance should be followed on Head Start.
Kennedy Jr, whose Uncle, Sargent Shriver, helped organize Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, including the creation of Head Start, publicly recognized the need for Head Start and told journalists in reporting from Politico, “These are the poorest kids in our country. Ninety percent of them are at or below the poverty line. The program works.”
In a statement reported by the New York Times, he said:
“My uncle, Sarge Shriver, founded the program on a simple conviction: strong families, wholesome nutrition, and healthy childhood development can change the course of a child’s life. Today we are returning Head Start to those roots. We are removing unnecessary bureaucracy, strengthening nutrition and physical health, trusting parents and local communities, and opening Head Start to hundreds of thousands more children.”
If he were still alive, Mr. Shriver would probably not share his nephew's enthusiasm for a Trumpian deregulation scheme launched by the fringe Heritage Foundation.
Reacting to the proposed changes to Head Start that still have to go through a two-month feedback process, Kyrstyn Paulat, Director of Early Learning and Education at the Children's Action Alliance in Phoenix, provided the following statement to Blog for Arizona:
"Children’s Action Alliance is deeply concerned about the proposed federal deregulation of Head Start and the potential consequences for children and families in Arizona. The proposed changes would eliminate or significantly weaken many of the federal standards that have helped distinguish Head Start from a standard child care program. These standards include protections around classroom quality and staffing, health and developmental screenings, services for children with disabilities, family engagement, home visiting, and other wraparound supports. CAA supports efforts to reduce unnecessary administrative burdens; however, deregulation should not mean dismantling the quality standards, comprehensive services, and family partnerships that make Head Start so valuable and a gold standard for what early childhood programs should be."
Assistant Democratic House Leader and Educator Nancy Gutierrez also commented to Blog for Arizona:
"Head Start is an extremely valuable program that is supported by data and educational research. We must do everything we can to ensure that it continues and expands. I believe this rhetoric from the Trump administration to take away the federal “control” will hurt the program. We’ve seen this in the dismantling of the Department of Education. We need federal guidance and support, period. I don’t trust anything that the current administration or their leaders say about education. Their ultimate goal is to destroy public education. This would be detrimental to our students, but it would also destroy our Democracy."
Over the last month, people who, despite the history, current events, and high crimes and misdemeanors, thought it would be a swell idea to give Donald Trump the keys to the White House again, are expressing their dismay that he has gone back on his campaign promises to bring prices down, get involved in forever wars, and just kick the criminal illegal immigrants out of the country.
Please see the clips below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ3ulTBD0Fw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwvPsGVsXjo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeNXY68IZvo
To those Trump voters who were suckered into buying his serial lying fecal matter despite the track record: We told you so.
The clip below from the movie Animal House shows the reaction Trump is probably saying behind closed doors to the people who supported him in 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYQCb3qrBpo
Moving forward, Trump voters, especially those who voted for Biden and then Trump, will hopefully own up to their mistakes and never, ever make them again.
Elderly Americans who voted for Donald Trump, who bought his lies, despite the first-term record, the failed business ventures, and the criminal rap sheet, that he would bring prices down, are about to get hosed again.
This time, the regime that has ushered in a golden age for billionaires while throwing everyone else into a financial dark one, has announced that they are ending a Biden/Harris era program that gave senior citizens financial assistance to pay for drug premiums through Medicare Part D.
This decision, if it proceeds, can financially harm 11 million elderly Americans.
Doing this on the week of the anniversary of the signing of Medicare and Medicaid into law shows the insensitivity and non concern of the plight of the American People by the people staffing this regime from the top of the fecal pile to the lowest sewage depths.
These cuts are in addition to the Affordable Care Act subsidy cuts and those for food SNAP assisistance passed in the Big Billionaires First Bill last year.
Miss Joe Biden and Kamala Harris yet.
This should not be surprising given Mr. Trump's statements saying he does not care about the financial plight of Americans and that this country should not be involved in budgeting childcare assistance.
Several of Arizona's Democratic Congressional and Legislative Leaders voiced their objections to the latest Trump 'Let them eat Cake' move.
"Today marks the anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid becoming law.
Sixty-one years later, the Trump administration is ending subsidies that helped keep Medicare drug premiums lower—putting affordable coverage at risk for millions of seniors.
We should be strengthening and expanding Medicare for all Americans — not gutting it."
Arizona House Assistant Democratic Leader Nancy Guiterrez wrote:
"Trump just ended Medicare Part D. That means seniors won’t have access to Rx coverage. This will hurt thousands of seniors on fixed incomes. HE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT ANY OF US. He only wants to get rich. He’s a liar, a rapist and a grifter. WAKE UP MAGA!!"
"61 years ago, Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law — a promise that no American should go without healthcare because of their age or income.
Today, that promise is still under attack.
Last year, congressional Republicans rammed through one of the largest healthcare cuts in history to fund tax breaks for billionaires, ripping away care from millions of families and driving costs higher for millions more.
I'll keep fighting to restore Medicaid funding and protect the care so many Arizonans rely on."
Senator Ruben Gallego released several posts, including:
"Groceries, gas, rent, prescription drugs—it’s all too high. Trump’s response? Tell our seniors to get screwed."
"I am begging you to advocate for Medicaid, especially for people like my son Parker, who is a child with multiple disabilities. Parker would not be alive today if it weren’t for Medicaid.”
I got this voicemail from a mom in Phoenix before Republicans gutted Medicaid—a program we created 61 years ago today to ensure Americans wouldn’t die because they couldn't afford healthcare.
Kids like Parker—that’s who we’re fighting for.
Republicans are fighting to give billionaires tax cuts.
To all the people who suffered from amnesia and voted for Donald Trump and for his Congressional enablers like Andy Biggs, Eli Crane, and Juan Ciscomani, please do not repeat that mistake again in the elections this November.
While most press headlines rightly highlight how Donald Trump has spent his second term destroying the nation's economy, international standing, and socio-political fabric in a Project 2025 agenda designed to return the nation to a pre-Progressive Era Gilded and Isolationist Age that deserves to remain dead and buried, the American Duce's corporate and Orwellian war on knowledge continues.
Here are some of the anti-science measures taken by Mr. Trump and his band of Know Nothings over the last ten days.
On July 9, the Trump regime, catering to its corporate patrons, relaxed a rule on protecting endangered species, allowing industrialists to pursue "farming, drilling, mining, real estate development" where these animals live.
On July 12, the anti-climate science administration reinstated a first-term reduction in the size of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah to "open about two million acres to oil drilling, uranium mining and other development."
President Joe Biden had issued an Executive Order rescinding Trump's first term executive order.
Miss President Biden yet.
This should not be surprising to people who should remember Trump's assertions that wind power turbines and solar panels destroy animal life, scare whales, and are not aesthetically pleasing to his overseas golf resorts.
National Resource Democrats in the House of Representatives released several posts against Trump's actions, including:
Expect a lot of court fights in the coming months to stop Trump's rape of the Earth policies and destruction of humanity's heritage.
This is the Republican war on science, started in the George W. Bush Administration in its marriage with corporate interests, on steroids.
A recent review of Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's book Regime Change shows how Trump's corporate donors have made several pilgrimages to the White House, demanding action against environmental regulations and sustainability projects like wind in this country and in Europe.
It is not just a war against climate science and clean energy.
It is the junk science being postulated by Pete 'No promotions for women and non-white males'Hegseth at the Pentagon in his drive to create super, probably white male, soldiers with his call for testosterone testing of military male personnel over 30.
A recent news report by Reuters shows that such a move, if actually mandated, could lead to rising infertility among those who get the testing.
The panelists on The View had fun discussing this last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRDIbxuN22Q
Speaking of infertility, there is Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been going around saying that there is "an explosion of infertility" in the United States because the sperm counts of teenage males in this country have dropped by 50 percent.
Fact-checkers are really having fun with that one.
What people are not having fun with is Trump, Kennedy, and their Orwellian "Make America Healthy Again" dumb dumbs peeling away regulations that have caused a surge in measles epidemics at the Florence Correctional Center- Concentration Camp, screwworms, and Cyclospora in contaminated food.
A lot of people in this country are making extra journeys to the bathroom because of Team Trump's anti-health and public safety policies.
On the measles outbreak, Arizona's Democratic Congressional Delegation penned a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Mark 'I'll arrest you if you do not do elections the way I want' Mullin, demanding to know what steps they are going to take to help the people infected with measles at the facility.
Mr. Trump and his white nationalist minions have also continued their war against history, replacing panels at Martha and George Washington's Philadelphia House that downplay the severity of slavery in the first President's lifetime.
Please watch the PBS Origins Video that delves into President Washington's mixed record on slavery and relations with Black Americans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIFN2IYI7s
Again, while the nation is rightfully fixated on Mr. Trump's wars of choice on the American Economy, the working and middle classes, election infrastructure, and Iran, there is also his fight against knowledge, especially science and history, and his quest to make everyone uneducated and ill-informed individuals who will more readily subscribe to his big lie assertions in the other areas he is wreaking havoc on in the country and around the world.
What is happening on the streets of America is outrageous and disgusting.
It is happening here.
For the second time in two weeks, Donald Trump's ICE-Gestapo-Blackshirts have murdered an innocent man, claiming again that the victim, 26-year-old husband and father Joan Sebastian Guerrero, was threatening them with his vehicle.
Guerrero died with his wife and child watching.
Please click here to watch the video of the incident. It appears to show a different version of events from the fiction that Trump's Gestapo has asserted.
Like the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas last week, this is the second time in a week Trump's ICE-Gestapo-Blackshirts have killed the wrong man.
Guerrero, like Araujo, was not the target of the ICE-Gestapo-Blackshirt patrol.
For the second time in a week, Trump's ICE-Gestapo-Blackshirts have used the fiction of their being under threat to justify using lethal force.
Arizona's House Democratic Caucus has been quick to react to this latest police state-reign of terror action by Trump's paramilitary.
"Just days after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's death in Houston, ICE killed a 26-year-old father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, in front of his young daughter in Maine. It's horrific.
It doesn't matter what his immigration status or who ICE was targeting — it shouldn't be a death sentence.
I just got off the phone with DHS Secretary Mullin about this and stressed there needs to be an investigation with real accountability. It’s good ICE will pause stopping most vehicles, but it’s not enough. It doesn't change anything for the young girl in Biddeford who will grow up without a father.
There needs to be a major change in how ICE operates that doesn’t put lives in danger and cause chaos in our communities."
Representative Ansari then took her case to the House floor earlier today, saying:
"ICE, the President’s paramilitary secret police force, continues to roam American streets and murder people in broad daylight in cold blood.
First it was Ruben Ray Martinez in March of 2025, but ICE covered it up and kept it from the public. Then it was Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
ICE shot and killed these two innocent people in Minnesota who had done nothing more than exercise their constitutional right to protest and free speech.
And then the administration’s right-wing propaganda machine got to work, smearing these two heroes as quote “domestic terrorists” with not an ounce of evidence.
This was coordinated and directed by leadership in the Department of Homeland Security, by then Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem, and by the White House itself through heinous, racist voices like Stephen Miller.
It’s not a mistake – ICE agents are completely out of control and that is on purpose. That is their mission.
This is what the Trump Administration wanted to happen from the start – to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars to their paramilitary force and then use masked agents and a nationwide effort to spread fear and terrorize immigrant communities.
The mass deportation agenda is part of their fascist far-right scheme to amass power by using immigrants as scapegoats and deploying federal troops to American cities, like my hometown of Phoenix.
All across this country, people are shocked, outraged, and appalled by ICE’s conduct and the sheer cruelty of Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
And yet it continues to happen in service of arbitrary, brutal quotas for bodies.
Quotas for bodies of real people to fill beds so that for-profit prison companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic can rake in billions of dollars. So families can be torn apart and deported to third countries they've never known.
We’re talking about 10,000 arrests in a five-day period this past week.
And as part of all these horrors, ICE has conducted two sickening murders just in the last week. One in Houston and one in Maine.
ICE is using pathetic excuses and spreading more misleading information with the federal government’s bully pulpit to cover up their crimes.
This is Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father who was driving to work and was shot and murdered while doing so.
He was not a domestic terrorist; he wasn’t going to ram his vehicle into anybody. He had no criminal record whatsoever.
He was a hardworking, beloved father of American citizens who was working hard to build the American dream. And if you haven’t watched his son Ronaldo speak about his dad, I recommend you do so. It is heart-wrenching.
It’s outrageous and insane that ICE is claiming Lorenzo “weaponized” his vehicle “in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer.”
Multiple witnesses testified that, “there were never any ICE agents in front of the van. They came in and started shooting from the sides.”
As with Alex Pretti and Renee Good, ICE is LYING and lying badly. I honestly cannot believe how terrible their lies are. And then that wasn’t enough. ICE murdered another person in Maine, 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, somebody who had a work permit, somebody who had a US social security number. And then DHS put out a statement just yesterday, just last night, that said that this man was trying to drive away and they shot him for these vague quotes of public safety.
ICE murdered a Maine resident, a law-abiding resident in front of his wife and his three-year-old daughter for no reason whatsoever. This is just pure evil. Democrats in Congress have been demanding accountability for well over a year.
We are a nation of laws, not a nation of secret police, of cold-blooded murders by federal agents on city streets, and of black sight detention centers.
We must urgently work to stop these horrific abuses, it is a moral stain on our country. We must abolish ICE and we are going to prosecute every single person responsible for directing or enabling or carrying out these crimes.
Lives are at stake. How many more families and communities need to be torn apart for republicans in Congress to do something?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPIrB1BR1oQ
In an office press release, Representative Ansari summarized her floor comments with the below statement:
“ICE, the President’s paramilitary secret police force, continues to roam American streets and murder people in broad daylight and in cold blood. We are a nation of laws — not a nation of secret police, cold-blooded murders by federal agents on city streets, and blacksite detention centers. We must urgently work to stop these horrific abuses, hold Donald Trump and his cronies to account, abolish ICE, and reform our immigration system. We need to pass my Drain ICE Act so that this horrific agency has not one more cent to terrorize American families and communities.”
Later, after hearing that the Trump regime has halted most ICE-Gestapo patrols, Ansari posted:
So if Arizonans and Americans follow the warped logic of Donald Trump's prime-time address to the nation, this is what happened the last three elections where he was on the ballot.
In 2016, foreign influence and his deep state enemies, with Barack Obama in the White House and his picks overseeing the intelligence agencies, were not strong enough to stop him from winning that Presidential election.
In 2018 and 2020, foreign influences like China and his deep state enemies, with Mr. Trump in the White House and his picks overseeing the intelligence agencies, were strong enough to stop him from winning re-election that year.
In 2024, foreign influences like China and his deep state enemies, with Mr. Biden in the White House and his picks overseeing the intelligence agencies, were not strong enough to stop him from winning back the Oval Office that year.
That is the bull fecal matter that Mr. Trump, in a last-minute gasping attempt to generate support for his voting-suppressing Save America Act, tried to spin to the American People this evening.
While his adoring white nationalist and blind to reality base might buy the latest episode of Trump Pulp Fiction, the journalists at the networks that carried part or all of his remarks were not. CNN, MSNOW, and even the Bari Weiss-controlled CBS News immediately blasted the Failed President and American Duce's false statements, starting with his assertions that all is going well with the American Economy, his war of choice against Iran, that there are 250,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls, the false revelation of new evidence to prove his big lie election denialism, and that the people in the deep state kept information from him and his first term intelligence heads.
They also noted Mr. Trump's efforts to compromise election security with various staff purges and budget cutbacks.
Later examination of the documents showed that Russia did try to help Trump beat Biden.
Even Fox News did not appear to spend a lot of time giving post-address commentary, shifting to other programming while CNN and MSNOW were putting on pundits and political figures like Senator Elissa Slotkin, Senator Mark Warner, Senator Raphael Warnock, and Representative Jim Himes to refute practically every sentence that left Trump's mouth.
Many of the pundits pointed out to commentators that this is part of the American Duce's long-term plan to take over ballots in swing states and districts on or right after election day.
Several of Arizona's leading Democrats followed the same road in condemning Trump's remarks.
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs released a joint statement with the country's other 23 Democratic Governors that read:
“It’s deeply alarming that President Trump continues to try to undermine free and fair elections. No amount of lies and conspiracy theories can change the fact that our country’s elections have repeatedly been proven to be safe and secure. These attacks are intended to intimidate and silence voters. Democrats are leading the way on actually making life better for American families by lowering costs, creating jobs and protecting our freedoms. Ours is a winning message, which is why he is trying to undermine democracy.
“Democratic governors stand ready to fight back against the Trump administration and stop any and all unlawful attacks on every American’s constitutional right to vote.”
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes released the video reaction below, where he said:
"Look, if you saw what happened this evening with the President's address to the nation, nothing new. This is the same stuff that we've heard over and over again: same grievances, different packaging.
We'll give them that. But I was a little disappointed. I was hoping for, you know, something a little more factual, maybe some actual proof.
We're reviewing the documents that are on the website, but so far we haven't seen anything new. But it's okay because Arizona's elections officials, we've got this. We are professional.
We are bipartisan. We're folks from all political stripes taking care of you, the Arizona voter. And as long as I'm the Secretary of State, we're just going to keep doing our jobs."
His office also released an official statement that read:
"Every eligible American citizen deserves to have confidence that elections are secure, accurate, and administered according to the law. That’s a principle every Arizonan should be able to support.
Tonight’s address did not present new information that changes Arizona’s understanding of election administration or the safeguards already in place to protect our elections. Arizona’s election officials will continue to evaluate credible evidence whenever it is presented, but our responsibility is to follow the facts—not political rhetoric.
Arizona has some of the strongest election laws in the nation. We verify voter eligibility, enforce voter identification requirements, maintain clean voter rolls, protect voters’ personal information, and conduct transparent, auditable elections in partnership with our county recorders.
If the federal government possesses credible evidence of criminal activity or unlawful voting in Arizona, we expect that information to be shared promptly with the appropriate state authorities so it can be investigated under the law. That has always been our position, and it remains our position today.
Public confidence is built through transparency, professionalism, and evidence—not by revisiting claims that have already been thoroughly examined without presenting new, verifiable facts.
Our focus remains exactly where it has always been: ensuring that every eligible American citizen can vote, every lawful ballot is counted accurately, every ineligible vote is prevented, and every election is conducted fairly, securely, and in accordance with Arizona law.
Arizona voters deserve facts, not distractions. They deserve election officials who remain focused on running safe, secure, and transparent elections—not relitigating the past. That is exactly what the Office of the Arizona Secretary of State will continue to do.”
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes posted on her personal account:
Representative Yassamin Ansari also released a social media video, stating:
"You're going to hear a lot of people talk about how dangerous Donald Trump's speech was tonight, and it was. It was incredibly, incredibly dangerous. This is a wannabe dictator who has been leading an authoritarian takeover of our country.
He is very clearly trying to lay the groundwork to rig the 2026 midterms because he's so unpopular, because he started an illegal war, because he's created an affordability crisis that is making it impossible to survive here in the US. That is his own fault. But I also want to talk about how dumb the speech was.
I mean, we're talking about an 80-year-old billionaire in the White House who stays up all night posting AI garbage. He can't stay awake in meetings. He's made billions of dollars because he's the most corrupt president in American history.
And then he still is prioritizing and taking the time to whine and cry about an election that he lost six years ago. It's insane. It is just so exhausting, and Americans are sick of it.
Like, we are all so tired of this baby who won't shut up about an election that he lost. Get over it. And all I know is that this man is unpopular, and he can try to do whatever he wants, but we are going to win this November.
We are going to shut him up when we take back the House."
Megyn Kelly and Stephen Miller are two examples of it.
In the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court's putting up a White's Only sign on immigrant entry to the United States with its two rulings against those seeking asylum and Temporary Protected Status (TPS,) former Fox and NBC news 'Eva Braun' Megyn Kelly, and 'Judenrat-Trump's Joseph Goebbels,' Stephen Miller went out publicly with vile and Nazi-like comments on the predicament now faced by TPS recipients and aspiring asylum seekers.
Below is a posting by Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari presenting an excerpt of Kelly's comments following the Supreme Court Conservative Majority Ruling against TPS recipients, where this American political version of Typhoid Mary says:
"And look, this has been going on for over a dozen years. Go home, get out. We know our country's better than yours.
That's because we filled it with our work ethic and our culture and our values. You being here only dilutes it for us, those who built it and live it. And half of you people, more than half, you won't assimilate.
We don't want you. We don't care if you're offended. Get out, go home.
Go back to fucking Haiti, sorry. I'm just, I'm thinking about our friends in Ohio who've been dealing with these TPS Haitians for years now, who are drunk driving all over their towns and killing people. This is the whole cats and dogs thing.
They don't want to live like Americans live. And this was supposed to be a temporary, it was supposed to be temporary help. And it's turned into another backdoor way of allowing someone permanent residency here and they take advantage of all of our public services..."
Ansari is right. This is vile. It is also white nationalist fecal matter that has no place in this country.
Below is a video excerpt from gloating Judenrat Stephen Miller speaking about the need to end birthright citizenship and how the United States is closed to asylum seekers.
"...What I said was that this country doesn't have a future if we don't end birthright citizenship. Obviously, the right and correct way to end birthright citizenship is for the Supreme Court to rule on what the 14th Amendment clearly and correctly means. But, one way or another, this nation has to end birthright citizenship..."
"...I think the most important point is that this administration, on the asylum point, has implemented international agreements all over the world to take in our asylum seekers. so America's doors are closed fully to asylum seekers.
We've set up agreements where if you want asylum then we will find a country elsewhere in the world to take you. It's very simple, a very elegant, a very complete solution. Now of course as you know you've heard me talk about here many times before, all asylum claims across the southwest border are always, they always involve somebody who is coming from a country where they're not being persecuted based on race, religion, ethnicity, so on and so forth.
Overwhelmingly, right, they're coming from other countries in the Western Hemisphere where there's no persecution based on religion, no persecution based on race, etc. In many cases of course they also come through dozens of other countries on their way here where if they wanted asylum they should have sought it first. In every case there are either criminals, benefit seekers, economic migrants, welfare seekers, etc, etc.They're coming to join family members and so forth but the good news for them is that you have other countries willing to take them..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmFb_5eJ3M4&t=4s
Someone should tell Mr. Miller that Jews and Italians were not considered white people by most people in the United States until after World War Two, and there are still numerous segments like the Neo Nazis at Charlottesville in 2017 that Trump said, "some were very fine people" who still do not.
Want to know who Miller and his Fuhrer-Duce are letting in the country because they claim they are victims of government-sponsored racism?
Trump says these people are being persecuted because they are white.
Translation: This is all part of Trump's plan to make America whiter.
Trump and his White Nationalist team are so fixated on this plan that his immigration teams have, according to The New York Times, fast-tracked their refugee applications and settled 6,000 Afrikaners in the country while Dreamers languish in bureaucratic hell trying to renew their DACA registrations, and Afghans who helped the United States Military in Afghanistan are facing deportation back into the hands of the Taliban they fought against.
And for all those people who bellyached that Joe Biden and his team gave legal immigrants going through the process access to housing and Medicaid, Donald Trump is doing the same thing for his great white hope, and also giving Afrikaner refugees welcome bags that include tablets, copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence and the White Nationalist in Chief's literary choices of historical text, backed by such fine reactionary organizations like Prager that are tailored to Mr. 'The Central Park Five are still guilty' version of what American History is.
To all people who believe in decency and equal treatment for all.
Do not let the white nationalist worldview of Donald Trump, Megyn Kelly, and Stephen Miller prevail.
Vote this November.
Vote in 2028.
Vote for the people who still believe in the Melting Pot of American Inclusivity.
