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Hoosiers who want to stop IN Lt Gov Beckwith’s “re-election” should...

Posted by Mark Small on November 7, 2026 at 11:08pm 0 Comments

IN Gov Mike Braun has demonstrated he can ignore the best interests of Hoosiers as well as any career hacks. Braun jumped when the current occupant of the Oval Office demanded IN redraw Congressional districts. People effectively disenfranchised in part (Dems) [FN1] 1/14

were to be fully disenfranchised. [FN2] IN’s poor face crises in housing. The General Assembly made being homeless a criminal offense. [FN3] Braun held up, a la trump, that bill after he signed it into law. [FN4]…

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When an incompetent and corrupt potus will not listen to advice, the Senate has a duty to withhold its consent

Posted by Mark Small on November 5, 2026 at 9:07am 0 Comments

On 11/4/26, someone reposted a FB post from “phoenixrisingdead”:

“REMEMBER THE MCCONNELL RULE

After the Democrats take control of the senate

tonight - AND THEY WILL - no Trump judicial

nominations can be confirmed.

Not for the supreme court.

Not for any federal bench.” 1/18

Among replies: “We don't need to do dirty deals like that. All we have to do is insist that the candidates answer every question and have a strong track record that is in line with the…

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Steps that need to be taken: claw back ill-gotten gains

Posted by Mark Small on November 4, 2026 at 10:29am 0 Comments

Democratic Party leaders, national & States’, must change the language of political discourse in several ways.

1. Issues have been reduced to “catch phrases” that the gop has drafted. Ad execs Haldeman [FN1] & Ehrlichman were pivotal to Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign for Pres. 1/11

Lee Atwater’s work was invasive & substituted abstract terms for racial epithets of the 1950s. [FN2] He perfected use of the “wedge issue” as strategist in George H.W. Bush’s successful 1988…

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trump dodged Vietnam & can’t supplant cowardice w/imaginary martial virtue

Posted by Mark Small on November 2, 2026 at 12:57pm 0 Comments

Yesterday, trump delivered what some would call a “speech” in Iowa and said: "’I could have won the Vietnam War in a week, you know,’ he said. ‘They dropped whatever the hell that red c**p is that they…kept dropping it in the forest.’" [FN1] Someone corrected him... 1/20

“‘Agent Orange,’ to remind Trump of the name of the chemical herbicide the U.S. military used to destroy Vietnamese forests at the time. ‘Agent Orange,’ [t]rump said, ‘even though it's red.’" [FN2] trump declined an…

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