When ACA premium tax credits were boosted, record numbers of Americans got covered. Republicans let those credits expire, then turned around and backed Trump’s $200B Iran war ask. Less care, more war. #FundHealthcareNotWar #Pinks

Leave it to South Park to boil it down. Trump wants $200 BILLION for Trump's Iran war while thousands of Americans lost their medical insurance. Choose a side: bombs or beds, missiles or medicine. #FundHealthcareNotWar

Trump & Republicans found $200B for war in Iran while H.R.1 slashed Medicaid & SNAP for millions of Americans. If they have money for ICE & endless war, WE should have money for food & healthcare. Our priorities aren’t broken — theirs are. #FundHealthcareNotWar

48 years old. Never uninsured until now. That’s someone’s parent, neighbor, coworker. Living in the richest country on Earth, terrified to get sick. Mexico is covering 130 million people. Canada has done it for years. Republicans keep funding wars instead of our own people. #FundHealthcareNotWar

WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICA FIRST? We can always find $ billions for bombs, never enough money for healthcare. Your kid’s insulin shouldn’t have to compete with another forever war. #FundHealthcareNotWar ALL TALK 👇🏽

While families struggle with healthcare costs at home, we keep funding unauthorized wars abroad. Congress must pass the War Powers Act resolution today and redirect our priorities. No more blank checks for war. Retweet if you agree: #FundHealthcareNotWar

Sen. Ossoff: Trump said he’d put America First. Now he says funding Medicaid is not possible but war always is. Premiums are up. Hospitals are closing. Soldiers are dying. The First Family is getting richer. Today’s war powers vote is your chance to say enough. #FundHealthcareNotWar

Save democracy with your wallet. All of the businesses in the Minocqua Marketplace have taken the Minocqua Marketplace Pledge to never support Trump or the MAGA movement. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

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If the school board didn’t mess with the situation in the first place and then double down on it when Bangstad invited the band to perform at his Madison taproom, none of this would have happened. Instead, the story went viral. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

Hawaii just created a template that every state should use to clean up the mess that Citizens United created. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

BIG NEWS: Today, we submitted over 5,000 signatures and officially filed to get on the ballot! Most politicians just pay a filing fee to get on the ballot. But to me, and to a lot of folks across southern Minnesota, $300 is a lot of money. So we chose the grassroots path instead:

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Trump admitted in front of video cameras that he doesn’t care about us: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.” Voters need to be reminded every day from now until the midterms that Trump doesn’t care about them. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

We’re seeing a number of MAGA mouthpieces rebranding themselves as enlightened conservatives. They are like chameleons. They say and do whatever is necessary to enrich themselves. Don’t believe them. Another chameleon is V.P. Vance. He’s on his third reincarnation. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

This Jesse Duquette masterpiece was headlining Jess Craven’s Tuesday edition of Chop Wood Carry Water CWCW). The DOJ Comey indictment is a joke as well. Any way you look at it, 86:47 is not a death threat. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

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While it”s true that we are on offense and that we are winning, we cannot be complacent. The midterm elections are less than 190 days away. The House and Senate are both in play. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

Monday’s Dworkin Report: "The Resistance Is Winning: Spanberger Signs Nearly 1,000 Bills The Regime Hates, Trump Lawyer Gets Disbarred, and Mamdani Moves To Tax Oligarchs" got me into a good mood. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

Trump’s fragile ego will lead to his ultimate demise. He cannot admit to making a mistake. He is incapable of following the first rule of holes. “When you are in a hole, stop digging.” Rather than admitting a mistake, Trump always doubles down. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

I recently got another request for information on my favorite pro democracy organizations. My intention was to create a top 10 list but I failed. I did manage to keep the list to 10 + 1. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

Wednesday, as I am writing this Reflection, Israel is bombing Lebanon. Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz again. Iran has also bombed Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline and Kuwait water desalination plants. In the meantime Trump is busy lying about everything. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

Today’s Reflection has three things you can do now to defend our democracy from the MAGA threat. I hope you decide to take action now, when it will have a major impact on the future of our democracy. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

The Democrat candidate in two deep red florida state special election districts defeated their Republican opponents. This was only made possible because lots of Republican voters voted for the Democrats. What makes this news extra sweet is that Mar-a-Lago is in one. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

At 10:00 AM on March 22 at Gate E2 of San Francisco International Airport (SFO), after a struggle, two guys in hoodies (supposedly ICE agents) abducted a woman while her daughter stands by watching and crying hysterically... open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

Today, I decided to take a break from the news and share a few favorite photos from previous Reflections with you. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

Republicans voted down an amendment that would have protected married women with name changes from the SAVE Act. Then claimed it doesn’t hurt women. 69 million married women beg to differ. Call your senators today ☎️202-224-3121. #SaveActIsPayToVote

Can’t afford a $165 passport? Can’t get to the Board of Elections during business hours? The SAVE Act says too bad — no vote for you. This is not election security. This is exclusion.😡 Call your senators ☎️202-224-3121. #SaveActIsPayToVote

Since Trump's election Democrats have flipped 28 state legislative seats while Republicans have flipped 0! open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

uesday evening, BigTent USA will be hosting a virtual event featuring Marc Elias, Joyce Vance and Reed Galen where we can learn what’s at stake and what we need to do to protect free and fair midterm elections in 2026. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

There is a lot of crazy s#$% going on right now. It may not feel like it but we have the upper hand. We need to double down on our work to reclaim our democracy from MAGA. The next 8 months or so will be critical. We will win if we don’t give up. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

A lot of bad stuff has, can and will now happen. Trump was warned about this. He doesn’t care. He is desperate and willing to do anything to steer the news headlines away from the TrumpStein Pedophile Coverup and his failing presidency. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

By now you probably heard the sad story about Punch the monkey that was rejected by his mother and picked on by other monkeys in a Japanese zoo. The picture of poor Punch clutching the IKEA stuffed monkey they gave him went viral. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

Today, I decided to take a break from the news and share a few favorite photos from previous Reflections with you. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

CBS, a member of the Trump regime’s state media complex, caved and cancelled Stephen Colbert’s interview of Texas State Representative James Talarico who is running for the U.S. Senate later this year. That was a big mistake... open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

By now everyone has probably heard the good news that ICE was in the process of a major drawdown in Minnesota.... A small contingent would remain to protect the remaining agents??? What most of us immediately said is “I’ll believe it when I see it.” open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

For those who don’t speak Spanish, “Cocinar es Amor” means “Cooking is Love” in English. This bumper sticker is a good way to show solidarity with our brown skinned neighbors and friends who are being racially profiled and terrorized by ICE agents. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

It's time to call out the GOP for what they are: a party that prioritizes power over people. The SAVE Act 2.0 is just the latest example of their attempts to silence our voices and maintain their grip on power. ➡️202-224-3121 - #StopTheSaveAct social.demcast.com/s/Fz7eq10C

The photo is from: "Rochester man and recent organ donation recipient detained by ICE" which appeared in the Rochester Post Bulletin on Sat. Feb. 7. The driver side window was shattered by ICE agents. The vehicle was rammed from behind and left abandoned... open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

“The federal surge into Minneapolis reflects a series of mistaken MAGA assumptions,” Adam Serwer writes in his latest reporting for The Atlantic. First: diverse communities aren’t possible. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

There are two short videos in the article. The first one is about protesters occupying the lobby of a Hilton Hotel in New York City on Tuesday Jan. 27. Use the link to read the rest of the story. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

You will be provided with the latest updates on ICE and CBP’s out-of-control and dangerous operations. Your rights when documenting and recording law enforcement encounters, and how you can continue to take action will also be covered. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

What will it take for enough people to say enough is enough? On Saturday, Alex Pretti a decent law abiding 37 year old man was murdered on the street for trying to help a woman stand up after she was pushed by ICE agents and fell down on an icy sidewalk. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

The clock is ticking. We need to call our Democrat U.S. Senators and Member of Congress and demand that they vote NO on any Homeland Security Funding Bill that includes additional funding for ICE or the Border Patrol. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

Monday morning, I woke up hearing about two disturbing things. The first item was that Republicans are saying that if Trump follows up on his threats to take Greenland by force, it could be the end of his presidency. Really!!! open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

This Reflection will be brief as I focus on Status Coup On the Ground Reporting of Trump’s terror campaign in Minnesota and the effort to reign in the ICE gestapo. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

What if this moment became a moment, as Lincoln called it - “a new birth of freedom.” What if ten years from now we could look back at 2026, not as one where freedom was lost but where it was renewed, restored and regained momentum? open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...

My apologies for any typos. I rushed this out without running it by my editor in order to update you on the rapidly evolving situation with the murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. The time to take action is now! The post has link to join this urgent call. open.substack.com/pub/thomasdi...