Use the tariff refund to restore ACA subsidies and Medicaid cuts for the year, and to cover the Social Security spending gap. Then make every candidate in the midterms say how they would fix healthcare and Social Security if elected.

The average tax refund is $225 higher than last year, but the average household paid $1,000 in tariffs. Income tax is progressive. Tariffs are regressive. It is all designed to shift the burden from the rich to the poor, while they lie and pretend they're helping the working class.

I made the post in the screenshots (from X) on Threads, and as soon as it was spreading fast and getting likes, they permanently deactivated my account. I'm tired of billionaires controlling what we can say. But I also feel I can't use Bluesky because the character count is ridiculously restrictive

Restrictive voter ID and registration laws tip the scales by excluding voters instead of working to win them over. Everyone deserves a voice and a vote. www.theprogressivecapitalist.com/p/challenges...

Trump RX, Baby Bonds, Tariffs, and Foreign investments are all either overpromised or outright lies.

A new poll finds that 51% of Republicans support solar panels, it increases to 70% if the panels are made in the US. Yet the Republican Party is the one that killed investment in domestic solar production. Do Republican voters even know what they're voting for at this point?

When we can honestly say that universal healthcare would cost less, work better, and make the nation healthier, refusing to implement it is not rational. It is greed and stubbornness. America does not need to choose between compassion and efficiency. Healthcare for All delivers both.

The 15 wealthiest Americans increased their wealth by $800 billion last year. Meanwhile, almost half of full-time working Americans are not paid a livable wage.

America stopped creating jobs. US manufacturing is in decline. The number of unemployed increased by 1 million last year. Consumer confidence is lower now than during the pandemic. That's Trump's economy.

"Trump" baby bonds are useless. The government deposits $1,000. Then parents are expected to invest $5,000 each year for 18 years = $90,000 Parents who can afford to invest $5,000 each year don't need the $1,000. Those who can't will see only $3,379 by 2043. There are better ways to help people.

We cannot demand that people succeed on their own while denying them the tools to do so. When they are given those tools, they don’t just improve their own lives. They strengthen the entire nation. www.theprogressivecapitalist.com/p/the-tools-...

We must end qualified immunity. It is the only way to hold agents fully accountable for their actions.

Consumer confidence is now at its lowest level in the past 12 years. That means Trump has managed the economy so poorly that people are more concerned now than they were during a global pandemic that disrupted supply lines and sent inflation skyrocketing. Complete failure.

Silence is complicity. You don't get to avoid these serious issues, stay silent out of a worry about what speaking up might do to your brand, your clicks, your follower count, or your sales, and then claim that you aren't part of the problem.

Government is meant to serve the people, not brutalize them. 🔸Unmask federal agents. 🔸End all qualified immunity. 🔸Prosecute every agent who has used excessive force or violated constitutional rights.

Any Second Amendment crusader who is silent today is a hypocrite forever.

US citizens are being executed by federal agents in the streets. Despite being recorded from multiple angles, they face no consequences as the Trump administration lies to the people about the brutality that we can see with our own eyes. This is tyranny.

We've all had jobs we didn't like, but having to continually lie to the entire nation to cover for your boss, who mixes up people and even entire nations as he descends into senility, must be soul-crushing.

Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot with the SAVE Act.

The increase in ICE funding was enough to cover the ACA subsidies that expired. The increase to the DHS could have covered: -Universal Pre-K -Free school lunches and breakfasts -A federal paid parental leave program -A $5000 payment to parents for each newborn -A $5000 baby bond for every newborn

Making sure every American can meet their basic needs does not cost more than what we already spend. Doing so rewards us with less bureaucracy, less waste, and a system that addresses the root causes of hardship. The only thing missing is the will to fix a system that no longer works.

A president who has a low 38% approval rating wants to impose new high tariffs, which will drive prices higher, to try and force Europe to let us buy Greenland, a purchase most Americans oppose, at a time when we have a $2 trillion deficit and are $38 trillion in debt.

This is how tyranny begins.

What is Congress doing while your grocery, electricity, and healthcare bills rise? Passing bills to allow higher-flow showerheads and having a bill signed into law to allow schools to serve whole milk. When it comes to solving real problems, nothing.

A society that expects people to stand on their own must give them something solid to stand on. Fair wages for honest work. Public investments that expand opportunity instead of debt. Economic security that makes independence possible. It is time to give everyone a fair shot.

Fed Chair Powell is not the reason that groceries, housing, and healthcare are unaffordable. Trump is. Broad tariffs were a terrible idea that stopped job creation and drove up prices, making life more difficult for hardworking Americans already struggling.

The horrible violence coming from ICE is what happens when you give fragile, insecure men weapons and a badge. They get joy from bullying and abusing unarmed people because it makes them feel tough.

The President is praising murderous thugs. The Department of Justice is protecting power, not people. Congress surrendered its constitutional role. Democracies don’t collapse overnight — they erode when people are intimidated into silence. Do not be silent. Do not be intimidated. Do not give up.

The mindset that: -We are justified in doing bad things to bad people -Anyone not on my team is a bad person Is what leads to violence, oppression, and fascism. And it is precisely what is happening in the United States today.

This isn’t an isolated incident. From Minneapolis to Chicago, a documented pattern keeps repeating: deadly force, claims of self-defense, and video evidence that later tells a different story. www.theprogressivecapitalist.com/p/reckless-f...

Trump's Secret Police are now shooting and killing people in broad daylight, while multiple people are filming them, and without justification. As with every other disgusting incident with ICE, they lie about what happened to try to cover up their thuggish, tyrannical behavior. This must end.

Elevate the altruistic. Stand with the vulnerable. Ignore the trolls. Relentlessly fight back against bullies — especially those with power.

Five years ago today, an attempt was made to overturn a free and fair election through violence and intimidation. Capitol police were brutally assaulted. Congress was breached. Elected officials were hunted by extremists radicalized by lies and enabled by those in power.

Does invading Venezuela, killing 80 people, on top of killing 115 people previously in boats, and capturing its leader, make America safer or improve American lives? No. Do the American people want or support the US invading or taking control of Venezuela? No.

When Trump supporters chanted about putting "America First", apparently, what they meant was they wanted a president who would: -bomb the world -invade other nations -abduct foreign leaders -plunder other countries' resources to hand them over to giant corporations -bail out foreign economies

America's military budget has never passed an audit, is riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse, and is larger than the GDP of over 170 countries. It would take only 3% of that budget to extend ACA subsidies, keeping healthcare costs from skyrocketing.

There are a lot of Republicans confusing the term "narco-terrorist" with "we want control of Venezuelan oil reserves" today.

Venezuela does not traffic fentanyl to the United States. Nothing about this is to save American lives. It is about oil. What's worse is that America will give Trump a pass and move on to the next issue, as it always does, and the previous scandals will fade into the background.

It doesn't matter whether you can trace your lineage back through multiple generations and hundreds of years or if you became a citizen today; we are all equally American.

Trump wants to cement his legacy by putting his name on everything, but in the end, his name will be removed, and he will be remembered as a grifter, a fraud, a convict, an insurrectionist, a sexual predator, and both the worst and second-worst president America has ever had.

Claiming that this has been the most successful first 11 months in presidential history is like claiming that 1937 was the most successful year of the Hindenburg. Everyone can see the disaster with their own eyes.

Donald Trump is losing his grip on the Republican Party.

The idea that it is too expensive to take care of people, to ensure basic needs like food, shelter, and healthcare are available to everyone, and to bring prosperity to all, is just another lie. We can do it, and easily.

America finds billions to bail out farmers who voted for the tariffs that bankrupted their farms and banks that make risky investments, but when it comes to providing food for families in need, healthcare, or funding for Social Security, amazingly, the money can never be found.

If you are in the 11th month of an administration that promised to fix everything on day one, and you're still blaming the last administration for every new problem that arises, you are a disingenuous, pathetic fool.

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and Venezuela is not smuggling fentanyl to the United States. These are the lies America is told to stoke fear and generate support for wars over the control of oil.

US jobs: 🔴October: ~-50,000 (official numbers not released) 🔴September: +119,000 🔴August: -4,000 🔴July: +72,000 🔴June: -13,000 Average jobs created per month in 2024: 186,000 The unemployment rate rose again to 4.4% (the highest since October 2021), and that doesn't include October's job losses.

Does America have the appetite for another war started on false pretenses? www.theprogressivecapitalist.com/p/murder-doe...

The Trump administration canceled the October job report. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the US likely lost around 50,000 jobs last month, pushing the total layoffs for the year to 1.1 million.