Despite everything that's going on in our country and beyond, I wanted to write something uplifting for this July 4 weekend, so I turned to a 1915 women's suffrage campaign in Pennsylvania. open.substack.com/.../pas-1915....

Be happy that the DHS is scaling back on concentration camps, but keep judging the Trump/Project 2025 regime for what it would have done if not for the well-deserved backlash its evil plan triggered. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...

Trump's celebration of the 80th anniversary of his birth prompted me to take a second look at what led to a rebirth of sorts -- and convinced enough Americans to vote him into the White House. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...

The Shenandoah Valley (PA) High School Diversity Club is a refreshing contrast to the vitriol spewed by the Trump/Project 2025 regime. Here's my interview with the students and their adviser. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...

One week before Memorial Day, the Trump/Project 2025 regime set a new standard for corruption and power grabs. Is this what our troops risk their lives for? open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...

MAGAs don’t like hearing Donald Trump and his Project 2025ers compared with Nazis, but the two regimes are similar in their brutality and autocratic agendas. But while Hitler improved Germany’s economy, our government hasn’t even done that. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...

A GOP official's reprimand to me for using the term "concentration camp" for "ICE detention center" or "megafacility" led me to review how the Trump/Project 2025 regime is sending representative democracy toward brutal authoritarianism. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...

I liked what Conor Lamb had to say in Schuylkill County, PA, recently. open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...

Joni Mitchell famously sang that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone, but many of us in my area want to stop the wealthy and powerful from destroying what we have. More in my column: lisavonahn.substack.com/p/what-is-ou...

Christianity Without Jesus open.substack.com/pub/lisavona...

I wrote this before Donald Trump dragged us into a war, but we still can’t forget the concentration camps at home – and extend our thanks for any high-ranking patriot who resists them and all the other atrocities come from the White House. coalregioncanary.com/2026/03/01/o...

ICE's plan for two immigrant prisons in my red part of Pennsylvania is just one more example of the Trump/Project 2025 administration's depraved indifference to just about everyone else, including its supporters. coalregioncanary.com/2026/02/08/o...

Everyone should worry about how the Trump/Project 2025 administration is trying to redefine who should live and work in this country. Remember how Trump called for firing comedians who bashed him and even threatened to revoke some critics’ citizenship? coalregioncanary.com/2026/01/05/o...

I just published "Thanks to all who bring us the truth" on Medium. medium.com/@vonahnlisa/...

An article about how 19th-century coal miners had to work in underground surroundings that they could barely see made me think of the way Trump and his Project 2025ers are trying to restrict the field of vision of all Americans. coalregioncanary.com/2025/11/02/o...

Donald Trump and his Project 2025ers are CREATING crises that may bring opportunities to themselves while hurting many Americans. coalregioncanary.com/2025/10/19/o...

In these dystopian times, I want to share whatever hope Ican find. Several days ago, I found it in a poem that takes a very differentapproach to the famous post-Nazi confession/warning "First TheyCame." coalregioncanary.com/2025/09/27/o...

Well, I had to say something about Charlie Kirk's murder and the way the White House is exploiting it. medium.com/@vonahnlisa/...

As many GOP members of Congress have, Dan Meuser (PA-9) got an earful last week from constituents who are angry and worried about what his real boss (Donald Trump) is doing to our country. He responded by essentially calling us lunatics. Here’s my account. coalregioncanary.com/2025/08/17/o...

We absolutely cannot let Pennsylvania's Supreme Court sink to the depths that SCOTUS has. coalregioncanary.com/2025/07/26/o...

On this Fourth of July weekend, are we still the United States of America, or are we now the United States of Oligarchs? Or even the United States of Trump? coalregioncanary.com/2025/07/06/o... #Trump #bigbeautifulbill

The outcome of the attack on Iran is murky as the GOP gets ready to fire shots at most of the American people. coalregioncanary.com/2025/06/29/o...

Yesterday's No Kings demonstration in St. Clair, PA. I saw no out-of-state buses - no buses at all - in the shopping center parking lot. As one demonstrator's sign read: "Unpaid protester. I hate him for free."

Donald Trump is nothing like the father of our country. Happy Father's Day to all you positive male role models. coalregioncanary.com/2025/06/15/o...

What happens when ICE comes to town. coalregioncanary.com/2025/06/07/o...

coalregioncanary.com/2025/05/25/o... #donaldtrump

coalregioncanary.com/2025/04/19/o... #congressmandanmeuser #SenatorDaveMcCormick #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk

Critics of the Musk-Trump administration were able to speak at GOP Congressman Dan Meuser and Sen. Dave McCormick's simultaneous town halls. They got the GOP party line in response. #congressmandanmeuser #SenatorDaveMcCormick #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk coalregioncanary.com/2025/04/12/o...

Cory Booker gave our country a much-needed dose of sanity just before the madness of yet another Trump “Liberation Day.” #liberationday #CoryBooker #DonaldTrump #AdamSchiff #tariffs coalregioncanary.com/2025/04/05/o...

Whether with strongarm tactics like the Mump administration's or more subtle ways like "my" Congressman Dan Meuser's, the GOP is moving ahead on erasing all but its own regressive views. coalregioncanary.com/2025/03/22/o...

The GOP hasn't stopped its war on women even as it overwhelms us with other kinds of havoc. We can't forget that DEI is about gender as well as race. coalregioncanary.com/2025/03/15/o...

If Ukraine were a person ... #Ukraine #Trump #Putin

If we don't do everything we can to counter the volleys of lies, zigzags and mixed messages from the Mump administration, there will be even more consequences than we are seeing now. coalregioncanary.com/2025/03/08/o...

Trump puppet/carpetbagger/ex-hedge fund CEO McCormick has spent his first two months in office furthering the interests of the Mump administration above the Pennsylvanians who are now stuck with him. #CareNotCuts #wedefendpa #nepafightsback #mondayswithmccormick

The ambush of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Oval Office could have been a scene from either a gangster movie or a preteen comedy except that there were no police or responsible adults to intervene. coalregioncanary.com/2025/03/01/o...

A "Save the Constitution" rally in red Schuylkill County, PA, organized by the Schuylkill Democratic Action Group.

How about we get some Democratic members of Congress to introduce a bill to declare Joe Biden's birthday a national holiday?

#Musk #federal #hardship #DEI #immigration #transgender

My column for this week, on Trump's so-called golden age. coalregioncanary.com/2025/01/25/o...

The worst of the MAGAs fly a banner with an obscene suggestion for what we can do with our feelings ahead of the Mump administration. We should express them, so here are mine, triggered in part by a poll taken Jan. 7-11. coalregioncanary.com/2025/01/18/o...

Congressman Dan Meuser said something that sent chills up my spine - and prompted me to write this column. coalregioncanary.com/2024/12/29/o...

We needed the Equal Rights Amendment decades ago, but we need it even more today. Please tell the White House to direct the national archivist to publish the ERA now! Call (202) 456-1111 and text (302) 404-0880 and tell them we need to [#PublishTheERA]