Wisconsin no protest for me I am not physically able to do so but I worked hard online to try to get people aware and to go to the protests. I attended online viewing of the protests and it was a good thing feeling like we are getting more and more people to come the next one I hope we can get to 11 million about 3.5% a good goal as it is an indication of overthrowing a fascist regime!
Thank you! It takes ALL kinds of organization and resistance. I hope you feel the joy and power of community resisitance even though you can't be there in the crowd. I couldn't be there either, but we all have our parts to play.
So so so happy of the turnout. This Canadian celebrated with you yesterday, that we can now mark in history as the day the Fall of the Mad wnnabe King started.
Keep up the good work, Canada! Would love to see Trump disinvited from the G7, and I'm sad Trudeau won't be there to flirt with Melania, but your leaders will give The Don, the welcome he deserves, I'm sure. ;-)
LOL ! Its true that Trudeau is a fine-looking young man that Melania seemed to like very much. No wonder why, he actually CARES about people too! But the ice lady has sold her soul to the orange devil so that's her problem!
Use/share this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to your own reps, as well as those in other states.
It's not petty to point out the utter humiliation of Donald Trump as he sat next to his pseudo-wife, looking both bored and angry at the pathetic crowd size, while Malaria looks like she's contemplating clauses in her prenuptial agreement.
acknowledging that Black Americans, Native Americans, Brown Americans have ALWAYS faced this terror. And we, the privileged WHITE Americans are FINALLY started to fight the hateful White Kristian Patriarchy that needs to be Crushed before we can try to reach the the real King's Dream.
AG, I was in SD where it was soooo crowded. From the trolley station to the harbor. I am sad I missed you since I was too far to hear the speakers. You are right! It was the largest protest in SD I have seen in my 40+ years in SD. Hope to one day hear you speak at a protest. Thank you for your leadership!
🇺🇸To My Beloved Grandparents: The Truth Is Still Ours to Share
First, I want to send a warm and hearty congratulations to everyone who took part in the No Kings protest yesterday. From coast to coast, grandparents, parents, and young folks alike stood shoulder to shoulder for truth, democracy, and the America we still believe in. Your voices were heard. Your peaceful presence made a powerful statement: we will not be ruled by fear, lies, or authoritarian fantasies. We’re still “We the People.” And we showed up.
But the march doesn’t end on the streets. After the No Kings protests, I had some heartfelt conversations in my own family—especially about why, in 2024, no one seemed to talk about how much the Biden Administration improved the economy after COVID; they feel this gap in information lead to Trump getting elected. That gap in coverage isn’t an accident—it’s a choice made by media outlets that don’t benefit from reporting progress. But we can help fill that gap. That’s why I want to talk honestly with you today about something that’s been weighing heavily on my heart: the difficulty of knowing what’s true anymore.
🧠
Truth is Hard to Find in Today’s Media World
Local newspapers—our once-reliable sources of community truth—have shut down across the country.
Billionaires have bought up major TV networks and national papers, deciding what gets covered—and what gets buried.
Social media algorithms reward outrage, conspiracy theories, and lies, repeating them endlessly until they feel familiar—even when they’re false.
It’s no wonder so many people feel lost, angry, or misled. Even topics like the economy, which can be measured with numbers and facts, have become battlegrounds for spin and propaganda.
I’ll be honest: the clearest picture of what’s really going on comes from the kinds of things most people don’t have time (or patience) to sort through—economic charts, job statistics, spending patterns, labor market graphs. Economists use these tools every day. But most people don’t, and that’s where the manipulators thrive.
📊
The Truth About the U.S. Economy in 2024—In Plain Language
Let’s remember what really happened:
The entire world shut down in 2020 because of COVID. Every economy crashed.
But in the years that followed, America led the global recovery.
By 2023–2024, we had:
Stronger GDP growth than any other G7 nation
Falling unemployment and rising wages in several key sectors
A powerful rebound in consumer spending that helped other economies recover too
A resilient dollar and global trust in the U.S. financial system
But many people still believe that the Biden Administration left our economy is in ruins. Why? Because they’re only hearing one version of the story—often from partisan outlets like Fox News, that only show what fits their political goals.
The truth doesn’t always make the news because it doesn’t stir anger, drive ratings, or sell ads.
🧓👵
A Call to My Fellow Grandparents
You and I—we remember a different time. We grew up with Walter Cronkite, with local reporters we could meet at the grocery store. We remember when the news was trusted. Today, our kids and grandkids are being misled by a media environment designed to divide and enrage, not inform.
✅ If you believe in the messages I share here, please copy and customize them for your Facebook, emails, or family chats.
✅ Add your voice. Make it personal. Tell your children and grandchildren what you have seen, what you have lived through, and what you still believe in.
✅ If you marched, tell them why. If you stayed home, tell them what you’re standing for.
This is our time to make an impact—not just in protests, but in conversations that shape the future.
Let’s keep showing up, speaking up, and lifting up the truth—because the next generation needs us now more than ever.
Jared is spot on about the connection between what happened in Minnesota yesterday with all the other acts of violence performed by all these MAGA types. What we had yesterday was an act of stochastic terrorism instigated by a malignant narcissistic sociopath. And we need leaders to do something about that.
This was the most enlightening and inspiring discussion I have ever watched. I had never heard of any of these speakers but OMG! So glad to have stumbled across this today. Thank you so much for all this information. I will seek you out now and follow. So much better than many of the milque-toast Substack columns. thank you, thank you, thank you!
Philly’s No Kings protest was profound with Reverend Wm. Barber and Rep. Jamie Raskin bringing tears and cheers. It couldn’t have been more glorious. Ezra Levin of Indivisible wrapped it up with a call to action in Monday.
Wisconsin no protest for me I am not physically able to do so but I worked hard online to try to get people aware and to go to the protests. I attended online viewing of the protests and it was a good thing feeling like we are getting more and more people to come the next one I hope we can get to 11 million about 3.5% a good goal as it is an indication of overthrowing a fascist regime!
That is also when we must prepare for the backlash; and the distractions that are sure to follow.
The distractions happen already don’t they? So much chaos!
Jeep up the good woy
My fat fingers have trouble typing. I meant: Keep up the good work.
Thank you! It takes ALL kinds of organization and resistance. I hope you feel the joy and power of community resisitance even though you can't be there in the crowd. I couldn't be there either, but we all have our parts to play.
SO true .
I can’t match any more :
But I did make a sign for someone to carry in the march in my community of Riverside CA.
Leavenworth KS No Kings protest! We also went to Kansas City Mo No Kings protest!
So so so happy of the turnout. This Canadian celebrated with you yesterday, that we can now mark in history as the day the Fall of the Mad wnnabe King started.
Vive la resistance! 🚫🫅🇺🇸❤️🔥🇨🇦💙💛
Keep up the good work, Canada! Would love to see Trump disinvited from the G7, and I'm sad Trudeau won't be there to flirt with Melania, but your leaders will give The Don, the welcome he deserves, I'm sure. ;-)
LOL ! Its true that Trudeau is a fine-looking young man that Melania seemed to like very much. No wonder why, he actually CARES about people too! But the ice lady has sold her soul to the orange devil so that's her problem!
I protested today in Soldotna Alaska. Estimates are that 9.8% of our red community came out. Yea us!
Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly.
Use/share this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to your own reps, as well as those in other states.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13lYafj0P-6owAJcH-5_xcpcRvMUZI7rkBPW-Ma9e7hw/edit?usp=drivesdk
They must NEVER know a moment’s peace.
Exactly!!!
I really need y’all to tell people to demand Trump be impeached. These assassinations are NOT okay. Trump is descending us into barbarism.
It's not petty to point out the utter humiliation of Donald Trump as he sat next to his pseudo-wife, looking both bored and angry at the pathetic crowd size, while Malaria looks like she's contemplating clauses in her prenuptial agreement.
acknowledging that Black Americans, Native Americans, Brown Americans have ALWAYS faced this terror. And we, the privileged WHITE Americans are FINALLY started to fight the hateful White Kristian Patriarchy that needs to be Crushed before we can try to reach the the real King's Dream.
AG, I was in SD where it was soooo crowded. From the trolley station to the harbor. I am sad I missed you since I was too far to hear the speakers. You are right! It was the largest protest in SD I have seen in my 40+ years in SD. Hope to one day hear you speak at a protest. Thank you for your leadership!
Mississippi
🇺🇸To My Beloved Grandparents: The Truth Is Still Ours to Share
First, I want to send a warm and hearty congratulations to everyone who took part in the No Kings protest yesterday. From coast to coast, grandparents, parents, and young folks alike stood shoulder to shoulder for truth, democracy, and the America we still believe in. Your voices were heard. Your peaceful presence made a powerful statement: we will not be ruled by fear, lies, or authoritarian fantasies. We’re still “We the People.” And we showed up.
But the march doesn’t end on the streets. After the No Kings protests, I had some heartfelt conversations in my own family—especially about why, in 2024, no one seemed to talk about how much the Biden Administration improved the economy after COVID; they feel this gap in information lead to Trump getting elected. That gap in coverage isn’t an accident—it’s a choice made by media outlets that don’t benefit from reporting progress. But we can help fill that gap. That’s why I want to talk honestly with you today about something that’s been weighing heavily on my heart: the difficulty of knowing what’s true anymore.
🧠
Truth is Hard to Find in Today’s Media World
Local newspapers—our once-reliable sources of community truth—have shut down across the country.
Billionaires have bought up major TV networks and national papers, deciding what gets covered—and what gets buried.
Social media algorithms reward outrage, conspiracy theories, and lies, repeating them endlessly until they feel familiar—even when they’re false.
It’s no wonder so many people feel lost, angry, or misled. Even topics like the economy, which can be measured with numbers and facts, have become battlegrounds for spin and propaganda.
I’ll be honest: the clearest picture of what’s really going on comes from the kinds of things most people don’t have time (or patience) to sort through—economic charts, job statistics, spending patterns, labor market graphs. Economists use these tools every day. But most people don’t, and that’s where the manipulators thrive.
📊
The Truth About the U.S. Economy in 2024—In Plain Language
Let’s remember what really happened:
The entire world shut down in 2020 because of COVID. Every economy crashed.
But in the years that followed, America led the global recovery.
By 2023–2024, we had:
Stronger GDP growth than any other G7 nation
Falling unemployment and rising wages in several key sectors
A powerful rebound in consumer spending that helped other economies recover too
A resilient dollar and global trust in the U.S. financial system
But many people still believe that the Biden Administration left our economy is in ruins. Why? Because they’re only hearing one version of the story—often from partisan outlets like Fox News, that only show what fits their political goals.
The truth doesn’t always make the news because it doesn’t stir anger, drive ratings, or sell ads.
🧓👵
A Call to My Fellow Grandparents
You and I—we remember a different time. We grew up with Walter Cronkite, with local reporters we could meet at the grocery store. We remember when the news was trusted. Today, our kids and grandkids are being misled by a media environment designed to divide and enrage, not inform.
✅ If you believe in the messages I share here, please copy and customize them for your Facebook, emails, or family chats.
✅ Add your voice. Make it personal. Tell your children and grandchildren what you have seen, what you have lived through, and what you still believe in.
✅ If you marched, tell them why. If you stayed home, tell them what you’re standing for.
This is our time to make an impact—not just in protests, but in conversations that shape the future.
Let’s keep showing up, speaking up, and lifting up the truth—because the next generation needs us now more than ever.
With purpose and pride,
✍🏼 Clarissa Sr.
American Grandma 🇺🇸
Jared is spot on about the connection between what happened in Minnesota yesterday with all the other acts of violence performed by all these MAGA types. What we had yesterday was an act of stochastic terrorism instigated by a malignant narcissistic sociopath. And we need leaders to do something about that.
This was the most enlightening and inspiring discussion I have ever watched. I had never heard of any of these speakers but OMG! So glad to have stumbled across this today. Thank you so much for all this information. I will seek you out now and follow. So much better than many of the milque-toast Substack columns. thank you, thank you, thank you!
Very good conversation.
Philly’s No Kings protest was profound with Reverend Wm. Barber and Rep. Jamie Raskin bringing tears and cheers. It couldn’t have been more glorious. Ezra Levin of Indivisible wrapped it up with a call to action in Monday.
YES! The assassin will be Protected by Patel et al - I hope MN can keep the MAGA hands off of him!
and keepmit as State crimes that The Don cant pardon