Antifa Nation

Antifa Nation

I must thank President Trump for a moment of personal enlightenment. He’s made me aware that for the past 75 years I’ve been a member of the domestic terrorist group Antifa. Back around first grade my parents informed me about WWII, the Holocaust and Nazism. It was a difficult concept for my young brain to grasp but it spurred a lifelong commitment to anti fascism, which is precisely what Antifa is short for.

Eight decades on we have a cynical, McCarthyite channeling president designating a long forgotten, amorphous fringe group with no organized structure, no leadership, no nothing as a ‘terrorist organization’. It’s a cynical dissent suppressing strategy to crush any peaceful opposition to his anti-democratic, fascistic agenda.

He spent his first term demonizing Antifa as a terrorist organization. In his current term he has officially designated Antifa as a terrorist organization with this bit of lunacy: "I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION".

Our mentally disintegrating president believes his terrorist designation paves the way to expand his road to fascism in America. But there are tens of millions of us peacefully but strenuously resisting his fascistic mindset and governing agenda. We will not let Trump’s wide net of Antifa terrorist designation to our pushback deter us. Resisting the first attempt of fascist rule in America’s 250 years must be a priority of every decent American.

I wear my Antifa moniker with honor. Anti-fascism…now more than ever.

Trump not Commander in Chief…he’s Violence Inciter in Chief

 Trump not Commander in Chief…he’s Violence Inciter in Chief

45 men have served as president. Everyone had a base of voters they geared their presidency toward to remain politically viable and enact their agenda. But all pledged fealty to serving all the people throughout their presidency without regard to political affiliation. All but one that is.

That set the tone for his entire administration. Knowing he was likely to lose reelection, he pivoted to a treasonous assault on the electoral system that put a target on every election official, judge and worker not affiliated with the Trump base. Worse, he inspired, indeed orchestrated, a violent riot to overturn the 2020 election in which he was crushed by over 7 million votes. Also crushed were over 100 patriotic law enforcement injured by a ravenous mob doing Trump’s bidding. One died and 4 committed suicide shortly thereafter from Trump’s riot trauma.

His second term has continued apace. He’s sent his masked immigration storm troopers into American workplaces rounding up undocumented workers serving the economy. Why? Because he can’t round up

enough law breaking undocumented on the street to satisfy his vengeful base.

When right wing influencer Charlie Kirk was gunned down Trump immediately blamed the ‘extreme left’, his favorite target for retribution. A number of his high profile supporters called for war against his imaginary enemy. Trump said nothing against this madness that will near certainly result in reprisal violence.

Democratic office holders, media influencers and election personnel are all reassessing their security endangered by the very man responsible for their safety.

Trump’s love affair inciting demonization, if not outright violence against the ‘other’, is an aberration in American presidential history.

Someday Trump will leave the presidency he has shockingly betrayed. The only remaining question is how many will fall victim, whether threatened or assaulted, to the madness Trump has unleashed.

99% of House votes to continue sending genocide weapons to Israel

 99% of House votes to continue sending genocide weapons to Israel

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green’s amendment to the 2025 National Defense Authorization bill to revoke $500 million in weaponry for Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza was overwhelmingly defeated in the House 422 to 6.

All 422 voting against stopping the genocide weapons are fully aware Israel has bombed Gaza’s 139 square miles to rubble with US provided bombs, logistics support and intelligence. They know Palestinians are starving to death daily. They know Israeli troops are shooing starving Palestinians venturing out for the few morsels of food Israel deigns allow in. They know the US vetoes any UN Security Council resolutions demanding end to the genocide.

But they do not let the worst US enabled humanitarian catastrophe in American history make a dent in their morally damaged consciences. They should try to imagine their wives, husbands, children, parents undergoing the depraved Israeli genocide that their votes in Congress enable.

Just a smidgeon over 1% of congresspersons voting had the decency, moral clarity to support Rep. Greene’s principled amendment. Listen again to her words in support of her amendment to strip $500 million in genocide weapons for Israel. "I don't know about you, but I don't want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with. And I will not be silent about it."

Let’s honor Rep. Greene (R-GA) and the 5 congresspersons who joined Rep. Greene in her quixotic effort to steer America away from its depraved path enabling Israeli genocide of the remaining Palestinians in Gaza they have not yet killed.

Summer Lee (D-PA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Al Green (D-TX) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MN).

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL