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The Progressive Patriots Movement is devoted to the use of open, honest, thoughtful, probing DIALOGUE among its members to better understand the challenges faced by all Americans and to develop and execute optimum solutions to those challenges. We believe in building positive, constructive, practical, sustainable solutions that work for all Americans.

09/05/2026

Today we shall briefly dig into a bit of U.S. History that is only briefly mentioned in most high school textbooks, and in the general high school U.S. History curriculum in all 50 states. It is the story of the Pullman porters.

A train porter is a railway employee who assists passengers, handles luggage, and maintains the cleanliness and comfort of passenger cars. In the United States, the term historically referred to sleeping-car attendants who made up berths, shined shoes, carried bags, and catered to passenger needs.

The Pullman Porters: After the Civil War, the Pullman Company hired thousands of Black men—many of them former slaves—to work as porters on luxury sleeper cars. Historically, a Pullman porter earned a base salary of about $72.50 to $84 per month (roughly $810 per year in the 1920s), relying heavily on passenger tips to make a living wage, and tips often doubled their meager base earnings, though they were subject to the whims and generosity of travelers.

Pullman porters were required to log 400 hours or 11,000 miles per month. And they had to pay out-of-pocket for their own meals, lodging, uniforms, and shoe-shine supplies (costing around $33.82 monthly). Following the organization of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters led by A. Philip Randolph, wages eventually increased to around $1,200 per year.

George Pullman's net worth at the time of his death in 1897 was estimated to be around $17 million to $20 million (with some contemporary or later estimates ranging up to $80 million). His estate would be worth approximately $2.5 billion today.

And one final note: This story of the Pullman Porters is exactly what White Supremacist racists like Trump and Florida's governor, Ron Di Santis, want removed from our U.S. History textbooks, U.S. history curricula, and also removed from any museum displays.

09/04/2026

The Lying King Trump appears to have things exactly backwards. He is focused on his stupid war with Iran and with his bullying of friendly nations like Canada, Mexico, South Korea, and the nations of Europe, as well as our friends in South America, Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and the whole Pacific region.

Trump does not seem to understand that our number 1 enemy is Russia, and dictator Putin is doing everything he can to weaken the nations of Europe (our allies), and to support our enemies like Iran.

So instead of fighting a stupid war against Iran, the U.S. should be providing strong support for the brave people of Ukraine so that they can stop the Russian invaders.

We must unite in a huge wave of voters to elect Democrats and Independents to Congress to stop the Iran war and to stop the Lying King Trump's stupid, backwards and very dangerous foreign policies.

09/04/2026

It is time to end Trump's stupid war with Iran. We have been engaged in Trump's stupid war with Iran since February 28, 2026, for a total of 6 months and one week, and where are we today?

1. The average price of diesel fuel is at an all-time high of $5.85 a gallon - up 55% since the start of Trump's stupid Iran war. (New York Times this morning.)

2. The average price of gasoline is back up to $4.15 a gallon - up 40% since the start of Trump's stupid Iran war. (New York Times this morning.)

3. As of Sept. first, 2026, 18 U.S. service members have been killed and over 750 have been wounded. (KCRA TV)

4. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported that global food commodity prices climbed by 2.4% in March and another 1.6% in April, reaching their highest levels in over three years. And Fresh vegetable prices in the U.S. jumped 11.5% year-over-year by spring, with items like tomatoes soaring nearly 40%.

5. The 2026 conflict with Iran severely disrupted U.S. Navy logistics and forced warships to rely heavily on high-risk replenishment at sea or travel thousands of miles to distant hubs like Diego Garcia for major resupply and maintenance. Supply and auxiliary ships must now travel roughly 2,200 miles from the combat zone to Diego Garcia—or up to 3,700 miles to Singapore—to load food, fuel, and replacement parts. (New York Times)

6. The 2026 war with Iran has severely drained the U.S. military's global supply of high-end missiles, air defense interceptors, and drones, leaving key munitions inventories at critically low levels.

Patriot Interceptors: The U.S. has fired more than 1,500 Patriot missiles, leaving fewer than 850 in the inventory—a drop of 50% to 65% from pre-war levels.

THAAD Interceptors: Supplies of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missiles have fallen by 40% to 80%.

Tomahawk Cruise Missiles: Inventories dropped from roughly 3,000 to about 2,000, a decline of up to one-half.

ATACMS and PrSM: Stocks of Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) are nearly exhausted.

Drones: Roughly 25% of the U.S. inventory of MQ-9 Reaper drones have been lost or shot down.

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Our economy has been severely damaged, and our national security is in severe jeopardy because of Trump's Iran war. It is time to end the Iran war and time to elect Democrats and Independents to Congress to restore our economy and our national security ASAP.

09/02/2026

The November elections are scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026. At this point in time, however, these elections, which are the foundation of our constitutional republic, are in DEEP TROUBLE.

The Lying King Trump has issued an illegal and unconstitutional executive order that directs the United States Postal System to implement a process to check the citizenship identities of all voters in order to mail them their ballots. Trump's executive order is based on a HUGE LIE: that illegal immigrants have voted in big numbers in prior elections. This is simply FALSE. And Trump's real motivation is to keep Democrats and Independents from voting by mail.

We now have two whistleblowers, USPS employees, who have come forward to explain that the Trump executive order is not only unconstitutional and illegal, it requires the USPS to implement a voter checking process that is doomed to failure. In short, from the Voting Rights Lab:

Under the rule, state and local election officials are required to navigate a new federal process before sending mail ballots to voters. Specifically, the rule creates the following mandates:

1.Election officials must submit lists of approved mail voters to a Federal Ballot Mail Portal that is not yet available, along with unique barcodes.

2. Election officials and mail vendors must print these unique barcodes on all outbound and return ballot envelopes.

3. The Postal Service — a federal agency with no election expertise — must refuse to deliver ballots to voters unless the envelopes include barcodes submitted to the portal. This federal agency has no expertise in elections.

While ballots from military and overseas voters are exempt from this proposal, it applies to the vast majority of mail voters across the country. The rule does not apply to primary elections.

So each voter gets assigned a unique barcode and the lists of millions of voters from each state must be submitted to a federal online portal that does not yet exist and has not been tested.

Then, when state elections officials mail out the ballots they must deliver them to the USPS where the barcode of each ballot will be compared to the list for each state on the portal, and IF ONE BARCODE IS INCORRECT OR SMUDGED THE ENTIRE SHIPMENT FROM A GIVEN STATE IS REJECTED AND MUST BE RESUBMITTED.

This new voter verification process has not been tested and double checked, and it is set up on purpose to fail. And the whistleblowers explain that it is impossible for the USPS to implement before the November elections because the individual states will be mailing out ballots in September. And, once again, Trump's executive order is illegal and unconstitutional.

And, one simple question: If our overseas military members and overseas voters are exempt, then why do we need this illegal and unconstitutional voter verification process at all?

Trump knows that the Republicans in Congress are in deep trouble because of the huge price increases he has created for food, gas, diesel fuel, jet fuel, fertilizers, electricity, child care, health care, etc., and because of his stupid tariffs that have bankrupted our farmers, ranchers and small business owners, and because of his stupid war with Iran, so he wants to disrupt the November elections and greatly reduce the numbers of Democrat and Independent votes.

Please contact your Senators and Representatives today to demand the removal of Trump's executive order and to immediately restore our normal voting processes.

09/01/2026

During WWII the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe was Five Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and in the Asian theater the commanders were Admiral Lord Mountbatten and Five Star General Douglas MacArthur. Today Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a major in the National Guard is running the show in our war with Iran.

From the blog post of Dr. Heather Cox Richardson, historian, yesterday, 31 August 2026:

"Alex Horton and Tara Copp of the Washington Post reported on Sunday, August 30, that military leaders are warning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that a plan to continue large-scale operations in Iran is unsustainable and is weakening their ability to protect U.S. interests in other places, including at home."

"The warning is in the classified Secretary of Defense Orders Book of August 14 and is laid out by the heads of the Army, Navy, and Air Force and the four-star commanders who oversee U.S. operations in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Trump’s insistence that he must keep all options open, including the ability to launch major attacks, has forced more than 50,000 troops to be kept on alert for months. Plans to extend that alert made the Navy’s top admiral, along with leaders of the U.S. European Command, the U.S. Pacific Command and the U.S. Southern Command, register that they did not concur with those plans, although their disagreement does not mean they will not execute the order."

"Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle warned that the Navy, which has borne the brunt of operations against Iran, cannot sustain its current level of support for the war. Barely a quarter of the Navy’s destroyer fleet is currently able to deploy, while delays in maintenance are threatening the readiness of other ships."

"Leaders of the Army and Air Force concurred with the plan to extend force deployments but warned that there would be significant risk to such an extension."

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So now, as the truth emerges, we discover that the Lying King Trump and SecDef Hegseth have put all of our military forces in an untenable and very dangerous situation, and they have also put our national security in severe jeopardy. It is time to end Trump's stupid war with Iran, immediately, by withdrawing our naval forces and assigning them to other strategic locations outside the Middle East or to home ports for repairs and refurbishment, and by withdrawing our 50,000 troops, who have been sitting on standby for 6 months, by bringing them home.

Trump and Hegseth told a big fat lie to start their war with Iran: that there was an imminent threat to the U.S. by an Iranian attack. This was a complete fabrication because Iran does not and did not have the military capability to attack our nation.

And the results of the Trump/Hegseth war with Iran so far have been to create severe damage to our naval vessels and to disrupt the global economy and delivery of crude oil, so prices here at home for food, gas, diesel fuel, jet fuel, fertilizers, electricity, etc. have all risen sharply and are continuing to rise, so our farmers, ranchers and small business owners are in serious trouble and most Americans are struggling to pay for daily life necessities.

It is time to end the Trump/Hegseth war with Iran via immediate action in Congress to stop all funding for the Iran war and to investigate and impeach Hegseth for his continuing criminal actions and destruction of our the top ranks of our military leaders. Please vote to elect Democrats and Independents to the House and Senate in November, and please contact your current Senators and Representatives to demand immediate action to end this dangerous war with Iran.

08/31/2026

The Lying King Trump simply cannot handle the truth. And he loses it when he is faced with the truth about his increasingly miserable failures as a president. So he lashes out and attacks anyone who dares to inform the American people about the sad truth of his growing number of failures.

From Politico this morning:

"President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to report NBC journalist Kristen Welker to the Federal Communications Commission for her reporting on the impact Trump’s endorsement has had on GOP candidates."

"Welker did not actually speak to the results of the president’s endorsements as she hosted Sunday’s “Meet the Press.” While her interviews with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) discussed the upcoming midterms and candidates they supported, Welker did not ask about the president’s endorsements."

"However, in a live shot on NBC’s local D.C. affiliate ahead of Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Welker said Trump will “loom large” over November’s midterms."

"“He, of course, has endorsed a slate of candidates in the primaries,” Welker said. “He’s had some mixed results, but most recently, his pick of Senator Darline Graham, of course, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, was successful in her primary battle, so now she takes on Dr. Annie Andrews in South Carolina.”"

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Now THIS news reporting by Kristen Welker is what angered the Lying King Trump? My, my, Donnie, your skin is getting might thin, and your pouting complaints sound like you are about 5 years old. We live in a democracy, Donnie, where freedom of the press is a solemn right guaranteed by our Constitution. And when you tout yourself as the master monarch with total control over the Republican Party candidates, then you need to take responsibility when your candidate endorsements fail. Amen.

08/31/2026

Accountability. When we check the performance record of far too many of our government officials, starting with the Lying King Trump, we discover that there is virtually no accountability. And those politicians who are supposed to hold government officials accountable are most often asleep at the wheel and/or they just don't seem to care.

From ProPublica this morning:

"He Spent 27 Years on Death Row as a Wrongfully Convicted Man. What Comes Next?"

23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent in Louisiana’s Angola prison — and how, even after being released, he still isn’t truly free.

"Duncan had spent the last three decades trying to prove his innocence after a jury convicted him of killing his former girlfriend’s toddler. An investigation by Verite News and ProPublica last year showed that prosecutors had relied on key evidence that appeared to be fabricated by a pair of forensics experts whose use of bite mark analysis has since been widely discredited as junk science."

"Nevertheless, Louisiana prosecutors continued to argue that Duncan should be put to death. The threat became ever more real as Gov. Jeff Landry began expediting ex*****ons, despite the state’s track record of convicting and sentencing to death people later found to be innocent. It wasn’t until June that the Louisiana Supreme Court threw out Duncan’s murder conviction, ruling that the bite marks found on the child’s body, the only physical proof tying Duncan to the alleged crime, could not have been made by a human."

"Chief Justice John Weimer was so outraged by the prosecution of Duncan that he compared it to 17th-century witch trials. “We now look back at those practices as asinine and absurd” with “no basis whatsoever in logic,” he wrote. Some of the evidence against Duncan, he said, was “similarly specious.”"

"Daily life on death row nearly robbed him of his sanity, Duncan said. Like all inmates awaiting ex*****on, Duncan remained in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. This lasted almost 20 years. And there was never a set schedule for that one hour he would be let out and allowed to use the phone. Some days, it would be 2 a.m. Who could he call at that hour? (Death row inmates were eventually allowed to spend at least four hours outside their cells following a 2017 class-action lawsuit.)"

"During the summer months, when the heat inside could rise to 115 degrees, Duncan said he experienced seizures. “I’m pretty sure I got brain damage as a result of it,” he said. “There were times when I got out of bed and I didn’t even know if I was left-handed or right-handed. There were a few times when I got up, I didn’t even know my name.”"

"In 2013, three death row inmates sued the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections for “appalling and extreme conditions” as a result of the high temperatures. Their experiences described in the lawsuit closely matched Duncan’s. For 85 straight days in 2012, the heat index in one section of death row exceeded 126 degrees, according to the suit. A judge ordered the state to provide air conditioning throughout death row, but a federal appeals court overturned the order. The corrections department did not respond to questions about conditions within the prison."

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The State of Louisiana still has until June of 2027 to decide whether or not to retry Jimmie Duncan, and they are refusing to even consider any restitution for his wrongful conviction. And even if we assume that Mr. Duncan may indeed be guilty, he has served 27 years on Death Row, and most of that time he spent in solitary confinement. And in all of this, the prosecuting attorneys and the prison officials have had zero accountability.

The U.S. ranks number one of all of the nations in the total number of people currently imprisoned: 1.8 million people or 542 inmates for every 100,000 residents. El Salvador, governed by a brutal dictator, ranks #1 in the world for the highest incarceration rate per capita, with approximately 1,659 prisoners per 100,000 residents.

But somehow, the Trump Project 2025 right-wing fascists magically overlooked any goals to improve our prison systems or any goals to hold state governments and prison officials accountable for the brutal treatment they continue to impose on inmates. It is time to elect Democrats and Independents who will work to hold these officials accountable.

08/30/2026

Some questions to consider on this 30th day of August, 2026:

Do you agree with the following statement in our Declaration of Independence from England:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."???

Are ALL men and women created equal? Or do you believe, as does the Lying King Trump, that white, wealthy men are superior to all other people?

And do you agree with the 14th Amendment to our Constitution when it states:

"...all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state where they live."???

Or do you believe, as does the Lying King Trump, that "native born" people (people born in the U.S.) are superior to "naturalized citizens"?

Our United States history is a long tale of discrimination against immigrants, and it is a story of certain groups who at various points in time held political power and worked to use their political power to "pull the ladder up behind themselves."

And sadly, here we are again, living with White Supremacist racists, led by the Lying King Trump, and he is working every day to deport immigrants who are hard-working, loyal, patriotic folks who are critical to the ongoing success of our society and economy.

It is time to stop this racist hatred and discrimination. It is time to acknowledge that ALL people are created equal by their creator and ALL people have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of their dreams as they strive to improve themselves, and in so doing, improve our nation.

And it is also time to stop this sexist hatred and discrimination against LGBTQ folks and against women and girls. They are people who also have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of their dreams, as they strive to improve themselves, and in so doing, improve our nation.

It is time to elect Democrats and Independents to our Congress to remove and replace Trump's racist, sexist lap dogs. Let's go to work.

08/29/2026

When it comes to solving serious problems the Lying King Trump has no clue what to do, so...he cheats.

Because of Trump's stupid tariffs, our cattle ranchers are all suffering and about 40% of them are on the edge of bankruptcy, and the costs of rebuilding their cattle herds are rising every day to unprecedented levels. Also, due to Trump's tariff attacks on Canada, the price of Canadian beef is up 62%. Result: the price of beef at the grocery store is out of reach for many American families.

Trump's solution?

1. Work to lower the USDA standards for the quality and safety of beef and reduce the number of inspectors.

2. Buy 300,000 metric tons of beef from Argentina that is most likely contaminated and/or may include hidden horse meet.

Trump's stupid tariffs are destroying our farmers, ranchers and small business owners, and they are driving up the cost of food to levels where over 50% of American families are living with food insecurity each day.

It is time to unite to elect Democrats and Independents to the House and Senate in order to remove the Trump do-nothing lap dogs who refuse to stand up to Trump. Let's go to work.

08/28/2026

The Lying King, Donald J. Trump, seems to be searching for immortality. He keeps trying to change the names of things that have been well established for hundreds of years (Lake Ontario, Gulf of Mexico, etc.) and he keeps bullying people to try to accomplish things that are illegal, stupid, immoral, cruel, and totally unnecessary (he is going to take over Greenland, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, etc.).

What we are dealing with here is the Lying King Trump's malignant narcissism, his total lack of integrity, and his repeated failures in business and in his role as president.

But what is most frustrating is the hard fact that no one in the ranks of the so-called Republican Party has enough integrity, courage and honesty to stop him and to stop his daily attacks on our constitutional republic and on innocent people who are hard-working, loyal and patriotic. It is time to replace all of the Trump lap dogs in Congress with Democrats and Independents who will finally stand up to Trump the Liar and Bully. Amen.

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