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Local, Long Beach Homeless Count Numbers Revealed

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Local, Long Beach Homeless Count Numbers Revealed

2026 Local Homeless Count Numbers

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority or LAHSA July 24 released the results for the 2026 Homeless Count. The numbers show some encouraging progress in Council District 15. The 2026 numbers demonstrate that efforts to move people off the streets and into shelter are making a real difference.

The report noted the significant increase in the number of people counted in shelters. That is important as it is coupled with a decrease in people living on the streets. Sheltered homelessness allows for a better pathway to permanent housing. Getting people indoors is one of the most important steps in breaking the cycle of homelessness, and these numbers show that outreach and housing efforts are helping people make that transition.

In addition, the report indicates fewer people living in cars, vans, RVs, and makeshift shelters.

Taken as a whole, the data points in the right direction. The council district aims to continue investing in solutions that move people off the streets, into shelter, and ultimately into permanent housing.

 

2026 Long Beach Homeless Count Results

LONG BEACH — On July 20, the City of Long Beach released the results of the 2026 Homeless Point in Time Count, which identified 3,729 people experiencing homelessness in the early hours of Jan. 22, 2026, an increase of 134 people, or 3.7%, compared with 2025. While the overall number of people experiencing homelessness increased, the year-over-year increase was smaller than the increase reported in 2025. The data also revealed several encouraging trends, including a 15.4% increase in people staying in shelters and a decline in the proportion of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness to 69.4 %, the lowest level recorded in the past four years.

Details: Read more at this link.

How Hakeem Jeffries and J Street Teamed Up for Arming Genocide

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How Hakeem Jeffries and J Street Teamed Up for Arming Genocide

 

By Norman Solomon

When House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries sent out a recent “dear colleague” letter, its second sentence cited “the position articulated by… pro-peace organizations like J Street.” The congressman and J Street were opposing an amendment to block $3.3 billion in military shipments and other aid to Israel.

Jeffries contended that the measure was “overly broad.” On the same day, using the same phrase “overly broad,” J Street issued a statement declaring that “we support Leader Jeffries’ decision to oppose the amendment.”

Both Jeffries and J Street respectfully noted that many members of Congress had understandable reasons to back the measure. The next day, July 15, a record 103 Democrats voted in favor of blocking weaponry to Israel.

While attempting to prevent a high number of yes votes, Jeffries and J Street had emphasized mutual agreement to validate a position that amounted to support for arming genocide.

After the House vote, J Street said that “we welcome House Democratic leadership taking a stronger stance on using U.S. leverage to pressure the Israeli government to change course.” But there are no credible reasons to believe that J Street or the “House Democratic leadership” are serious about using U.S. leverage to “change course” in ways that would really impede the genocidal state of Israel.

Last month, a United Nations commission concluded that genocide is continuing, as Israeli forces intentionally target children in Gaza. “A significant body of research by legal and rights experts has concluded that Israel is intent on destroying Palestinians, including analyses by UN investigators, rights bodies such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and genocide scholars worldwide,” the Guardian reported this summer.

Jeffries, a seven-term representative from New York City, has received upwards of $1.7 million from pro-Israel donors. He is now third from the top of such recipients among the thousands of House members since 1990.

During the 34 months since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, J Street has evolved from unequivocally supporting Israeli military actions in Gaza to fervently criticizing them and calling for an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid. Yet the organization has never responded adequately in ways commensurate with the actual horrific events.

Early last year, while writing an article for The Nation, I researched J Street’s public statements ever since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza. I found that “none of J Street’s 132 news releases between October 7 [2023] and the start of the [temporary] ceasefire in late January 2025 called for an end to shipments of the U.S. bombs and weapons that were killing those civilians while enforcing Israel’s policy of using starvation as a weapon of war.”

Throughout the 16-month period, as I pointed out, “J Street news releases echoed pronouncements coming from the White House and State Department, becoming grim parodies of wishful thinking and empty warnings. The headlines of J Street releases were largely contoured around hollow claims from the Biden administration that it was diligently striving to end the death and agony in Gaza.”

Only gradually has J Street expressed support for – minimally – curbing U.S. military aid to Israel. Meanwhile, as has been the case since J Street’s founding nearly 20 years ago, many members of Congress have hidden behind J Street to legitimize their support for Israel, while often repeating the expedient “two-state solution” fantasy.

Describing itself as “pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy,” J Street has long been widely seen as a liberal Jewish-led alternative to AIPAC’s right-wing politics. But J Street’s record shows that it has gone out of its way to trumpet denial.

On January 16, 2024, the organization put out a news release with this headline: “J Street Rejects Allegation at International Court of Justice of Genocide in War Against Hamas in Gaza.” Four months later, another J Street news release was equally emphatic, making clear that “J Street continues to reject the allegation of genocide in this case.”

In December 2024, both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch released reports unequivocally stating that Israel was engaged in genocide.

At last, in August 2025, J Street’s president and driving force since its founding, Jeremy Ben-Ami, finally acknowledged the reality of Israeli genocide. “Until now, I have tried to deflect and defend when challenged to call this genocide,” he wrote in a blog post. “I have, however, been persuaded rationally by legal and scholarly arguments that international courts will one day find that Israel has broken the international genocide convention.”

J Street’s leader wrote those words a year ago. Yet he and his organization just teamed up with Hakeem Jeffries in support of continuing massive arms shipments to the genocidal Israeli government.

And so continues the convenient evasion with the absurd motto “pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy.”

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Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. The paperback edition of his book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine includes an afterword about the Gaza war. His new book, The Blue Road to Trump Hell: How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy, is free in e-book formats.

Thom Hartmann, Detective

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Thom Hartmann, Detective

 

By Greg Palast July 24

Here are two ways an American can make a citizen.

  • 1. Take your partner out for a nice dinner and a romantic dance.
  • 2. Once home, with no light but candles, remove unnecessary clothing, and let Nature guide you.
  • 3. Roughly nine months later, a citizen arrives…

…OR

  • Spend $75 online to set up a Limited Liability Corporation in Delaware.

This would be a damn funny joke if it weren’t true.

According to Supreme Court dicta in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, that $75 is all you need to make an American a person under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

We know that the 2010 Citizens United case claimed that corporations are people, too. They can donate to political candidates, that is, purchase elections. There’s no other way to put it.

But there are two problems with the corporations-are-people assertion:

  • 1. I’ve never heard of a corporation that lost its legs in Vietnam
  • 2. Corporate citizenship is a complete fraud.

Thom Hartmann, the historian and talk show host, has put on his Sherlock Holmes’ deerstalker hat and discovered that the Citizens United decision was based on the fraudulent reporting of a key Supreme Court case way back in 1886. A corrupt clerk working for the Supreme Court combined with a dodgy Justice to falsely state that corporations are “people.”

That is NOT what the Justices decided in the 1886 case. But in 2010, the corporate bum-lickers on the Court cited this fraudulent “precedent” of corporate citizenship — and put America’s elections up for sale.

Hartmann’s newly-released book, Who Killed the American Dream: The Greatest Political Crime Ever Told (Barrett Koehler 2026) is a rippin’ detective story whose power is in its hard history. Hartmann explains, and he’s on solid ground here, that Citizens United is based on an entirely fabricated reading of the Supreme Court’s 1886 decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company.

Before you run away screaming that Hartmann’s story suggests too much legalese, in fact, he’s written a film-worthy, gripping, horrific story which is, in its weird way — think The Sting with a bad-guys-win ending — very entertaining.

The plot line kicks off with this: Hartmann’s in a law library (the kind of the thing he does) and looks up the case on which Citizens United was based. He opens the Southern Pacific Railroad case and finds a head-scratcher: There is NOTHING in the opinion which grants corporations human-hood.

Nothing. Citizens United and the other crazy corporate citizenship cases are based on…nothing. Well, not nothing. There is what’s called a “head-note,” something written by the official court reporter that asserts it is a fair summary of the case.

In 1886, the Court Reporter had, in cahoots with a wily Justice, Stephen Field, monetarily greased by railroad interests, simply made it up. That is, “summarized” the Santa Clara case in a way that ignored the actual written conclusions of the court.

This is a big deal. A REALLY BIG deal. The corrupt court reporter wrote:

“The defendant Corporations are persons within the intent of the clause in section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”

Corporations are persons?!? Lots of corporations have been convicted of felony crimes — but I’ve never seen a corporation breaking rocks on a chain-gang.

OK, a little legalese is needed here. Every case has a head note drafted by a (hopefully) honest court reporter. But the head note has absolutely ZERO legal weight. It’s just an easy blurb for paralegals in a hurry. Like an old TV Guide summary of an episode of Grey’s Anatomy.

But, the court reporter, J.C. Bancroft Davis, working with his railroad buddies and the under-handed Justice Field, concocted a head note that granted personhood to these fictional entities known as corporations. I think Bancroft and Field would have made Tinkerbell a citizen, but Disney hadn’t made the movie yet.

The effect of Citizens United has been devastating to say the least. Now corporations can pull out their checkbooks and swamp your vote with millions of dollars in “donations.” Who do you think a politician will listen to: you with your one puny vote or Daddy Warbucks with a waallet thicker than a Big Mac?

The header granting corporations personhood was, like any Big Lie, repeated and cited often enough that it simply became the law of the land.

And the consequences are nothing short of evil. Corporations are, under the 2010 Citizens United decision, treated the same as people — people made out of flesh and bones.

Under former law, convicted murderer Charles Manson could not donate to a political campaign from prison…but under Citizens United, Charles Manson & Co. could write big checks to buy a pardon.

In 2011, I discovered a donation to support Republican Mitt Romney’s run against Barack Obama through Restore Our Future PAC came from a limited liability corporation called “F8 LLC.” The company only showed $87,000 in sales for the year but managed to donate a cool million dollars to the Republican campaign. Who is behind this million dollar payment? Investigators with the Campaign Legal Center dubbed the executive “John Doe.” Want to know who’s behind the GOP? Ask Mr. “Doe.”

Under Citizens United, Al Qaeda Inc. may donate as well as Putin & Sons. In the 2010 argument over Citizens United, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg asked how Americans can tell if the government of China is funding candidates via incorporated front groups in the US. Chief Justice Roberts said that would be up to Congress — that is, the very politicians bought by a Chinese front or “F8 LLC.”

How odd, Trump has argued that kids born in the US to immigrant parents aren’t Americans, but Corporations born in the Cayman Islands and registering in Wyoming have citizenship rights.

So, RBG’s question suggests a solution that’s less of a heavy lift compared to Hartmann’s call to amend the Constitution. Congress can allow corporations to donate if they certify and prove they have no foreign owners. That would be a bit of a problem for Citibank. Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding just bought $450 million of Citibank stock and more is controlled by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Would the Saudis try to influence American elections? Does a bear….?

Under current law, I can’t give to a candidate without stating my name and address. We don’t need a Constitutional Amendment to require that corporations that donate to campaigns list all their shareholders.

Right now, I’m completing my film about how the Brothers Koch stole $6 billion in oil from the Osage Nation. They bought their way out of a criminal indictment by literally purchasing themselves a new Congress through a corporate shell called “Triad.” At the time, corporate donations were a go-to-jail felony, but the Kochs slithered away until Citizens United, when their fake corporate front was legalized.

So what’s the problem with corporate cash in campaigns? This: Wise men have said, “Corporations have neither bodies to kick nor souls to damn.” Corporations are artificial creatures that feel no pain but can inflict it. And they do.

And what truly should make you ill is, as Hartmann lays out, the legal case for Citizens United was a fraud, a scam, a con, a bamboozle.

Port of Long Beach, MARAD Sign Partnership Agreement on Nuclear Energy in Maritime

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Port of Long Beach, MARAD Sign Partnership Agreement on Nuclear Energy in Maritime

 

LONG BEACH —The Port of Long Beach became the first port in the nation to sign a Memorandum of Cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration or MARAD July 22 to advance work on development of small modular reactor or SMR technology to power commercial vessels, ports and other maritime assets.

The agreement represents a milestone, making Long Beach the first U.S. seaport to formalize a partnership with MARAD to establish nuclear-powered vessels for commercial service.

The agreement builds on momentum from MARAD’s May 7, 2026 Request for Information, issued in the Federal Register, seeking industry input on the development of a U.S.-built, scalable and commercially viable SMR for the nation’s marine transportation system. It also complements the port’s new lease agreement with BlueCore Energy Inc., which allows the company to assemble, test and store maritime power modules, adding private-sector expertise to the partnership with an American energy and technology company on the forefront of SMR development.

The Port of Long Beach explained under the agreement, the port and MARAD will collaborate with the U.S. Coast Guard, the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to help define the operational protocols, safety standards and inspection processes needed to support the safe arrival and servicing of SMR-powered vessels at U.S. ports, as well as to develop and share other best practices. The agreement is nonbinding and does not commit either party to funding, procurement decisions or the adoption of any specific technology.

The Port of Long Beach is home to two MARAD Ready Reserve vessels, the S.S. Cape Island and S.S. Curtiss, and is also designated as one of 18 designated Commercial Strategic Seaports in the U.S., supporting military readiness and supply chain continuity during national emergencies.

Watch a recording of the July 22 press conference at U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters in Washington D.C.

See the Memorandum of Cooperation

Watch the BlueCore Energy launch video

California Sues to Stop Trump from Using Public Safety Funding to Pressure States on Elections

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California Sues to Stop Trump from Using Public Safety Funding to Pressure States on Elections

 

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Gavin Newsom July 23 announced, in partnership with Attorney General Rob Bonta, that California is leading a multistate lawsuit to block unlawful federal attempts to condition public safety funding on political demands tied to elections. California will not accept the use of federal dollars meant to keep people safe as leverage to pressure states on how they run free and fair elections.

“President Trump has little support for both his mass deportation agenda and his baseless claims of election fraud, so instead, he’s trying to bully state and local governments into adopting his preferred policies in exchange for much-needed funding,” said Attorney General Bonta. “The Administration has already lost similar fights in court, and we expect this latest unlawful attempt to fail as well. Our communities deserve better than to have essential resources caught up in political games.”

About the grants

The funding that is at stake is an annual $150 million in congressionally approved public safety funds, administered by the Department of Homeland Security or DHS and the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA to help states and their cities prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism and other catastrophic security incidents.

Most people do not know this funding by its formal name — the Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) — but they know what it pays for. California is suing to safeguard the funding that supports state-level efforts to help train first responders, strengthen cybersecurity, improve emergency communications, buy critical equipment, and help public agencies prepare for serious threats.

Money meant to keep people safe should not be turned into a political weapon.

About the lawsuit

The coalition of states suing argues that the Trump administration’s requirements are unlawful because Congress never gave DHS or FEMA authority to impose sweeping conditions on these federal grants, the agencies failed to follow required decision-making procedures, and the requirements violate the Spending Clause by coercing States through vague and ambiguous funding conditions that are entirely unrelated to the purposes of the funding programs.

This lawsuit is part of a broader effort to push back on attempts to interfere with California’s election administration. In May, Gov. Newsom signed Senate Bill 73 to strengthen California’s election protections, including tighter safeguards around ballots, voting technology, and interference by law enforcement in the election process.

Long Beach Health Department to Host Back-to-School Vaccination and Resource Fair

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Long Beach Health Department to Host Back-to-School Vaccination and Resource Fair

 

LONG BEACH — The City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services will host “Superheroes Shield Up for School,” a back-to-school vaccination and resource fair, from 3 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 11. This free superhero-themed event will help families prepare for the new school year with school-required vaccinations, connections to community resources and family-friendly activities.

Children and teens ages 18 and younger who are uninsured, enrolled in Medi-Cal, or identify as American Indian or Alaska Native are eligible to receive school-required vaccinations at this event. The event will offer all vaccines required for school entry, including Tdap boosters for students entering seventh grade, for free. California law requires students entering transitional kindergarten, kindergarten and seventh grade to meet specific immunization requirements before attending school.

Vaccine appointments are recommended and can be scheduled through MyTurn in English and Spanish. Walk-ins will also be accommodated. Families are encouraged to bring their child’s immunization record. The California Digital Vaccine Record (DVR) provides secure access to official immunization records and can be accessed online, printed and used as proof of vaccination for school, childcare, work or other needs.

The event will also feature free food, back-to-school giveaways, games, superhero-themed activities. Community organizations and service providers will host informational booths and the Health Department’s Sensory Area For Everyone (S.A.F.E.) vehicle will be available on-site, providing a quiet, inclusive vaccination space for people with sensory needs.

Future community vaccination clinic dates will also be posted on this site.

Time: 3 to 7 p.m., Aug. 11, at the

Details: longbeach.gov/immunizations

Venue: Main Health Facility, 2525 Grand Ave., Long Beach

San Pedro Bay Ports Give Quarterly Clean Air Action Plan Update

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San Pedro Bay Ports Give Quarterly Clean Air Action Plan Update

 

SAN PEDRO BAY PORTS — The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will give a progress update on the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan or CAAP, July 28. The meeting will include updates on the ports’ clean truck program, clean marine fuels feasibility assessment and workforce assessment.

Proceedings will be in person, and livestreamed at: https://tinyurl.com/Bay-Ports-CAAP-Update

  • passcode: 886660. Participation is in-person only.

Minutes and presentations of prior meetings can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/Clean-air-plan-update

The ports will take public comments in-person at the advisory meeting to receive input on CAAP implementation. The agenda will be posted on the CAAP website prior to the meeting. .

Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., July 28

Details: For more information, visit cleanairactionplan.org

Venue: Banning’s Landing Community Center, 100 E. Water St., Wilmington

OPEN CALL: Off The Wall: Three Dimensional Art

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OPEN CALL: Off The Wall: Three Dimensional Art

 

The Long Beach Creative Group announces an open call for Off The Wall: Three Dimensional Art is now open. LBCG partnered with CallForEntry.org (CaFe) to manage submissions so, if artists are interested in submitting work for LBCG jurors to consider, they can find the application requirements and submission criteria here:

https://opportunities.wearecreativewest.org/opportunity/17835/CAFE

If artists haven’t already created a free CaFe profile, they will need to do so before being able to submit work. There’s a $20 submission fee. If the fee is prohibitive, artists are encouraged to contact LBCG and it will explore possible alternatives.

About the show

Off The Wall is an exhibition focused on three dimensional art of all kinds including, but not limited to sculpture, assemblage, ceramics and fiber arts. It includes art that embodies the great diversity of techniques, materials and concepts driving contemporary 3D art. The exhibition will be presented in the Rod Briggs Gallery, located at 2221 E Broadway in Long Beach, from Oct. 3 through Nov. 14, 2026.

This exhibition was proposed by Walter Focht who, along with Michael Biagotti and Bernard J Vyzga Jr, will serve as jurors. The deadline for submissions is Aug. 30.

“We’re excited to create an opportunity for artists working in 3D media to exhibit at the Rod Briggs Gallery,” said Dorte Cristjansen, Board President of the Long Beach Creative Group. “This is in alignment with the Group’s mission to support diverse creative expressions.”

This exhibition is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Arts Council for Long Beach, the Port of Long Beach, and the ongoing support of the Briggs Family Trust.

The LBCG is an established consortium of experienced artists, educators, and art enthusiasts engaged in creating exhibit space and opportunities for local artists through curated exhibits and events. Since 2018, the Rod Briggs Gallery has enabled the Group to consistently and professionally present the depth and diversity of artistic expression in Long Beach and the surrounding communities.

The Rod Briggs Gallery is located at 2221 East Broadway, Long Beach. During exhibits, the gallery is open to the public Fridays through Sundays, from 1 to 4 p.m. No appointment is required.

Details: LongBeachCreativeGroup.org

Sonic Experimentation with Sander Wolff & Guests/Dystopian Book Club, at Collage

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Sonic Experimentation with Sander Wolff & Guests/Dystopian Book Club, at Collage

Adventurous Los Angeles-based musician Sander Roscoe Wolff will be performing with two collaborators at this show for adventurous listeners. He and his first guest will improvise sonic landscapes that flow and change mood as they evolve.

Opening will be Dystopian Book Club, Wolff’s ongoing collaboration with Edward Giles that explores dark ambient music. Edward Giles and Sander Roscoe Wolff met at the 2025 Santa Ana Noise Fest, where they were both performing. Connecting over their mutual love of sonic exploration and speculative fiction, and both being native New Yorkers, the two began brainstorming and collaborating in the early part of 2026. They have recorded an album, and included contributions from a variety of like-minded artists. Join their inaugural performance, July 29.

Also joining, will be Mark A Soden on trumpet and electronics, and a special guest whose name can’t be included.

Time: July 29

Cost: $10

Details: https://www.collageartculture.org

Venue: Collage: A Place For Art & Culture, 731 S Pacific Ave., San Pedro.

The Causes Against Tyranny of the Orange King

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The Causes Against Tyranny of the Orange King

I took my brother for a birthday drink at Think Prime restaurant, where a good number of Republicans hang out. One of the owners is an ardent MAGA supporter even though he’s an immigrant of Iranian extraction. His father was an opposition leader against the Islamic Republic who desired to return democracy to his homeland again. They do have one of the best happy hours in town.

On the way out, the chef introduced me to a patron who wanted to meet me.

“I recognize you from the newspaper,” she says, shaking my hand. “You know… I read your paper all the time and… I don’t agree with anything you write about. I’m a staunch supporter of Trump,” she announced proudly.

My brother looked the other way, and I looked at this older blond woman and her husband and thanked them for reading the paper. Then I asked if she had read our recent July 4th edition? She was uncertain.

Then I said, “We published the entire Declaration of Independence in it, and after the part that says ‘All men are created equal,’ there’s a section that lists the causes of why the American colonies were revolting against the tyranny of King George. Have you read this part?”

I went on to say that among the just causes for the revolution were some of the very same or similar actions that your Orange tyrant has taken. “I suggest you read it again before you object to what I’ve printed; it’s one of the most foundational statements of American patriotism.” I thanked her again and walked away.

This interaction started me thinking that many others all across this nation may not see the similarity between the Tyranny of King George and the tyranny of one who now thinks he’s a king.

Here’s the abbreviated version. The original causes in italics; my updates are not:

But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted

He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. Think here about cutting Medicaid, defunding colleges and universities for political reasons. Trump has repeatedly defunded agencies funded by Congress or refused to give out grants to states that don’t comply with his executive orders.

He has forbidden his governors (in this case Congress) to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

The current Republican Congress has refused to vote on the War Powers Act for this régime to end the war on Iran. [Since taking office in 2025, the 119th Congress has passed a historic low number of substantive bills into law compared to previous administrations, with approximately 100 substantive and ceremonial measures enacted.]

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature; a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only; Think about his attack on the states’ right to manage and hold their own free elections. Contrary to his insane grievances about voter fraud, there is so little evidence that fraud played a significant role in any election.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people; Actually, he and DOGE have dissolved or defunded so many federal agencies as to make them either nonexistent or feckless to perform their duties

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose, obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands; Think here about his immigration policies that are basically racist in nature while allowing white immigration from South Africa

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers; And by using the justice department for retribution prosecutions – James Comey, Letisha James, the UCLA and others.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone; He has attempted to make the federal judiciary bend to his will and loyal to him while he ignores court orders contrary to his edicts

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance; The ICE raids and the unconstitutional use of the National Guard to enforce mass anti-immigrant raids. Also, the incarceration of thousands of people without due process is a clear violation of Constitutional rights.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures; The invasion of ICE agents into our streets amounts to nothing more than a standing army of poorly trained agents to suppress protests and to arrest individuals without just cause or judicial warrants.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power; The War on Iran has now reached a cost of $37.5 billion, according to DOD Secretary Hegseth, and there is no end in sight and no declaration of war congress has still not declared a war.

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; What was stationing ICE agents on Terminal Island?

For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states; How many murders have ICE agents committed without any investigation or arrest of offending officers?

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world; What was Trump’s trade war about? Tariffs are only imposed by Congress

For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury; All of the immigrants he has arrested, detained, and held without trial

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses; think here about all the people, immigrants and citizens alike, that he has deported for little or no legal cause..

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us; this is self-evident

In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress, in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

These causes, along with his wanton greed, grifting, and profiteering off his high office, are not only grounds for impeachment, indictment, and prosecution– if not a firing squad for acts of treason against our republic. The time is close at hand for the public to revolt against the tyranny of this petty, vindictive narcissist blowhard. We either take him down or he’ll destroy our entire nation.

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