    You can tell the pro-life extremists. They’re the ones who want their enemies–the women and men who support a woman’s sovereignty over her own body–dead by any means at their command. Hard to get more pro-life that that.
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The Wall That Bled
The devil is in the details and The White House!
    America is divided, but the fracture is not beyond repair. Beneath the noise, most citizens still agree on core valuesâfairness, opportunity, and justice. The challenge is turning that quiet agreement into bold, collective action.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIREâEvery town hall, policy hearing, and community roundtable on the future consistently ignores one group: our youth.
      Congress is now in August recess, when members return home to reconnect with constituents. For Democrats, this month isnât vacation time; itâs a lifeline. While Republicans flee tough questions, Democrats can prove theyâre listening through town halls, door-knocking, and direct engagement with working families whoâve lost faith in the party.
Controlling Our Communities and Because DC is Black
    Yeah, I said it, not abstractly or politically, but personally. Itâs not simply that âpeopleâ are going to die, or âyouâ are going to die. Iâm going to die. I donât know when. Iâm full of determination, just shy of age 79, to stay alive and functional, but doing so ainât what it used to be. Ouch. Simply standing up now takes the sort of effort I once exerted walking a mile. Our Hero (as I call myself) is functionally ebbing.
    If Iâm completely honest, I canât recall all the twists and turns of 1984. I probably read it in high school or maybe as an undergrad, somewhere alongside Animal Farm. Theyâre the kind of books teachers press into young hands to spark critical thinking, to push us to look beyond the surface, question the official story, and spot the sleight of hand in politics and power. What has stayed with me isnât the fine detail of the plot, but the feeling it left behind: that the words on the page were not just fiction, but a warning, one I wasnât sure I needed at the time, but which feels uncomfortably relevant now.
    Nebraskaâs Congressman Mike Flood had just gotten a tongue-lashing from constituents at a town hall meeting, facing tough questions and ultimately chants of âvote him out!â by Democrats angered by his support for Trumpâs policies.