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    “The American Dream is Back,” President Trump boasted during his July 4, 2026, speech on the National Mall. This is the same man who said, “I love the inflation,” as he constantly assures us that affordability is a Democratic hoax. Trump no longer even pretends to give lip service to addressing the economic issues he ran – and won – on in 2024. As the New York Times just reported, Trump’s wealth has increased by over two billion dollars in the 15 months since he returned to office again. And much of this newfound wealth came from crypto-currency transactions that he directed the SEC to ignore.

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre–Civil Rights Era

        We are living in a time of heightened self-awareness and social reckoning. Across the country, and especially in Black communities, people are reexamining their place, their purpose, and their power. There’s a growing call to move beyond survival into systems-building, healing, and legacy work. But first, we must be honest with ourselves: In this moment, are we the Spider, the Web, the Fly, or the Exterminator?

     Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well.

      Although Donald Trump, as president, proclaimed in his 2020 State of the Union address that he had produced a “blue-collar boom” in workers’ wages, the reality was quite different. Using his control of the executive branch of the U.S. government, Trump repeatedly undermined the wages of American workers by blocking raises and imposing wage reductions.