THE MAXWELL APPEAL: TRUMP'S ACHILLES HEEL

What is at issue in the Maxwell Appeal?

Scope of the Epstein Non-Prosecution Agreement

Maxwell argues that her 2007 plea deal with federal prosecutors in Florida granted immunity not only to Jeffrey Epstein but also to “any potential co-conspirators”, a category she contends includes herself, even though the document didn’t list her by name.

She maintains that because the agreement states “the United States … will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein,” it should apply nationwide, not just in the Southern District of Florida, where it was signed.

The DOJ counters that the agreement binds only the Southern District of Florida. Courts have interpreted similar agreements, by default, as binding only the district where they were negotiated unless there’s an explicit statement extending them nationwide. In Maxwell’s case, the Second Circuit agreed with this narrower reading and rejected her claim.

Why the Supreme Court Is Considering It

• There is a circuit split: some federal appellate courts (e.g., the 3rd, 4th, and 8th Circuits) have ruled that agreements phrased on behalf of “the United States” do bind broader than a single district, whereas others (like the 2nd Circuit) require an explicit geographic limitation.
• Maxwell’s appeal could resolve that split, and because it touches the enforceability of non-prosecution and plea deals, a foundational feature of the U.S. criminal justice system, it may have implications well beyond her own case, 

What Happens Next

• The Supreme Court will privately review Maxwell’s petition around September 29, 2025, to decide whether to grant certiorari (i.e., hear the case).
• If they take the case during the next term, oral arguments would occur in the Fall, and a decision could come by mid‑2026.
• If certiorari is denied, Maxwell’s conviction will stand, and she will have no further appeals.

Maxwell’s petition presses a critical question: Does a plea deal made in one federal district bind the entire U.S. government, or only that local office? The answer will determine whether the U.S. government broke its word by prosecuting her in New York despite the purported Florida deal.

What Happens If the Supreme Court Grants Maxwell’s Petition?

If SCOTUS agrees to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal this fall, it could become one of the most explosive legal dramas of 2025–26. Her case doesn’t just test legal doctrine; it threatens to peel back layers of powerful connections between Maxwell, Epstein, and the elite men they kept company with, including Donald Trump.

Maxwell is asking the Court to rule that the 2007 Florida non-prosecution agreement protects her from federal charges anywhere in the U.S. If the Court agrees, her conviction could be overturned, and she could walk free, not because she’s innocent, but because of a legal technicality buried in a backroom deal that Epstein’s lawyers negotiated when Trump’s own Labor Secretary, Alex Acosta, was U.S. Attorney in Florida.

Such a ruling would ignite outrage from survivors and advocates, provoke global headlines, and reopen long-dormant questions:

• Why was the deal so broad?
• Who was it meant to protect beyond Epstein?
• Was there political influence involved, and from whom?

With Trump’s name appearing in Epstein’s address books, court filings, and years of public speculation, the decision to grant cert would turn a spotlight on his past behavior.

Expect the political right to call it “a distraction.” Expect everyone else to call it accountability.

What If the Court Denies the Petition?

Then Why Is Trump So Nervous?

If the Supreme Court declines to hear the case, Maxwell’s conviction stands, and her only path to freedom becomes executive clemency, which is where Trump enters stage right, cheeseburger in hand.

Why would a man who claims he was “never a fan” of Epstein suddenly care so much about Ghislaine Maxwell?

• Why did he wish her well in public while president?
• Why did he reportedly inquire about what she “might know”?
• Why does he consistently oppose releasing full Epstein records, even while pretending to champion law and order?

Trump’s behavior only makes sense if Maxwell has the power to destroy him,  or at least to embarrass him beyond recovery.

If SCOTUS says no, the heat rises. The documents remain sealed,  for now,  but Maxwell becomes a political pawn with a secret arsenal.

If she starts talking, Trump and others may suddenly care very much about her sentencing conditions, her mental health, or her potential for, say, suicide.

And that’s where the pardon card comes in.

What If Trump Issues a Pardon?

The media would explode. International allies would recoil. His base? Some will cheer. Others might blink, finally questioning what, exactly, they're supporting.

But make no mistake: a pardon would serve a purpose. It would seal Maxwell’s lips forever.

Why would Trump go to such lengths to protect her if he had nothing to hide?

Why offer freedom to a woman whose only remaining leverage is the dirt she might deliver?

And if she accepted such a pardon, would she be gagged by loyalty or fear?

It’s not justice.

No matter what the Court decides, this case is a lit fuse. The only questions are how long until it detonates and whether Trump is at the center of the blast radius.

His behavior suggests panic, not innocence.

His record suggests protection of predators, not victims.

 

 

 

 

 

THIS MAY BE A VERY BIG STORY

What Is Trump Hiding in the Epstein Files?

When Silence Screams the Loudest

By now, most Americans are familiar with the sordid saga of Jeffrey Epstein,  the billionaire predator, pedophile, and power broker to the rich and shameless. We know he trafficked underage girls, that his “friends list” reads like a who’s who of the global elite, and that he mysteriously died in prison while under federal custody,  an act of negligence so convenient it practically winks.

We don’t know what Donald Trump’s role in all of this really was because someone very powerful doesn't want us to.

For years, Trump has distanced himself from Epstein, repeating a single mantra: “I was never a fan.” But the public record tells a different story. Trump and Epstein were once close enough to party together, close enough to trade compliments in the press, and close enough for Trump to say,  on the record, that Epstein “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

Now pause. Re-read that. “On the younger side.” That wasn’t said in a courtroom. That wasn’t a warning. That was an offhand remark, spoken with the breezy entitlement of a man who didn’t think it would come back to haunt him.

And maybe it hasn’t yet. But why is Trump, of all people, so adamantly opposed to the full release of the Epstein client list, Ghislaine Maxwell's testimony, and the many sealed court documents that keep vanishing like emails in a Florida rainstorm?

The answer may be more sinister than mere embarrassment.

Let’s entertain the official narrative for a moment: Trump knew Epstein socially, was mentioned a few times in court filings, and simply wants to avoid the bad optics of association. That’s plausible. Maybe he’s just a master of damage control, the world’s most paranoid press agent.

But that doesn’t explain the obsessive secrecy, the strange deference to Ghislaine Maxwell during his presidency, or the chilling moment when he wished her “well”,  from the White House podium, no less, after her arrest for sex trafficking minors.

Who does that?

Not a man casually brushing off guilt by association. Not a man with “nothing to hide.”

And then there’s the whisper of a deeper conspiracy: that Trump and Maxwell weren’t merely social acquaintances, but partners in a cover-up, or worse, participants in something far darker. Were Trump’s repeated efforts to withhold or suppress Epstein records rooted in fear,  not of guilt by proximity, but guilt by participation?

Could Maxwell know something that, if released, would destroy the Trump myth,  the carefully guarded image of the billionaire playboy turned populist savior?

Could she know what happened on those flights, on those islands, in those private rooms?

Could Trump, for all his denials, be a central figure in the sordid network that Epstein built,  not merely a guest at the party, but a reason the party existed?

And could his long, strange, transactional relationship with Maxwell,  the loyal lieutenant of Epstein’s empire, be one more skeleton that refuses to stay buried?

We don't know for sure. That’s the point. We’re not allowed to know.

But one thing is certain: Trump’s actions speak louder than any denial.

He has fought tooth and spray-tanned nail to suppress Epstein-related documents.

He has flirted with pardoning a convicted sex trafficker.

He has never once expressed sympathy for the victims.

If he were truly innocent, wouldn’t he want the whole truth out? Wouldn’t he demand it, as loudly as he demanded birth certificates, stolen election audits, and TV ratings?

Instead, he hides. He deflects. He “wishes well.”

And that silence, that very silence.  screams.

William James Spriggs

DOORSTOP OF DERANGEMENT

Project 2025: A User’s Guide to Turning Democracy Into a Dumpster Fire

Welcome to Project 2025, the MAGA-approved blueprint for American greatness,  if by greatness, you mean theocratic dictatorship, unhinged bureaucracy, and enough gaslighting to power the sun.

Brought to you by the Heritage Foundation, the same folks who think compassion is communism and that Jesus was a stockbroker, Project 2025 is the Mein Kampf of PowerPoint slides,  a 900-page doorstop of deranged delusion. It reads like what would happen if a middle-school civics dropout got drunk on Mountain Dew and Fox News, then decided to rewrite the Constitution using a crayon and a copy of The Art of the Deal.

So, what is Project 2025?

In short, it’s a step-by-step guide to how Donald J. Trump, or his dumber, hungrier clone, can bulldoze what’s left of American democracy and replace it with a personality cult run out of a Chick-fil-A drive-thru. It promises to remove the "deep state," which is code for “people who know what they’re doing,” and replace them with loyal foot soldiers who have passed the only loyalty test that matters: the ability to say “Trump is our savior” without blinking or vomiting.

It’s like hiring mall cops to run NASA because the actual scientists rolled their eyes once.

Under Project 2025:

• Civil servants will be purged, like expired meat, and replaced by MAGA minions with zero experience but lots of bumper stickers.
• The Department of Education? Gone. Why educate people when ignorance votes more reliably?
• Environmental protection? Canceled. Trees don’t vote. Neither do polar bears.
• Reproductive rights? LOL. In MAGA-land, women’s bodies are public property like post offices, only with more moral judgment.
• LGBTQ+ rights? Reverse engineered. The only rainbow Project 2025 supports is the one on a gas-guzzling pickup during a toxic oil spill.

But don’t worry,  it’s all being done in the name of “liberty.” You’ll be free to say what you want, as long as it’s flattering. Free to worship, as long as it’s the correct white Republican God. Free to vote, as long as your ballot is pre-approved by Mike Pence’s ghostwriter.

And let’s talk about the Founding Fathers for a second. These powdered-wig-wearing rebels bled to escape monarchy, and now Trump and his think-tank trolls are trying to reintroduce it, orange wig and all. Only this time, the King tweets, sues, whines, and eats Filet-O-Fish in bed.

Project 2025 promises “discipline.” But the last time Trump showed discipline was when he managed not to tweet during a colonoscopy, and even then, it was unclear which end the phone was in.

They call it a “presidential transition plan.” But it’s less a transition and more a hostile takeover, the kind of plan Lex Luthor might cook up if he took a correspondence course in fascism from Liberty University.

You know who loves Project 2025?

• People who call the FBI “traitors” while hoarding AR-15s.
• Billionaires who cry about socialism while using public roads to drive to their private jets.
• Men who haven’t seen their feet since 1993 but are convinced masculinity is under attack by oat milk.

And let’s not forget the evangelicals, who look at Trump, the walking embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins, and see a modern-day Moses, leading us not to the Promised Land, but straight into a Chick-fil-A franchise in Sodom.

The truth is, Project 2025 isn’t a plan. It’s a tantrum, a manifesto for those who think empathy is weakness, facts are fake, and the only thing worth conserving is white male grievance. It’s a declaration of war, not on elites but on competence, decency, and everyone with a college education or a conscience.

So yes, laugh at it. Mock it. Satirize the hell out of it. But don’t ignore it.

Because if we sit on our hands while these clowns rewrite America, we may wake up in 2025 in a place we don’t recognize, a country where the flag waves, but only in one direction, and truth is whatever the man in the golden toilet says it is.

And if that happens, the joke won’t be on Trump.

It’ll be on us.

William James Spriggs

THE CHEETO-DUSTED MUSSOLINI

“The Very Stable Genius.”

Once upon a time, in a gold-plated tower built on bankruptcy filings and borrowed money, lived a man who believed he was a king. Not just any king, but the strongest, smartest, most beloved ruler in all the land,  just ask him. He’d tell you himself, over and over, and then again in all caps on social media, until his fingers got tired (which didn’t take long, because his hands were... modest).

This was no ordinary man. No, this was Donald the Deluded, Lord of Lies, Duke of Diet Coke, Keeper of KFC, and Baron of Bad Hair. His royal crest bore a cheeseburger, a golf club, and a spray-tan bottle, all crossed beneath a giant red cap that read “MAKE ME FEEL BIG AGAIN.”

His hair, spun from golden hay and industrial adhesives, perched precariously atop his head like a frightened muskrat trying to escape. His face, forever set to "angry creamsicle," was a miracle of modern tanning technology, the only man whose natural skin tone could glow under moonlight.

Now Donald believed himself to be a genius, “very stable,” he insisted, though he'd never read a book without pictures and once tried to spell “IQ” with a “K.” When handed a briefing, he used it as a coaster for his McNuggets. Maps confused him unless they were colored in crayons. And despite having access to the nation’s top scientists, he believed windmills cause cancer, bleach kills viruses, and exercise is a conspiracy invented by liberals to weaken the strong.

As for strength, well, he claimed to be the strongest man ever to walk the earth. “I could’ve been a general!” he’d shout, waddling toward a golf cart. And yet, a gentle incline left him winded, stairs defeated him regularly, and umbrellas were his sworn enemies. His battle with a gust of wind exposed more than his scalp; it revealed the fragile ego beneath.

He fancied himself a ladies’ man,  the Casanova of corruption, despite moving on women “like a [bleeped]” and being built like a half-melted candle. If testosterone were measured by bluster alone, he’d be the father of the nation. Alas, his libido, like his policies, was mostly fantasy and projection.

Morality? Never heard of her.

This was a man who could cheat at golf and democracy without blushing. He praised dictators, mocked the disabled, slandered war heroes, and once stared at a solar eclipse without glasses, and then told others it was safe. If ethics were oxygen, Donald would’ve suffocated years ago.

But perhaps his greatest strength was cowardice, a trait he masked with a comical strut and hands that tried to form fists but mostly resembled puffy shrimp. Here was a man so insecure that he needed military parades to feel tall, gold toilets to feel rich, and a TV tuned to Fox News to feel loved. He declared himself a victim at every turn of witch hunts, wind turbines, and women with opinions.

And then came his dream: to be a dictator. “Only for a day!” he said with a wink that lasted four years. Like a Cheeto-dusted Mussolini, he surrounded himself with toadies and crooks, dismantled democracy one Big Mac at a time, and built a fan club of the proudly misinformed.

He called the press “the enemy of the people,” but his real enemy was the dictionary. He feared facts more than stairs, and his deepest terror was that someone, somewhere, might not be talking about him.

But in the end, spoiler alert, all the fake Time Magazine covers in the world couldn’t save him from the truth. He wasn’t a king, a genius, or strong.

He was a scared little man, spray-painted orange, yelling into a mirror, trying to convince it that size doesn’t matter.

And somewhere in a dark corner of Mar-a-Lago, he still roams, clutching his phone, furiously typing with thumbs like overfed Vienna sausages:

“I’M A GENIUS!!!”

Twitter is dead. The fairytale is over. But the punchline, America, is still ours to write.

William James Spriggs

THE NEW POLITICAL PARTY

The New People's Political Party

As the American experiment has died and has been replaced by authoritarianism, corporate dominance, and theocracy, it is no longer enough to simply resist. We must rebuild. We must envision a new democratic architecture rooted not in profit, privilege, and power but in fairness, dignity, and collective well-being. That is the mission: to reclaim the Republic and restore democracy to the people.

This is not a partisan proposal. It is a people’s proposal. It calls for redefining the relationship between citizen and state, labor and capital, community, and governance. It is a blueprint for the next American chapter, replacing despair with agency and oligarchy with true self-rule.

Here are six foundational pillars:

1. Strengthening Worker Cooperatives

At the heart of economic democracy is the principle that those who do the work should have a voice and a stake in the fruits of their labor. We encourage the widespread formation and support of worker cooperatives, businesses owned and managed by their employees.

This isn’t a fringe idea. Cooperatives have proven resilient, ethical, and community-centered. They foster better wages, safer workplaces, and more sustainable decision-making. We would provide federal grants, tax breaks, and technical assistance for workers seeking to buy out retiring owners, convert existing businesses, or start new co-ops. By democratizing ownership, we build an economy that values contribution over exploitation.

2. Expanding Public Ownership of Essential Services

Capitalism has failed to deliver necessities at fair prices. Healthcare, energy, and transportation services, essential to life and liberty, have been hijacked by profiteers. These key industries would be transitioned to public ownership.

Imagine a healthcare system that puts patients over profits. Energy providers are accountable to communities, not shareholders. A transportation infrastructure that connects people because it’s needed, not because it’s profitable. Through public ownership, we reclaim control over our future and ensure that no American’s access to life-sustaining services is determined by their bank account.

3. Democratizing the Workplace

In most of today’s corporations, decisions are made in boardrooms by executives who’ve never met the workers whose lives they affect. We would mandate worker representation on corporate boards and decision-making bodies, ensuring that labor is not treated as a line item but as a partner.

This model already thrives in countries like Germany and Norway, where co-determination has produced more stable economies and higher levels of worker satisfaction. It's time American labor had a seat at the table, not just in negotiations, but in governance. This reform would apply to all corporations above a certain size, enforcing transparency and equitable power-sharing.

4. Guaranteeing Universal Basic Services

Freedom is meaningless without security. We would enshrine a new social contract: that healthcare, housing, education, and childcare are not privileges but rights.

Through public investment, we would provide:

• Universal healthcare, decoupled from employment and profit.
• Guaranteed housing, ending homelessness, and stabilizing rents.
• Tuition-free education, from early childhood to college or vocational training.
• Publicly funded childcare, enabling parents to work without sacrificing their children’s well-being.

These basic guarantees would reduce economic anxiety, promote social mobility, and unleash the human potential of millions.

5. Progressive Taxation to Fund the Future

Inequality is not inevitable; it’s a policy choice. Since Reaganomics, wealth has flowed upward, hollowing out the middle class and trapping millions in poverty. We call for a bold tax code restructuring to reverse this.

We would:

• Tax capital gains and income at the same rate.
• Reinstate higher tax brackets for the ultra-wealthy.
• Close corporate loopholes and offshore shelters.
• Institute a wealth tax on fortunes above $50 million.

The revenue generated would fund universal services, infrastructure, environmental restoration, and local innovation, all without burdening the working class. This is not punishment.  It’s justice.

6. Political Reform: Ending Corporate Control

No real change is possible until we sever money's chokehold over our politics. We demand a full-scale political detox:

• Ban all corporate donations to candidates and political parties.
• Outlaw corporate lobbying.
• Require public funding for campaigns.
• Mandate transparency in all political spending.

In short, we return political power to communities, not corporations. We empower civic action over dark money and citizens' voices over the influence of billionaires. Only then can legislation serve the common good rather than the special interests.

A Democratic Renaissance

This is not a dream. It is a necessity. It is what democracy must become to survive the wreckage of oligarchy and theocracy. It is a roadmap for those who believe that power belongs with the people, not the prophets of greed, not the prophets of God, but the people.

We have the tools. We have the knowledge. All we need now is the will.

William James Spriggs

 

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THE PEOPLE'S PARTY

The People's Party Must Rise from the Ashes

Let’s dispense with the illusions.

This is not about taxes or infrastructure or border policy. This is not about left versus right. This is not even about Republicans versus Democrats. That world is gone. The only question that matters now, the only one, is this:

Do you want to live under a dictatorship, or do you want to be free?

That’s it. Everything else is noise. The government has been seized by a cabal of oligarchs who have installed a puppet dictator, Donald J. Trump. Backed by the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 and a swelling mob of the misled, the ignorant, and the power-hungry, this movement has replaced the very structure of our democracy with something far more sinister: fascism in an American flag lapel pin.

The Republican Party no longer exists. It has been hollowed out and rebranded as the Trump Cult, a vessel for authoritarianism, wrapped in slogans, lies, and vengeance. It bears no resemblance to conservatism. It honors no Constitution. It seeks only power and its permanent retention by one man and his loyalists.

But here’s the harder truth: The Democratic Party is gone, too. In the face of this threat, it proved itself weak, compromised, fragmented, and ultimately irrelevant. It surrendered not through malice but through cowardice and complacency. It failed to rise to the existential threat of Trumpism, and as such, it can no longer serve as the engine of resistance or renewal.

So what now?

We begin again. From the ashes of the failed parties, we must form the People’s Party. Not a party of ideologues or insiders. A party of Americans. A party of laborers, thinkers, veterans, artists, workers, teachers, scientists, parents, of people. A party that stands not for slogans or candidates, but for values:

• Free and fair elections.
• An independent judiciary.
• A government of, by, and for the people, not corporations or cults.
• Individual liberty balanced by collective responsibility.
• The rule of law, and no man above it.

This is not a third party. It is the first party of the new era.

We can no longer rely on broken institutions to protect us. We must become the institution. We must reject the labels that have been corrupted beyond recognition. The only label worth wearing now is that of citizen, and the only political home worth building is the People’s Party.

It begins with a name. Then it requires a voice. And finally, it demands action.

Because if we don’t rise now, we will never rise again.

William James Spriggs

 

GO ON THE OFFENSIVE

WAKE UP, IT’S TIME TO ATTACK THE DICTATOR

This is not about “issues.” This is not about “Democrats versus Republicans.” This is about dictatorship, and whether we, as Americans, are willing to live under one. The United States has been captured, not by a foreign adversary, but by a homegrown tyrant, Donald J. Trump, and the oligarchs who bankroll him. Together, they have seized the reins of our government and declared war on the American people.

You were warned. Over and over. For the past year and a half, the alarms have been sounding. Project 2025. The plans to dismantle the civil service. The threats to round up dissidents. The open promises to become a “dictator on day one.” But you hit snooze. Now the alarm has turned into a siren.

WAKE UP. THE COUP ISN’T COMING. IT'S HERE.

Trump is not a presidential candidate. He is the puppet frontman for a hostile corporate takeover of the United States. He is the battering ram for a fascist movement masquerading as patriotism, funded by billionaires and soaked in the delusion of divine right.

This is not a political contest, it’s a moral reckoning. If you support dictatorship, say so. Let history mark your cowardice and complicity. But if you don’t, if you still believe in the promise of a free republic, then do something. Because silence is surrender. Passivity is permission. And neutrality? That’s just a vote for the tyrant.

It is time to attack the dictator.

Not with violence, but with action. With protest. With exposure. With economic warfare. With truth. With ridicule. With courage.

We need thousands of South Park skewering his ego. We need demonstrations in every city, every week. We need lawsuits, boycotts, strikes, and whistleblowers. We need to identify and target his financial lifelines, his donors, his properties, and his branding. We need corporations to choose America or the madman who would rule it.

Attack him at the ballot box. Attack him in courtrooms. Attack him with satire. Attack him with sustained, organized resistance.

This is not theoretical. This is not a drill.

You are either resisting dictatorship or enabling it. There is no middle ground.

We must call out every enabler, governor, senator, judge, CEO, news anchor, preacher, or neighbor who pretends this is normal. Call them what they are: sycophants, collaborators, enemies of the Republic.

This is not about "both sides." There is only freedom or fascism. Pick one.

Yes, it’s uncomfortable. Yes, it’s dangerous. But what do you think history will say of those who watched a dictatorship take root and did nothing?

We can still stop this—but only if we stand up now. Loudly. Boldly. Without apology.

The time for debate is over.
The time for action is now.
Attack the dictator. Or bow to him.

William James Spriggs

ARE YOU CHRIST LIKE?

The Perversion of Christianity: From Empathy to Empire

Christianity in America is no longer recognizable. Whatever its origins, whether the man called Jesus actually lived, or whether the stories attributed to him are mythology, the concept that grew around him was clear and profound: selfless empathy.

Jesus, as described in the Gospels, stood not for wealth or power, but for compassion. He fed the hungry, healed the sick, lifted up the poor, and defied the rich and powerful. He lived among outcasts, welcomed strangers, and challenged hypocrisy wherever he saw it. If nothing else, Jesus represented a radical moral stance: put others first.

This simple, selfless ethic, core to true Christianity, has been abandoned.

Today, Christianity in America is a business, a branding opportunity, a political weapon. Mega-churches preach prosperity, not humility. Ministers act more like CEOs or influencers than servants of the people. Christian nationalism, a toxic blend of religious fervor and authoritarian politics, has hijacked the faith entirely. It speaks the name of Christ, but it serves only greed, power, and control.

There is no empathy in this new Christianity. There is only entitlement. Its leaders boast of moral superiority while backing policies that crush the poor, cage children, deny healthcare, and dismantle the very social fabric Christ urged us to protect. The pulpit now echoes the boardroom. Sermons are sales pitches. Jesus is repackaged as a rugged individualist, not a sacrificial servant.

And the consequences spill into every corner of American life. Our politics are poisoned. Our empathy has withered. The guiding principle of putting others first, so central to moral leadership, even in places like the Marine Corps, is dismissed as weakness. We are told to take what we can, keep what we take, and praise God for our success, no matter who suffers for it.

This perverted version of Christianity is not merely hypocritical. It is dangerous. It is laying the foundation for a modern theocracy, where dissent is heresy and obedience is enforced through fear. The “fear of God” is no longer a spiritual metaphor. It is a political tool used to keep people silent, loyal, and subservient.

Let us be honest: we are witnessing the rise of a Christ-less Christianity. One that uses the language of faith to justify the abandonment of its most sacred commandment: to love your neighbor as yourself.

If Christianity is to mean anything in this century, anything at all, it must return to its roots. It must reclaim the radical empathy at its heart. It must preach humility, not pride. Service, not domination. It must once again teach that leadership means putting others before yourself, not glorifying your own wealth, status, or supposed righteousness.

Until then, what calls itself Christianity today is not faith. It is marketing. It is manipulation. It is a counterfeit gospel that betrays the very man it claims to follow.

I am a believer and practitioner of Jesus Christ's principles and practices.  And you?

William James Spriggs

CAPITALISM IS KILLING US

Capitalism Is Killing Us: The Unholy Alliance of Greed and Power

America is dying, and the cause of death is unbridled capitalism. Not the productive capitalism of fair competition and innovation, but the predatory, fascist-aligned version that now rules us. The capitalism we face today has morphed into an existential threat. It is no longer a system of commerce. It is a system of control, domination, and destruction. And if we do not rein it in, it will kill us all.

The original promise of capitalism was simple: hard work, fair trade, shared prosperity. But that promise has been hijacked by those who see profit as the only moral good and power as its necessary ally. The oligarchs who control our economy now control our government. And they are systematically dismantling every safeguard that once protected the people, from clean air to fair wages, from food safety to public health.

This is not an accident. It is a strategy. The fascist right has openly declared its intentions: eliminate regulation, defund government, destroy the administrative state. Why? Because the government is the last institution capable of standing in the way of total corporate control. Every environmental rule, every labor protection, every food inspection, every healthcare standard. These are not red tape. These are lifelines. And they are being cut one by one.

The result? We are sicker, poorer, more anxious, more addicted, more overworked, and more alone than any generation before us. We eat chemicals, drink lead, breathe poison, and work ourselves to death, for what? For the glory of billionaires? For the quarterly earnings of shareholders?

Let us be clear: this is not capitalism. It is cannibalism.

And standing silently beside this death machine is its corrupted companion: Christianity. Not the Christianity of the Sermon on the Mount, not the Jesus who fed the poor and turned over the money changers' tables, but the bastardized gospel of greed. Today’s Christian nationalists preach prosperity, not compassion. They champion wealth, not justice. They see the downtrodden not as their moral duty but as a nuisance.

They have traded in Christ's teachings for the commandments of capital: Take yours, and then take theirs.

This alliance of fascist capitalism and corrupted Christianity has become the dominant moral order in America. It blesses billionaires and blames the poor. It deregulates the poisons we eat and criminalizes those who cannot afford healthcare. It cuts taxes for oil barons and slashes food aid for children. It screams about freedom while making us slaves to the market.

Enough.

We must kill this death cult before it kills us. We must restore the role of government as protector of the people, not enabler of the predator class. We must reassert the principle that the public good matters more than private gain. We must reimagine capitalism not as a god, but as a tool, a tool that must be constrained, shaped, and sometimes stopped in order to serve the many, not the few.

And if Christianity wishes to remain in this fight, it must return to its moral roots. It must shed its nationalist robes and remember that its founder was not a CEO, but a socialist carpenter who walked with the poor, not the powerful.

This is not just about economics. It is about survival, physical, moral, and democratic. Unregulated capitalism is not just unjust. It is lethal. And unless we rise to defeat it, it will not stop until it has devoured us all.

William James Spriggs

YOU AND THE MILITARY CAN SAVE US

Now Is the Time: A Call to Action 

We are past the moment of polite conversation. The velvet gloves are off. Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, the Heritage Foundation, and their oligarch backers have seized control of the levers of American power. The coup is no longer hypothetical. It is in effect. Their blueprint for dismantling democracy, Project 2025, is no longer a warning. It is a playbook now being executed in real time.

They have captured the executive branch, packed the courts, gutted oversight, and silenced civil servants. The opposition is fractured, distracted, and timid. The press, though still breathing, is under relentless assault. The Congress is neutered. The rule of law bends; soon, it will break. This is not a drill.

Now is the time for action. Not tomorrow. Not next election cycle. Now.

The Streets Must Speak

The first and most urgent response must come from the people. Mass, sustained, nonviolent demonstrations, millions in the streets, not for a weekend but for weeks, for months, must become the pulse of a democracy refusing to die. Every city, every town square, every campus, every courthouse must erupt in peaceful protest. Let the world see that Americans are not all asleep. Let the would-be autocrats see that we are awake.

We must not wait for permission or perfect coordination. We must organize where we can—and improvise where we must.

Economic Resistance

Next, we must strike at the heart of what fuels this regime: corporate greed. Boycott the companies that enable autocracy, those that fund extremist media, donate to MAGA politicians, and profit from deregulation and chaos. We must build and circulate targeted boycott lists, demand accountability from boardrooms, and withdraw our dollars from the oligarchs' pockets.

Even more powerfully, we must strike. National strike days must be declared, not once, but on a rolling basis. A day without work. A day without profit. A day when the economy grinds to a halt because the people have had enough. Small businesses, unions, freelancers, and gig workers all must participate. It is the only language this power structure understands.

The Role of the Military: Stand or Fall

But perhaps most crucial is this: our last institutional defense lies with the military. Trump has shown his willingness to purge disloyal generals, to politicize the armed forces, and to transform our soldiers into enforcers of a dictatorship.

But the military is not beholden to a man. It is sworn to uphold the Constitution. Illegal orders, like firing generals for refusing to violate democratic norms, must not be obeyed. Those in uniform must remember their oath is not to Trump, not to Miller, not to any party or faction, but to the republic itself.

If our generals and admirals stand firm, refuse to yield, refuse to step down when unlawfully dismissed, refuse to turn their forces into political tools, they may yet prevent the final collapse. If they do not, if they falter, then the dream of America will perish. We will fall into the permanent grip of authoritarian rule, and the world will follow.

This Is the Moment

This is not a moment to deliberate. It is not a moment for partisan debate. This is the fork in the road: autocracy or resistance.

History is watching. The future is watching. Our children and grandchildren will ask what we did when the Republic was dying.

Let the answer be: We rose. We fought. We won.

William James Spriggs 

MORALITY MATTERS

 Morality Matters: Reclaiming the Soul of the Nation

The United States of America, once a beacon of moral leadership and human decency, now stands adrift in a sea of corruption, cruelty, and indifference. We have written about the moral bankruptcy that now defines this nation, but the time has come to say it plainly: America has lost its moral compass. The ethical principles upon which the country was founded, equality, justice, compassion, and honesty, have been abandoned and actively trampled in pursuing power and wealth.

In the last eight to ten years, morality has not just declined; it has vanished. Lying is now normalized. Cruelty is no longer condemned but celebrated. The poor and vulnerable are treated as expendable. The sick are left to fend for themselves. The immigrant is demonized. The truth is twisted until it breaks. Above it all, the wealthy and powerful feast, untouched and unbothered by the suffering of others.

It’s no longer a matter of a flawed moral code. The code itself is gone. There is no collective sense of right and wrong, only strategy, dominance, and self-interest. The principles that animated our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, those higher ideals of shared humanity and social responsibility, have been willfully ignored. What remains is a hollow shell of civic life, drained of its moral meaning.

And religion? Instead of stepping in to fill the moral void, Christianity in America, once a moral force for justice and charity, has largely abdicated its role. Many churches, rather than defending the least among us, have joined the forces of political power, aligning themselves with wealth, privilege, and authoritarianism. They preach judgment instead of grace, fear instead of love. They cheer the strong and abandon the weak.

But it does not have to be this way.

Those who remember that morality matters, who know that honesty, compassion, and justice are not optional but essential, must speak out. We must not yield the language of morality to those who have perverted it for political gain. Morality is not a partisan issue. It is the foundation of any decent society; without it, we descend into barbarism.

Perhaps there is still hope. Maybe some Christians remember their faith’s authentic roots, not in gold-plated power but in humble service to the poor and oppressed. Possibly, there are secular humanists, civic-minded citizens, and people of all backgrounds who still believe in the dignity of others. If so, let us join hands, not as partisans or ideologues but as moral beings determined to reverse this decline.

Democracy is more than a structure of governance. It is a moral statement: that each person matters, that issues of truth, that justice must prevail. To save it, we must recover the moral purpose that once made it meaningful.

Morality matters. Now more than ever.

William James Spriggs

TRUMP'S GESTAPO

Trump’s Gestapo: The Quiet Rise of American Authoritarianism

Too many Americans remain asleep, indifferent, or blind to the political nightmare around them. Since late 2023, it has been evident to anyone willing to look that Donald Trump, backed by the Heritage Foundation and the architects of Project 2025, has been methodically and publicly implementing a blueprint for dictatorship. What was once theory has become fact. America is no longer flirting with authoritarianism. It is living under it.

At the center of this authoritarian transformation is Trump’s private police force, his modern-day Gestapo. Funded more than the FBI, this force now operates largely outside constitutional law. By its own admission, it has powers that violate every principle of due process: the ability to stop citizens without probable cause, detain them without charges, and confine them in undisclosed detention facilities without access to legal representation or a hearing before a judge.

Let that sink in.

This is not speculation or conspiracy. It is the reality we now face. And just like the Gestapo of Hitler’s Germany, this force is not merely a tool of surveillance and intimidation. It is a weapon of political suppression, a blunt instrument used to silence dissent and enforce loyalty to one man. Trump's admiration for dictators like Putin, Erdoğan, and Orbán has never been a secret. He’s made clear his respect for raw, unaccountable power. What did we expect him to do with that ambition once back in office?

Yet, astonishingly, most Americans, Democrats, independents, and even many former Republicans, are still behaving as if this is politics as usual. It’s not. This is not about taxes, immigration, or budget policy. This is about the survival of democracy. This is about the rule of law versus the rule of one man.

We are now living in a country where speaking out against the regime risks arrest. Where criticism of the president is treated as sedition, you or your neighbor could be detained for a Facebook post, a protest sign, or an overheard conversation. The camps are real. The detentions are real. The fear is real.

Wake up, America.

Authoritarianism does not arrive all at once. It creeps in, policy by policy, arrest by arrest, silence by silence. And now it has come through the front door, invited by a political party that has abandoned its principles and a population too fractured, frightened, or complacent to resist.

But resistance is still possible if we act now. If we speak the truth, organize, and confront this regime not with half-hearted politics but with the moral courage and relentless energy of those who still believe in liberty. History is watching. And so is the Gestapo.

William James Spriggs

TRUMP'S SECOND TERM COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED

History Must Remember: Trump’s Second Term Could Have Been Prevented

As we navigate the ruinous aftermath of Donald Trump’s second term, one critical truth must not be lost to history: this could have been prevented. In late 2023 and early 2024, we proposed a bold but entirely legal option rooted in the Constitution that, had it been taken, might have altered the trajectory of American democracy.

In multiple published articles, we argued that President Biden had the executive authority to declare Donald Trump ineligible to run for president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. This was not some fanciful wish or partisan stunt. It was a reasoned, constitutionally grounded proposal based on the Executive's responsibility under Article II, Section 3, to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” The 14th Amendment, as part of the Constitution, is one of those laws.

Let history record: Biden had the pen. He had the precedent. And he had the opportunity.

The Supreme Court’s decision in the Colorado case, which effectively greenlit Trump’s candidacy, was flawed. It misinterpreted the executive branch's role in enforcing constitutional provisions and ignored historical examples like enforcing school desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education or upholding civil rights in the face of opposition. The executive branch's power to act in defense of constitutional principles is well established.

We must remember this missed opportunity because the consequences are now undeniable. Everything we foresaw in 2024 has come to pass: the dismantling of democratic institutions, the consolidation of power under a de facto monarch, and the subjugation of the Constitution to the whims of a man who never believed in its principles.

Presidents like Truman, FDR, or JFK would have had the intestinal fortitude to act. But President Biden, despite the warning signs and legal grounding, hesitated. Perhaps it was fear of political backlash. Perhaps it was faith in institutions that no longer function as intended. Either way, that fork in the road was ignored, and we are now living with the result.

Our writings from that period, including “Why Biden Can Declare Trump Ineligible,” laid out the case entirely. They should not be forgotten. They are not just footnotes in a dark chapter of American history. They are the proof that this didn’t have to happen. That the takeover of our republic wasn’t inevitable. That one act of courage could have changed everything.

History will judge what we did and did not do in our hour of need. Let it also remember what might have been done, and who had the power to do it.

William James Spriggs

WE ARE BEYOND POLITICS

The Death of Political Parties: A Nation Beyond Politics

In today’s United States, political parties have become irrelevant. They are not obsolete in form. Parties still exist and hold conventions, raise funds, and nominate candidates, but they are irrelevant in purpose. The defining conflict in America is no longer between Democrats and Republicans. It is between democracy and autocracy. The rest is noise.

The Republican Party is dead. Whatever it once stood for, fiscal conservatism, states’ rights, and law and order are gone. In its place is a personality cult, wholly subservient to one man who lies, bullies, and controls through fear and repetition. The GOP has become the American mirror image of the authoritarian movements of the past, most notably, the rise of Hitler’s fascism in 1930s Germany. Today’s Republican Party has no platform, no vision beyond power, and no room for dissent. It has become the political arm of a dictator-in-waiting, and as such, it must be recognized not as a party but as a threat.

The Democratic Party, by contrast, is not a threat but impotent. Disorganized, timid, and paralyzed by decades of triangulation, it has failed to present a compelling vision of hope and renewal. It remains committed to politics as usual in a time when politics as usual is suicidal. The party has no singular leader capable of galvanizing the public, and there is no unifying message bold enough to match the existential threat we face. It is out of step with the urgency of the moment.

This is not a time for party loyalty. This is not about left or right. This concerns whether the United States will continue to be a democracy or descend into autocracy.

If you believe in freedom, in the rule of law, in the dignity of the individual, in fair elections and peaceful transitions of power, then you are already on one side of this fight. And it is a fight. A bare-knuckled, high-stakes fight against tyranny, corruption, censorship, and the criminalization of truth itself.

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation, Stephen Miller, and the rest of the Trump-aligned far-right cabal have declared their intentions: to demolish the constitutional government of the United States and replace it with a system where power is centralized, opposition is punished, and religion replaces law. They do not hide this. They have published it.

Meanwhile, millions of Americans remain trapped in political tribalism, believing the next election will play out like those of the past. It will not. If there is one at all, the next election will be the last meaningful one if this threat is not met with action.

So stop talking about political parties. Don’t donate to them. Don’t wait for their permission to act. Ask yourself one question:

Do you stand for democracy or dictatorship?

Because that is the only choice left.

If you stand for democracy, then act like it. Get in the streets. Organize. Boycott. Write. Protest. Refuse to be silent. Refuse to be polite. Refuse to accept a future in which America becomes an authoritarian state governed by greed, fear, and God as a weapon.

The time for politics is over.

William James Spriggs

THE WAR FOR REALITY

In Service of the Lie: How a Nation Dismantles Its Own Moral Code

A quiet yet deadly transformation has overtaken America, not through tanks or coups, but through lies. Not ordinary lies told to avoid embarrassment or soften pain. Still, systemic, foundational lies told at the highest levels of power and adopted en masse by millions of Americans who no longer question what they are told. These citizens live in service to the lie, and that allegiance is destroying the very moral fabric of the nation.

The troubling truth is this: those who live in service of the lie will eventually be destroyed by it.

In a healthy democracy, truth is the cornerstone. Morality, our sense of right and wrong, depends entirely on truth. Without it, morality is not just weakened; it is obliterated. In the absence of truth, lies become a currency, and a leader who lies without consequence becomes a prophet to the morally bankrupt.

We now watch in disbelief as millions support a man who lies with impunity, denies facts that are evident to all, and encourages his followers to do the same. He is not a leader in the traditional sense. He is a fiction writer whose stories have captured a disaffected audience seeking absolution, not accountability. He offers them the comfort of falsehood, and they accept it eagerly, casting truth aside as inconvenient, elitist, or unpatriotic.

But there is no patriotism in delusion. There is no integrity in lies.

The most dangerous consequence is not political chaos but the collapse of a shared moral code. Once morality becomes subjective, guided by tribal allegiance rather than principle, there is no longer a common ground on which to build a nation. A society cannot function, much less thrive, if half its people deny reality and the other half is left defending what should be self-evident.

The lie is seductive because it removes responsibility. It tells its followers that nothing matters—not science, evidence, or decency. But the lie exacts a cost: it strips away the capacity to live honorably. Those who serve the lie lose their ability to discern truth, and with it, their claim to any moral high ground.

Truth eventually does prevail. It always does. But when it returns, scorched by denial and dismissed by demagogues, it often finds that the people it could have saved have already sold their souls.

America must choose to restore truth as the central pillar of public life or continue down the path of fiction until nothing is left but moral ash. This is not politics as usual. This is a war for reality itself.

And in such a war, neutrality is complicity.

William James Spriggs

IT'S EQUALITY SINCE 1776

Democracy Is Equality, and That’s What Terrifies the Fascists

From the beginning, democracy was not built on the fantasy that all men and women are the same. We are not equal in strength, intellect, ability, judgment, or education. The founders knew this well. Instead, they envisioned something radical: that despite our differences, we would all be equal in power, equal in the right to shape the laws and institutions that govern us. Equality, in this sense, was the foundation of self-government. It was the core principle behind the Declaration of Independence, later enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

Democracy, then, is not about sameness. It is about shared sovereignty. It declares that "we the people" are the rulers, not kings, popes, billionaires, or CEOs. We agreed to bind ourselves to laws we helped create, enforced by a government that is our servant, not our master. It was the antidote to monarchy, oligarchy, and autocracy, a government of equals.

And that is precisely what the fascists now fear and fight.

The authoritarian project currently sweeping America, championed by Trump and detailed in Project 2025, is not about policy. It is about power. It is about reestablishing hierarchy where democracy demands equality. It is about returning to a time when a few ruled over many, when race, gender, wealth, or religion conferred political privilege.

The new autocrats don’t believe in equality. They may pay lip service to it, but at their core, they are terrified by the idea that the poor, the immigrant, the Black, the Brown, the female, the queer, the disabled, all are equal stakeholders in this nation. That is why they attack voting rights. That is why they suppress books, muzzle teachers, and dismantle public institutions. That is why they elevate wealth to sacred status and push for a theocracy that claims divine order as justification for inequality.

They are reviving the lie of natural hierarchy, the idea that some are born to rule and others to serve. This lie has been repackaged as "meritocracy," but its essence is as old as feudalism. In their world, we are returning to lords and peasants, white over Black, rich over poor, men over women.

But democracy does not survive in such a hierarchy. It cannot.

We the people is not just a phrase but a declaration of equality. And if we lose that, we lose everything. Democracy dies not just when we stop voting, but when we stop believing that we are all equally entitled to rule ourselves. It dies when we let oligarchs and zealots redefine citizenship as a privilege rather than a birthright.

The current regime is not just anti-democratic. It is anti-equality. It yearns for a return to aristocracy, only this time cloaked in religion, racial superiority, and the unchecked power of capital. It is a monarchy dressed as populism. It is fascism with a smile.

The answer is not to moderate our demands. It is to reaffirm the founding promise: that democracy is equality in action. It is the only system that declares, despite our differences, that every citizen stands on level ground before the law and has an equal say in shaping our collective destiny.

This is not just a political fight. It is a moral one.

William James Spriggs

WAR, NOT POLITICS

This Is Not Politics. This Is War.

Let’s stop calling it politics.
Let’s stop pretending this is another election cycle, another partisan dispute, another red-versus-blue contest with campaign ads and polite disagreements.

This is not politics. This is war.

Not a war with bullets, but a war of truth versus lies.
A war of freedom versus submission.
A war of the Constitution versus the cult.
A war between We the People and the would-be king.

We are no longer debating policy, tax rates, or school budgets. We are fighting for the right to exist as a free people under a democratic charter. That charter, our Constitution, is being burned in plain sight. Its protections are being shredded, its principles mocked, and its balance of power erased.

Trump and his followers have declared it. They no longer pretend to believe in democracy. They no longer feel the need to couch their ambitions. Through Project 2025, they have announced their goal: to erase our republic and replace it with an authoritarian regime, with Trump as its ruler and a coalition of billionaires, religious extremists, and enablers to keep him there.

This is not an exaggeration. This is not a metaphor.
This is real. And it is happening right now.

So no, this is not politics. This is a fight.
And in this fight, there is no middle ground.

You are either with the Constitution or against it.
You are either with democracy or against it.
You are either a citizen or a subject.

And if you are with the Constitution. If you still believe in the Declaration of Independence, in equality before the law, in government by consent of the governed, then you must fight.

Fight not with weapons, but with unyielding will.
Fight in courts, classrooms, boardrooms, statehouses, and your community.
Fight at the ballot box, on the airwaves, in print, and online.
Fight by organizing, protesting, educating, exposing, and voting like your life depends on it—because it does.

There is no normal to return to. There is no neutrality to retreat to.
Trump and his movement have made that impossible.

This is us vs. them, not by choice, but by necessity.
Us: the sovereign citizens of a free republic.
Them: the loyalists to a king who never deserved a crown.

This country was born in rebellion against a monarch. We declared our independence in writing, in blood, and in principle. We said no to tyranny once, and now we must repeat it, with the same urgency, clarity, and unity.

Because if we fail to fight truly, there will be no second chance.

This is not politics. This is history.

Which side are you on?

William James Spriggs

HOW TO REPEAL BBB

Repealing the “Big Beautiful Bill”: Can Democrats Undo the Trump Blueprint in 2029?

Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”, a sweeping package of legislative and regulatory changes, was never just policy. It was a statement of dominance: a restructuring of American government, economics, and civil life to cement minority rule by the wealthy and powerful. It was rushed through with unapologetic arrogance, tailored to serve oligarchs, gut public services, roll back civil liberties, and centralize power under a cult of personality.

With the possibility of Democratic control in 2029, the question looms: Can it be undone?

The answer is yes, but not easily, and not all at once. What Trump and his supporters enacted was not a single bill, it was a long-term architecture for autocracy. Dismantling it will take more than a majority vote. It will require discipline, courage, and a strategy that acknowledges the scale of the damage.

1. The Power of Repeal, With Control of Congress and the White House

If Democrats control the House, Senate, and the presidency in 2029, they can introduce new legislation to repeal or replace the provisions in Trump’s bill. But this will only work if they have:

• A working majority in the House,
• At least 50 Senate seats and a Democratic vice president to break ties,
• Or 60 Senate seats to bypass the filibuster.

In other words, they’ll need unity and urgency.

2. Using Budget Reconciliation for Speed

For budget-related provisions, like tax giveaways to billionaires or funding cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Democrats can use budget reconciliation, which allows passage in the Senate with a simple majority. This process helped pass the Affordable Care Act and the Biden American Rescue Plan.

However, reconciliation is limited:

• It can only be used once per budget cycle.
• It must involve items that have a direct budgetary impact.
• It cannot include unrelated policy measures (thanks to the “Byrd Rule”).

So while reconciliation could help reverse Trump’s tax code shifts or restore gutted social funding, it won’t touch regulatory rollbacks or civil service purges.

3. Rolling Back Regulations with the Congressional Review Act (CRA)

If Trump’s government implemented regulations late in his second term, Democrats in 2029 could use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn them quickly with a simple majority. This tool is time-sensitive—only applicable within a 60-legislative-day window of the regulation’s finalization.

But the CRA only applies to regulations, not laws. And once used, it prohibits reissuing a “substantially similar” rule. So while useful, it’s a scalpel, not a sword.

4. Counter-Legislation: Rebuilding, Not Just Repealing

Even if Democrats cannot repeal every part of Trump’s legacy outright, they can counter it with affirmative legislation:

• Restore protections for federal workers,
• Reinstate environmental and civil rights regulations,
• Expand public education and healthcare access,
• Legislate voting rights and democratic reforms.

This won’t simply be about going back to “before Trump.” It must be about going forward, offering a new vision grounded in justice, equality, and democratic renewal.

5. The Real Battle: Political Will

Perhaps the biggest challenge isn’t legal or proceduralists’ political will. Repeal requires Democrats to govern boldly, not timidly. They must abandon the myth of bipartisanship with a party still devoted to authoritarianism and minority rule. They must make the case to the American people that Trump’s bill was not a policy victory but a betrayal of the republic.

They must be willing to say:

“This wasn’t just bad law. It was immoral, undemocratic, and un-American. And we’re not going to live under it.”

If Democrats do win in 2028, the window for repeal will be brief. Trump’s plan was designed to be durable, to lock in power for a generation. Delay is defeat. Half-measures will not be enough.

The moment must be met with clarity and courage.

Because if we’ve learned anything from Project 2025 and Trump’s second term, it’s that autocracy doesn’t fade on its own. It must be dismantled, piece by piece, law by law, lie by lie.

And that begins with the repeal of the Big Beautiful Bill.

William James Spriggs

WE ARE THE SOVEREIGN

We Are the Sovereign: A Republic, Not a Kingdom

There is only one true sovereign in this nation: We the People.

That was the defining break with monarchy in 1776. The Declaration of Independence wasn’t just a list of grievances but a revolution of sovereignty. It declared that the government does not derive its power from kings or elites, but from the consent of the governed. And in the Constitution, that idea became law: power flows from the people upward, not from a ruler downward.

We are the sovereign. You. Me. All of us together, not ruled, but self-governing.

But today, we are under siege.
Not from a foreign king.
But from a homegrown pretender to the throne.

Donald Trump and his minions have tried to hijack the sovereignty that belongs to us all. They do not serve the people. They serve only him. They do not represent a republic. They represent a cult. They have pledged not to the Constitution, but to a man. And in doing so, they have betrayed the very foundation of this country.

They act as if Trump is the sovereign, as if he holds the crown, and they are his court. They do not criticize him, question him, or check his power. They submit. They surrender their own agency, duty, and patriotism to stay in his favor.

But that is not American. That is monarchism in disguise.

This is not a clash between right and left, red and blue.
This is a clash between constitutional sovereignty and personal dictatorship.

Trump and his supporters are trying to invent a new sovereignty, one where power is inherited, not earned. One where laws serve rulers, not citizens. One where dissent is punished, and loyalty to a single man replaces loyalty to the republic.

But there is no such sovereignty in America. The only legitimate sovereign recognized by our founding documents, our democratic principles, and the blood shed in their defense is the people.

We are the sovereign. Not Trump. Not Congress. Not the Court.

And because we are the sovereign, we are also the guardians.
It is on us to stop the creeping return of monarchy in red hats and gold towers.
We must remind our fellow citizens that the flag does not belong to a party.
Again, it is on us to declare that this nation belongs to all of us, not to one of us.

We are not subjects.
We are not pawns.
We are not loyalists to a would-be king.

We are citizens of a republic, and we are the sovereign.

Let no one forget it. And let no one take it from us without a fight.

William James Spriggs

TRUMP'S MESSAGE

Trump’s Overreach Wasn’t a Mistake—It Was a Message

Donald Trump has overreached. Again.

He pushed through his so-called "big beautiful" legislative package—an authoritarian wishlist so radical, so transparently biased in favor of the ultra-wealthy, and so openly designed to dismantle the U.S. government, that any rational observer might ask: Why go so far?

Why make it so blatant? Why push so hard, so fast, and with so little effort to disguise the harm being done to working people, democratic institutions, and the very fabric of the Constitution?

The answer is as chilling as it is obvious:
Trump doesn’t believe there will be any honest elections to stop him.
He does not fear losing power.
He does not fear backlash.
He does not fear the people.

Because he does not intend to give the people another meaningful chance to choose.

This overreach is not a strategic misstep; it’s a declaration. Through Project 2025 and its legislative offspring, Trump and his enablers have made it abundantly clear that they are not interested in governing under a democratic system. They want to replace it with a permanent, hereditary, and fully consolidated regime where elections are performative, dissent is punished, and power never changes hands.

Let’s stop pretending this is politics as usual.
This is not the run-up to the next election. This is the run-down of the entire democratic process.

Trump is already behaving like a man with no intention of leaving. And why would he? A captured Supreme Court insulates him, a Congress stuffed with loyalists, a media landscape he manipulates at will, and a security state increasingly complicit in protecting power, not liberty. He has normalized corruption, trivialized cruelty, and, most importantly, proven that he can get away with all of it.

And so he pushes further.
Not because he miscalculated,
But because it’s working.

Democrats, meanwhile, remain locked in a delusion that this is just another dark chapter in American politics and that the next election will be the turning point. But what if there is no real "next election"? What if free and fair voting mechanisms are dismantled or distorted beyond recognition? What if we're already past the tipping point?

Trump has no reason to worry about political fallout. He’s a self-declared king in a system designed for presidents. He’s the head of a dynasty, not a party. And if allowed to continue unchecked, he will name his successor and solidify a generational autocracy that will take decades, if ever, to undo.

The grim truth is this: we are not awaiting an election. We are living through a slow-motion coup. The paperwork has already been filed. The power structures are being reshaped. The laws are being rewritten. The institutions are being hollowed out.

If Democrats continue to behave as if this is business as usual, they will lose not just an election, but also the country.

This is not a call for partisan resistance. It is a call for existential resistance.

Everything, every hard-fought right, every fragile freedom, every meaningful vote- hangs in the balance.

The time for caution is over.
The time for compromise has passed.
The time for action, decisive, organized, and unrelenting, is now.

Because Trump hasn’t just overreached.
He’s shown us the endgame.

And if we don’t respond with the seriousness this moment demands,
That game will be over for all of us.

William James Spriggs

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A DIRGE FOR THE FOURTH

A Funeral Dirge for the Fourth of July

There is no name for what this country has become.

It is not America the Beautiful.
It is not the United States because it is not united.
It is not a republic, a democracy, or a shining city on a hill.

What it resembles now is something darker: a broken nation, run by a self-declared strongman and propped up by an oligarchy of billionaires who ensure that he remains in power. The people, the actual people, are no longer stakeholders. They are pawns. Or worse: they are forgotten.

This is not hyperbole. This is reality.

The once sacred institutions of American democracy, the checks and balances, the civil service, the judiciary, and the free press, have been bent to the will of a man who leads a cult, not a country. There are no “co-equal branches of government” anymore. The executive has swallowed the legislative and intimidated the judiciary. It is government by one man, for the few, at the expense of the many.

Democracy, as we knew it, is gone.
We warned of this in 2024, when Project 2025 was first published, a detailed, unapologetic blueprint for dismantling the republic and rebuilding it as an authoritarian regime cloaked in nationalism and false piety.

Now, in 2025, it is no longer theory. It is a fact.

The government no longer serves the people. It serves the rich-the very rich, the obscenely rich—and no one else. Even the merely wealthy have no power compared to the oligarchs who own the seats of influence, the airwaves, and the halls of power. Meanwhile, the poor, the working class, and the undereducated have no lifeline. Social services are gone. Public education is gutted. Labor rights are vanishing. Healthcare is reserved for those who can afford it, which is to say: the elite.

And who belongs in that elite?
Only those who meet the unspoken, but deeply enforced, requirements of Trump’s America: white, loyal, wealthy, and unquestioning.

Through his weaponized immigration policy, Trump has engineered a racial sorting process under the guise of law and order. He is not enforcing borders. He is enforcing a hierarchy. A racial caste system. A new version of Jim Crow, made more efficient by technology and sealed by propaganda.

The environment? Abandoned.
Innovation? Replaced with slogans.
Science? Silenced.
Faith? Hijacked by the state.

We are not heading toward theocracy. We are already there, just waiting for the curtain to rise fully.

So, what is there to celebrate this Fourth of July?

Fireworks in a graveyard? Flags on a battlefield already lost?
This is not independence. It is subjugation with branding.

Yes, some still fight, those who resist and dream of reclaiming the republic. They are the ones who remember what America could be. But they are no longer fighting to improve it. They are fighting to resurrect it.

America, as we knew it, no longer exists.

And so on this Fourth of July, don’t raise a glass in celebration.
Raise it in mourning.
Not for the America that was perfect, because it never was.
But for the America that once aspired to be better.

Now, that aspiration has been buried beneath the boots of autocracy.
And all we can hear, if we’re honest, is the sound of a funeral dirge.

Let it ring, not as surrender, but as a warning.
The republic will not come from pageantry if it is to be reborn.
It will come from resistance.

William James Spriggs

 

YOU DON'T MATTER

You Don’t Matter: The Truth Behind Trump’s Legislative Wrecking Ball

At this very moment, Congress is voting on what Donald Trump is proudly calling his “big, beautiful” legislative package, a sweeping, calculated disaster cloaked in patriotic language and populist theater. But beneath the surface, it is nothing less than a brutal betrayal of the American people.

You don’t matter.
Not if you’re working-class.
Not if you rely on public healthcare.
Not if you’re raising children, caring for an aging parent, or just trying to get by.
You. Do. Not. Matter.

This legislation, crafted by the Heritage Foundation, backed by billionaires, and rubber-stamped by sycophants, is not policy. It is plunder. It is a roadmap for locking in the privileges of the wealthy elite while gutting what little is left of the American social contract. If passed, these laws and changes will outlive Trump’s presidency and become embedded in the country's legal infrastructure, extremely difficult to reverse, and nearly impossible to repair.

Here’s what’s really in the package:

• Tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy, permanent and deep
• Drastic reductions to Medicaid and Social Security
• Elimination of environmental regulations that protect your air and water
• Expanded religious exemptions to allow discrimination under the guise of faith
• A complete dismantling of the federal workforce, replacing civil servants with loyalists
• Defunding of public schools while redirecting funds to elite private institutions

And what do you get?

Maybe, maybe, a temporary bump in your paycheck that will vanish with the next price hike. Perhaps a vague promise of “freedom” while your local hospital shuts its doors. Maybe a job program that pays less than your bills requires and has no benefits.

If you are a MAGA supporter, this part is for you.
Even you don’t matter.

This legislation does not serve you. It will not help your town, your school, or your child. It will not save your job, reduce your rent, or lower your prescription costs. It only helps the rich stay rich, and get richer still. And you are simply the disposable fuel powering their engine.

This is the ultimate “thank you” from the man you’ve supported for years:
You don’t matter.
Your loyalty is irrelevant.
Your needs are a nuisance.

This is no longer about the party. It’s about survival. It’s about calling this moment what it is: an economic war on working people, dressed in a flag and fed to you on cable news as victory.

It is time to say no to all of it.
No to being used.
No to being silenced.
No to being lied to while your life gets harder, your care gets worse, and your dignity disappears.

This legislation must be fought piece by piece, exposed, and rejected. For what it is: a cruel monument to greed, passed on the backs of the forgotten. Of you.

Because, as long as Trump is in power, the message is the same:
You don’t matter.

But if we rise together, and vote, protest, and organize.
We can make sure they hear us.
And we can change the message to:
We matter. All of us.

William James Spriggs

 

TRUMP'S WAR ON AMERICA

The Great Immigration Myth: Trump’s War on Diversity Is a War on America Itself

Donald Trump built his entire political career on a lie, the Great Immigration Myth: that immigrants are criminals, parasites, and threats to the American way of life. From the moment he descended his golden escalator in 2015, he launched a campaign not just against illegal immigration, but against non-white humanity itself. His goal was never to fix a broken system. His goal was always to make America white again.

Let’s be clear: there is no immigration crisis in the sense that Trump and his followers portray. What exists is a policy failure, one that could be remedied through the systems and laws we already have, if only they were supported, funded, and administered with compassion and common sense.

What is needed is:

• Expanded resources for legal processing and asylum review
• Safe, humane housing for those waiting for hearings
• A functional, well-funded pathway to citizenship for long-term residents
• Sensible vetting and security—not walls and bans
• And above all, legislation based on law and logic, not fear and hate

But instead of fixing the system, Trump is weaponizing it.
Instead of solving immigration, he is criminalizing it.
Instead of upholding the values of the Constitution, he is resurrecting the language of racial cleansing.

Yes, racial cleansing. Because that’s what happens when you deliberately paint one group of people as inferior, dangerous, and unwelcome, that’s what happens when you call immigrants “animals,” “vermin,” and “invaders.” That’s what happens when you build detention camps, separate families, and deport people who’ve lived here peacefully for decades. And if he has his way, it may not stop at deportation. History shows us where this path leads, chillingly reminiscent of the 1930s.

Make no mistake: immigration is not America’s problem. It is its solution.

We need people to come here to work, study, contribute, and lead. America’s economy depends on it, our universities thrive on it, and our population growth requires it. Without immigration, the American experiment slowly dies.

What Trump is selling is not protection, it’s regression. It is the desperate gasp of a dying ideology: that whiteness equals power, and diversity equals threat. But this ideology is not only immoral, it is dangerous, unsustainable, and economically suicidal.

If America is to survive and thrive in the 21st century, it must do so as a multiracial, multilingual, multicultural democracy. That is our strength, that is our identity, and that is what Trump fears most.

So let’s be honest about what his immigration crusade is:
Not a border policy.
Not a crime strategy.
Not national security.

It is a white nationalist project masquerading as patriotism. It is racial panic dressed in red, white, and blue. It rejects everything America could become, and once aspired to be.

Trump is not solving a crisis.
He is the crisis.

And the only moral, democratic, and patriotic response is to reject this lie completely—and to rebuild a system where immigrants are not feared, but welcomed. Where the Statue of Liberty still means something. Where America is not whitened, but enlightened.

Because in the end, immigration won’t destroy America. It just might save it.

William James Spriggs