RESIST Central Maine
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RESIST CENTRAL MAINE
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RESIST
CENTRAL MAINE?
This group is working to change the direction in which the country is headed. Our goal, is to educate the public. Every week we will bring the facts to light, inform the L/A public, and remind them of their voting power in 2026-2028. Building people's power is the only approach that's proven to work as it did in 2020. Now we ask our friends and neighbors to join us...lend us your physical presence, your intellect, and wisdom. Together we have a chance to defeat a man who would destroy our democracy, our pride, trust, and standing in the world. Join us in speaking truth to power!
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Important reads....
And How to Stop It
Apr 4
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. If we see this, we can stop it, overcome the movement that brought us to this point, and make a turn towards something better.
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Pete Hegseth are stuck in the logic of escalation, according to which the feeling of defeat today can be reversed by doing the first thing that comes to mind tomorrow. Trump is surrounded by people who are making money from the war; each day of war strengthens a warmongering lobby with personal access to the president. As the war lengthens, the chance that it will be exploited for a coup attempt increases.
Trump tells us that he is chiefly concerned with the permanence of his own comfort and power (think about ballroom and bunker), much of which he will lose when his party is defeated decisively in the midterms. He regularly declares his intention to meddle in the elections. His party backed a bill which would have turned elections into a sham. Trump wants to increase the defense budget by nearly 50% without any review of what the money is for; this is strategic nonsense, and has to be understood as a payoff for the men who, as he imagines, will help him install a dictatorship. Hegseth is meanwhile purging the highest officer ranks of people of principle.
It is up to us to put two and two together: Trump will seek to exploit the war (or the next one) to alter the elections. We bear responsibility for what comes next.
Read the rest here...
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-next-coup-attempt?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Another important read...
Is Orbán's Decline Trump's Fall?
Apr 10, 2026
On Sunday, the day after tomorrow, Hungary will hold parliamentary elections. Ho-hum, you might think, a routine round of politics in a small central European nation. But these elections loom large the world over.
Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, is a central figure in the international far right, and indeed the man, more than any other, who created the networks that normalized what he himself calls “illiberalism.” Should he lose, as all signs indicate he will, this would be blow to far more familiar figures such as JD Vance and Donald Trump, who are Orbán’s pupils. Americans tend to think that history moves from us outward; but in the case of the new oligarcho-fascism, we are the students rather than the masters. Much of what seems American in Trump and Vance came from Hungary, or from Russia via Hungary.
Finish reading here...
It's easy to get discouraged. It's easy to think that our actions don't make a difference. It used to be easy to believe that congress, or the courts, would take care of injustice and return our country to a better place.
Recent history makes two things clear:
- It's up to us- to we the people- to fix the mess our country is in. My latest song, which you can hear at https://youtu.be/0K_MDYms9pU?si=-yH3TOrK8CDJB-4N , and the interview I gave on the bridge last week, come from my review of American history. Starting with the Declaration of Independence and continuing with the end of slavery, women fighting for and getting the vote, workers getting the rights to unionize, the voting rights act and civil rights act, the end of the vietnam war, and the gay rights movement, change in America has almost always come from the citizens mobilizing as we are now. It has almost never come from the top,
- and our actions are working.
The immigrants who were sent to the concentration camp in El Salvador are no longer there.
Polling the American people shows a continuing shift toward disapproval of the administration's policies.
Recent polls:
July 21st poll by The American Research Group- a poll whose methodology was approved by the Times- presidential approval 38% approve, 59% disapprove (he is 21 points under water). Approval of his approach to the economy: 35% approve, 62% disapprove (27 points under water)
On his Big, (*^(%, Bill, "Americans say, 61% to 39%, that they oppose the spending bill overall. Most, 58%, now say Trump’s gone too far in cutting federal government programs (up 7 points since February), and his rating for handling the federal budget now stands at just 37%." (CNN) "But by a 45-point margin, Americans call the amount that it will add to the deficit a reason for opposition. By a 25-point margin, they oppose its removal of incentives for the use of clean energy to encourage the use of oil and gas."
"By a smaller 8-point margin, they oppose the changes it makes to social safety net programs, such as increased work requirements for recipients of benefits including Medicaid and nutrition assistance and decreased federal spending on those benefits." (This smaller gap seems like an opportunity for our presence and our advocacy to make clearer how these cuts will hurt deserving people) . More at https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/politics/trump-megabill-one-big-beautiful-bill
Newsweek: "A CBS News/YouGov poll published Sunday surveyed 2,343 U.S. adults on a range of topics related to Trump's agenda and actions.
The poll found that Trump is losing support on his immigration platform, with 58 percent of respondents opposing the administration's use of detention facilities."
In a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, just 17% of respondents state that the administration is handling the Jeffrey Epstein case well.
It takes a sustained effort to move public opinion and make change, especially at a time when AI chatbots and other fraudulent news sources blanket peoples' senses. On the other hand, seeing your friends and neighbors- people you know and trust- taking a stand is more powerful than reading an online comment from an anonymous source.
We can do this.
It will take time.
In the words of the civil rights anthem, we keep on keeping on.
Gandhi said: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
In solidarity, Stan
REBECCA C. BERRY EXPERIENCED RESULTS DRIVEN LEADERSHIP
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