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Small town police forces can be among the worst.
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Full speech.

Some small town piggies will do anything for multi millionaires, hoping for bigger crumbs.

Pay attention, many spur of the moment riots across America are really people fed up with Prison USA.

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Fresh push in Congress to curb Trump’s war powers​

Anwar Iqbal
March 23, 2026

WASHINGTON: Fresh efforts are under way in both the House and the Senate to rein in President Donald Trump’s authority to wage war against Iran, as Democratic leaders renewed their push to force a vote on ending US involvement in hostilities not authorised by Congress.

In the House, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced that Democrats would soon introduce another war powers resolution aimed at stopping what he repeatedly described as a “reckless war of choice”.

“I would focus right now on stopping this reckless war of choice and we will bring another war powers resolution to do just that,” Mr Jeffries said. “I expect strong Democratic support for that resolution, including among some who previously may have voted against it earlier in this war.

And all we need is a few Republicans to join us. So, we can stand up for the American people who are overwhelmingly opposed to Donald Trump’s reckless war of choice.”


Early March resolution defeated by a narrow margin, with at least four Democrats voting against it
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An earlier House measure failed on March 5 by a narrow 212-219 vote. All but two Republicans opposed it, while four Democrats — Reps. Jared Golden of Maine, Juan Vargas of California, Greg Landsman of Ohio and Henry Cuellar of Texas — crossed the aisle to defeat the resolution.
 
Mr Jeffries said the new proposal would contain “substantial differences” from the previous Massie-Khanna bill to reflect developments in the conflict over the past three weeks and what he described as growing public opposition to the war.

In the Senate, lawmakers have also attempted to limit the president’s authority. On March 18, a war powers resolution seeking to restrict Mr Trump’s ability to continue military action against Iran without congressional authorisation failed 47–53, largely along party lines.

The measure would have required the withdrawal of US forces from hostilities against Iran unless Congress formally approved them. Several efforts have been introduced in the upper chamber, including a resolution led by Senator Cory Booker and other Democrats to withdraw US forces from hostilities absent congressional approval.

The Karachi-born Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen accused the president of escalating the conflict unlawfully. “Now Trump has launched an illegal regime change war of choice on Iran. This is not a war to make us safer. What the president has done is to make the world less safe for America,” he said.
 
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Joe Kent: "I will not in good conscience send young men & women off to die on foreign battlefields."

Joe Kent has been all over the news since he resigned from the Trump administration. As the NCTC Director appointed in 2025, he’s the highest-ranking official to step down over the Iran war so far. I actually know Joe pretty well. He’s a neighbor here in WA-03 and ran for Congress in '22 and '24.

In 2022, I voted for Herrera Beutler (Republican) in the primary because I really respected her work, but once she didn’t make it through, I went with Perez in the general. Even though Washington is a blue state, my district is reliably red. Trump carried it in 2016, 2020, and 2024. I’ve voted against Kent twice now because his hard-right associations just didn't sit right with me.

That said, I’ve always respected his military service. Spending 20 years in elite units and earning six Bronze Stars is the real deal, and his wife was also a highly decorated and was tragically killed in 2019 on her combat deployment by an ISIS suicide bomber in Syria.

Where I give Kent real credit is his resignation. Whether you like his politics or not, it takes guts to walk away from a top-level job on principle when you think the government is making a massive mistake. I don't agree with every word in his letter, but he’s spot on about one thing: this Iran war is a war of choice. There was no imminent threat to the U.S.

Marco Rubio’s argument that we “had no choice” but to join Israel is pretty weak. We saw during the last administration that when Israel hit that embassy compound in Syria, we stayed out of it and it kept a wider war from starting. Iran didn't attack us then, so the idea they’re an imminent threat just doesn't hold water.

What’s even more frustrating is the mixed messaging. The administration keeps saying this isn't a war, but you can’t repeatedly bomb a sovereign country at this scale and claim it’s not a war. It makes no damn sense.
 
AZ_HighCountry said:
Spanberger ran as a moderate in Virginia. How quickly that changed.
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I totally get that Spanberger’s tweaked some of the old governor’s rules and added some progressive policies, I’m not denying that at all. But even with that, she’s still generally seen as a moderate in the Democratic Party.

I hope you don't mind me saying, but since you’ve been a Republican for a long time, that’s going to shape how you see her. What feels like a big shift to the left from a GOP perspective can still be pretty middle-of-the-road for Democrats.

Just look at John Cornyn as an example. FiveThirtyEight shows he voted with Trump over 92% of the time, and Paxton is still attacking him for being "too moderate." No Democrat would ever call someone with that voting record a moderate. It just goes to show that both parties use a totally different scale. For a Democrat, Spanberger still fits that moderate profile perfectly.
 
Watandar said:
I hope that egotist Paxton runs as third party after he loses to Cornyn! Thats the only way a Democrat can win in Texas these days, even Mr Talarico.
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I’d love for that to happen because it would be a total game-changer for Talarico, but Texas has these strict "sore loser" laws that get in the way. Since Paxton is in the runoff, he’s legally blocked from running as an independent or third-party guy in November if he loses. He can’t even be a certified write-in.

It’s been since 1988 a Democrat win a Senate seat here, but the poll numbers are definitely closer than they usually are. Talarico is probably the best shot they've had in decades to actually make a flip happen.
 
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Joe Kent: "I will not in good conscience send young men & women off to die on foreign battlefields."

Joe Kent has been all over the news since he resigned from the Trump administration. As the NCTC Director appointed in 2025, he’s the highest-ranking official to step down over the Iran war so far. I actually know Joe pretty well. He’s a neighbor here in WA-03 and ran for Congress in '22 and '24.

In 2022, I voted for Herrera Beutler (Republican) in the primary because I really respected her work, but once she didn’t make it through, I went with Perez in the general. Even though Washington is a blue state, my district is reliably red. Trump carried it in 2016, 2020, and 2024. I’ve voted against Kent twice now because his hard-right associations just didn't sit right with me.

That said, I’ve always respected his military service. Spending 20 years in elite units and earning six Bronze Stars is the real deal, and his wife was also a highly decorated and was tragically killed in 2019 on her combat deployment by an ISIS suicide bomber in Syria.

Where I give Kent real credit is his resignation. Whether you like his politics or not, it takes guts to walk away from a top-level job on principle when you think the government is making a massive mistake. I don't agree with every word in his letter, but he’s spot on about one thing: this Iran war is a war of choice. There was no imminent threat to the U.S.

Marco Rubio’s argument that we “had no choice” but to join Israel is pretty weak. We saw during the last administration that when Israel hit that embassy compound in Syria, we stayed out of it and it kept a wider war from starting. Iran didn't attack us then, so the idea they’re an imminent threat just doesn't hold water.

What’s even more frustrating is the mixed messaging. The administration keeps saying this isn't a war, but you can’t repeatedly bomb a sovereign country at this scale and claim it’s not a war. It makes no damn sense.
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Thus man can spill alot of inside info about how deep Israel's in the us government and he should

The problem is he might die of "suicide" later
 
Even if you are not part of the No Kings commie movement, show up. Make this event an anti-war protest....

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Democrats flip Florida state seat that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago home​


Kayla Epstein

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'I believed in myself': Democrat who flipped Trump’s Florida district

Democrats are projected to win a special election for a Florida legislative district that includes Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, marking another upset in the president's backyard.

Democrat Emily Gregory, a first-time candidate, defeated Trump-backed Republican Jon Maples in a race for the open Florida District 87 state House seat.

The result is a reversal from 2024, when a Republican won the district by 19 percentage points.

Democrats have performed well in special elections during Trump's second term, and Gregory's victory could indicate momentum for the party heading into this year's congressional midterm elections.
 
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