They helped save our troops. Trump wants to deport them.

 

When I served in combat in Afghanistan, it wasn’t just soldiers who had our backs — it was civilians who became our brothers and sisters in arms. They were our translators. Our guides. Our eyes and ears in hostile territory. They weren’t just allies. They were the reason so many American soldiers made it home alive. Including me. That is why I am disgusted to report that Donald Trump is sending them back to Afghanistan with a target on their back – essentially signing their death warrants.  This week, his administration revoked Temporary Protected Status for over 9,000 Afghan refugees—men and women who risked their lives helping our troops during the longest war in U.S. history. I’ve served alongside these folks. One young man who worked as my interpreter faced constant death threats, but his instincts and his courage saved my life and the lives of my troops more than once. So when I left, I made damn sure the interpreters who worked with my unit got out safely. Because that’s what America promised. But now Trump — this coward who dodged the draft with a BS doctor’s note — is tearing up that promise. To make matters worse, Trump’s deporting our allies while rolling out the red carpet for white South African farmers claiming “reverse racism.”  That lie’s been debunked time and again, but MAGA doesn’t care.  If you’re rich and right-wing, the gates swing wide. If you're not, your loyalty doesn’t count. This is the hateful, xenophobic core of MAGA on full display, the culture that the MAGA money mule Richard Hudson is fueling.   The King Rat of the Beltway is signing the damn checks that make this betrayal possible. He’s funding a movement that turns its back on honor, on loyalty, on everything we’re supposed to stand for. I am pissed off beyond words. Let’s call this what it is: White Christian nationalist cosplay from a bunch of crybaby authoritarians on the dumbest crusade imaginable.  Their fragile little egos can’t handle the idea that America isn’t just for them anymore. So they lash out—deport  allies, punish refugees, and call it patriotism. We cannot let this stand. Pitch in now to help me flip this seat, send Trump’s bagman Richard Hudson packing — and build a Congress that honors its word, protects its allies, and never, ever forgets who stood by us in war. DONATE TO DEFEAT TRUMP'S CRONY! Sappers clear the way, Airborne all the way! Maj. Richard Ojeda (Ret.) Candidate for Congress, NC-09

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Why 13 dog tags hang in my office.

 

There are thirteen dog tags hanging in my office.   Each one belonged to a friend I served with. Thirteen heroes I knew. Thirteen lives cut short in service to our country.   I held them up when I stood before the West Virginia state senate, demanding that we pass my medical cannabis bill. Because I’ve seen what war does to the minds and bodies of those who do make it home, and I would not let their sacrifice be in vain.   Today we honor not just the names I carry with me, but all the ones who didn’t make it home.   Those tags hang by my desk as a reminder. Of who we lost. Of what we fought for. Of what I still owe them.

And I’ll tell you right now—this is not the country we fought for.   Donald Trump’s reign of terror spits in the face of every veteran buried at Arlington—or in a quiet cemetery back home—who gave their life believing in what America stands for: democracy, dignity, and freedom from tyranny.   This is the same man who called our fallen “suckers” and “losers.”   The same man who wants to round up immigrants into camps, gut the Department of Veterans Affairs, and purge the federal government of anyone who won’t bend the knee.   I didn’t wear the uniform so some draft dodger and petty fail-son of a slum-lord empire could turn this country into a dictatorship. And the brothers and sisters in arms I lost sure as hell didn’t give their lives for this either.   Now we’ve got cowards like Richard Hudson—Trump’s budget enforcer—cheering him on, slashing services for veterans, and helping build the kind of country we used to fight against overseas.   This Memorial Day, I want you to remember our fallen brothers and sisters but I also want your courage.   I want you to stand up for what they stood for.   Because if we let this country fall into fascism on our watch, then we’ve broken the promise we made to every one of them.   If you’re feeling the weight of this moment—and you want to honor it with action—chip in to help us keep fighting. Maj. Richard Ojeda (Ret.) Candidate for Congress, NC-09

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Hudson just voted to GUT Medicaid and SNAP.

 

NORTH CAROLINA: YOU CAN DO BETTER! ELECT SOMEONE WHO WILL VOTE 

FOR YOU!

Let me tell you something about my opponent Richard Hudson… This MAGA goon went from college Republican president, to Hill staffer, to Congressman—he has literally never held a job that wasn’t funded by your tax dollars. And yet he thinks he’s qualified to decide whether your kids deserve a doctor. Trump’s proposed Medicaid cuts are already brutal. Nearly a trillion dollars gone. Millions kicked off their coverage. And what about SNAP? The program that keeps a quarter of American children from going to bed hungry every night? They gutted that, too. And now Hudson and the Freedom Caucus clowns have managed to ram their Frankenstein budget bill through the House—by just one vote. One. The Senate will chew on it, then it’s likely headed right back to the House. And you know damn well Hudson and his goon squad will use that moment to go in for more. More cuts. More cruelty. More blood drawn from the working class. DONATE TO FLIP THIS CRUCIAL SEAT! Richard Hudson doesn’t give a damn about the 3 million North Carolinians on Medicaid or the 1.5 million on SNAP. He couldn’t care less that almost 650,000 children and over a quarter million seniors in our state depend on SNAP to survive. This is Hudson’s game plan: bleed public programs dry, understaff them, overload them, and then point to the chaos as proof they don’t work.  People lose faith, services collapse, and that’s when the private sector vultures swoop in—offering second-rate care at twice the cost, and raking in whatever’s left of your paycheck.  It’s manufactured failure—by design. And Richard Hudson is in on it. These ghouls walk around Capitol Hill with clean hands and full pockets, pretending they understand sacrifice.  They’ve never missed a meal.  Never pulled a double shift to make rent.  Never watched someone they love suffer because they couldn’t afford a prescription. Medicaid and SNAP save lives every damn day. When times are tough, it means the difference between stability and disaster. I’ve seen what it does for veterans battling PTSD, for single parents raising kids, for grandparents trying to make it to the next appointment.  It isn’t some government handout—it’s a lifeline.  And Hudson wants to slice it to pieces with a smile on his face. Make no mistake: this sniveling coward, this beltway rat, wouldn’t last a week in the world he’s trying to demolish. Hudson and his goon squad are sick and demented with greed.  They treat the working class like collateral damage. And when we cry foul, they call it politics. Well, this isn’t politics to me. It’s personal. Pitch in now and help me retire Richard Hudson —because if he wants to make millions of people suffer, then he damn well deserves to lose his job. DONATE TO FLIP THIS CRUCIAL SEAT! Sappers clear the way, Airborne all the way! Maj. Richard Ojeda (Ret.) Candidate for Congress, NC-09

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Trump gutted FEMA. Now Americans are dying.

LET'S PROTECT OUR FELLOW CITIZENS WHEN THEY NEED HELP! 

AMERICANS HELP OTHERS IN NEED! 

THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY & NEEDS 

TO HAVE PRIORITY!

PLEASE SUPPORT THOSE WHO SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITIES!

 

Folks,   This weekend, tornadoes tore across Missouri and Kentucky—leveled homes, killed families, flipped entire towns upside down.  They call it a natural disaster. But let me tell you something:  Nature didn’t gut FEMA’s budget.  Nature didn’t hollow out emergency response staffing.  Nature didn’t block disaster relief for small towns.  That was Donald Trump. And his bootlicking lapdog, my opponent, Richard Hudson helped him do it.  Make no mistake: these two ghouls and their politics of cruelty helped put 25 Americans into body bags this week. People are digging their neighbors out of the rubble with bare hands because the federal government doesn’t have the resources to respond fast enough. And why?  Because Trump slashed FEMA funding to pay for tax cuts and deportation flights.  Because MAGA ghouls like Hudson would rather throw your grandma off Medicaid than tell a billionaire to pay his fair share. Pitch in now and help me retire Richard Hudson and the corrupt scumbags letting this country burn to the ground. DONATE TO DEFEAT TRUMP'S CRONY! This is what happens when you elect spoiled authoritarian crybabies who think empathy is weakness and government is a grift. They promise the moon, and deliver hell. Then they show up for the photo op and leave towns to rot. I’ve seen what this kind of devastation looks like up close.  When I deployed to Haiti after the earthquakes, I watched families carry their dead on mattresses and search for drinking water in the ruins.  Now I’m watching the same kind of suffering unfold right here at home—because some Cheeto-colored conman would rather fund ICE flights to Libya than disaster shelters in Kentucky. And Hudson?  He’s the coward behind the curtain, pulling levers, funneling MAGA money to the most extreme House members who can continue to support these cuts.  Let me be clear: if you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention. This storm was just the latest. More are coming.  Climate disasters are getting deadlier, and the MAGA machine is making sure we’re less prepared every damn time. Let’s rip out the rot. Let’s end the grift. Let’s send Richard Hudson back to whatever hole he crawled out of. If you’re with me—if you believe in rebuilding this country from the ground up—then pitch in now and help me shut these bastards down. Sappers clear the way, Airborne all the way! Maj. Richard Ojeda (Ret.) Candidate for Congress, NC-09

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GOP rep caught on video saying party must "cheat"

 

Today's Top Stories:

GOP lawmaker caught on tape saying Republicans should cheat in elections
Wisconsin state assemblymen Elijah Behnke is also heard disparaging fellow GOP lawmakers and saying he wants to punch Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, in the face.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: A Republican Senator gets asked what her party stands for. It does not go well
Joni Ernst accidentally revealed the truth about the GOP's plans to help the American people: they don't exist.

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Sinema pulls stunning move ahead of voting rights vote
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Unreal.

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Virginia anti-masker charged after "every single gun loaded" video goes viral
Amelia King is out on bail after trying to intimidate her local school board and threatening violence if they compelled her son to comply with the proposed mask mandate.

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Tucker Carlson compares COVID mandates to Nazi medical experiments
In a wild segment with notorious anti-vaxxer Dr. Robert Malone, the Fox News opinion host went off the rails with his reckless remarks.

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Mitch McConnell finally speaks after blowback from "Americans" comment
The Kentucky senator tried – and failed – to remove his foot from his mouth after yesterday's embarrassing Freudian slip

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January 6th committee pouring through records Trump tried to block
The National Archives has turned over more than 700 pages of presidential documents to congress after the Supreme Court rejected Trump's bogus executive privilege claim.

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WATCH: Richard Ojeda exposes the leader of the "OopsKeepers"
No Dem Left Behind; Elmer Stewart Rhodes didn't make it through Army training, and shot his own eye out. But he touted himself as a "combat veteran" and conned countless others into joining his militia and storming the U.S. Capitol. If he's getting government benefits, he should lose them forever, along with anyone else who participated in 1/6.

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The backlash against Kyrsten Sinema continues to grow
More donors are threatening to walk away from the Arizona Senator after she opposed filibuster reform to pass voting rights legislation, and now state Democratic Party officials may censure her this weekend.

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Trump says his Georgia election coercion was "even more" perfect than his Ukraine extortion
If the disgraced ex-president says it was perfect, you can bet it was incredibly illegal.

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Prosecutor to ask justice departments to probe Trump's "alternate electors" plot
In potentially major escalation, Wisconsin prosecutor says state and federal agencies should determine if 10 Republicans who participated in the Trump campaign's plan to overturn the 2016 election should be investigated for fraud.

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Black Mississippi lawmakers walk out on sham vote to ban CRT
The Democrats refused to legitimize the racist ploy.

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Seriously?

Neo-Nazis join anti-choice "March for Life" rally

Even more Hannity January 6th texts revealed

OANN founder makes desperate video after DirecTV ax

Trump mocked for failing answer to softball question

Yes. Seriously.

Monkeys on the loose in Pennsylvania

Jan. 6 rally leader admits extremist ties in new videos

Another Giuliani associate now behind bars

Reporter hit by car live on air

Hope...

New substance turns CO2 emissions into solids

Girls survives blizzard by cuddling with stray dog

GoodGoodGood: Women game changers around the world

Mark Cuban selling generic medications cheap

Cardi B to cover funeral expenses for Bronx fire victims