Upper Lehigh Democratic Club
@upperlehighdemclub.bsky.social
Volunteers of Upper Lehigh County Democratic Club. We inform & organize Democratic Party members and voters in the Lehigh Co. PA Townships of North Whitehall, South Whitehall, Upper Macungie, Lynn, Weisenberg, Heidelberg, Lowhill, Washington & Slatington.
Rep. Ryan Mackenzie parrots the GOP line that the ACA is “broken” and “full of fraud” — the script they use to attack every program. But with 20,000 people in his district facing big premium hikes, he suddenly wants a quick patch. If fixing it were the goal, they’d push reforms, not cuts.
Swing district Republicans brace for political fallout if health care subsidies expire
House Republicans in key battleground districts are working to contain the political fallout expected when thousands of their constituents face higher bills for health insurance coverage obtained thro...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Rep. Ryan Mackenzie parrots the GOP line that the ACA is “broken” and “full of fraud” — the script they use to attack every program. But with 20,000 people in his district facing big premium hikes, he suddenly wants a quick patch. If fixing it were the goal, they’d push reforms, not cuts.
Trump & Hegseth’s “kill everybody” campaign crosses a line: no-quarter orders and strikes on survivors are blatant war crimes. This isn’t toughness — it’s the destruction of the military’s integrity, legality, and the values that once made it trusted. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | Pete Hegseth Is Doing Something Even Worse Than Breaking the Law
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December 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Trump & Hegseth’s “kill everybody” campaign crosses a line: no-quarter orders and strikes on survivors are blatant war crimes. This isn’t toughness — it’s the destruction of the military’s integrity, legality, and the values that once made it trusted. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Policy making takes homework, not slogans. Work requirements for Medicaid/SNAP aren’t “common sense” — they don’t boost work, they just cut off the people who need help most.
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Policy making takes homework, not slogans. Work requirements for Medicaid/SNAP aren’t “common sense” — they don’t boost work, they just cut off the people who need help most.
Our community stepped up. But this crisis was created by GOP policies — including Rep. Ryan Mackenzie’s support — and it won’t end unless those choices are reversed. www.wfmz.com/news/area/le...
‘I am completely amazed’: Lehigh Valley raises nearly $700K for Second Harvest Food Bank
Volunteers were packing hundreds of boxes of donated food at Second Harvest Food Bank.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Our community stepped up. But this crisis was created by GOP policies — including Rep. Ryan Mackenzie’s support — and it won’t end unless those choices are reversed. www.wfmz.com/news/area/le...
Fifteen years later, the GOP is still scrambling for a health care plan. Their latest? Let people “buy their own, better” care. Still no details. No savings. No proposal. Just attacks and empty tweets. #GOPNoPlan #ACA #Obamacare www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/p...
Republicans are racing to find a plan for enhanced ACA subsidies. Here’s what they are considering | CNN Politics
With less than six weeks before a key set of Affordable Care Act premium subsidies expire, congressional Republicans are scrambling to come up with a plan to address the pain of health care premiums s...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Fifteen years later, the GOP is still scrambling for a health care plan. Their latest? Let people “buy their own, better” care. Still no details. No savings. No proposal. Just attacks and empty tweets. #GOPNoPlan #ACA #Obamacare www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/p...
Trump keeps overriding Congress on where our money goes — which the Constitution makes 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥. Watchdogs say he’s doing it in 6 ways: refusing to spend approved funds, freezing aid, stalling programs, spending without approval, diverting money, and gutting agencies. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
Opinion | The Power Grab That Embodies Trumpism
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November 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Trump keeps overriding Congress on where our money goes — which the Constitution makes 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥. Watchdogs say he’s doing it in 6 ways: refusing to spend approved funds, freezing aid, stalling programs, spending without approval, diverting money, and gutting agencies. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
Same playbook as with the ACA, SNAP, and Medicaid—Trump doesn’t fix programs, he breaks them. Now he’s starving the Consumer Protection Bureau so it collapses by Dec 2025. No replacement, no protection. Regular people lose. Banks win. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump administration declares CFPB funding illegal
The decision, disclosed in a court filing, puts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on track to shut down in ‘early 2026’ when its remaining cash runs out.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Same playbook as with the ACA, SNAP, and Medicaid—Trump doesn’t fix programs, he breaks them. Now he’s starving the Consumer Protection Bureau so it collapses by Dec 2025. No replacement, no protection. Regular people lose. Banks win. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump’s new “idea” to end the shutdown? Cut ACA subsidies without offering any real plan to replace them. After 15 years of promises, the GOP still has no healthcare plan—just slogans and shutdowns. #ACA #GOPNoPlan #Obamacare www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Trump Renews Attacks on Obamacare in New Push Over Government Shutdown
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November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Trump’s new “idea” to end the shutdown? Cut ACA subsidies without offering any real plan to replace them. After 15 years of promises, the GOP still has no healthcare plan—just slogans and shutdowns. #ACA #GOPNoPlan #Obamacare www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
Trump already gave the rich a $4 trillion tax break. Now his Treasury is quietly adding hundreds of billions more—gutting Biden’s 15% minimum tax, breaking the rules, and cutting SNAP and healthcare to try to pay for it. #TaxScam #CorporateWelfare www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Trump already gave the rich a $4 trillion tax break. Now his Treasury is quietly adding hundreds of billions more—gutting Biden’s 15% minimum tax, breaking the rules, and cutting SNAP and healthcare to try to pay for it. #TaxScam #CorporateWelfare www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
Wow, Rep Ryan Mackenzie! A few bucks off tips and overtime while you defund our healthcare and food programs. What a deal.
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Wow, Rep Ryan Mackenzie! A few bucks off tips and overtime while you defund our healthcare and food programs. What a deal.
Want to see exactly who the Upper Lehigh County Democratic Club recommended candidates are on your ballot? Find the full candidate list by municipality at our website. upperlehigh.com/2025-election/
November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Want to see exactly who the Upper Lehigh County Democratic Club recommended candidates are on your ballot? Find the full candidate list by municipality at our website. upperlehigh.com/2025-election/
Trump’s EPA halted Biden-era rules created after data showed many plants leaking far more cancer-causing gases than reported. This rollback protects industry, not people. Millions will keep breathing toxic cancer causing air they can’t see. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Trump’s EPA halted Biden-era rules created after data showed many plants leaking far more cancer-causing gases than reported. This rollback protects industry, not people. Millions will keep breathing toxic cancer causing air they can’t see. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Pennsylvania and Lehigh County can stand up and protect our rights- but only if we show up and Vote Blue on Nov. 4.
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Pennsylvania and Lehigh County can stand up and protect our rights- but only if we show up and Vote Blue on Nov. 4.
The Trump-appointed planning chair says tearing down part of the White House isn’t “construction.” That’s wordplay, not law. Federal rules require review before you wreck a historic site. He’s turning our house into his palace. apnews.com/article/trum...
Demolition for new White House ballroom doesn't need approval, Trump-appointed commission head says
The head of the National Capital Planning Commission says crews can start demolishing parts of the White House for a new ballroom without needing approval.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The Trump-appointed planning chair says tearing down part of the White House isn’t “construction.” That’s wordplay, not law. Federal rules require review before you wreck a historic site. He’s turning our house into his palace. apnews.com/article/trum...
Want to keep control over your healthcare, your vote, and your rights? Even if the federal government takes them away, Pennsylvania can still protect us — but only if our Supreme Court wants to. Vote YES to keep judges who protect, not restrict, our freedoms.
October 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Want to keep control over your healthcare, your vote, and your rights? Even if the federal government takes them away, Pennsylvania can still protect us — but only if our Supreme Court wants to. Vote YES to keep judges who protect, not restrict, our freedoms.
This is exactly how we got here — powerful people pointing fingers at “foreigners” and “others” while they grabbed everything for themselves. Decades of distraction and division. #EconomicJustice #Truth
October 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is exactly how we got here — powerful people pointing fingers at “foreigners” and “others” while they grabbed everything for themselves. Decades of distraction and division. #EconomicJustice #Truth
RE: The shutdown — The GOP owns this. They’ve always wanted to gut the ACA, and now they’re shutting down gov’t to get there. Their budget spikes premiums for 20M+ and risks coverage for millions more—while hiding behind bogus lines about “illegals” & “able-bodied.”
October 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
RE: The shutdown — The GOP owns this. They’ve always wanted to gut the ACA, and now they’re shutting down gov’t to get there. Their budget spikes premiums for 20M+ and risks coverage for millions more—while hiding behind bogus lines about “illegals” & “able-bodied.”
Two more mass shootings. More lives lost.
Trump and the GOP talk “tough on crime,” but chose to shift resources: nearly half of prosecutions are immigration cases—often non-criminal. Gun prosecutions are falling as shootings rise, and drug cases are at 25-yr lows. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump and the GOP talk “tough on crime,” but chose to shift resources: nearly half of prosecutions are immigration cases—often non-criminal. Gun prosecutions are falling as shootings rise, and drug cases are at 25-yr lows. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
September 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Two more mass shootings. More lives lost.
Trump and the GOP talk “tough on crime,” but chose to shift resources: nearly half of prosecutions are immigration cases—often non-criminal. Gun prosecutions are falling as shootings rise, and drug cases are at 25-yr lows. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump and the GOP talk “tough on crime,” but chose to shift resources: nearly half of prosecutions are immigration cases—often non-criminal. Gun prosecutions are falling as shootings rise, and drug cases are at 25-yr lows. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The PA Bar Assoc. backs all 3 Supreme Court justices for retention. But GOP operatives & Jeff Yass-funded Commonwealth Partners push fake “term limits.” When Republicans ran the court, they never cared. Pure power grab. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/09...
Six-figure spending floods PA Supreme Court retention race
Redistricting is central to the messaging that asks voters to approve or reject new terms for 3 Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices.
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September 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The PA Bar Assoc. backs all 3 Supreme Court justices for retention. But GOP operatives & Jeff Yass-funded Commonwealth Partners push fake “term limits.” When Republicans ran the court, they never cared. Pure power grab. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/09...
@nexstarmediagroup.bsky.social just caved to government pressure + pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live. That’s censorship. @phl17.bsky.social is a Nexstar channel — and advertisers shouldn’t bankroll it. Free speech isn’t optional. #StopCensorship #FreeSpeech #PHL17
September 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
@nexstarmediagroup.bsky.social just caved to government pressure + pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live. That’s censorship. @phl17.bsky.social is a Nexstar channel — and advertisers shouldn’t bankroll it. Free speech isn’t optional. #StopCensorship #FreeSpeech #PHL17
Don’t sleep on this. Free Speech is supposed to stop government censorship. Now Trump and his FCC are threatening comedians like Kimmel and Colbert and every network that airs critics. That’s not business, that’s authoritarian abuse of power.
September 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Don’t sleep on this. Free Speech is supposed to stop government censorship. Now Trump and his FCC are threatening comedians like Kimmel and Colbert and every network that airs critics. That’s not business, that’s authoritarian abuse of power.
The GOP cries voter fraud to shake trust and make voting harder. But this PA case was uncovered by ERIC, the bipartisan system that actually catches double voting and keeps elections secure. Republicans are abandoning it because it also helps register new voters. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/09...
Multistate database helps identify alleged double voter in PA
A 2020 case of double voting in Pennsylvania was discovered using ERIC, a data-sharing consortium that conservatives have attacked in recent years.
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September 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The GOP cries voter fraud to shake trust and make voting harder. But this PA case was uncovered by ERIC, the bipartisan system that actually catches double voting and keeps elections secure. Republicans are abandoning it because it also helps register new voters. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/09...
Trump just had the military kill people on a suspected drug boat — no arrest, no trial, no proof. Calling drug smuggling “war” doesn’t make it legal. Experts call it murder under international law. #DueProcess #RuleOfLaw
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US military kills 11 people in strike on alleged drug boat from Venezuela, Trump says
It's the first known operation since the recent deployment of warships to the southern Caribbean.
www.reuters.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Trump just had the military kill people on a suspected drug boat — no arrest, no trial, no proof. Calling drug smuggling “war” doesn’t make it legal. Experts call it murder under international law. #DueProcess #RuleOfLaw
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Airlines win, passengers lose. Trump just scrapped the rule that would’ve forced them to pay for long delays—proof #1000 he’s never on the side of everyday people.
#ConsumerRights #airlines #travel www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
#ConsumerRights #airlines #travel www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
US drops Biden plan to require airlines to pay compensation for disrupted flights
President Donald Trump's administration said on Thursday it will drop a plan by his predecessor to require airlines to pay passengers cash compensation when U.S. flight disruptions are caused by carriers.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Airlines win, passengers lose. Trump just scrapped the rule that would’ve forced them to pay for long delays—proof #1000 he’s never on the side of everyday people.
#ConsumerRights #airlines #travel www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
#ConsumerRights #airlines #travel www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Science belongs in healthcare — not GOP anti-science conspiracies. Thanks to the PA Board of Pharmacy & Gov. Shapiro, vaccine decisions in Pennsylvania will come from real doctors. penncapital-star.com/government-p...
Pa. Board of Pharmacy votes to use vaccine guidelines from non-government groups • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
The measure voted on by the board unanimously will allow the State Board of Pharmacy to issue guidance based on the recommendations of three medical professional societies: the American Academy of Ped...
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September 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Science belongs in healthcare — not GOP anti-science conspiracies. Thanks to the PA Board of Pharmacy & Gov. Shapiro, vaccine decisions in Pennsylvania will come from real doctors. penncapital-star.com/government-p...