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Steve Semick
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NewArsenalOfDemocracy.org
I love We the People. I hate fascism.
You with me? You and me, LFG!
The New Minutemen We resist econo.
Aspiring Happy Warrior.
Non-violent protest for the win
(he/him)
For everyone in the South Shore MA or Cape Cod areas (or anyone who wants to travel):
The next planned large stand out in front of Plymouth County Correctional Facility to demand that Sheriff McDonald end the Services Agreement with ICE to house detainees is December 13, 2025 from 2pm to 3:30pm.
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
As Kathryn Monet said, we must do right by veterans and their families—many of whom rely on SNAP and the ACA to get by. Supporting them isn’t charity; it’s a promise this nation is morally bound to keep. It’s time to deliver on it. Happy Veterans Day!
November 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Speaker of thr House Johnson is showing up in the media, but hr and his GOP colleagues aren't showimg up for work.

#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn
October 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The White House is weaponizing a shutdown to hollow out federal agencies gutting services Americans rely on. This crisis is due to Trump’s refusal to negotiate.

A MAGA plan to exploit a crisis they create

With the funding deadline days away, Americans will pay the price
#TrumpsGovernmentShutdown
September 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The League of Women Voters of the Plymouth Area (MA) are holding a panel discussion on immigration detention in the commonwealth this evening (Mon. Sept 8) at 7pm at Plymouth Town Hall.
September 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Here's a montage of Trump talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare.

It would be a shame if everybody shared this on Social Security's 90th birthday, today!

#HandsOffOurSocialSecurity
August 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Medicaid turns 60 today & half the people it covers are children.

Let that sink in.

Every cut, every cruel restriction, is an attack on their futures. On their health, their dignity, their lives.

We are fighting for our kids.
#CancelTrumpsMedicaidCuts
July 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Texas Republicans are shamelessly kowtowing to Donald Trump, prioritizing gerrymandering over disaster relief and the needs of Texas voters, a clear sign of their cowardice.

An unpopular GOP supported by a minority of voters can only hold on to power through voter suppression and rigging the system
July 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Republicans in Congress lost their moral compass and abandoned American families! They speak of family values, but clearly don't value families.

By passing their Big Ugly Bill, they voted for hardship and death for American children. On July 26, we're taking a unified stand to put #FamiliesFirst!
July 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New GOP-backed caps on graduate student loans are a direct attack on working-class students.

If you’re not born rich, forget med school, law school, or becoming a teacher.

This isn’t about debt—it’s about control.
Fight back.
#ClassroomsNotCuts
July 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
WATCH as Republicans run away in shame on their votes to cut healthcare from millions of Americans.

The faces of cruelty are so pedestrian as they walk away from their responsibility to their constituents.

#VoteHellNO
July 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Not giving VPOTUS a pass on deliberately misnaming a senator he knows and chose to misname as a racist whistle -nothing dog whistle about it

BOLO:
JD Vance
or
J.D. Vance
alias
James Donald Bowman
aka
James David Hamel
or could be
J.D. Hamel
or possibly
James D. Hamel
or maybe
James David Vance
June 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
So, we can afford to give Meta 15 BILLION in tax breaks, but we can't afford Medicaid? Make it make sense.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) calls it out loud and clear. The MAGA-GOP budget reconciliation bill is cutting social support in order to fund tax breaks for the richest
#MedicaidSavesOurLives
June 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Worried about a terrorist attack in response to escalating war in the Middle East? Sleep easy! Thomas Fugate is on the job, appointed by the Trump administration to coordinate counter-terrorism readiness as part of DHS.

They take these things very seriously

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
June 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
For months, Republicans said they wouldn't touch Medicaid. News flash - they lied.

Cutting Medicaid and Medicare, and tax breaks for the wealthiest are all wildly unpopular.

Their one big idea is to cut Medicaid and Medicare in order to fund billionaire tax breaks, and lie.

#DontKillOurMedicaid
June 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
For Pride Month, get a free copy of:
Queer America: A People's Glbt History of the United States (Vicki L. Eaklor) while they last

In the tradition of Howard Zinn's People's History, it tells the story of LGBTQ+ folks' experience of history in this country

www.storybookcove.com/history-amer...
June 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Any of it is a distraction only in the sense that each thing is meant as a distraction from all the other horrible things being done.

What destroyed We the People's country? Do Tell. "'Twas that cruel policy"
June 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
June 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
June 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
When POTUS describes a US Senator as "looking like an illegal" after he was violently thrown to the ground by DHS goons for having the audacity to ask a question of Sec. Noem
at a press conference that he was escorted into, anyone could be next.

The cruelty is the point.

#MAGAKidnappers
June 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Fun times at the No Kings protest in Plymouth looking out over the Rock and ~1k+ folks with @remleec.bsky.social

A little rain didn't dampen any spirits, but a gusty wind off the harbor tried its best to turn my sign into a kite!
June 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The face you make when you realize the $40M+ parade you threw for yourself has more people walking (not marching) in it than attending it.
June 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) attempted to ask DHS Sect Kristi Noem some questions about here department's behavior in CA while she was grandstanding at a press conference. That's the kind of oversight an elected politician should provide. He was arrested by Noem's minions instead.
June 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The rest of the folks in CECOT need to be brought back for due process now that they've proved they can do it. Their specious foreign sovereign prison argument collapsed, so it's back to planning to use the original USAmerican offshore legal limbo camp. How low can we go?
June 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM