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Your commentary is straight forward and it it the truth. Thank you for what you do. I wish the other people of the right could and would hear this truth.

Isn’t it interesting that is the billionaire immigrant like Murdock and Musk who are really destroying America and we are allowing it?

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I wish I could spell correct also! 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Stop dancing or sparing with Trump! Repeating Trump's lies to give more air time to the journalists is disgusting. Multiple times a day, journalists are building Trump's following by repeating his lies. It would be more relieving to hear or read articles like, "No, that's a lie (period)." It would be more accurate to say, "No, the truth is that we have identified and detained all these unsafe people, and they're in various layers of either being deported or moved to long-term prisons," etc.

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That was great. So truthful and very moving. It blows my mind to think that people could have been so stupid to elect him. 4 years? It's sickening.

Thank you, Heather Cox Richardson for finding the truth. Btw. I, personally, have always thought that he ran just to stay out of jail. Now, he's free as a bird. He doesn't care about anything else.

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Again a spectacular summation. You are a gift to democracy.

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"13,099 convicted murders walking down the street." tRump is a total idiot!!! Does he not understand the press will explain the truth,,, 40 years of ICE detention. When truth is his "buddy" Musk is a totally illegal immigrant!!!

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the press is useless..... I am sick of seeing his name on the front page of each paper..... will 4 years of seeing his ugly mug not enough????

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Thank you Heather - it was good to hear your voice again and Liz Cheney's straight talking record of facts from Jan 6th insurrection. Keep us on track ..we are out here still and value your daily letters.

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Hopefully, I am responding to the Welker interview. If Trump tries to deliver on all of his campaign promises, there's no way that it can be done in a short time like he says. His numbers are always either exaggerations or lies. He can't be listening to the facts others are giving him, or he thinks he is superhuman (which he seems to believe). Deporting illegals will destroy the economy and raise prices. Tariffs will result in increased costs to Americans, yet he still says that it will not. he would never have been able to respond to the crisis in Syria as rapidly and forcefully as Biden and the Pentagon. There's no way he could have ever sorted out the complexities of that situation and the number of different factions. Multiple strikes against ISIS needed to be carried out in a short time window. Trump would have pulled American Special Forces out, and they are critical for intelligence and targeting ISIS assets. At least 3 of his Cabinet nominees- Gabbard, Hegseth, and Kennedy- would be disasters. The same is true of Patel and Homan. Cabinet and other leadership nominees have total worth of $200, 000, 000, 000 vs. Biden's staff just north of $122, 000, 000. Does anybody think they will really care about, or even understand, the working class. Etc., etc., etc.

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Always love your work, Madam. Today there’s a slight audio editing glitch wherein a segment about 2 minutes in is repeated (about the 13,099 folks, aproximately 2:00 in).

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Why does the DNC seem nonexistent when Democrats doing their jobs while Fox and Maga destroys their credibility with lies. Why does the Biden administration seem so laissez-fair about Trump leading the misinformation (mostly lies). Why don't they say something where people can hear. Main stream media is going in circles, like they are gagged or don't know what to do. Does DNC even want to be contacted by us, the voters? Where are they hiding.

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So trumps lying is a symptom of the way the majority of Americans get their news. Our own reality on social media makes it true or I’ll block you!

So he is a creation of our laziness, and our refusal to seek the facts, understand the vocabulary , read history, ask questions of the experts in science, be curious, honest, and interested in the world .

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A good friend/classmate of mine- Barry Lando also writes for Substack and I hope you read his recent offering- How the CIA Used Assad's Torture Chambers. We just can't ignore our complicity in so much evil - 'this' as presented in his article but also our supplying of the weaponry that gave Israel the capacity to commit genocide in Gaza.

I was present when you spoke recently in Hartford and I am a big fan of yours.

I would like you to point out our flaws a bit more.

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