Why do many of Trump’s voters still stand by him? “Because he tells them who to blame,” said political analyst Dr. Eliza Hampton, author of Hearts Over Facts: Why Symbolism Wins. Trump has mastered the politics of identity affirmation. He doesn’t need to solve problems—he needs to perform alignment with cultural resentment. But even that…
The betrayal isn’t just economic—it’s racial and geographic. Trump’s 2025 agenda has disproportionately burdened communities of color, layering hardship on top of long-standing inequality. In the Deep South and Midwest, Black farmers are facing a fresh wave of economic exclusion. USDA-backed loans—a lifeline for sustaining generational farms—dropped by 24% for Black applicants in 2025, wiping…
I write today with the weight of sorrow heavy on my heart. America—the country I loved, the country I believed in, the country that shaped me—has died. I was born in 1950 in Detroit, Michigan, the beating heart of American industry. My father was a welder for the local power company. My mother ran our home…
The toll extends beyond health outcomes; it’s emotional and social. “I feel like a second-class citizen,” says Diana Jimenez, a 19-year-old college student from McAllen, Texas, who in 2025 must drive to Mexico to obtain contraceptive shots because local clinics have shut down. “My mom fought for these rights, and now I’m fighting all over…
Take Texas, home to some of the nation’s strictest abortion bans. In 2023, Houston resident Amanda Zurawski became the face of this crisis after she was denied a life-saving pregnancy termination. Zurawski’s water broke at 18 weeks, dooming her much-wanted fetus (“Her name would have been Willow,” she later said). But Texas law barred doctors…
Reproductive healthcare has been a primary target. In March, Trump’s HHS quietly reinstated the “domestic gag rule,” barring federally funded family clinics from even referring patients for abortion. This rule, which had been lifted under Biden, previously forced hundreds of clinics out of the Title X program and cut off services for 2.4 million patients….